Ecological Systems and Devices Annotation << Back ON THE FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE NATURAL-TECHNICAL SYSTEM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITHOSPHERIC RESOURCES Yu.P. Galchenko The great importance of ecological interactions with human participation served as a starting point for the further development of geoecology as an independent branch of science, as a result of which new concepts (at the same time objects of study) emerged – natural-technical, socio-ecological, natural-economic systems, each of which can be considered independently. The mineral resources of the lithosphere, in essence, represent a set of discovered and identified mineral deposits, which determines the executive structure of the main object of technological research – the natural and technical system for the development of mineral reserves localized in the Earth's lithosphere. At each moment of time, the elements of a complex system are in one of the possible states, the transition between which occurs under the influence of factors determined by internal changes or the influence of the external environment. The main elements of the natural and technical system for developing the reserves of the field are two fullobject clusters, each of which concentrates efforts in different directions. The interaction of these components, as in every complex system, is determined by the fact that one is the control, and the other is the executive. Keywords: Mineral resource complex; development; resources; lithosphere; natural and technical system; structure; components; complex systems; management and executive; multiobject clusters; environmental safety; efficiency, mining technologies. DOI: 10.25791/esip.10.2021.1258 Pp. 47-52.