Transparency of the nature management as a factor of territory development

The Russian Federation’s focus on the market mechanism of economy functioning should be supported and/or corrected by the reasonable state policy of the socioeconomic development. Taking into account environmental and socioeconomic features of the territories the proper nature management system is being built. The article deals with experience of Canada on formation of the transparency of the state authorities for providing society’s participation in the socioeconomic development of the Northern territories. Development scenarios based upon the cooperation of the government and economic entities with officials of various levels and territorial communities is reasonable to correlate with successfully implemented projects of the global (international), Russian (interregional), republican (regional) and municipal (local) scale or character.