Update of methodical approaches to the assessment of the impact of ecological restrictions for the economic development of regions

The article presents various approaches used in the assessment of the economic damage as a result of the harm to the environment and the specificity of their use. The necessity of the analysis of the environmental factor as an endogenous parameter and the development of an approach at which the problems of the conservation of the quality of the natural environment are closely connected in a common complex with other social and economic problems of the development and life of territories is proved. The systematization of the economic damage is made and its main types are suggested. They are the expenses for the prevention of the ecological damage by economic actors, expenses for the compensation for the damage to the environment as a result of the involvement of natural objects into the economic turnover, economic losses connected with the introduction of ecological restrictions. The necessity of the assessment of economic losses for territories with ecological restrictions is justified...