Comparative Nature Management Risk Assessment in the Russian Federation Districts
A method for assessing the risk of nature management and its mapping in the Russian Federation Districts: federal districts and constituent entities of the Siberian Federal District is proposed. The assessments were carried out for a comprehensive analysis of the Russian Federation Districts as a single administrative-territorial entity according to their own established factors of dangerous natural processes and the parameters of protection against natural disasters. A comparative analysis of the proposed methodology with existing approaches to assessing the risk of hazardous natural processes for the Russian Federation Districts is carried out. The risk of nature management equally depends on both the nature of the danger and the protection against natural disasters, in other words — both on the natural and socio-economic situation in the Russian Federation Districts. In many cases, the indicator of protection against natural disasters even plays a leading role, since its assessment includes current socio-economic characteristics that determine the real ability of management structures to predict and deal with the consequences of natural disasters, as well as psychological indicators, i.e. the will and sequence of actions of managers in making specific decisions on environmental management in a risky environment.