Territorial Formation Research Articles

POBREZA ESTRUTURAL-URBANA NO SÉCULO XXI

This article presents a theoretical reflection on interpretations of poverty, principally contemporary urban poverty, inspired by the works of Milton Santos. It is based on Geographical critical theory and other potential dialogues that contextualize and analyze poverty, understood here as the result of structural violence in territorial formation and Brazilian metropolises. It is concluded that poverty is structural-urban and can inform a qualitative debate (not only quantitative) on the lack of human dignity seeking to recognize the legitimacy of existence in places. Keywords: Violence, Urban Poverty, Metropolises, Socio-spatial Formation.

Zoning of the Lower Volga Region and Formation of Territory, Okrug, District and Rural Bodies of Soviet Authority in 1928: First Stage

Introduction. The article examines the process of formation of the Lower Volga region and Soviet authorities at the level of regional, district, and rural administration at the first stage of zoning (before the liquidation of okrugs). Methods and materials. The research was carried out based on traditional methods of historical research (historical-genetic, retrospective, historical-systemic, and historical-comparative). The use of an array of unpublished archival documents stored in the State Archives of the Volgograd Region and the Documentation Center for Contemporary History of the Volgograd Region, and materials from periodicals and legislative sources of government bodies of the USSR and the RSFSR, greatly facilitated the research process. Analysis. The study is aimed at identifying the regional specifics of the zoning process and the accompanying process of formation of Soviet authorities (at the level of councils and executive committees of councils of the Lower Volga region). Results. The zoning of the Lower Volga region already at the first stage revealed a range of problems, the systematic solution of which in the future will make it possible to transform the agricultural region into the industrial center of the Volga region. In the process of reform, along with positive aspects – the reduction in cost of the management apparatus, the bringing closer to the population of Soviet authorities endowed with significant powers (district executive committees and councils) – there were also clearly negative consequences. The distance of rural councils from middle management and the consolidation of individual rural councils, on the one hand, led to the planned reduction of hardware costs but, on the other hand, excluded remote villages from active public life. Districts became the main operational unit of economic and Soviet work in the region. There were several issues to address, including the imbalance between districts with different population sizes, from small ones with just over 2,000 people to large ones with populations approaching 100,000. Additionally, there was a lack of communication between administrative units and personnel problems, which emerged as a significant hurdle in the development of district and rural Soviet administration at the second stage of zoning (in the conditions of the liquidation of okrugs).

Оценка уровня экономического развития старопромышленных регионов Юга России

The study of the level of development of a region is an important tool for comprehension and analysis of the characteristics and trends in the formation of a certain territory from the point of view of the economy. The old industrial regions in southern Russia, such as the Rostov, Volgograd, and Astrakhan regions, play a crucial role in national economic formation. They have a rich history of industrial development and underwent significant transformation during the transition from a Soviet-era industrial structure to a modern, diversified economic system. This circumstance determined the purpose of the article, which is the analysis of key economic indicators of the regions of the south of the country classified as old industrial ones, reflecting the level of their development. The article uses a variety of methods to analyze key economic indicators in these regions, including systematic, economic, statistical, comparative, and retrospective analysis. A study of various economic indicators in the region, including gross regional product, industrial production, retail trade turnover, and agricultural production, was conducted. This made it possible to assess the situation in different regions based on their main industries. The authors offer an algorithm for the calculation of a regional development assessment index that includes economic, social, demographic, and innovative components. It helps understand the overall condition of a region and its potential. The algorithm can be adjusted according to the research objectives. The obtained results and recommendations can be applied to develop an effective development strategy and a set of measures to improve regional policy, which, in turn, can lead to an improvement in the economic condition of old industrial regions, strengthening their positions in the national economic system.

МЕХАНІЗМ ДЕРЖАВНОГО РЕГУЛЮВАННЯ ПРОЦЕСІВ ЗЕМЛЕКОРИСТУВАННЯ

The article examines the peculiarities of the mechanism of state regulation of land use processes. Groups of social, ecological and economic aspects have been studied. It is emphasized that the regulation of economic processes of land use is impossible without reliable information about the qualitative characteristics of each specific plot, its economic and biological fertility, because ignoring or incorrect assessment of its potential can negate the results of planning, which is one of the main functions of management.
 By the economic aspects of land use, we primarily understand transferability as a property of a land plot, expressed in its ability to be freely alienated or transferred from one person to another in the order of universal legal succession or in another way; forms of ownership and management characterizing legal issues of land use, as well as organizational and technological conditions of agricultural production; the value of land resources as a measure of materialized labor necessary to support sustainable and effective development of agricultural production.
 Selected aspects of land use regulation formed the basis of the structural diagram of the mechanism of state regulation of land use processes presented by us and allow not only to clarify its content, but also directly determine its structure.
 It was determined that in the conditions of market relations, an important place in the system of state regulation of land use began to be assigned to the cadastral assessment of land plots. The content of the use of the land resource potential of the territorial formation is given.
 In the regulation structure, special attention should be paid to the issue of comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of the use of land resources and the resulting need for further development of the methodological base for the assessment of land use.
 The key link in the process of state regulation should be the evaluation of the efficiency of land use, which is based on a system of quantitative parameters for the evaluation of the efficiency of the use of land resources.
 Land owners are mainly municipal authorities, enterprises (legal entities), citizens (individuals) or their associations (cooperatives, commercial firms, etc.).
 The denationalization of land ownership and the introduction of private land ownership on this basis, the privatization of land, the introduction of paid land use fundamentally changed the structure and content of land relations in the conditions of village land use, changed the structure, content and principles of planning land resource formations.
 The effective organization of state regulation of economic processes of land use has a significant impact on the process of creating the necessary organizational, territorial, legal and social conditions for full involvement in turnover, increasing the return of each hectare of land while preserving or reproducing soil fertility.

Urban territorial formation and management of wasteland in Rondonópolis-MT

The use and form of land occupation can occur in diverse ways, in line with the interests of those in power of the formation of these spaces. Creating urban spaces involves designing and constructing areas within cities that result in landscapes reflecting on the social disparities due to their organization and occupation. Urban voids represent a widespread phenomenon in many Brazilian cities and are one of the main tools for controlling and privatizing land for future gains from exploiting urban land. The urban voids phenomenon has various effects on the management and territorial control of the city. Unused land should be used for social purposes. It often leads to several social problems, including the lack of maintenance and partial abandonment. By taking a comprehensive approach, we can effectively tackle these challenges and find successful solutions. Therefore, this work aims to analyze the wastelands present in the urban space of Rondonópolis and to understand the factors that allow for the maintenance of large wastelands in the eastern area of Rondonópolis. This study employed bibliographical research using theses, dissertations, and scientific articles, as well as the analysis and interpretation of municipal urban management laws, field research, and the analysis and interpretation of satellite images. It is necessary to take an innovative approach to the management and occupation of wastelands in Rondonópolis in order to solve the problem of their existence and ensure that they fulfill their social function.

Draft Constitution of Transcarpathian Ukraine: general legal characteristics

A study of the draft Provisional Constitutional Law (temporary constitution) of Transcarpathian Ukraine was conducted. The main external formal and legal provisions of this document have been analyzed, which allows us to draw certain conclusions about the intentions of the leaders of Transcarpathian Ukraine, revealed by them when drafting this act and aimed at forming the constitutional foundations of this territorial formation of the transitional period.

Analysis the effective factors on the formation of women's ideal territory in urban parks (Case study: El Goli, shams , valiasr of Tabriz)

analysis the effective factors on the formation of women's ideal territory in urban parks (Case study: El Goli, shams , valiasr of Tabriz)

Upper Silesia: a changing cross-border region. A field report from a Brazilian geographer

This field report deals with a peripheral, or non-central cross-border region between Poland and Czech Republic. It presents some results of bibliographical research and field observations in the cultural-historical region of Silesia (PL: Śląsk; CZ: Slezsko), mainly in its part of Upper Silesia (PL: Górny Śląsk; CZ: Horní Slezsko). After the Introduction, the question of the location and position of cultural-historical Silesia and Upper Silesia is examined between the two countries. In the second place, the spatio-temporal development of the territorial formation of Silesia is presented. In the third place, the most important territorial features of the intensive urbanization process and the Silesian-Moravian agglomeration are treated. In the fourth part, which deals with “peripheral regionalism” in Central Europe, the report tries to show that Upper Silesia is a classic cross-border central region in the sense of a strategic “Heartland” between Poland and Czech Republic. In fifth place, the report addresses the current productive reconversions in Upper Silesia, the closure of coal mines and steel mills considered unproductive, the integration of the periphery into the central macro-regional production networks of the automotive industry, the gradual adaptation to the Paris Agreement, and the search for a service-based economy, mainly through historical and ecological tourism. In sixth and final place, the report addresses cross-border management, focusing on Euroregions, the EGTC Tritia, and functional urban areas (FUAS) in both sides of the countries. A concluding Discussion highlights that the concept of periphery may not be appropriate for Upper Silesia and, to some extent, for the entire cultural-historical Silesia, even though its geo-economic role in production networks is changing today. A brief Post Scriptum highlights the current state of cross-border integration processes, which respond to the uncertainties of nationalisms, the difficulties of integrating processes and productive reconversions, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

Assessment of the Vulnerability of the Coast of Lake Alakol to Modern Geomorphological Processes of Relief Formation

Over the last few decades, increasing water levels of Lake Alakol have led to the activation of processes of modern relief formation of the coastal territory. This study will make it possible to assess the vulnerability of the lake shore to modern relief-forming processes, which pose a threat to the economic and infrastructural development of the coast. Through a combination of field research methods, analysis of the archival materials and satellite images, GIS mapping, as well as the application of the Coastal Vulnerability Index, developed by Gornitz, a map of the modern relief of the coast of Lake Alakol was created, where 13 geomorphological types of relief were identified, and a map of relief-forming processes and leading exogenous processes were identified. The values of the assessment of the degree of vulnerability of the coast to dangerous processes by the Gornitz method were obtained, where a high vulnerability covers 67.4% of the coast, an average vulnerability covers 2.9%, a weak vulnerability covers 13.3%, and low vulnerability occupies 16.4% of the coast. The degree of vulnerability of types of relief in the study area, the coast of Lake Alakol, was determined. High degree occupies 42.8% of the study area, medium—30.7%, weak—25.4%, and low 1.1%. A map of the complex assessment of the degree of vulnerability of the coast of Lake Alakol was created. It was revealed that low accumulative types of relief of the northwest and northeast coasts and alluvial-proluvial types of relief are highly vulnerable due to waterlogging and the intensity of abrasion processes. Identified natural features of the relief formation of the coast of Lake Alakol are recommended as a basis for making decisions on the planning and implementation of any economic activities on the coast, including infrastructure development of the coast and strengthening of the shores.

ETHNO-GEOGRAPHIC MACRO-REGIONATION OF UKRAINE AS THE INFORMATION BASIS FOR REGIONAL ETHNIC POLICY

A comprehensive analysis of macro-regional ethno-geographical differences in Ukraine was made, which are most evident in the different proportions of the number of ethnic Ukrainians and representatives of ethno-national minorities in the regions of the country, as well as in the peculiarities of the population structure by native language. The main factors in the formation of ethnogeographic regions are historical and geographical prerequisites, subjective aspects of the formation of the state territory of Ukraine, population migration, and the peculiarities of state policy in Soviet times. Determination of common and distinctive features of the ethno-national and ethno-linguistic structure of the population between the regions of Ukraine using a number of indicators (the value of the quantitative superiority of Ukrainians over the largest ethnic minority by region; the ratio of the share of Ukrainians and the population with a native Ukrainian language; the ratio of the share of Ukrainians with a native Russian language and the share of Russians with in the native Ukrainian language) made it possible to distinguish 12 ethnogeographic regions: 1) Transcarpathian; 2) Halych; 3) Volyn; 4) Chernivtsi; 5) Podillya-Polyssya; 6) Central-Right Bank; 7) Central-Left Bank; 8) Dnipro-Kharkiv; 9) Donetsk; 10) Odessa; 11) Central-Black Sea; 12) Crimean.
 Since the proposed scheme of ethnogeographic zoning reflects not only the most significant regional differences in the ethno-national composition of the population and its linguistic structure, but also reveals of the political development and socio-economic development of the territory of Ukraine, significant differences in the levels of urbanization and the demographic situation of the regions, it can to be the basis of integral socio-geographical macro-regionalization of Ukraine and an important reference point in the implementation of regional ethnopolitics aimed at balancing the interests of the state, ethno-national communities and groups. The strategic task of regional ethnopolitics is the resolution of ethnopolitical contradictions and the prevention of ethnopolitical conflicts in ethnogeographical macro-regions. The solution of ethnopolitical problems related to the use of the state and the languages of ethno-national minorities in various spheres of society's life is of leading importance in the implementation of state ethnopolitics. These problems are the most urgent for Transcarpathian, Chernivtsi and Odesa ethnographic regions. The relatively high degree of russification of ethnic Ukrainians in the regional centers of the Central-Left Bank, Dnipro-Kharkiv, Central-Black Sea and Odesa ethnogeographic regions deepens contrasts in the linguistic structure of the population of rural areas and large cities, which creates functional barriers in their relations and does not contribute to linguistic cultural consolidation of Ukrainian society.
 Key words: ethnogeographic zoning, ethnic composition of the population, structure of the population by native language, regional ethnopolitics, assimilation.

INVENTION OF “ROMAN”, IMAGINATION OF “BARBARIAN”: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IMPERIAL IDENTITY OF ROME IN THE LATER TEXTS OF OVID

Purpose. The author in the presented article considers the late texts of Ovid, presented by Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto. The purpose of the article is to analyze how the texts reflect the processes of formation of the imperial political culture and identity.
 Research novelty. The novelty of the study lies in the analysis of the late texts of Ovid not as literary, but as political narratives that inspired the transformation of Roman identity, contributing to the actualization of the concepts of Self and Otherness.
 Materials and methods. Methodologically, the article is based on the principles of interdisciplinarity proposed in the framework of studies of nationalism, intellectual and cultural history, transplanted into the contexts of the literary history of Rome in the 1st century AD.
 Results. The article analyzes 1) Ovid’s attempts to form an ideal and positive image of power, 2) Ovid’s contribution to the development of Roman ideas about barbarians, 3) peculiarities of Ovid’s geographical perception of the formation of Roman territory as an imperial heterogeneous space. The contribution of the later texts of Ovid, represented by Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto and written in exile, to the formation of political imperial culture and identity is shown. The results of the study suggest that 1) Ovid was one of the first Roman authors who textualized the transformations of political power, contributing to the genesis of the cult of imperial power as an element of political culture; 2) in the formation and imagination of the images of the barbarians, Ovid continued the earlier tendencies of hierarchization and idealization of the inhabitants of the peripheral provinces: 3) the later texts of Ovid, written in exile, became a contribution to the development of the cultural geography of the emerging Roman Empire, based on the glorification and positive idealization of Italy through the prism of its opposition to the provinces.

PROTECTING THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT WITHIN THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE (EEZ) FROM HUMAN ACTIVITIES

Protecting the states' interests, achieving the balance between exploring and exploiting the resources of the International Seabed Area (the Area) from one side, and protection of environment and human life from the other side are the most important goals which should be the consideration particularly when it comes to usage of the “International Seabed Area”. The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) may soon face many enormous environmental challenges related to the Area's activities, especially in front of the modern technological development and increasing state interest in the Area's resources. In the current situation, the EEZ environment needs more protection. It establishes a new protection system that can be acceptable by all the States and provide natural protection to the EEZ from the activities carried out in the designated Area. The Area Mining system shows that the resources need more protection by decreasing the activities and controlling some kinds of the activities, for example the activities related to the exploitation of oil and gas, and making these last kinds of activities far from the EEZ. Establishing the Protection Area as a buffer zone between the EEZ and the Area will provide two kinds of protection to the EZZ environment and reduce the boundaries disputes amongst the continental shelf and the Area. This Area should be subject to the new system and different rules. Consequently, it is thought that one of the main issues confronting the states is the formation of this new territory.

Cost modeling of the urbanized territories living environment

In recent years, the main vector of scientific research in the field of regional economics has been the development of large localized economic systems. It was proposed to use the term “urbanized territory” as one of the generalizing terms for describing socio-economic systems. The analysis of various interpretations of the concept of “urbanized territory” allowed us to identify and form a limited list of their inherent characteristics and propose an author’s approach to their definition. A general formalized cost model for the development of urbanized territories is proposed, which includes basic infrastructure elements, as well as improvement coefficients for each block. Taking into account the projected investments, the structure of financing measures for the formation of the cost part within the framework of cost modeling, as well as cost distribution options among the main subjects of the formation of an urbanized territory are proposed. Due to the fact that urbanized territories have different levels of urban planning value, the authors in the article propose a marginality coefficient of the territory, which characterizes the change in the market value of real estate in a specific location of the urbanized territory, depending on the formed parameters of the living environment.

Методические подходы к установлению границ лесопаркового зеленого пояса

The article discusses methodological approaches to the problems of performing work in relation to the forest-park green belt of territorial entities and the procedure for establishing its boundaries. The analysis of the legal support of the work is carried out, the most problematic aspects are formulated and possible ways of their solution are given. It has been established that the existing problems are based on the inconsistency of the relevant regulatory documents and the lack of unified methodological and technological approaches to the implementation of such work. To eliminate the established negative aspects that significantly affect the quality of the work performed, a technological scheme is proposed. This scheme has successfully passed adaptation in the territorial formation of the Russian Federation. The result of the implementation was the entry into the Unified State Register of Real Estate of information on the formed boundaries of the forest-park zone of the city of Tomsk.

Methodological approaches to assessing the economic security of territorial entities

In the article, the authors propose to assess the economic security of the region using the indicators used for the federal level and reflected in the Economic Security Strategy of the Russian Federation until 2030. Since not all indicators recorded in this Strategy are applicable to the regional level of government, the authors propose to analyze economic security in four areas: the scale of the economy and the share of the territory in a higher level of territorial formation; human potential; situation in the labor market; success of participation in innovative processes. For each group, sets of indicators have been formed to characterize the object from different angles, on the one hand, demonstrating the maximum versatility of a complex system, and on the other hand, eliminating duplication. The desired set of indicators must meet a number of requirements: compactness, accessibility, ease of calculation, verifiability, complementarity. To evaluate the calculated quantitative indicators, it is necessary to compare them with the selected standard. Based on assessments of the state and achieved level of economic security of a territorial entity, an organizational mechanism and a system for managing economic security are being built.

Theoretical and methodological foundations of the competitiveness of agricultural production: regional aspect

The basis for determining the level of the competitiveness of the region are a specific purpose of the assessment and a reasonable set of adequate characteristics that allows to identify the main development trends, strengths and weaknesses, risks and opportunities for territorial formation. The article considers the theoretical and methodological aspects of the analysis of the competitive advantages of agricultural production in the context of differentiation of regions by the level of development of production and economic potential and infrastructure.

“Housing Is a Human Right”

AbstractIn the midst of the global SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological crisis unfolds another contagion: the eviction epidemic. This essay attends to the work of Moms for Housing, an organization of formerly homeless and marginally housed Black mothers in Oakland, California who have organized to confront dispossession, real-estate speculation, and the privatization of housing. Using Black feminist and queer of color intellectual frameworks as ciphers through which to interpret and properly attribute weight to the organization's activism, the essay argues that Moms for Housing not only offers potential flightlines toward a post-property future—one in which housing is positioned as a basic human right—but also a generative critique of the home as a site of racialized and gendered subject formation. Indeed, through their work, the reconception of kinship formation and territorial formation are understood to be mutually constitutive, abolitionist projects.

Інформаційно-аналітичне забезпечення прогнозування споживання результатів модернізації організаційно-технологічних систем

One of the most important challenges that appear when consumers expect the results of modern organizational and technological systems in industrial production within a certain territorial formation, is to forecast the level of the results consumption of high-tech enterprises that are being modernized. Today, the advantage factor of consumer requirements plays a significant role in the field of high-tech products and services. The need to solve this problem is due to the fact that due to various reasons, high-tech enterprises are located very unevenly. There is a problem of rational spatial redistribution. In order to solve this problem classic or modified Reilly models are used, which are gravitational analogues to determine consumer preferences. The influence of the distance factor on the consumer's choice is reflected in using the hypotheses: in the classical model is a proportional square of the distance between the centres, i.e. the organizational and technological system and the consumer; in the modified model is in accordance with the exponential law. The proposed model for predicting consumer behaviour of hightech products, which allows to solve the problem: according the known financial sufficiency of the consumer and a given "geometry" of territorial education it is possible to calculate the optimal location of consumption centres with the required level of service quality; for existing enterprises and its organizational and technological structures to develop recommendations for improving the required quality of services to attract consumers; by known quality and location of consumption centres indirectly determine the financial sufficiency of consumers of this territorial education.

Освоение угольных месторождений в Республике Тыва: вызовы и риски

Description of the main theme. Before the Republic of Tyva, the modern conditions of development have put forward the challenges of intensifying the development of natural resources to improve living standards and reduce unemployment. Since coal is the main wealth of the interior of Tyva, it is necessary to find ways to involve this resource in economic circulation. Object problems. At present, a coal-mining territory is being formed in Tyva and the volume of coal production is growing dynamically. There are high risks. Purpose of the study. Analysis and systematization of the challenges and risks of a large-scale increase in coal production in Tyva. Basic methods of analysis. Methods of systemic, economic and statistical analysis, classification were used. The research was based on statistical and analytical data for Russia and the Republic of Tuva and internet resources. Research results. The scientific novelty of the study consists of the analysis of the development of coal mining in the regions of the Russian Federation, systematization of risks arising in the formation of coal-industrial territory in Tyva. Natural, anthropogenic, technogenic and socio-economic risks are identified, differing in the source of their occurrence. Ecological risks from anthropogenic and technogenic risks are highlighted. The ways of reducing the possible environmental load are substantiated. Conclusions. Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that in order to reduce the lag in the parameters of socio-economic processes in Tyva, one of the effective ways is the formation of a coal mining area. This implies the creation of an energy-chemical complex for coal processing and the production of a wide range of coal chemistry products, an increase in coal export volumes after the construction of the railway. To eliminate the high risks of this strategic direction of regional development, it is proposed to implement a number of innovative sustainable technology, systematic monitoring of the state of coal mining territories.

Successful territorial brand formation (on the example of Singapore)

Main directions of improving the strategy of Ukraine's external debt management based on the results of the assessment of the main indicators of external state debt in relation to the criteria of economic security and the impact of external debt on key macroeconomic indicators are substantiated in the article. According to the results of the regression analysis of the relationship between main macroeconomic indicators and indicators of external debt, it was concluded that the external debt has an ambiguous impact on the economy of Ukraine. The hypothesis about the negative consequences of increasing the external state debt for the economy of Ukraine has not been fully confirmed. Based on the analysis of the data for 2008-2020, the direct impact of changes in external debt on GDP in actual prices, as well as the direct impact of gross external debt on changes in GDP per capita was identified. This confirms a positive role of external borrowing in ensuring Ukraine's economic growth. At the same time, the inverse dependence of Ukraine's GDP on changes in external debt per capita and the ratio of total payments to service external debt to state budget revenues was revealed. The dependence of GDP per capita on the ratio of total external debt service payments to state budget revenues is also inverse. The results of the study suggest an ambiguous impact of external debt on the national economy, which necessitates effective management of the external debt. The Long-Term Strategy for Ukraine's External Debt Management until 2030 should become an important institutional tool for reducing threats to the country's economic security arising from the growing debt burden. The purpose of the proposed Strategy is to minimize the cost of servicing external debt in the long run and reduce the level of relevant risks.