| In the section | Articles |
| Title of the article | Local Factors and COVID-19 Severity: Typological Analysis of Urban Districts in Russia |
| Pages | 93-120 |
| Author 1 | Ruslan Vyacheslavovich Goncharov Candidate of Sciences (Geographical), Associate Professor Faculty of Urban and Regional Development, HSE University, 20 Myasnitskaya St., Moscow 101000, Russian Federation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0002-8677-5354 |
| Author 2 | Egor Andreevich Kotov Research Fellow Faculty of Urban and Regional Development, HSE University, 20 Myasnitskaya St., Moscow 101000, Russian Federation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0001-6690-5345 |
| Author 3 | Varvara Aleksandrovna Molodtsova Junior Research Fellow Faculty of Urban and Regional Development, HSE University, 20 Myasnitskaya St., Moscow 101000, Russian Federation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0001-8226-4824 |
| Abstract | The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that the lack of consideration of the local specifics of territories, such as the specifics of socio-economic interactions, labor market characteristics, leads to serious social or economic consequences when developing response measures to epidemiological threats. The creation of a typology of territories (urban districts / okrugs) makes it possible to more accurately select measures to regulate socio-economic interactions in the event of future complications of the epidemiological situation. Clustering of municipalities according to a set of local factors that significantly explain the severity of the pandemic in the first year made it possible to identify three types of urban districts that differ in population size and intensity of socio-economic interactions (SEI): these are key service centers with a high intensity of SEI, local centers with medium SEI intensity, small towns with low SEI intensity |
| Code | 330.4+332.1 |
| JEL | R12, R19, C18 |
| DOI | https://dx.doi.org/10.14530/se.2023.1.093-120 |
| Keywords | COVID-19 pandemic, typology of urban districts, socio-economic interactions, pandemic severity, excess mortality factors, Russia |
| Download | SE.2023.1.093-120.Goncharov |
| For citation | Goncharov R.V., Kotov E.A., MolodtsovaV.A. Local Factors and COVID-19 Severity: Typological Analysis of Urban Districts in Russia. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics, 2023, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 93–120. https://dx.doi.org/10.14530/se.2023.1.093-120 (In Russian) |
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| Financing | The article was prepared with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Grant / Award Numbers: Project No. 20-04-60490 ‘Development of territorially differentiated methods for regulating socio-economic interactions, sectoral structure and local labor markets in order to ensure balanced regional development in a difficult epidemiological situation’ |
| Submitted | 15.07.2022 |
| Approved after reviewing | 15.03.2023 |
| Accepted for publication | 16.03.2023 |
| Available online | 31.03.2023 |