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TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES IN TRADITIONAL NATURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN THE ALTAI MOUNTAIN REGION
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This article is devoted to the analysis of peculiarities and regularities of traditional nature management systems transformation of the Altai mountain region and characterize the main catalyst factors and modern trends of these changes. The article shows generalized results of long-term researches that employed questionnaire methods (questioning and narrative interview), post-event analysis, geoinformational and cartographical methods. The methods used enabled study of spatial, functional, social and psychological aspects of nature management systems of the studied area shown in dynamics. In the article the main stage and the major transformation factors of the traditional nature management systems in Russian part of the Altai Mountains were analyzed. Modern trends of these transformations are defined. The determining role of natural features of this territory in economic activity of local population is characterized. Also the major external and internal social and economic factors of change of systems of traditional environmental management are defined.
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