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Russian Socio-Economic Geography: Status, Challenges, Perspectives
Российская социально-экономическая география: современное состояние, основные проблемы и перспективы развития
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Abstract The socio-economic geography studies the processes, characteristics and patterns of spatial development. In the recent decades, however, this area of scientific investigation has failed its promise, which happened for a number of external and internal reasons. The main external reason is the develop... view more
The socio-economic geography studies the processes, characteristics and patterns of spatial development. In the recent decades, however, this area of scientific investigation has failed its promise, which happened for a number of external and internal reasons. The main external reason is the development of "consumer society", which does not require the search of new space and therefore ignores the "spatial" science, geography. Internal reason is the blurring of socio-economic geography along the variety of new lines of research. The discipline was, in many ways, redundant, and unselective in the application of theoretical and methodological tools liberally borrowed from other branches of both geography and economics. The only way this discipline can return to its former glory is by going all the way back to doing proper spatial research.... view less
Keywords
social geography; regional economy; scientific discipline; socioeconomic factors; consumer society; socioeconomic development; sustainable development
Classification
General Problems, History of the Social Sciences
Free Keywords
socio-economic geography; core - periphery; geospace
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 81-93
Journal
Baltic Region (2015) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5922/2079-8555-2015-2-8
ISSN
2079-8555
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed