In the first monograph, “Multi-Structural Land Use in Russia: Conception of Land Reforms and Land Management” by V.R. Belenkiy and P.F. Loiko, the theoretical and conceptual grounds of the multi-structural land system formation in Russia are stated, the most relevant problems of modern land use are brought to light, and general principles and measures of anti-crisis land reform and policy for strategic prospects are elucidated. Special chapters are devoted to the problems of scientific ensuring of the transition to multi-structural land use, as well as the implementation of paramount measures in this field.

In the second book, “The Market Price of Land and Property Objects (Systems): Calculated-Constructive and Graphical-Analytical Methods of Modeling” by V.R. Belenkiy, A.I. Filatov, N.G. Kulakova, et al, edited by V.R. Belenkiy, the original methods of calculation (modeling) of the market price of land plots and real estate closely connected with it are produced. The conceptual grounds of determination of the equilibrium market price of land plots are brought to light, the modern organization and methods of its valuation are analyzed, and the methods of calculated-constructive and calculated-graphical modeling of the equilibrium market land price are stated. Examples of concrete calculations are given, following the results of current statistical analysis utilizing the announcements and advertisements of optimization business projecting, as well as on the basis of processing of results of the regional sociological monitoring of the land market.

The Institute also publishes its works in foreign presses. In particular, in the current year, according to a publishing agreement with the Edwin Mellen Press, USA, we have created the International Encyclopedia of Land Tenure and Land Relations for the Nations of the World and transferred it to the press. We are currently completing our work on the monograph “Land Resource of the Humanity on the Crossing of Millenniums” that includes thematic articles written by specialists from different countries of the world. This monograph will be produced by the Edwin Mellen Press also.

Following the results of our work in 2000-2001, four significant monographs were prepared for publication in Russia.

The first book is “Agrarian Land Use in the Nizhegorodskaya region: Conception, Method, and Experience of Optimization Modeling.” The actuality of this monograph is explained by the fact that the effective development of a multi-structural economy is impossible without the active use of special tools of purposeful structural organization and management. We speak about the restoration of working out complex plan documents, primarily regional schemes of long-term development and allocation of productive forces in the context of solving problems of reformation of productive relations. We mean concrete plans of necessary strategic and tactical measures on the complete and most effective mastering of available resources in the region, the creation in every region of a regional territorial and branch productive structure of full value by scales, structure, and level of modernization, the stimulation of investment and innovation activities, the creation of conditions for honest competition, and the implementation of taxes, finances, credit, land policy, etc.

In the monograph, the primary conceptual and methodical theses of regional land use optimization are formulated, and the common inter- and inner branch conditions of production and land use of agricultural enterprises organization are determined. Considerable attention is given to the investigation of mathematical dependencies of the final results of economic activities from determining and objective factors, as well as the optimization business projecting of the structure of production and land use of concrete agricultural enterprises implemented using the original method adopted to the market.

The second monograph, “The Land Market in the Context of Sociology,” was prepared due to the fact that in the conditions of transition to the market, the introduction of private land ownership and various forms of farming under the previous methods of regulation of land and property relations (formed in the period of administrative centralized management of the economy) turned out to be ineffective. The situation is complicated because the efficiency of land resources use in the country is restricted to a considerable degree by a deficit of information and analytical ensuring of the land fund management, in particular, for analysis and forecasting of the land market and real estate dynamics. That is why, at present, we must pay attention to sociological monitoring for solving strategic operative problems of regulation of new land relations and land market formation.

In the monograph, the conceptual and methodical grounds of sociological monitoring of the land market are stated for solving the practical problems of its formation and regulated development. The monograph also discusses how the difficult situation in this field is discovered, summarizes the social and psychological valuations of common conditions and factors of formation and regulation of land plots market turnover, and presents the sociological portrait of different participants in the land market, motives of their behavior, and sociological tools of correction of the land market conjuncture. In the supplement, the tools of sociological monitoring of the land market and the methodical procedures of processing and analysis of its results are presented in full volume.

The third monograph, “Modeling of the Gradual Transition to the Perspective Regional Land Use,” was prepared proceeding from the fact that the formation, effective organization, and functioning of multi-structural land use demand the optimization of the transition period in its formation as a market system. We focus on working out programs of gradual transformation of land relations and regional land use synchronized in time and coordinated by subject matter with the social and economic transformation taking place in regions.

The monograph presents to the interested reader the conception of organization of regional land use during the transition period, a common methodical scheme and procedures of optimization modeling of paramount transformations in this field, the results of concrete calculations and grounds implemented on the example of the Volgogradskaya region. The peculiarity of the monograph is the wide “filling” of presented methodical theses with modern tools of analysis, mathematical modeling of relations, and dependencies of an investigated object, and constructive optimization business planning and projecting. Special attention is paid to the organization and management of the transition of regional agrarian land use to its perspective condition.

The relevance of the fourth monograph, “Regional Land Management,” is determined by the fact that with the adoption of the Land Code of Russia and a series of other key legislative acts on land, there arose new aims and conditions of organization of multi-structural land use in every subject of the RF. The implementation of mass re-registration of organization and juridical forms of concrete land use, the fulfillment of a considerable volume of works on the delimitation of state property, the widespread registration of rights of land plot ownership under privatized enterprises and institutions, the implementation of unique by scale calculations of the cadastral and market cost of a concrete land plot, and making the market land turnover more active demand the optimization of the structure, subordination, and correlation of power bodies of the land fund, and concretization referencing to regional conditions of management functions and their distribution by concrete subjects of management.

The results of the surveys of the Institute summarized in the monograph significantly extend ideas on the subject matter and content of land management in regions, enrich knowledge on conformities to natural law, mechanisms, and organizational forms of this process, provide practical management with new productive methods of optimization and management of regional land use. The monograph contains not only interesting theoretical summaries and methodical processes, but also concrete proposals and recommendations used both in the Stavropol region and in the overwhelming majority of regions in the country.