Russia’s Coastal Zone as a Social and Geographic Phenomenon: Conceptualisation and Delimitation
Journal: Baltic Region
Year: 2016

This article defines coastal zones as a priority subject of studies in social geography and interprets coastalisation of population and economy as a key indicator of the development of a coastal zone. The author stresses the inverted coastalisation in Russia at the macro-and meso-levels and identifies its causes. The article defines the coastal zone as a full-scale, continuumdiscrete phenomenon with clear crossborder characteristics and increased potential for cluster formation in the economy. M