Assessment of the impact of agglomeration processes on the socio-economic development of municipalities in the region
Abstract. The scientific community is increasingly interested in the study of agglomerations and agglomeration processes occurring in it. Particular attention is paid to the study of issues on the impact of agglomeration processes on the socio-economic development of municipalities in the region and the dependence of such influence on the fact that the territory of the municipality belongs to the agglomeration. The article proposes a methodology for assessing the impact of agglomeration processes on the socio-economic development of municipalities in the region. The methodology was tested on the statistical data of the Samara region and, in particular, the Samara-Togliatti agglomeration (STA). The obtained results made it possible to form recommendations on the regulation of agglomeration processes in the Samara region taking into account the factor of strategic goal-setting for the development of the STA.
Keywords: agglomeration, agglomeration process, spatial development, socio-economic development, region
Highlights:
♦ the increasing scientific interest in the study of agglomerations generates a variety of methodological approaches to the analysis of socio-economic development of agglomerations and the assessment of the impact of agglomeration processes on the administrative units of the region. Meanwhile, there is no universal methodology that allows an objective and comprehensive analysis of agglomeration development and assessment of the impact and nature of processes occurring in urban and rural agglomerations;
♦ the authors proposed and tested on the municipalities of the Samara region a methodology for assessing the impact of agglomeration processes on the socio-economic development of municipalities in the region;
♦ the dependence of the socio-economic development of municipalities on their territorial affiliation to the agglomeration is revealed.
Aliya A. Sarymova, Maria S. Guseva - Samara State University of Economics, Samara, Russia