Sustainable Development Goals as the Basis for Improving Information Support in the Field of Sustainable Natural Resource Use and Environment Protection

Integrated comprehensive nature of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), connected with integral perception of nature and more realistic understanding of a human being in his socio-cultural sphere, brings new requirements for information-analytical provision of natural protection activity. It is shown that reaching SDGs to a great extent is connected with new possibilities for processing huge blocks of empirical data – data at micro-level, as well as with the development of metadata bases and methods for processing them with application of GIS-technologies. It allows to take into account both natural and socio-cultural features of territories. The most important information systems the development of which should be activated in the Russian Federation are: Shared Environmental Information system (SEIS) and the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA).

Keywords: sustainable development, teleologism, environmental management, Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS), the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA).