The results of the study of the possibility of assessing the economic effectiveness of the "environmental health" of the region are presented. A new content of the concept of “ecological health” of the region is proposed, is a state in which all systems of the region perform their functions and allow achieving a balance, of dynamic equilibrium with the environment. The main functions (economic and environmental) are identified and the environmental health criteria of the region are identified: the implementation of environmental protection costs (adequacy, dynamics), the increase in financial results (possibly due to the operation of environmental facilities), the availability of specialists in the field of environmental and economic management, research and developments aimed at protecting the environment, the possibility of selling "clean" environmentally friendly products, the implementation of "clean" technologies and the use of “clean equipment ”, investing in fixed assets for environmental protection measures (treatment facilities), measuring and evaluating environmental and economic efficiency, measuring and assessing damage, pollution charges, tax planning; measurement of waste, emissions, effluents; assessment of the level and dynamics of their disposal, use, measurement and assessment of environmental parameters, the possibility of monitoring (technical means of monitoring and evaluation); measuring the "quantity" of environmental health. The results of an attempt to assess the economic efficiency of environmental health in three regions of the Southern Federal District: Astrakhan, Volgograd and Rostov regions on the basis of known statistical indicators are presented. It is determined that the indicators currently used are of a "symptomatic", not a "causal" nature, to assess the effectiveness of environmental current and capital costs, do not allow to determine the necessary level of environmental and economic efficiency. The analysis of scientific publications on the assessment of the ecological state (ecological health) of the region is carried out. It was revealed that in most scientific developments the same “symptomatic” indicators are used that do not allow an objective assessment of the economic efficiency of “environmental activities”. The necessity of forming an analytical platform of indicators of economic efficiency of the ecological health of the region is substantiated.

economic efficiency, region, ecological activities, costs of ecological protection, ecological health of the region

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