Комплексная оценка пространственного развития Ростовской области

Abstract

At present, such a scientific category as the spatial development of territories is still insufficiently studied and in need of further conceptualization. And although the main directions of the country’s and region’s spatial development are presented in scientific discourse and government documents, their implementation in the region requires their specification, taking into account regional natural resource conditions, the characteristics of the socio-economic and environmental development of territorial entities. The present study attempts to fill this gap. It is devoted to presenting the results of the development of an original methodology for assessing the level of spatial development at the regional level. The Rostov region was chosen as the object under study, on the example of which the essence of the developed methodology is revealed. The presented methodology includes spatial differentiation of the territory, establishing the territorial structure of the region, determining the level of socio-economic and environmental development of territorial entities, assessing their balance, identifying problems and prospects for spatial development. In addition, this paper highlights the main factors of the spatial development of the region, which include economic, demographic, natural resource potentials, the state of the environment, the level and quality of life of the population. In the work, on the basis of calculated and detailed integral indicators for each municipality of the Rostov region, the territorial features of socio-economic and environmental development and the main problems of the spatial development of the Rostov region are established, the territories that are characterized by the maximum imbalance of development are identified.