РАНЖИРОВАНИЕ РЕГИОНОВ АРКТИЧЕСКОЙ ЗОНЫ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ ПО ИНДЕКСУ ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to determine the relevant indicators for compiling an environmental security index of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF) and ranking (compiling a rating) of the regions of the AZRF on its basis. We have developed our own methodology for constructing this rating.The ecological block of indicators includes three groups of parameters: impact on atmospheric air and water environment, as well as waste management. In the ecological-economic block of indicators, characteristics, such as the expenditures on environmental protection and investments in this area per capita, are described. The socio-ecological block includes two main parameters: the comfort of living in Arctic cities (index of the quality of the urban environment; the share of the population in regions and cities with high and very high levels of pollution; provision of the population with clean drinking water) and the state of urban infrastructure(degradation of the infrastructure in areas such as water supply, sewerage, waste collection and disposal, pollution control activities, and the degree of housing improvement).The first and second places in the AZRF environmental security rating belong to the Nenets and Chukotka Autonomous Districts. They have high indicators in the ecological and ecological-economic blocks of indicators. The outsider of the rating is the Krasnoyarsk Province, which occupies the last positions in almost all groups of parameters—ecological (waste management, impact on the water and air environment), economic (expenditure on and investments in environmental protection) and socio-ecological (comfort of the urban environment and the state of urban infrastructure).This rating can have practical application in the work of federal, regional and municipal authorities involved in planning and implementing the strategy for sustainable development of regions and cities of the Russian Arctic, as well as in the activities of scientific and non-profit organizations that monitor, analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of this strategy.