ASSESSMENT OF THE RISKS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGIONS OF BELARUS

The relevance of the topic is due to the need to anticipate the risks of sustainable development of the regions of Belarus. Purpose: risk assessment of the sustainable development of the regions of Belarus. Methods – analysis, synthesis, comparisons, rankings, tabular, graphical. Results of work: study of comparative methodological approaches to assessing the risks of sustainable development of regions. Adaptation of methods of regional risk ranking to the plane of their quantitative measurement. Development of a methodological approach to ranking potential threats to spatial development based on average values. Identification of the most significant types of risks that limit the possibilities of sustainable development of territories. Conclusions: the analysis of the literature sources revealed the advantages and disadvantages of methodological approaches to assessing the risks of sustainable development of regions. Structuring and quantitative assessment of the risks of sustainable development of the territories of Belarus allowed us to solve two main tasks: to identify the most problematic areas of development of the regions and rank them based on the identified factors. A register of risks of sustainable spatial development has been compiled, which allows specifying the directions of their prevention in the context of the studied territories.