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International Cross-Border Three-Member Region of the Eastern Junction of the Borders of Russia, China and Mongolia: Dialectics of the Direction of Movement of Frontiers of Economic and Environmental Types of Development |
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Novikov A.N. doctor of geographical sciences, associate professor, geonov77@mail.ru |
| Bibliographic description |
Novikov A. N. International Cross-Border Three-Member Region of the Eastern Junction of the Borders of Russia, China and Mongolia: Dialectics of the Direction of Movement of Frontiers of Economic and Environmental Types of Development // Transbaikal State University Journal. 2025. Vol. 31, no. 3. P. 22–33. DOI: 10.21209/2227-9245-2025-31-3-22-33 |
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Earth and Environmental Sciences |
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913 |
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10.21209/2227-9245-2025-31-3-22-33 |
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Original article |
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Environmental protection issues in international cross-border three-member regions (I.C-B.T-M.Rs) have become increasingly acute in recent years due to the intensification of economic development. The object of this study is specific territorial structures — I.C-B.T-M.Rs —that form at the junction of the state borders of three countries. The objective of this study is to develop an understanding of the movement of frontiers for economic and environmental development. The objectives of the study are to summarize concepts of frontier movement from various branches of geography; develop an ideal model; and adapt the model to the I.C-B.T-M.Rs at the eastern junction of the borders of Russia, China, and Mongolia. The main research methods are generalization and spatial modeling. The result of generalizing global practices of interaction between frontiers of two types of development has been a model of counter-movement: economic (centripetal) and environmental (centrifugal). Around the junction of the three borders, in response to the threat of economic development and the disappearance of natural landscapes, a tripartite specially protected natural area – a nature reserve ‒ is being formed, which seeks to expand its boundaries. At the eastern junction of the borders of Russia, China, and Mongolia, the central zone has been pierced by pioneering development routes, depriving the trilateral reserve, formed from three border reserves, of the possibility of creating continuity. Economic development has approached the border reserves on the Chinese and Mongolian sides through a frontier of bases forming continuous networks. On the Russian side, the economic frontier is wedge-shaped, forming a tree-like base-and-route pattern and allowing for centrifugal expansion and the incorporation of smaller border specially protected natural areas into the reserve. The economic frontier forms an open arc along the Mongolian-Chinese border, but it is the ends of this arc that are most actively advancing toward the junction.
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development bases, nature reserve, People’s Republic of China, Mongolia, Russian Federation, junction of state borders of three countries, cross-border interaction, trilateral cross-border, development routes, frontier.
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