STRUCTURING OF ECOLOGO-ECONOMIC RISK MANAGEMENT PROCESS FOR URBAN AREAS DEVELOPMENT
Introduction. Today urban areas are characterized by overexploitation of natural systems and extreme pollution of natural-anthropogenic environment, which leads to destabilization of social and economic sphere of a city and prevents from its sustainable development. The measures aimed at reducing of ecological and economic risks in urban areas are mostly non-systemic, they are focused on overcoming of the consequences of negative impact (damage) mainly due to the lack of a clear understanding of the structure of the mechanism of risk management and wrong field of corrective efforts application. The goal of research is to determine the overall structure of ecological and economic risks management and to develop the fundamental algorithm for managing sustainable development of urban areas on its basis. The most appropriate priority tasks were development of the fundamental algorithm for evaluation and management of ecological and economic risk in urban areas with a view to sustainable development; detailing of the main blocks and elements of its structure; definition of a general conception of application of the proposed algorithm and the directions for its development and improvement. A complex of abstract and hypothetical and logical tools as well as an axiomatic analysis of the problems and prospects of risk management for sustainable urban development were the methodological basis of the research. Results. A fundamental algorithm of management of ecological and economic risk of urban areas development, including the analysis and assessment of the level of risk as well as control response, was developed. Detailed data of structural elements of the offered algorithm, consisting of the following stages: risk identification; evaluation of probability of an adverse event; determination of the structure of possible damage; identification of the system of damage distribution; definition of quantitative characteristics of a measure of risk; efficiency establishment and selection of potential methods of impact on risk; monitoring of the results of risk management process, was given. For each structural element of the proposed algorithm some recommendations concerning analytical efforts performance and realization of managerial influence in course of formation of the strategy of city improvement were offered. Thus, the article contains the most generic algorithm that describes the process of ecological and economic risk management. The risk arises in the system of natural and economic relations in urban areas and allows to determine the characteristics of the particular ecological and economic risk seriously and for certain and to choose the most effective way of control action promoting sustainable development of urban areas.