Resource-saving: main formation stages, theories and methods, tendencies and prospects of development in industry and construction of Russia

Introduction. The paper considers one of the actual modern ecological, technological, and economic problems. It is saving, rational usage of natural, mineral, and energy resources. Based on an in-depth review of scientific researches and normative documents, the paper suggests ways of solving the resource-saving problem within a context of sustainable development of industry and construction, the formation of “green” economics, provision of ecological safety, scientific and technological development of Russia. Materials and methods. The paper analysed foreign and domestic publications, normative legal acts, documents on standardization in the field of formation of a conceptual system, legal standards, fundamental theories, concepts, and methods, advanced guidelines of developing the resource-saving, rational usage of natural resources, involving secondary resources in economic turnover. A systemic analysis of methods and algorithms for solving the scientific problem was suggested as a research method. Results. For the first time in modern scientific literature, the paper gives comprehensive theme review of normative and methodological literature, scientific research works in the field of different aspects of the resource-saving: legal, organizational and technical, ecological, technological, social and economic ones. The paper reveals and formulates priority guidelines to be thoroughly researched in the future by theoretical and applied sciences. The paper proposes concrete measures of normative and legal regulation, organization, economic incentives of activities in the field of the resource-saving and usage of the secondary resources. Conclusions. The scientific novelty is concluded in the suggested systemic approach to forming an integrated resource-saving system at the state, sectoral, and production levels as an efficient tool for developing domestic economics.