Assessment of a role of natural resources in development of national economy

Abstract

The article presents an overview of approaches of a natural resources assessment and classification of natural resources with the purpose to carry out an economic assessment. At an assessment the main problems comes from lack of the standard methodology of economic assessment of resources and processes of a resources consumption and weakness of the corresponding legal, normative-methodical base. It doesn’t allow to consider and reflect natural resources in structure of national wealth of the country together with the cost of the fixed production assets, buildings and constructions. In this regard, the main task consists in development of the general concept of an economic assessment of natural resources which would allow to develop uniform system of indicators for an assessment of a various nature forming components, which is optimal from sight of coordination of environmental management and economy interests. Nowadays in economic science the main approaches of an economic assessment of natural resources are developing for their reflection in structure of national wealth.
Key words: natural resource, national economy, approach, assessment.