The Strategy of Managing Infrastructure Facilities of the Regional Economy in the Problem of Sustainable Development

The structure of regional economic systems consists of many enterprises, organizations and households, dispersed over a certain territory and interacting with each other on the basis of flows of raw materials, energy, finance, technology, labor force and management decisions. Their fundamental basis is infrastructural systems (IS) for various purposes: transport, energy, information, housing and communal services, medical and others, which form a unique socio-cultural and ecological-economic space of people's life, on the well-coordinated and effective work of which the civilizational progress depends on the occupied territories. As an object of management, ISs are distributed, dynamic, complex, evolving and purposeful. The peculiarities of ISs management in the problem of sustainable development are primarily associated with the need to take into account the long term needs of unborn generations of people and structural changes that arise in the management object during periods of operation of 20 or more years. In this work, ISs are considered on a universal scientific platform of nature-industrial systems, and the management strategy is formed as a multi-step one. The concept of problematic situation, which prevents the movement of ISs towards the goals of sustainable development is introduced and formalized. At the same time, the ISs management strategy is based on the principle of "foresight", according to which the value of design decisions made in the present time in the future should increase, and the scheme for making compromise decisions - in the context of the contradictory social, economic and environmental indicators of development is done. The results of the work were used in the project for the restructuring of sewage treatment systems in Tambov.