INCREASING SUSTAINABILITY OF LIFE DEVELOPMENT ON THE BASIS OF ECONOMICS OF QUALITY

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[For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version)].ABSTRACT The article considers issues of sustainable development of administrative-territorial units on the basis of economics of quality. The author evaluates its role in scientific and technical progress and justifies economic efficiency of the use of its components, which are metrology, standardization, and quality management, at different levels, in various fields of activity. Factors of sustainable spatial development belong to the area of scientific analysis, where interdisciplinary synthesis dominates. This conceptual approach determines depth of expected and planned changes in the quality of human life. Keywords: society, strategic planning, sustainable development, quality of life, administrative territorial unit, standardization, economics of quality. REFERENCES 1. Okrepilov, V. V. Spatial development and quality [Prostranstvennoe razvitie i kachestvo].St.Petersburg, Nauka publ., 2011, 293 p. 2.Okrepilov, V. V. Economics of quality [Ekonomika kachestva].St.Petersburg, Nauka publ., 2011, 629 p. The article is prepared on the basis of a paper presented by the author at the scientific and practical conference «Quality, system and partnership in modern economics, held on the 1st and 2nd of December 2015 in Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (MIIT).