Structure of security of social and economic development of municipalities: experience of spatial analysis

The article discusses the spatial regularities of social and economic development of municipal communities of the Volgograd region. Small and medium sized cities in the paper are analyzed as spatial social and economic systems which are not only a skeleton of settlement but also the main “engines” of the communication of innovative impulses into the territory of municipal districts. The scientific originality of the research consists in the attempt to use a spatial approach to the assessment of the economic security of municipal communities ( SCR ). The content of the economic security is determined by two system characteristics of the social and economic system: economic activity ( EA ) and the life standard of the population ( QL ) when the function SCR = F ( EA ; QL ) is valid. For the search of spatial regularities in GIS a considerable interest has the analysis of the environment of every municipal district or the city or a complex of nearby regions or cities by means of the calculation of local statistic characteristics of geo variation allowing to assess the tendencies of the spatial changes of six components of the security (personal security, technosphere security and so on), local variations and values of their indicators K i...