Monotowns: A New Take on the Old Problem

Shastitko, Andrey; Fatikhova, Adelya

doi:10.5922/2079-8555-2015-1-1

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“…Single-industry towns' residents' problems have been of concern to Russian and foreign researchers for several years. We agree with most Russian and foreign researchers' opinion that monotowns, especially those located in the Arctic, are constantly at risk due to a whole range of objective and subjective reasons (Ma & Zhao, 2019;Shastitko & Fakhitova, 2016). Objective reasons are associated with the peculiarities of most always industry towns' economy: firstly, the production of cityforming enterprises is secondary, that is, it always obeys the trends of economic development of the country and the world; secondly, the economy is characterized by low diversification; thirdly, the economy of monotowns is closely related to the city-forming enterprises; at least 20% of the workforce employed in the economy of single-industry towns work at such enterprises; most often these are primary breadwinners in the families.…”

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Problems Of Pensioners And Other Residents Of The Russian Arctic Monotowns

Samarina¹

2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…To reveal the problems of pensioners and other residents of monotowns in the Arctic and outline the directions for their solution. A similar situation is observed worldwide in monotowns formed by mining companies (Li et al, 2016;Macedo & Monasterio, 2016;Mejía, 2020;Shastitko & Fakhitova, 2016).…”

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Problems Of Pensioners And Other Residents Of The Russian Arctic Monotowns

Samarina¹

2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Ideas along these lines have been discussed in Russia, see for instance,Kryukova and Makeeva (2013),Shastitko and Fatikhova (2015),Antonov et al (2017),Karmanova et al (2017).…”

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Changes in Market Behaviour Among Russian Forest Enterprises

Olsson

2020

Europe-Asia Studies

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The article reports on a follow-up of a case study conducted in 1998-1999 investigating the rules governing the behaviour of Russian forest enterprises. The new study, carried out in 2011-2012, used the same survey in interviews with a subset of the enterprises that took part in the original investigation. The objective was to see whether enterprises' behaviour and the rules governing their behaviour had become more market efficient since our original study. The new study showed that, over a ten-year period, the behaviour of the surveyed enterprises became better adapted to rules governing a modern market economy. However, many traits of the virtual economy remained. THIS ARTICLE REPORTS ON A FOLLOW-UP OF A SURVEY-BASED CASE study of institutional change in the Russian forest sector conducted in 1998-1999 as part of a project based at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). The original study sought to identify institutional hurdles to an efficient forest sector development in Russia's emerging market economy. Case studies were conducted in eight Russian regions with the purpose of describing the institutional framework governing actors' behaviour in the regional forest sector and identifying the most prominent institutional problems hampering the further development of the forest sector in the respective eight regions.

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“…The effects of the transition processes on urban settlements in former communist countries were manifold. The exposure to international trade and the sudden contraction of the state demand for manufacturing goods had serious negative effects on industries in mid-size and small urban settlements (monotowns) leading to their rapid decline (Shastitko and Fatikhova, 2015). The patterns of depopulation in small towns and cities during the 1990s became sufficiently strong to offset the overall relocation of the population from rural areas to cities.…”

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Transformations of Urban System: Case of Kazakhstan From 1979 to 2022

MAKHANOV

2023

ERJ

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This study analyzes the transformation of the urban system in Kazakhstan from 1979 to 2022 by studying the interrelationship between population change in large cities and demographic trends in nearby towns and rural areas. The findings suggest that the collapse of the USSR triggered a large-scale spatial realignment of the population leading to dramatic changes in the population size of urban settlements. The estimations largely failed to confirm relationships between the growth of large cities vs population change in mid-size and small urban settlements that would hold throughout the entire sample period. However, the analysis of district-level data showed that remote and rural areas were more prone to depopulation while districts around rapidly growing large cities had significantly higher rates of population growth. The population in large cities and regional centers was found to be growing much faster than in periphery areas, which is very much in line with findings from studies done on other former Soviet states.

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Monotowns: A New Take on the Old Problem

Abstract: Economics 4 ECONOMICS

Cited by 16 publications

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Problems Of Pensioners And Other Residents Of The Russian Arctic Monotowns

Problems Of Pensioners And Other Residents Of The Russian Arctic Monotowns

Changes in Market Behaviour Among Russian Forest Enterprises

Soviet and Post-Soviet Transformations of Urban System: Case of Kazakhstan From 1979 to 2022

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