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THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES: THEORY AND PRACTICE, V.77, # 1, 2020, pp. 65-83

CAPABILITIES OF URBANIZATION PROCESSES
RESILIENCE IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT

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Rasul Balaev , Matlab Ali Zadeh , Sevda Haji Zadeh 3
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1 Prof., Doctor of Economics, Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC),
e-mail: p.balayev@gmail.com, mob.: +994503789048
2 Associate Prof., PHD on technical sciences, Azerbaijan State University of
Economics (UNEC), e-mail: nuran555@list.ru, mob.: +994503499828
3 Associate Professor, Ph.D.on economics, Azerbaijan State University of Economics

(UNEC), Department of Digital Economics and ICT E-mail: s.hacizade@mail.ru
Mob.: 050 343 11 21

Received 15 November 2019; accepted 20 May 2020; published online 10 July 2020

ABSTRACT:
The article discusses the sustainability of urbanization, the impact of digitalization
on urban life and the impact of the digital environment on the sustainability of
urbanization. The need for a quantitative assessment of all the main manifestations
of urbanization in order to identify the possibilities of urbanization processes in the
digital environment shown. It has shown which manifestations of sustainable
urbanism should meet the basic requirements for sustainability indicators. The need
to study the diversity of urbanization processes in the digital environment based on
the study of the diversity of economic, social and environmental characteristics of
urban growth. Some factors that expand the technological capabilities of the
information society in terms of supporting sustainable development described. One
of the key indicators of the digital environment is the study of the possibility of
reducing these costs in case of the level of transaction costs and ongoing
urbanization. In the article stressed that the digital economy can reduce the
asymmetry of market information. The initial steps taken in Azerbaijan to identify
and implement the capabilities of sustainable urbanization processes in the digital
environment described. The situation of the urban population with fresh food
considered in connection with the food security aspect of sustainability of
urbanization processes. Changes in the delivery of fresh products to the Baku
agglomerate studied. For this, the indicator “weighted average distance of
transportation” was proposed and its dynamics over 55 years estimated.

Keywords: digital environment, agglomeration, urbanization, sustainability, transaction
costs
JEL classification: R51, F64

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