Ecosystem services in the management system of ecological safety of territorial units

Abstract

Preservation and restoration of the natural environment and ensuring environmentally safe functioning of ecosystems are the priority conditions for implementation of the dominant social paradigm, which is development in harmony with nature. The article describes the essence of management system of ecological safety of territorial units as a set of actions and processes aimed at planning and constructing optimum options of spatial-temporal structuralfunctional organisation of ecosystems, restoration and increase of their ecological potential and stability, prevention of occurrence and development of ecological risks. Structure blocks of the system are environmental audit, environmental design (planning), environmental monitoring, databases and data banks with the use of GIS technologies. Implementation of the ecosystem services concept has an important role in the management system of ecological safety of territorial units. It is based on the need of co-evolution development of ecological and economic components. Monetary evaluation of the ecosystem services, development and introduction of payment mechanisms for these services will allow implementing programs (measures) for ensuring environmentally safe functioning of ecosystems within the territorial units. Keywords—ecosystem services, ecosystem, management, ecological safety, planning I. RELEVANCE OF THE RESEARCH Preservation and restoration of the natural environment and ensuring environmentally safe functioning of ecosystems are the priority conditions for implementation of the dominant social paradigm, which is development in harmony with nature. There is a need to search for a compromise between social and economic needs of the humanity and capabilities of the biosphere for their satisfaction [1, 2]. With modern production and consumption models the natural resources are used faster than restored. Capabilities of the natural environment for resistance to these processes are near exhaustion. Development in harmony with nature is impossible without transfer to the production and consumption models ensuring non-exhausting use of natural resources and ecological safety of territorial units. Presence of the ecological risks and the need of ensuring environmentally safe functioning of ecosystems determine the relevance and importance of development and introduction of the management system of ecological safety of territorial units. At the present stage of social development, the most efficient tools of effective use, preservation and restoration of ecosystem functions are those based on the economic interest. On the other hand, the modern economics does not fully take into account economic contributions of ecosystem values, which is largely explained by the lack of coherent scientific approach to determining their essence and meaning and methodological tools for their economic valuation [3]. Due to this a need arises for corresponding scientific researches and inclusion of the ecosystem services in activities of economic entities. II. PURPOSE OF THE ARTICLE To develop the structure of management system of ecological safety of territorial units and show the role of ecosystem services in it. III. ANALYSIS OF PREVIOUS RESEARCHES Adverse man-made changes of the natural environment, disharmony between the pace of use of natural resources and their restoration became the objective prerequisite for the need to apply scientific methods of management in the area of use and restoration of natural resources and ecological safety of territorial units. Available management systems in Ukraine are characterised by departmental fragmentation, structural complexity and functional and territorial inconformity of its constituent elements. Under 7th International Conference on Modeling, Development and Strategic Management of Economic System (MDSMES 2019) Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 99