Geopolitical Factors in Regional Development

Baklanov, P. Ya.

doi:10.24866/1815-0683/2020-4/75-83

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“…In the case of coastal regions, such geosystems should include land-sea components. The sustainable development of coastal regions is more susceptible to geopolitical factors than that of inland territories, and this effect remains poorly understood [32].…”

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Sustainable Development of Coastal Regions: Geographical and Geopolitical Factors and Limitations

Baklanov

2022

Balt. Reg.

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Having formed at the end of the 20 th century, the concept of spatial development retains its relevance today. Yet, it is associated with a range of problems with its practical implementation and theoretical vindication, especially at a regional level. Attaining sustainable regional development, understood as a steady progress balanced across the economy, social industries and environmental protection, has been deemed impossible without identifying and considering regional development factors, such as geographical and economic-geographical position, environmental conditions and their geographical diversity, natural resource and their location, spatial features of the economy and the settlement structure. Coastal regions are affected by sundry other factors, such as the presence of a seacoast, viewed as a special resource, access to maritime transport and the availability of marine resources, including renewable ones, which are essential for sustainable development. The geopolitical situation of a region and the components of this situation are considered as geopolitical factors. Other limitations include extreme natural processes and events (large waves, tsunamis, typhoons etc.) The article aims to show that an integral geographical system or a combination thereof covering a region should be considered as the most appropriate object for assessment, planning and management of sustainable development, which is based on regional nature management including water and land resources. It is proposed that sustainable development criteria include economic, social and environmental metrics of regional development. Strategic marine and spatial planning and the monitoring of regional environmental management and development are identified as principal tools for attaining and maintaining sustainable development.

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“…Geopolitical factors also have a profound impact on achieving and maintaining sustainable development. The most influential of them is the geopolitical situation [32]. Table 4 shows elements of the geopolitical situation and their features in coastal regions.…”

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Sustainable Development of Coastal Regions: Geographical and Geopolitical Factors and Limitations

Baklanov

2022

Balt. Reg.

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“…The main stimulating factors are: human capital, the financial capital and also the technological advancement of the economy. The theory states that the lesser developed regions may not close the gap in developmental differences in a manner different than by increasing their technological advancement and investing in human competencies (Baklanov 2020;Arranz et al 2019;Rodionov et al 2018;Benner 2003).…”

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The variation in the level of the socio-economic development of the NUTS-3 subregions in the European Union

Spychała¹

2023

Argumenta Oeconomica

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A very important research problem is the specification of the level of the socio-economic development of the EU regions. Within the cohesion policy, one may differentiate between regions more and less advanced in terms of general development, including the worth of GDP per capita. Following that measure, one can establish the areas eligible for getting help from EU budget support programmes. The purpose of the article was to present the variation in the level of the socio-economic development of 28 EU countries within the 1,347 NUTS-3 units. The level of the development was established on a multilevel basis, subcategorising three factors of regional development: human capital, the natural environment and the economy. The article specifies the extent of the NUTS-3 unit general progression following the analysis of 31 indicative measures structured around publicly available Eurostat statistical data (as of 2019). The extent of the progression was demonstrated based on a synthetic measure revealing the taxonomic distance of a particular region from the assumed arrangement measuring the development. The research procedure consisted of five development levels, namely: the establishment of factors of the progression of regions, a choice of variable factors, a decrease in the multi-factor space, an identification in the extent of the social and economic progression of the researched units and a subcategorisation of the units on the scale of the social and economic progression structured around a ranking prepared using the analysis of a lowering synthetic measure. The research resulted in spatial variation of 1,347 NUTS-3 unit subregions in 28 EU states presented in terms of the level of the social and economic progression and the three subparts of the progression. The highest synthetic measure was noted in the areas including the capitals of the states included in the research and in a belt comprising the Irish subregions, Central England, the Benelux states, Western and Southern Germany, up until the Alpine subregion. Moreover, significant differences between the levels of the development within the respective states were presented. The results of the research may be a source of inspiration for EU institutions within the scope of the manner of specifying the richest and the poorest EU regions, whose purpose is to ensure the efficient introduction and conclusion of the cohesion policy in the programming periods specified.

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“…A certain time delaying the impact of the results of the EU projects on economic development was taken into consideration. The authors of other research most often specify a two-or three-year delay in the impact of the EU funds on the economy (Baklanov, 2020;Goryachikh, Kravchenko, 2020).…”

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“…In the first stage of the research procedure, a matrix of geographical information was created based on 31 indicators (Table 1), which specified the changes in the socio-economic development of the NUTS-3 units in the years 2010-2021 in relation to the following factors of development: "the society" (comprising, among others, the changes in the size and quality of human and social capital), "the economy" (comprising, among others, the structure of employment, the level of entrepreneurship as well as the level of innovativeness), as well as "the natural environment" (comprising, among others, spatial planning, the energy consumption of the economy as well as activities harmful to the environment). The abovementioned factors (components) of the development have been identified based on the literature review conducted (Naydenov, 2019;Yun et al, 2017;Feldman, 1999;Khasanova et al, 2020;Spychała, 2020;Diebolt, Hippe, 2019;De Castro et al, 2018;Krugman, 1998;Baklanov, 2020;Goryachikh, Kravchenko, 2020). Subsequently, Pearson's linear correlation coefficients were calculated between the researched departure indicators for their change in the years 2010-2021.…”

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The significance of the absorption of EU funds in the socio-economic development of the subregions of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia

Spychała

2023

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Within the EU cohesion policy, higher and lower developed regions, taking into account only GDP per capita, are subcategorised. Based on that, areas qualifying for obtaining support from aid programs of the general EU budget are established. The aim of the article is to attempt to specify the co-dependency between the absorption of EU funds and the changes in the level of socio-ceonomic development in the regional dimension. The research was conducted at the level of 95 NUTS-3 units in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia in three stages. In the first stage, the level of the development of the subregions in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia is exhibited, subcategorising three factors of that growth based on 31 indicators: “the society”, “the economy”, or “the natural environment”. In the second stage, the variation in the absorption of EU funds in the researched units is demonstrated. In the third stage, the co-dependencies between the extent of the absorption and the changes in the development within the arrangement of the factors of that development are specified. In the article, a hypothesis is verified according to which the absorption of the EU funds impacted, above all, the development of “the economy” component. As a result of the examination conducted, it has been concluded that the absorption of EU funds impacted the changes in the level of the development of the “economy” sector to the largest extent. It confirms the proper direction of the EU fund intervention, which was made accessible above all to the benefit of the development of that factor.

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Geopolitical Factors in Regional Development

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

Sustainable Development of Coastal Regions: Geographical and Geopolitical Factors and Limitations

Sustainable Development of Coastal Regions: Geographical and Geopolitical Factors and Limitations

The variation in the level of the socio-economic development of the NUTS-3 subregions in the European Union

The significance of the absorption of EU funds in the socio-economic development of the subregions of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia

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