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ANNOTATION

to the dissertation work of a doctoral student at the Academy of Public
Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Utepov
Arman Tleulesovich on «Development of аn ecosystem approach in
management decisions making in the Republic of Kazakhstan» submitted for
the degree of doctor in the profile in the speciality «6D051000 - Public and local
administration »

The actuality of the research topic. The development of the ecosystem
approach in making management decisions is one of the priority areas identified by
the UN in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as a link to all the
Sustainable Development Goals.
Given that the ecosystems of Kazakhstan provide the population with a large
set of vital services, but many of them are partially degraded, the introduction of
progressive economic instruments of environmental management is an urgent task.
According to the results of the assessment of countries’ environmental
performance, provided by Yale University in 2020 among 180 countries,
Kazakhstan ranked 85th in the Environmental Performance Index (EPI).
Kazakhstan is actively developing approaches to ensuring sustainable
development and improving environmental legislation, based on the feasibility and
real possibility of using the potential of international organizations and global
experience to solve its own environmental problems.
In July 2021, a new Environmental Code was introduced in Kazakhstan, in
which one of the fundamental principles of regulating environmental relations is the
ecosystem approach. Thus, the integrity and natural interconnections of natural
ecological systems, living organisms, natural landscapes, and another natural,
natural-anthropogenic and anthropogenic objects, and the need to preserve the

balance of the natural environment should be taken into account in planning and
making decisions by state bodies and officials, as a result of which negative
consequences for the environment occur or may occur. All this together was the
reason for choosing the topic of this dissertation work.
Scientific development of the research problem.
The degree of scientific elaboration of the problem is determined by its
novelty for Kazakh science, the weak scientific and methodological base, and
mechanisms for the application of the ecosystem approach in the system of public
administration. The specifics and problems of managerial decision-making in
Kazakhstan in the framework of the ecosystem approach have not been studied until
recently. There is no description of practical cases of making managerial decisions
by state bodies based on the ecosystem approach.
Scientific-theoretical and methodological foundations of making managerial
decisions in an organization were laid in the works of I. Ansoff, G. Mintzberg, M.
Mescon, J. Von Neumann and O. Morgenstern, G. Owen, G. Simon, A.A. Thompson
and A.D. Strickland, P. Fishbury, S.O. Hansson, et al.
Such authors as Arthur George Tansley, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Vladimir
Ivanovich Vernadsky, William Ross Ashby, Robert Harding Whittaker, Claude