Ryumina E.V. The impact of environmental living conditions on human potential. Regional issues of economic transformation. 2023. No. 9. Pp. 96-103.

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to assess the environmental living conditions of the population and analyze their impact on the demographic characteristics of human potential. Methods of research. The article implements the author's development of the index of environmental liv- 97 ing conditions of the population and the methodology of its construction for Russian regions based on official statistics. The relationship of the constructed indices with the demographic characteristics of human potential is estimated by correlation analysis. The scope of the results. The results of the work carried out can be used in scientific research to take into account the environmental situation in the regions, as well as regional economic and environmental management bodies when developing strategies for the socio-economic development of the subjects of the federation. Conclusions and results. Official statistics data in the context of Russian regions confirmed positive links between environmental living conditions and life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, fertility, negative – with morbidity, including respiratory diseases, mortality, infant mortality. However, the closeness of the revealed connections turned out to be lower than expected. It is concluded that it is expedient to proceed to the analysis of more disaggregated territories in the study of environmental living conditions: from regions to municipalities.