scholarly journals SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF THE SPATIAL ECONOMY AND THE THEORY OF NEW ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (4/2020) ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
M. V. Ivanova ◽  
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A. S. Kozmenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
Spatial Economy ◽  
Communications System

The modern political and economic processes have had a significant impact on the change in the economic policy of Russia and its “internal” economic space. As a result of the “sanction” blocking of the significant sectors of the economy, the importance of considering the spatial factor of socio-economic development in the basic development program documents has increased. The article examines the main approaches to spatial organization of the regional economy and strategic directions of spatial development in the context of the “Strategy of Spatial Development of the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2025”. These approaches are based on the joint evolution of this organization and the regional settlement system under the influence of a multiple external and internal factors, including the implementation of a rational state policy of regional development. The study examines the main provisions of the spatial economy as an independent scientific field and the theory of new economic geography. It shows the methodological similarity between these two scientific disciplines. The article shows that the basis of spatial development is the integration of specific forms of spatial organization of the economy into large and / or largest agglomerations. The leading role in this integration belongs to the regional communications system, which unites economic centers localized in an allocated space into an integral system and ensures the economic space unity. The implementation of the spatial economy provisions is studied on the example of the Northern Sea Route as a regional communications system, which is in fact the center of the “assembly” of the Arctic space. The functional dominant of the agglomeration as a form of spatial organization of the regional economy is creating such high-quality life conditions that are optimized with the rational economic development of the regional space while maintaining the economic situation at an acceptable level. These are the conditions that form communicative ties, which are the framework for uniting various elements of the regional space.

scholarly journals Natural resources, settlement system and the role of single-industry towns in the spatial organization development of the Arctic Karelia regional economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 582-595
Author(s):  
A.D. Volkov ◽  
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S.V. Tishkov ◽  
P.V. Druzhinin ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Settlement System ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
Single Industry ◽  
Economic Regime

The article examines the Karelian Arctic region, formed due to the inclusion of a number of territories into the Russian Arctic. It provides a description of its geographical position and analyzes the dynamics of spatial development, the settlement system and mineral resource base, tourist, biological resource and fishery potential. The authors outline significant differentiation of the economic space of the region. They note that the natural resource and socio-economic potential is used extremely unevenly within the Arctic Karelia region. The authors reveal the decisive role of single-industry towns in the formation of trends in the spatial development of the region under study. Under existing conditions, they act as poles of economic growth and maintaining the population of the northern territories, with general trends of degradation of the settlement system and the aggravation of the sparseness of the economic space. The researchers analyze spatial localization of ongoing and planned investment projects in the region, determine and explain its regularities. The paper identifies the prerequisites for enhancing the economic development of the Belomorsk part of the Karelian Arctic, represented by two vectors: internal (from the existing economic centers within the region of the Karelian Arctic) and external (from the Murmansk and Arkhangelsk regions). The existing economic ties between the enterprises of the Belomorsk part of the Karelian Arctic, the Arkhangelsk and Murmansk regions, as well as a number of projects in the mining, fishery, tourism and logistics spheres represent a significant potential for the interdependent development of the Arctic regions. For a more complete use of the existing development potential in these conditions, it is necessary to transform the role of single-industry towns in the formation of the regional economic space by improving the special economic regime and introducing institutional innovations. Improving the special economic regime of the Russian Arctic is one of the priority mechanisms for diversifying mono-profile economies, transitioning to innovative growth models and involving depressed territories in economic development processes.

scholarly journals features of the Current Phase and Problems of Spatial Development of the Arctic regions of russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
E. E. Plisetskii ◽  
E. L. Plisetskii
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Current Phase ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
State Management ◽  
Arctic Regions

The paper is devoted to the problems of socio-economic development of the Arctic territories of Russia. The methodological base of the study includes the modern theory of the location of production and the concept of state management of regional development. The analysis made it possible to conclude that the spatial development of the Arctic regions is negatively affected by such factors as low infrastructure, transport remoteness, adverse climate, etc. Under these conditions, one of the priorities for the implementation of the Strategy for spatial development of the Arctic zone should be the modernization of its entire transport and logistics system. It has been substantiated that the most effective forms of spatial organization of the economy and management, ensuring the implementation of an integrated approach to the new territories development, may be territorial clusters, as well as territories of advanced social and economic development, contributing to the diversification of the North economy, attracting investments and thereby improving the life quality of the population. The practical significance of the results and conclusions of the study lies in the possibility of their use in updating strategies and programs for the development of the regions of the Russian North and the Arctic with the aim of forming an effective mechanism for managing and coordinating economic activity and ensuring the integrated development of the Arctic territories.

THE STRUCTURE OF THE ECONOMIC SPACE OF THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 132-140
Author(s):  
E. A. KORCHAK ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
National Policy ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
Arctic Regions ◽  
Dominant Direction ◽  
Integrated Structures

The purpose of the study was to analyze the structure of the economic space of the Russian Arctic within the framework of determining the prospects for the economic development of the Arctic regions. The unevenness of the economic space of the Russian Arctic and the focus on the extraction and export of natural resources are determined. It is revealed that vertically integrated structures play a key role in the Russian Arctic. It is determined that the specific feature of this region is the ethnoeconomics, the long-term development of which is the dominant direction of the national policy in the field of agriculture of the Russian Arctic.

Competitiveness and Polycentrism for SMEs in Bogotá Region, Colombia

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-79
Author(s):  
Luis Armando Blanco ◽  
Fabio Fernando Moscoso Duran ◽  
Julián Marcel Libreros
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
City Region ◽  
Central Thesis ◽  
The City ◽  
Edge Cities

This chapter studies the dynamics of Bogotá Region based on the New Economic Geography and the recent works on economic development in two big dimensions: the economic and the spatial structure; that is, productivity and polycentrism. The central thesis, supported on an econometric exercise for SMEs in 20 cities in Bogotá-Sabana region, is that with greater strength in the interior of Bogotá and less in the city region, a transition from monocentrism to functional polycentrism is consolidating. Krugman's Edge Cities model concludes that polycentrism comes from a process of spontaneous self-organization and produces a territorial order according to the mysterious ZIP law and consistent with efficiency, equity, and sustainability.

scholarly journals Of Hype and Hyperbolas: Introducing the New Economic Geography

2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 536-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Peter Neary
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
Rational Decision ◽  
Equilibrium Models ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Rational Decision Making ◽  
Spatial Economy

Reviewing The Spatial Economy by Fujita, Krugman, and Venables, this paper argues that the key contribution of the new economic geography is a framework in which standard building blocks of mainstream economics (especially rational decision making and simple general equilibrium models) are used to model the trade-off between dispersal and agglomeration. The approach thus gives a choice-theoretic basis for a “propensity to agglomerate.”

New Economic Geography

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching-mu Chen ◽  
Shin-Kun Peng
Keyword(s):  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Spatial Models ◽  
Reduced Form ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Spatial Economy ◽  
Spatial Configurations

For research attempting to investigate why economic activities are distributed unevenly across geographic space, new economic geography (NEG) provides a general equilibrium-based and microfounded approach to modeling a spatial economy characterized by a large variety of economic agglomerations. NEG emphasizes how agglomeration (centripetal) and dispersion (centrifugal) forces interact to generate observed spatial configurations and uneven distributions of economic activity. However, numerous economic geographers prefer to refer to the term new economic geographies as vigorous and diversified academic outputs that are inspired by the institutional-cultural turn of economic geography. Accordingly, the term geographical economics has been suggested as an alternative to NEG. Approaches for modeling a spatial economy through the use of a general equilibrium framework have not only rendered existing concepts amenable to empirical scrutiny and policy analysis but also drawn economic geography and location theories from the periphery to the center of mainstream economic theory. Reduced-form empirical studies have attempted to test certain implications of NEG. However, due to NEG’s simplified geographic settings, the developed NEG models cannot be easily applied to observed data. The recent development of quantitative spatial models based on the mechanisms formalized by previous NEG theories has been a breakthrough in building an empirically relevant framework for implementing counterfactual policy exercises. If quantitative spatial models can connect with observed data in an empirically meaningful manner, they can enable the decomposition of key theoretical mechanisms and afford specificity in the evaluation of the general equilibrium effects of policy interventions in particular settings. Several decades since its proposal, NEG has been criticized for its parsimonious assumptions about the economy across space and time. Therefore, existing challenges still require theoretical and quantitative models on new microfoundations pertaining to the interactions between economic agents across geographical space and the relationship between geography and economic development.

Spatial Organization of Economic Development of Energy Resources in the Arctic Region of the Russian Federation

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Anatolievich AGARKOV ◽  
Sergey Yurievich KOZMENKO ◽  
Anton Nikolaevich SAVELIEV ◽  
Mikhail Vasilyevich ULCHENKO ◽  
Asya Aleksandrovna SHCHEGOLKOVA
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
World Energy ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
D Model ◽  
Gas Bearing ◽  
The Arctic Region

In the conditions of price reduction in the world energy market, the issue of determining the priorities of the economic development of hydrocarbons in the Arctic Region of the Russian Federation (RF) becomes highly relevant. The article is aimed at developing an optimal model for the spatial organization of energy resources in the Arctic Region. The expert elicitation procedure was used to determine the efficiency indicators for the economic development of the oil-and-gas-bearing areas in the Arctic Region and clusterization of these areas was carried out in terms of economic efficiency. Based on the factor analysis, the degree of influence of efficiency indicators on the economic development of the oil and gas bearing areas of the region was determined and, an integrated performance indicator of economic development for oil-and-gas-bearing areas for each cluster was calculated with regard to the factor loadings. A 3-D model was developed for the organization of economic development of oil and gas in the Arctic Region. The 3-D model became the basis for determining the priorities for territorial exploration, development and production of hydrocarbons in terms of their economic efficiency, taking into account the trends in the development of the world energy market and break-even fields. A set of recommendations was developed to improve the efficiency of the spatial organization of economic development of oil and gas in the Arctic Region. The implementation of the proposed measures can contribute to the development of the oil and gas industry in the region, its socio-economic development and the long-term sustainability of Russia's energy security.

scholarly journals Les ressources de territoires et les territoires de ressources

Finisterra ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (71) ◽  
Author(s):  
Georges Benko ◽  
Bernard Pecqueur
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
Service Economy ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Free Trade Zones ◽  
Spatial Economy ◽  
International Exchanges

economical geography has known a revival since the 1990s; we even speak of a «new economic geography». Globalisation, metropolisation, the formation of free-trade zones, international exchanges, the linking of the global with the local are all themes at the centre of the concern about spatial economy. But globalisation does not necessarily mean homogenisation of the spaces. The notion of territory reappears in economical analyses because territories offer the market resources that are specific, untransferable and incomparable. These specific resources render the areas diversified and stabilize the emplacement of economic activities. In the next few years, one of the main subjects of research in economic analysis will probably be the study of the process of revealing and eveloping new resources that emerge from the uniqueness of the areas and human groups in a context where information logic controls the service economy.

scholarly journals The Arctic strategic planning in the context of sustainable development of the region: foreign experience.

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (2/2021) ◽  
pp. 20-35
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Nikolaev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Comparative Characteristic ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
Sustainable Regional Development

The article describes the key areas of strategic planning for the Arctic socio-economic development of the countries in the Northern Europe and Northern America from the point of two concepts: spatial organization of economy and sustainable regional development. The results of the Arctic region development are quantitative and qualitative positive changes in the socio-economic situation. They generate spatial modification taking into account the Arctic conditions of the environment of existence. The aim of the work is to study and accumulate the best foreign practices of applying sustainable development principles for the purposes of strategic planning in the Russian Arctic.The article is based on the analysis of the Arctic strategies in Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Canada and the United States, with an emphasis on ranking the interests of these countries in the Arctic and public policy instruments. The author focuses on the issues of northern territories’ sustainable development and the results assessment of the implementation of strategic goals in the Arctic countries. The author presents a comparative characteristic of strategic priorities within the framework of the Arctic economic development.The research made it possible to identify common cornerstone problems that require the attention of governments: climate change and environment, rational economic development of territories and integration of traditional lifestyle of indigenous people into sustainable regional development. Similar priorities and tasks for the lean development of the Arctic and positive dynamics of regional development make it possible to use its results within the Arctic interregional cooperation. Strategic priorities are compared with statistical indicators values of development and subjective assessments of population on the same characteristics of life quality in the High North. Similar estimates of comparative analysis are consequence of the Arctic policy pursuedby the governments of these countries. The author underlines the necessity of foreign experience accumulation in the process of regional strategies’ development in the Russian Federation.

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