Management technologies of ensuring environmental protection as the territory development strategic priority

The issues of changing the paradigm of strategic management of sustainable development and management technologies for environmental protection are considered on the basis of analysis of sustainable development strategies. The Eastern European countries such as Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine were used as the focus group. The country profiles were made based on the management technologies used to protect the environment. The analysis of existing models of the quantitative estimation of efficiency of sustainable development with the purpose of revealing the indexes capable to assess the efficiency of management technologies were carried out. Based on the indexes of the Economic Performance Index, the strengths and weaknesses of each country were identified (based on 24 EPI indexes in general and EPI sub-indexes in particular). Proceeding from the results of the content analysis and the components of the economic efficiency index, the practice of strategic environmental protection management as a strategic priority of sustainable development is based on increasing resource efficiency and environmental awareness, development of eco-technologies and instruments of environmental management