This article addresses the issue of integrating a number of approaches that are being implemented in Belgorod Oblast: the basin-administrative, ecoregional, and ecologically oriented development of municipal units based on long-term natural resource management systems. The authors provide a characterization of the major dimensions and composition of activities related to forming in the region natural economic systems within their natural boundaries as dominions of the noosphere. For the first time a rationale is provided for the boundaries and composition of the ecoregion and a typology of river basins is conducted from an ecoregional viewpoint. This example of developing the concept of organizing inter-settlement territories from an ecological/landscape viewpoint, providing regulatory support for it, and implementing it across the entire territory of one of the constituents of the Russian Federation attests to the ability of regional policy to ensure in present-day conditions the sustainable development of municipal units

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The aim of the work was to conduct an agro-ecological assessment of agricultural lands, select a typical test area by key indicators, and conduct a comprehensive analysis with the mapping of the utilisation efficiency of this area. The aim of this work was to demonstrate the fundamental possibility of solving socio-economic and environmental problems of the land use in the context of reforming the land and property complex by the example of a specific project. The algorithm of the land management actions for efficient economic use of the territory of the key site has been offered. The proposed measures are based on the organisation of an arable land with the allocation of field, grain-grass and soil-protective crop rotations, grassing-down of spillways, and conservation of a low-productive arable land, design of a field-protective forest range, determination of the type of use of natural forage lands, allocation of places for the implementation of erosion-hazardous agricultural land afforestation, organisation of a bee park, clumps of broadleaves and micro-reserves. The prospectivity of transition from a spatial object of lands assessment to their agro-ecological type by means of morphometric analysis of the terrain using GIS-technologies, calculation of territory roughness, determination of the erosion potential of the terrain, and complex integration of the results into the typification of agro-climatic resources has been proved. The prospectivity of use of soil-recovering effects for the development of new models of resource-saving sustainable agriculture has been demonstrated.