The role and importance of environmental development and safety indicators in the strategic planning system

Abstract

Currently, the system of indicators of environmental protection, nature management and environmental safety is so extensive and cumbersome that it does not allow to promptly and reliably assess the effectiveness of both decisions taken and economic and legal mechanisms. The authors show that the quality of environmental safety indicators creates the basis for the quality of management, for the formation of goals and objectives, for the creation of control and monitoring systems. At the same time, the system of environmental safety indicators is currently indistinguishable in practical terms from environmental protection indicators.
This cannot be considered correct. According to the authors, there should be a separate and special area of environmental lawmaking, which is designed to create a basis for indicators of ““environmental quality”” as the basis of safety and thereby determine the ““quality of environmental policy””. It seems advisable to develop a unified methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of the implementation of these documents, which is largely due to the lack of a system of environmental indicators and standards of the ““strategic”” plan, which dramatically reduces the effectiveness of the impact of these plans and programs on the state of both the economy, management, and environmental safety.