title: Opinions of Russian townspeople about involvement of protected natural areas in their life
abstract: Along the development of specially protected natural areas (SPNA), many urban areas are also deeply saturated with them. SPNAs can play an important role in the local economic and social development, however, the methodology for studying the involvement of SPNAs in the local population life is not well developed that determined the purpose of the paper. It is proposed, on the basis of a survey of the population living in the territories adjacent to the SPNA, and within the region, to identify th
journal: POPULATION