ECOLOGICAL COMPONENT OF THE UKRAINIAN REGIONS’ ECONOMIC SECURITY

The article reveals the threats to the Ukrainian regions' environmental security. The problems of ecological safety of the regions are highlighted: non-compliance of the quality of certain surface watercourses of the regions with the existing standards due to inefficient operation of treatment facilities in settlements and violation of the hydrological regime in river basins; environmental pollution by household waste due to the lack of an effective system at the regional level for the collection and sorting of certain types of waste as secondary raw materials; radioactive contamination of the northern regions as a result of the Chernobyl accident; low efficiency of control in the field of protection of biological and first of all forest resources of the region and others. Measures (decisions) of ecological safety of regions are considered: general, which are carried out by legislative, executive and legal bodies, they include planning and forecasting (development, approval, implementation of environmental programs and projects on the basis of system-ecological approach; anticipation of negative and crisis situations, planning of environmental measures in all sectors of the economy); special, which are performed by entities that have special powers in accordance with current legislation, they include: monitoring — conducting observations, collecting and processing information about the state of the environment by environmental monitoring entities; informing the public, authorities, business entities about the state of the environment, possible risks and threats; creation of an environmental safety center at the regional state administration. The tasks of the center of ecological safety are offered. The list of existing indicators of ecological safety of the ecosystem is analyzed. It is proposed to use the following indicators to assess the environmental safety of district heating systems: the indicator of changes in the level of environmental safety of ambient air and the indicator of changes in the level of environmental safety of the soil cover. The methodical approach to a comparative estimation of regions of the state on a level of ecological safety is allocated. A system of indicators characterizing the state of environmental safety in the regional dimension is proposed.