A comprehensive analysis of the process of reforming the Russian economy in recent years reveals the need to apply new types of analysis of economic activity, because the previously developed methodology of a comprehensive analysis of economic activity requires radical transformations. In the sphere of nature management, in particular, it can be argued that the previous directively determined methods of analysis of economic activity, categories and indicators by which the effectiveness of environmental decisions was evaluated, are not adequate to the new economic conditions.
The problematic environmental heritage of the administrative legal system predetermined the stagnation of modern nature management, which has intensified many times in the context of the socio-political transformations of the Russian state. The severity of the national environmental and economic crisis is such that the search for a solution to the problems cannot be postponed even to the very near future, requiring the adoption of the most cardinal environmental decisions and the transition to modern methods of analyzing economic activities in the environmental sphere. However, it should be noted that Russian environmental entities should be involved in environmental protection practices to be implemented not any (subjectively established or, in other words, randomly selected) preventive measures, but only its effective methods of analysis of economic activity, defined on a competitive basis and at the same time maximize both financial and economic, and resource saving of natural resources results. The problem of authentic environmental and economic choice becomes even more urgent in the context of the structural imperfection of the Russian economy, which almost completely eliminated the state’s targeted investment in environmental restoration projects and, as a result, laid the responsibility for their timely implementation and the search for resources necessary for industrial and environmental rehabilitation. enterprises themselves, nature users. In this context, a priority scientific task in the environmental segment ente Russian economy seems to formation of a new progressive methodological concept, which purpose is to equally reflecting the dominant economic and environment protection, specify the business entities the most preferred way of investing in green business. A similar conceptual and methodological toolkit differs from the currently known ones in that it should represent such methods of analysis of economic activity in their substantive essence that are a synthesis of environmental and financial indicators constructed using methods and techniques traditional for the national economic school (for example, classical directions of structural and functional analysis), and relatively new, less common achievements of foreign economic thought ( particular methodological approaches "cost - efficiency" and "cost - benefit").
The scientific and practical experience of nature conservation in various countries provides convincing evidence of the effective functioning of nature management, but so far there is no reason to choose the best combination of methodologies. Moreover, since such conceptual approaches are not adapted to specific Russian economic, environmental and social conditions (do not take into account their specifics), they can be used only as abstract models that need additional modification. The recent intensification of interstate environmental cooperation, as well as the intensification of integration processes in the domestic environmental management economy, have necessitated the use of uniform methodological criteria for assessing the effectiveness of environmental protection actions. However, the situation is substantially complicated by the fact that the problem of assessing the effectiveness of environmental remediation measures in foreign and domestic economic science is represented by a wide range of opinions, often diametrically opposed.