The indicator system of sustainable development in rural territories as a tool of strategic region planning

Rural territories have special socio-economic, socio-demographic and recreational importance for the development of Russian. The need to ensure food security, improve the level and quality of the country population requires solving the problem of sustainable development in rural territories. The development of a methodology for strategic planning of rural region development involves the justification and selection of anindicator system of sustainable development, which requires special research.The actuality and practical significance of the highlighted problem became the basis for the formulation and solution of the following tasks by the authors: disclosure of the ecological, social and economic essence of rural territories; characteristics determination of sustainable development in rural territories; factors determination and systematization of sustainable development in rural territories. As a result of solving these problems, the authors justified the indicator system of sustainable development in rural territories, corresponding to the selected features and taking into account the factors of sustainable development in rural regionterritories.