The main directions for ensuring the environmental component of the region’s economic security

Abstract

Abstract In modern conditions the issue of ensuring the economic security of the region and the country as a whole is relevant, as the political, economic and socio-cultural development of the Russian Federation, its stability, independence and ability to constantly renew itself depend on it. The well-being and prosperity of the country and its subjects depend on the applied management tools and methods. In order to ensure the economic security of the Russian Federation, it is necessary to provide its constituent entities with the opportunity to manage labour, financial, natural, material and other resources at the regional level. The timely management of these resources will make it possible to form a set of economic, technical, legal and environmental measures that contribute to the development of the region. The article considers the last element, connected with providing the ecological component of the region’s economic security. Environmental security is one of the main components of economic security as it reflects the state of the environment and expenditures related to it, namely expenditures of air protection, wastewater collection and purification, land protection and reclamation, etc. One of the main priority directions of the sustainable development strategy of the country is rational use of natural resources and environmental protection, creation of a healthy environment for people, conditions for their cultural, moral and spiritual improvement. Ecologization of the economy should include the system of measures aimed to coordinate the actions of industrial and economic activity in the existing natural-resource conditions which will provide the economic security of the region. The article proposes the directions for providing the ecological component of the region’s economic security.