The concept of environmental risk different from the assessment of ecological status of the object is given. The need for a forecast of negative consequences any of kind of activity that enables optimization methodology for assessing complex environmental situations is grounded. The impossibility of determining the level of risk without predictive models in the monitoring of land and the natural environment is shown. The need for integrating legislation in the field of land management and inventory with modern environmental policy in the Russian Federation for zoning. The feasibility of various search criteria (indicators hazard), depending on the category of land is determined. The danger of reducing the integration of environmental considerations in land management is shown.