Preconditions for the Development of an Integrated Framework of Assessing Socio-Economic Security of the City

Urban socio-economic security assessment is one of the understudied topics. There isn't a generally accepted assessment methodology. Additionally, approaches Electronic copy available at affecting evaluation haven't been completely evolved. The premise of this research is the analysis of existing approaches to assessing objects in economic safetyology, which has been done to identify the validity of these approaches or their elements as to urban socio-economic security assessment. The analysis results of approaches to assessing economic or socio-economic security of the objects of economic safetyology provide the basis for particular conclusions and generalizations as well as prerequisites for developing an integrated framework of assessing socio-economic security of urban areas. This approach should be built through borrowing certain elements from the approaches analyzed, including concepts of T. Parsons' structural functionalism, constructs that reveal the essence of the «urban socio-economic security» notion, cross-factor analysis, and techniques for designing economic