The strategy of sustainable development includes a number of management issues and marketing solutions aimed at increasing the competitiveness of urban and rural localities.
On March 3, Vyatka State University opened the first forum "Sustainable development of territories: problems and perspectives". More than 200 participants from different regions of Russia, including speakers from Moscow, took part in the forum.
An initiator and facilitator of the Forum was the Institute of Economics and Management of Vyatka State University.
In general, the forum discussed specifics of municipal units and their opportunities for support in choosing directions for single-industry towns’ development, features of strategic planning, development of rural localities, increasing the marketing competitiveness of the regions, as well as effective interaction with business, science and government to ensure sustainable development of towns and villages.