POLES AND AREAS OF INACCESSIBILITY IN THE LIGHT OF THE CONCEPT OF THE WORLD “POLARIZED LANDSCAPE”

Abstract

Boris Rodoman’s concept of a polarized landscape is to create a universal model for the harmonious distribution on the planet of opposing environmental types: wildlife and large cities, between which transitional functional zones are located. In the case of landscape polarization, there will be a sustainable development of society. Further developing this concept, we can classify these territories that are opposite in function and study the dependence of their distribution on the population density of a particular state or region. Among the uninhabited territories, poles of inaccessibility stand out - the most remote points from the infrastructure. Around them the areas of inaccessibility are formed; they are limited by infrastructure facilities. They can be of different scales: micro level, meso level, macro level and mega level. Territorial systems modified by humans are called anthropogenic landscapes. In terms of extent, their levels correspond to the areas of inaccessibility: micro level, meso level, and macro level. To study the sizes of inaccessibility areas and sections of anthropogenic landscape, the methods of studying satellite images and GIS technology were used in the work. The territory of the Perm region has been analyzed as an example. As a result, it turned out that the area of anthropogenic landscape is 42% of the region’s territory, and 58% is inaccessible areas. Also, studying space images of other regions and countries of Eurasia, the dependence of the anthropogenic landscape area (% of the total area of region) on the population density in all the studied regions of Eurasia was revealed: 0-2 people/km² - 0 to 20 %, 2-10 people/km² - 20-40 %, 10-50 people/km² - 40-60 %, 50-100 people/km² - 60-80 %, more than 100 people/km² - 80-100 %.