Principal Types of Geographical Regions

Rodoman, B. B.

doi:10.1080/00385417.1972.10770349

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“…The Kolskiy Peninsula is situated on the north-eastern extremity of the Baltic crystalline shield, composed mainly of the massive-crystallic granites and gneisses. The main features of the peninsula's relief are due to numerous faults and cracks in the crystal shield, and also have traces of the powerful impact of glaciers that have smoothed out mountain peaks and left a large number of moraine deposits (Rodoman 2001).…”

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Toxicological state and chemical properties of soils in urbanized ecosystems of Murmansk

Polyakov¹,

Petrova²,

Kozlov³

et al. 2018

Czech Polar Rep.

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Nowadays, active urbanization directly affects to the transformation of natural ecosystems in all natural zones of Russian Federation. First of all, soils of the cities are exposed to undergoing to intensive transformation. With this transformation, natural soils change to urban and “urbo-natural soils”. Arctic ecosystems are most susceptible to anthropogenic influence because they have a low regeneration and restoration ability. Urban soils demonstrate numerous and various processes of transformation and migration of substances, which are the most important links in the biogeochemical cycles, linking the various structural components of ecosystems and the biosphere as a whole. In this context the processes of soils transformation under the influence of the urbanization has been considered. Soils of residential, recreational (park), industrial and non-developed urban zones were studied on example of Murmansk city as one on the northernmost city in European part of Russia. Microbiological activities, toxicological state (heavy metals, Zc), and content of carbon in soils were revealed.

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Toxicological state and chemical properties of soils in urbanized ecosystems of Murmansk

Polyakov¹,

Petrova²,

Kozlov³

et al. 2018

Czech Polar Rep.

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“…My PB is not inscribed in the world English-language science community, nor it is not known abroad, just as my entire "theoretical geography." In Soviet times, several of my articles were translated and published in the United States in the journal Soviet Geography (e.g., Rodoman, 1968Rodoman, , 1983, but the PB is not among them. The most important features of the Russian cultural landscape on which my projects are based (anisotropy of space, the ecological potential of administrative borders, etc.)…”

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“Polarized Landscape”: Half a Century Later

Rodoman¹

2021

Reg. Res. Russ.

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—The article is devoted to the polarized landscape concept (also known as the polarized biosphere concept), developed by the author in 1970. The socioeconomic conditions for implementation of the conceptual project are considered, as well as changes in these factors and corresponding fundamental concepts over the past half century. It is demonstrated how the ideal model of the territorial structure of the cultural landscape is related to the lifestyle of its creator; how his ideas about work and leisure formed the pattern of a regular network of cities surrounded by buffer functional zones with decreasing population density from the center to the periphery, occupied by natural parks and reserves. The big city and wildlife are considered the equivalent poles of the biosphere. The author traces how Russia’s transport infrastructure has changed and how modern transport policy, at least in Moscow and Moscow Oblast, contradicts the ideas of a polarized biosphere. At the same time, the growth of territorial contrasts of socioeconomic development leads to growth of the so-called inner periphery, where the processes of restoration of natural landscapes proceed spontaneously as the anthropogenic load decreases. Some polarization of the landscape favorable for the biosphere, occurs by itself, and this process should not be hindered. The author traces the relationship of his concept with classical works on theoretical geography, in particular, with The Isolated State by I. von Thünen; he talks about the history of penetration of the polarized biosphere into the national geographical science, and outlines paths for further development of this project.

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Principal Types of Geographical Regions

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Toxicological state and chemical properties of soils in urbanized ecosystems of Murmansk

Toxicological state and chemical properties of soils in urbanized ecosystems of Murmansk

“Polarized Landscape”: Half a Century Later

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