Combination of static and dynamic approaches to assessing sustainable development of regional socio-economic systems

The concept of sustainable development of socio-economic systems is being actively developed by the world community. However, its basic provisions require shifting research priorities from the global level to the national and regional ones in order to provide greater management efficiency. The article considers theoretical and methodological approaches to the assessment of sustainable development of socio-economic systems. Sustainable development is seen as a dynamic process of positive changes, which manifest them-selves in technological development aimed at harmonizing the relationships between economic, environmen-tal and social spheres to meet the need of the socio-economic system for the long-term existence. According to the author, it is necessary to use static and dynamic approaches when evaluating regional development. The static approach allows for assessing the level of the regional socio-economic system development at any specific time. The dynamic approach provides an opportunity to assess how balanced the dynamics of tempo characteristics of indicators is, both within the social, economic and environmental components of sustaina-ble development and between those components during a certain time period. The procedure proposed by the author to assess sustainable development of regional socio-economic systems implies a particular sequence of assessment stages. Implementation of the static approach is based on application of the method of inter-regional comparisons. This method implies a comparative analysis of values for sustainable development key indicators with regard to the economic, social and environmental components, standardization of the indica-tors according to their best values, and calculation of group and integral indices to characterize the level of the region’s sustainable development. Implementation of the dynamic approach is based on application of the method of dynamic standards, which implies certain ordering of tempo characteristics. Implementation of the principles of balance, dynamic comparability and subordination is reflected in the construction of graphs for the dynamic ordering of indicators. Using the graphs, it is possible to make a comparison of the dynamics of tempo characteristics for indicators incompatible with each other, to implement the principle of complexity in the assessment of regional socio-economic systems sustainable development in terms of adherence to so-cial, economic and environmental priorities.