Measuring the Level Sustainability of Regional Industrial Production

Measuring the level of stability of economic systems of various types and levels is still an unsolved problem. The aim of the work is to substantiate a new method for quantifying the level of sustainability of production systems. Based on the previously developed graphical model of the life cycle of technological development of production, we propose a method for scoring the stability of production systems of various types and levels of hierarchy (enterprises, industries, types of production activities) and calculating the stability index, which allows us to compare the level of their stability in different periods of time and among themselves. The practical implementation of the method is considered on the example of industrial production (by types of industrial activity) in four regions of Russia that are completely geographically included in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation over a fifteen-year period. The performed calculations showed a low level of stability of almost all the analyzed objects. It is determined that the technological development of production systems, which has the main impact on the level of sustainability, is cyclical. Taking this factor into account will allow us to more reasonably consider the prospects for improving their sustainability.