Abstract
Trans-Border Regions in the System of the Regional Hierarchy: the Systemic Approach
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The article positions trans-border regions that are formed in the course of cooperation between the administrative, territorial and municipal institutions of neighbouring countries or have similar important characteristics, in the hierarchical system of regions
The authors prove trans-border regions to be a type of international regions and consider specific characteristics of these regions using the Baltic region as an example
Summary
TRANS-BORDER REGIONS IN THE SYSTEM OF THE REGIONAL HIERARCHY: THE SYSTEMIC APPROACH. The article positions trans-border regions that are formed in the course of cooperation between the administrative, territorial and municipal institutions of neighbouring countries or have similar important characteristics, in the hierarchical system of regions. In the framework of the systemic approach, a region can be nothing but a territorial system. The notion of a ‘territorial system’ is one of the crucial notions of geography. It is often considered as an object of research. In the Soviet times, the most comprehensive territorial socio-economic system was referred to as ‘district’. One of the most developed notions in Russian regional studies is that of ‘territorial production complex’; for a long time it was a crucial concept of the Soviet economic geography. Russian socio-economic geography traditionally distinguishes territorial zoning (identification of homogeneous areas) and regionalisation (identification of integral regions). In terms of the space it occupies, the functional subsystem of the region may differ from the existing territorial system. Every territorial socio-economic system, starting from the global level, can be represented as an aggregate of four subsystems down to the local level (see Table)
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