Resource Potential of Socio-Economic Development in the Regional Sustainability Context: the Role of Energy Security and Environment

Abstract

The current dynamics pose a number of primary tasks for society and the state, related both to the issues of accelerating economic growth and taking into account regional specifics in terms of increasing the requirements for ensuring the sustainability of socio- economic development strategies (SED). This requires ensuring the rational use of regional resources, including the need to maintain energy security (ES) of territories and environmental (EnM) protection. This article studies the interrelationships between the regions’ RP and the main factors of their sustainability: ES and the state of EnM. The purpose of the study is to analyze the impact of ES and the state of EnM on the RP regions in the process of their SED, taking into account the state of sustainability from the strategic perspective. The methodological basis of the study is based on the use of the comparativist approach, which allowed us to consider the factor states of regional sustainability through comparative analysis in order to select common characteristics that affect the RP state. As a result, the authors have formed models aimed at determining the relationship between sustainability factors and RP regions.