Natural-Resource Space: Differentiation, Boundaries, Types

摘要

Natural-resource space (NRS) is a set of resource-containing components of geographical environment as taken in a spatiotemporal continuum. We suggest different types and levels of NRS: global, national, regional and local; space of homogeneous resources, and territorial combinations of natural resources, and others. Borders are identified as really existing transitional zones between NRS of different types and levels, and institutional boundaries. Ecological-resource space is singled out, given a connectivity of national and regional NRS, with portions of transboundary geosystems going beyond their boundaries.