MODERN DETERMINANTS OF DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

The paper tests the key determinants of formation and development of the natural economic system as a set of economic relations between the government, businesses and households about the assignment, use, protection and reproduction of the ecosystem benefits that provide conflict-free existence of society and nature. According to the author, the key determinants of the formation and development of the natural economic system are: environmental risks and challenges to social development; the imperatives of sustainable development based on the principles of "green" economy; postindustrial transformations that include the vector for structural and technological modernization of public production, innovation imperatives as a manifestation of the "knowledge economy", as well as increasing demands for comfort of life supporting environment of a human, which is improvement of life quality; accounting in economic policy and economic practices of the ecological value of ecosystem benefits; reproductive approach implying simple and/or expanded reproduction of ecosystem benefits necessary for the normal course of natural processes, as well as benefits sufficient to meet the needs of society and public production; the ecosystem approach as the basis for the integrated management and economic organization of nature in view of the structural and functional integrity of ecological systems; globalization caused by a significant part of the global nature of environmental benefits, common ownership of such benefits, the presence of "human interest of conservation and recreation of nature," a large scale of environmental threats and natural disasters; associated format of the nature management within the boundaries of ecological systems, involving coupling of spatial and sectoral development, a joint assignment of ecosystem benefits and resource flows, consolidation of separate practices in nature management; allowance of national and regional specifics in economic policy and business practices of nature management; partnership, equal dialogue of key stakeholders about the nature management of the government, business and households, consolidated sharing of environmental responsibility among them all.