Impact of Industrial Production on the Regions’ Ecological Profile[Влияние Промышленного Производства На Экологический Профиль Регионов]

Under conditions of increasing economic uncertainty and instability, the study of the impact of industrial production on ecological situation in the regions of the Russian Federation is of great importance. The article is devoted to assessment of the impact of industrial production on the environmental profile of the regions of the Ural economic region of the Russian Federation. The review of scientific works of the researchers specializing in the fields of regional economic development, socio-economic and environmental sustainability of the regions, ecologization of industrial production and environmental safety is conducted. Main environmental risks and threats at the regional level, as well as measures aimed at their elimination and neutralization are considered. To assess the impact of industrial production on ecological situation in the region the author's methodology was developed, including selection of indicators of anthropogenic impact on the environment, characterizing the ecological profile of the region in the aggregate, calculation of integral index of ecological profile of the region and the r-Pearson correlation factor to assess the strength and direction of the relationship of the index of industrial production and integral index of ecological profile of the region. The proposed methodological approach was tested on the example of the regions of the Ural economic area in the dynamics for the period 2016-2020. The obtained data allow assessing the level of anthropogenic impact on the environment, under conditions of production intensification and implementation of green and digital economy technologies and determine the effectiveness of ongoing transformations from the perspective of correlated dependencies. The methodology can be useful in assessing the inter-level interaction between regional authorities and business community in terms of implementing measures to intensify production for import substitution with simultaneous greening of industrial production in order to reduce the anthropogenic load on the environment in the regions.