Assessment of Environmental Parameters Impact on the Level of Sustainable Development of Territories

The reason for the research is Russia's transition to the model of sustainable development. The environmental component plays the important role in the formation of sustainable development of the territories. This research area enables to estimate the influence of environmental parameters on the level of sustainable development of territories. Indicators characterizing the state of the environment and ecological potential of these territories were used as indicators which have an impact on sustainable development. This research was carried out on the basis of multiple regressions method. For the first time the classification of regions of the Russian Federation for 2013 by the level of environmental safety was made. As a result, the most significant indicators affecting the sustainable development of territories were revealed and decisions for the management of these parameters were developed in order to improve the sustainable development of territories. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).