Network data envelopment analysis in regional environmental management problems

A method is proposed of network data envelopment analysis, adapted to solve the wide class of practice-oriented territorial environmental management tasks that require accounting and evaluation of mixed environmental influence of region economy. Evaluation is assessed of Russia regions complex ecological and economic efficiency, using the proposed method and alternative approaches, similarities and differences in the results are revealed, their possible causes are discuss. Revealed is that the developed approach main advantages in the context of environmental management tasks solving are: the possibility of component-wise assessment of the regional economic system economic and environmental efficiency, the possibility of taking into account the environmental load caused by population, while calculating the economic efficiency, and also the simplicity of numerical realization that does not require any special software and competence.