Geographic information system of evaluation and management of regional natural-resources potential

Abstract

Ukraine's transition to sustainable development requires a review of the conceptual foundations of methods of analysis of environmental and natural resource information and guidelines for the preparation of administrative decisions in the relevant field on the basis of using the potential of geographic information systems and technologies, which are able to carry out the synthesis and summarize of information on the natural-resources environment to solve governance problems of nature management.

The article is devoted to developing Geographic information system for evaluation and managing of the natural-resources potential of the region, the justification of the goals, objectives and functions of its creation and development of the structure of hardware, software, information and analytical systems. Methodical development of creation and functioning of regional geographic information systems is one of the most important tasks in ensuring the operative reception of data and use them to build a possible regional development models.