Russian

Abstract

This article addresses the issue of integrating a number of approaches that are being implemented in Belgorod Oblast: the basin-administrative, ecoregional, and ecologically oriented development of municipal units based on long-term natural resource management systems. The authors provide a characterization of the major dimensions and composition of activities related to forming in the region natural economic systems within their natural boundaries as dominions of the noosphere. For the first time a rationale is provided for the boundaries and composition of the ecoregion and a typology of river basins is conducted from an ecoregional viewpoint. This example of developing the concept of organizing inter-settlement territories from an ecological/landscape viewpoint, providing regulatory support for it, and implementing it across the entire territory of one of the constituents of the Russian Federation attests to the ability of regional policy to ensure in present-day conditions the sustainable development of municipal units