Spatial interdisciplinary synthesis: Experience of policy studies

In recent decades, problems of measuring the spatial responses of the economic dynamics to political and social processes, on the one hand, and the reactions of the macroeconomic and structural dynamics to social, institutional, and technological variations in space, on the other, have begun to approach the economic mainstream in terms of their significance for creating state economic policy and in the number of researchers focused on these problems. This was related to the fact that state regional policy has become not only an integral part of overall economic policy, but also a priority thereof. This paper discusses conceptual approaches and results of applied researches on problems of spatial development of Russia’s society; they were carried out in 2009–2014 in fundamental policy studies by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The main task was to synthesize both the research results on problems of the economy of large economic zones, the spatial distribution of the energy and transport complexes and networks, social behavior, the distribution of foreign economic potential and interaction, assessment of equilibrium in a multiregional economic environment, and comprehensive use of natural resources and nature management in the spatial aspect.