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This article summarizes the most important results in the main areas of activity of the Baikal Institute of Nature Management, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (BINM SB RAS). From the moment of organization the institute was focused on a comprehensive solution of environmental problems which were transformed into the scientific concept of “sustainable development”. Interest in the issue of sustainable development of the regions has not diminished in recent decades, but is ever increasing due to the processes of globalization. While in the first years of existence of the institute the problems of development of individual regions and individual aspects of the concept of sustainable development were discussed, the problems of integration of natural, economic and social components of balanced spatial development at the level of macro-regions along such corridors as “Silk and Tea Road”, “Steppe Road”, “China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor”, etc. The concept of sustainable development involves the analysis of the resource potential, the implementation of social programs and the development of new environmentally sound technologies and materials. These directions represent a strategic basis for the economic development of society in modern conditions. New approaches to the creation of sustainable ecological and economic systems are based on multidisciplinary knowledge and results of long-term research done by BINM SB RAS scientists.