[...]... resources as a system of activities to allow the economically efficient use of natural resources and to create an optimum regime for their restoration, taking into account present and future interests of the marine economy Rational development of marine natural resources and natural resources of coastal areas of the land requires the establishment of relations between industry and the marine environment... ocean management; investigation of methods and principles of formation and functioning of different branches of the economy and of interbranch regional and national oceanic economic systems; substantiation of patterns and stages of economic development of ocean and coastal regions 25 The main theoretical goals of the economics of ocean resources development are to study the effects of the laws and patterns... load on all the elements of the ecosystem can ensure the preservation of biocenoses and their diversity The structure of the marine economy should therefore be formed in accordance with the aforementioned principle, to provide the possibility of, not only multipurpose use of a natural element of the marine ecosystem, but also optimum and balanced development of all the other elements of the ecosystem... complicated problem of spatial organization of the land-sea contact zone, taking account of the particular problems of managing its resources The marine component of the land-sea contact zone consists of inland seas and/ or continental shelf The area of the natural- economic land-sea contact zone constitutes 7% of the Earth's area, while the length of its shoreline is over 1.5 million km [61 ] The continental... consideration the dynamics of marine environmental changes and the process of their interaction with the production sphere 18 Finally, the third group of principles relates to the formation and development of the marine economy The problems of effective interaction between elements of the natural complex and resource distribution among the branches of marine economy should be solved on the basis of a complex... development of the marine economy and the economy of coastal areas From the standpoints of both theory and practice, ocean economic research can be regarded as having three stages The first stage is the elaboration of the general theory and scientific substantiation of branch and regional patterns of development of the marine economy as an integral part of a country's national economy The second stage is the. .. biological, power and mineral resources of the ocean, and using the ocean as a transport line Applied economic research comprises the evaluation of multipurpose ocean management and the development of coastal areas, various socio-economic, legal and political studies, and estimation of the efficiency of the studies conducted (both fundamental and applied) If the economics of marine natural resources management. .. Here, the comparison of the cost of environmental conservation with the positive results of their implementation is closely related to the problem of evaluating economic loss caused by marine environmental contamination The third group of problems concerns the practical application of a system of economic estimates of marine natural resources and the evaluation of damage caused by disturbance of the marine. .. based on the following dependence: "demand in natural resources 4 the natural resources themselves ~ possibilities for their production and use" The main difference between ecological-economic regionalization and other types of regionalization is the assessment of environmental conditions, in addition to the quantity and quality of natural resources and the possibilities for their production The main... restoration of natural resources; and problems of environment conservation Development of marine natural resources should be coordinated with environment protection, to preserve normal ecological cycles [51] Natural and economic peculiarities of the ocean should be reflected in the organization of the marine e c o n o m y management its planning and We understand the rational development of marine natural resources . of the marine economy. Rational development of marine natural resources and natural resources of coastal areas of the land requires the establishment of relations between industry and the marine. biogeocenoses, landscapes and other natural complexes, and on the principles of rational natural resources management. Solution of these acute problems requires profound knowledge of the patterns of natural. will ensure the progress of the world economy [53]. The science of economics faces the tasks of determining the best methods of conserving and developing marine natural resources, and of elaborating