Frontmatter -- Preface by the Director of UNRISD -- Foreword by the Series Editor -- Contents -- PART ONE. Introduction -- 1. Towards an integrated approach to research into development prospects of Siberia's productive forces / Aganbegyan, A. G. -- PART TWO. General problems of regional pre-planning studies -- 2. Optimization of interregional proportions / Granberg, A. G. -- 3. A retrospective analysis of Siberia's economic development / Orlov, B. P. -- 4. Fundamental aspects of the formation of an integrated regional economic development concept / Shniper, R. I. -- 5. On the concepts and techniques of systems analysis of the countryside / Zaslavskaya, T. I. -- 6. On the concepts and techniques of long-term regional population projections / Beryozkin, Yu. M. -- 7. Time budgets and pre-planning studies / Artyomov, V. A. / Balykova, N. A. / Kalugina, Z. I. / Kutyryov, B. P. -- 8. Inertia properties and actuality of planning decisions / Smirnov, V. A. / Gerchikov, S. V. -- 9. Optimization of the production structure of an economic region / Zverev, V. S. / Cherevikina, M. Yu. -- 10. Optimization of the spatial structure of the economy of a region and its parts / Bandman, M. K. -- PART THREE. Sectoral and territorial regional subsystems -- 11. Optimization of sectoral systems / Tsimdina, Z. R. -- 12. Optimization of regional programmes with due regard to the interaction between servicing sectors and specialization production units / Alekseyev, A. M. / Kryuchkov, V. N. -- 13. Optimizing the formation of a regional agro-industrial complex / Tyanutov, A. I. -- 14. Some findings from the optimization of the spatial structure of the Sayany territorial-production complex / Bandman, M. K. / Malinovskaya, M. A. / Malov, V. Yu. -- 15. Optimization of the main parameters of settlement patterns in modelling territorial-production complexes / Sevastyanov, L. I. -- 16. Problems of environmental protection in industrial location within the framework of territorial-production complexes -- 17. Experience in the formation of the Bratsk-Ust'- Ilimsk territorial-production complex / Gukov, V. P. / Semyonov, A. N. -- Notes on the Contributors