© 2015, Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research. All rights reserved. Introduction of the economic mechanism of environmental management at the meso-level, with the assessment of regional ecological-economic risks as the most important element of which, is one of the most important conditions of the successful implementation of the state natural resource policy. The regional ecological-economic risk is understood as generalized characteristic of different situations on this or that territory and during this period of time, the different degree of probability of transformation of the considered natural-economic system into a qualitatively different state is the result of which. The article presents new requirements to regional systems of environmental management.