Theoretical and methodological substantiation of indicators of environmental safety in the system of assessment of regions by the level of social development (on the example of the Republic of Bashkortostan)

One of the areas of strategic national interests of Russia today is increasing its environmental safety and sustainability. A sociological analysis of the context of the problem is based on the idea of considering a person, society and the natural environment in the interdependence and unity of interaction. The methods of system analysis, comparison and generalization, the structural-functional method and the basic principles of the sociocultural approach are used. The empirical base is represented by official state statistics, opinion polls, and is based on a secondary analysis of the data.