Environmental safety assessment: a regional dimension

Abstract

Abstract The peculiarities of the current stage of the functioning of the economic system of Ukraine are due to the intensification of industrial and agricultural production and, as a consequence, the operation of environmentally “dirty” technologies, their high energy and resource consumption. On the other hand, the low rate of development of the national economy, caused by internal and external destabilizing factors, leads to the use of limited investment resources in the environmental sphere, which poses a threat of environmental crisis. In this regard, the issue of assessing the state of environmental safety at both national and regional levels is becoming especially relevant. The use of modern analytical tools, in particular, methods of multidimensional statistical analysis, will help create a scientifically sound basis for the prevention and reduction of the negative consequences of the implementation of environmental threats to regional security. We proposed the use of cluster analysis technology to group regions by the level of environmental safety. The typology of regions was carried out in five clusters. The content characteristics of each cluster are presented. The absence of structural changes in the clustering of regions during the last two years was shown. The application of factor analysis methods for the same set of initial data generally confirmed the results of clustering.