Role of territorial remoteness, economic and social factors in development of Siberian and northern regions of Russia

Abstract

The issue of territorial peripherality of particular regions is considered for the case of Siberian and the northern part of Russia. The peripherality is one of the basic spatio-temporal factors that negatively impacts on economic development, its innovativeness, territorial organization and, through it, on a socio-demographic situation of remote areas. This factor intensifies regional disparity which closely connected with some other geographical factors and may essentially reduce the investment efficiency in the state economy. The impact of the factor is assessed through modeling of connection of different socio-economic and demographic parameters. For the model calculation an indication function is applied. The function connects a generalized integral evaluation parameter of study object state (regional territory) with its individual integral parameters of state (socio-economic characteristics) through coefficients calculated by regression methods. Regional distances and transport accessibility, population life quality index and investment efficiency are chosen as generalized integral evaluation parameters. They reflect complex spatial, economic and social peripheral properties of the investigated area. For the analysis the geoinformation database for every region is created with necessary content of socio-economic statistic information for the period 2000-2015. Results of the research are mapped using GIS-methods. The calculation shows that in spite of the evident peripherality because of the geographical location and low level of transport-logistic infrastructure development there is an opportunity to reduce the factor effect for the regions. It might be reached by increasing of investment efficiency and improvement of population well-being and the life quality.