Socioeconomic Regionalization: Post-Soviet Trends and Alternative Perspective
https://doi.org/10.1134/S2587556618060031
Abstract
The article presents the results of the first generalization of domestic and foreign works (journal articles and monographs) on the socioeconomic regionalization, published in 1992–2016. The purpose of generalization is to identify development trends for groups of types of regionalization and their extrapolation to 2017– 2026. Distribution of publications by five groups (integral economic, sectoral socioeconomic, political-administrative, recreation-geographical, and cultural-geographical regionalization) is analyzed. It was found that in the post-Soviet period in the world there has been a decline in the relative importance of the first three groups and the increase for the last two groups. For Russian publications, a significant decline in the importance of an integral economic regionalization is recorded, as well as not such a big drop of the second and the third groups on the background of a rapid growth of the fourth and fifth groups. The extrapolation of global trends to 2017–2026 allowed assessing the impact of the future on current estimates: the first three groups of regionalization became to be assessed less pessimistic, and the last two groups are less optimistic. It is shown that in the future new kinds of socioeconomic regionalization based on the “big data” may be formed out of identified trends.
About the Author
V. I. Blanutsa
Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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1. Количество журнальных статей и монографий по социально-экономическому районированию, ежегодно публикуемых во всем мире в 1992–2016 гг. | |
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2. The number of journal articles and monographs on socio-economic regionalization, published annually throughout the world in 1992–2016 | |
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- Between 1992 and 2016 most of scientific publications on regionalization (zoning) were publishing at first in foreign journals and books, and later in Russian ones.
- Scientific interest in human geography shifted from economic to non-economic regionalization.
- Interest increased in cultural-geographical regionalization and decreased in sectoral socio-economic one.
- The peak of interest in cultural-geographical regionalization passed in 2012–2016.
- In the era of big data, at least seven new kinds of regionalization will appear.
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Blanutsa V.I. Socioeconomic Regionalization: Post-Soviet Trends and Alternative Perspective. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2018;(6):7-16. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.1134/S2587556618060031
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