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Purpose. Describe the categories of environmental risk, the degree of their impact on the environment. Results. The place of ecological risk in the system of environmental impact assessment is substantiated. Modern methodology for environmental risk assessment involves a parallel consideration of risks to human health and environmental risks caused by disturbance of ecosystems and adverse effects on environmental components, risks of deteriorating quality and deteriorating living conditions. The reasons for the risk are unplanned events in the environment that may adversely affect the company, the progress of its plans. These include both predictable and unpredictable events. Risk factors are the conditions under which risk causes may arise. Among them are: political, scientific and technical, socio-economic, environmental and more. Conclusions. In the strategic perspective, it is necessary to improve the national environmental policy and create a national system of environmental safety and an effective system of environmental monitoring as a universal tool for its implementation. One of the tasks of this system is effective environmental risk management.

Purpose. To determine the main directions of research, based on the analysis of the UA scientists’ works devoted to the study of problems of industrial nature management, features of the development and functioning of various industries within the territory of the Lviv region. Results. Today, the transformation of the system of nature management goes beyond economic transformations and cannot ignore the previously described theories. Various issues of industrial nature use, its geospatial features in the region and the ecological problems caused by its development as well as features of their development and functioning within the territory of region allow to define the following basic directions of these researches: aspects of certain industries development, environmental and eco-nomic problems of industrial development. Conclusions. The powerful potential of nature management in the Lviv region can ensure the effec-tiveness of the transformations carried out in the region with a combination among economic, social and humanitarian spheres. The urgent tasks of the further development are as follows: to create an effective qualitatively advanced structure of the economy of the high-tech industrial complex of the developed so-cial infrastructure as well as to improve the ecological situation and living conditions of the population in the region.

The philosophical discussions as for the changes of the world outlook conceptions in the gield of society and nature (environment) relations have been observed. The modern cognition of civilized break in the sphere of connections and interaction between society and biosphere leads to the beginning of new branch – the environmental philosophy. The particular attention is paid to the conception of the constant development and its ethical dimensions. The role of environmental philosophy in the organization of sozio-ecological researches is stressed.