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The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that tourist and oblast studies in Ukraine and its oblasts are especially in the light of recent events (the annexation of part of the country's territories by the Russian Federation (2014), the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) in the world as never before one of the most effective forms of gaining knowledge, developing creative thinking, practical skills and abilities, ensuring national-patriotic education of youth and schoolchildren, as well as expandi...

The research investigates the possibilities of using cloud technologies to supply the life cycle of satellite remote sensing of seas and oceans by using the examples of implementing a number of research projects. The need to control the condition of seas and oceans necessitates the timely receipt and complex processing of large amounts of satellite remote sensing data. Currently, these processes can be performed using cloud technologies. One case of implementing such technologies is the Google Earth Engine (GEE) c...

In Latvia, Scots pine forests stands occupy 953450 ha or 33% of the total forest area. The percentage of young stands is 18% of pine forests. The young stands under the age of 10 are most represented. Scots pine has always been important for the Latvian economy, since several high-quality assortments can only be made from a quality pine trunk. The quality of the first log shall be formed during the first decade of the tree, therefore it is important to identify, assess and reduce the risk factors for P. sylvestris...

This work aims at the creation of digital selenographic satellite maps (DSSM) using fractal geometry and multi-parameter harmonic analysis. The observational data for DSSM were produced by the ?Clementine?, ?Kaguya? and ?LRO? space missions. An electronic database on altimetry measurements was built and they were brought into the single reference system by robust modeling. Based on the produced data and the method of multi-parameter harmonic analysis, we developed a digital selenographic satellite map covering the...

The paper deals with the monetization assessment of the environmental impacts of current systems of flat roofs. Monetization techniques are commonly used for evaluation of the negative environmental impact. Environmental impact can be defined as a change in the environment, whether favourable or unfavourable, which is wholly or partly due to human activity. Very often, environmental impacts are characterized by climate change such as global warming, acidification, eutrophication, ozone depletion, etc. With regard ...

The article presents the results of georadar-sensing (GRL-sounding) of the therapeutic mud manifestation site of Arasan-Kunduzdy litter located in the Panfilov district of Almaty region on the right bank of the former riverbed of Ili (oxbow), 45 km south-west of the city of Zharkent, in order to determine the power mud deposits and the study of its lithological structure. GRL- sounding was done using GPR OKO-2 AB-400 antenna unit. It was made 4 profiles on the north bank of litter (profile 1 - 150 m, profile 2 - 1...

An urgent problem is climate change and marine conditions affecting the formation and evolution of the permafrost zone of the shelf and the continental border of the Russian Arctic. The results of long-term monitoring of the permafrost zone clearly demonstrate the degradation of frozen rocks in both continental and subaquatic conditions of the western sector of the Russian Arctic. Against the background of the observed climate dynamics, the study of geoecological processes becomes especially relevant when drawing ...

The work is devoted to historical retrospective on the main aspects of the modern concept of development of the world economic system. The relevance of research is due to the presence of environmental problems in the modern economy. The data on the impact of the concept of world development on environmental development are presented. The genesis of the development of the main scientific publications on the chosen research topic is presented. The role of such a non-governmental organization as the Club of Rome, whi...

The problems of potable quality groundwater pollution have now become one of the most important on the Earth. According to UN, about 2 billion people currently lack access to drinking water. Climatic change and increased negative impact of anthropogenic factors significantly affected the quality of water resources. Groundwater is the main source for drinking and other domestic purposes. Many developing regions of the world suffer from shortage of safe drinking water. Basically, the main reason is that due to globa...

Water ecosystems of Arctic region are most vulnerable to modern climatic changes, since global biogeochemical processes mostly occur on territories of permafrost zone. This work gives new insights into fundamental research question of how fast organic matter of thawing permafrost can be converted to greenhouse gases which are emitted into the atmosphere (for example, CH4). We aimed to identify microbial response and associated release of CH4 from Arctic lakes in response to temperature increase. We investigated la...

A large group of commercial minerals known as ?industrial minerals? is used worldwide. Industrial minerals are understood as useful mineral deposits, i.e. all minerals extracted from the earth, except for energy raw materials, metals, water and gemstones, and used for industrial purposes owing to their physical, chemical and mechanical properties. The geological structure of the continental eastern Fennoscandian Shield (Karelian Region), the basement of the East European Platform, is controlled by its long geologi...

The development of knowledge-based economy is based largely on the national innovative system. The effectiveness on innovative processes depends not only on the scientific, technical and production potential, but also on the relationship between science and production. Higher education institutions in post-industrial economies expand the list of functions they perform, as they are involved in the commercialization of scientific knowledge. Thereby, the article aims to investigate the forms and the level of particip...

Currently, CRISPR/Cas systems are actively studied bacterial systems, due to the possibilitpossibility to apply them for targeted editing of eukaryotic genomes. CRISPR/Cas systems are belonged to adaptive immun immune system of bacteria and archaea acting against invading mobile genetic elements (MGEs: bacteriophages and integrative conjugative elements ). Curre Currently CRISPR/Cas systems were detected in genomes of 75% of known archaea and 36 % of bacteria strains . However, there are still quite less knowledge...

In order for Latvia to achieve the long-term strategic goal set in its policy documents ? to become the greenest country in the world ? it is essential to promote social entrepreneurship, as the social enterprises perform economic activities having positive social effects in relation to the protection and preservation of the environment. In 2019 in Latvia, 5% of the social enterprises were engaged in the field of environmental protection; therefore, the research aims to examine the role of social entrepreneurship ...

This paper is focused on the simulation using Matlab/Simulink software? of the Photovoltaic (PV) module for a better understanding of the power generated under different atmospheric conditions. One diode model and double diode model of a PV cell are also shown in this paper. The simulations could be performed considering both models, but here only the PV characteristics for one diode model will be shown. Thus, the PV characteristics will be shown for series connection, for parallel connection, for series connectio...

Nanofibers have attracted a lot of attention for applying in the third and fourth generation of solar cells to enhance their performance. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of obtaining and using successfully high-quality nanofibers based on perovskite: polymer composites (PPCs) in perovskite solar cells. First, the advantages, challenges and development directions of employing nanofibers as active layers (ALs) in organic solar cells (OSCs) have been reported to establish the principles needed to prepar...

One of the most pressing environmental problems is the generation of production and consumption waste, while the bulk of the waste is not involved in secondary economic turnover, but is placed in landfills, which pose a serious environmental hazard to the environment and public health. The authors of the article substantiate the need to use modern information technologies for a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the composition of emissions, a comprehensive assessment of the ecological state near pollution s...

Waves represent the most important factor in the evolution of the coastal zones. One of the main causes leading to the wave formation is the movement of the air masses. A particular influence on the wave agitation regime in the littoral sector is exerted by the shore configuration, water depth, bottom relief and the formation of ice cover in winter. The scope of this paper is to analyze the historical data on the wind and waves in the Danube discharge area. The emphasis is on the maximum values of wave heights and...

The article analyses issues of renovation program elaboration and implementation, as well as selection of their methods in Russia. Housing stock renovation should improve living conditions of the population. So the right decision on the renovation method meeting the housing stock condition in the country, directly affects the country?s level of socio-economic development. The author systematizes factors determining a renovation strategy. The article shows that many issues in the following areas are not considered ...

The last decades have shown how economic growth has put the environmental question into shadow. The analysis of the politics of different countries has shown that green indicators are not taken into consideration despite economic questions. A set of factors is the cause of global pollution. Sentences like ?global warming oceans full of plastic?, ?air pollution? are used often. Global pollution is defined as an alteration of the normal state of quality of the environment, which can often lead to the definitive chan...

Aboard a ship, the noise is a sum of several factors: equipment (engines, propellers, compressors), and the waves (if the Danube is very hectic), etc. The noise leads to discomfort for the crew. This paper studies the noises on 2 river vessels traveling on the Danube between Sulina and Budapest, in February and April 2019. The noises were measured with Blue Solo sonometer and analyzed with dBTRAIT Software. The determinations were made while running, in the engine room and in the control room. To check the noise l...

The paper presents a mobile GIS technology for monitoring spatially distributed emergencies. Mobile GIS technology is a combination of hardware, software and information tools that provide cartographic modeling, integrated representation of geographic and attribute data, as well as the collection, storage and analysis of geospatial information. Mobile GIS technology is designed to solve the problems of monitoring the natural and man-made environment, as well as forecasting the processes of emergence and developmen...

The aim of the paper is to propose some financial scenarios for recovery of natural disaster damages based on insurances and credits. In recent years, there has been an increase in the frequency and severity of natural disasters worldwide. It is well known that natural disasters can affect companies by damaging or completely destroying their material assets. This leads to a partial or complete economic activity interruption of the affected companies. The study focuses on the direct material damage to the companies...

Multiple veins of subvolcanic lithologies, including porphyries, lamprophyres and dolerites, outcrop in northern Portugal intruding both the pre-variscan metasedimentary basement (known as the Schist-Greywacke Complex) and variscan granites of high compositional variability. The N-S trending, granitic/rhyolitic porphyries of Vila Pouca de Aguiar (VPA) constitute two of the most important examples of these veins. Both porphyries intrude the main facies of the regional pluton (the VPA granite). The present study con...

Modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used to perform a wide range of flight tasks (military and civil), implemented both in autonomous flight mode and by remote control. One of the advanced technologies for their use is the organization of flying sensor networks (FSN). The quality of information exchange in FSN, widely used for monitoring of various natural and technical objects, depends significantly on the conditions of signal propagation and the level of external interference. A promising method for impro...

In Kazakhstan the marine sections of the boundary deposits of the Bashkirian and Moscovian Stages are located in the Zhungar-Balkhash region within the carbonate-terrigenous, carbonate and, less commonly, carbonate-type rock units. The most well-known and studied sections are situated in the North-Eastern Balkhash Lake region (the Tastykuduk formation) where in the boundary deposits of the Kungesai and the Tastykuduk sections (the Sayak synclinorium) there are faunas of ammonoids, foraminifers, corals, bryozoans, ...

The present work dwells on testing methodical approaches to optimization of programs for monitoring over ambient air quality. The key issue here was to determine how many control points are required and make up a list of substances for monitoring in a large industrial center with its area exceeding 350 square kilometers and population more than 1 million people. Ambient air quality in the examined city is influenced by more than 150 industrial enterprises operating in metallurgy, civil engineering, chemical indust...

The subsoil use currently constitutes the basis of real sector of the Kazakhstan's economy. Therefore , the state programme "Digitalization of Kazakhstan" covers the geological sector of our country, and this predetermines a new approach to the methodology of geological exploration of mineral deposits. Implementation of the new approach to geological research is carried out with the help of modern innovative technologies, such as Mapinfo, Arcgis, GIS-Micromine, where the scientific digital information base of geol...

The paper presents the results of geomechanical research of the state of mine workings located in the bearing pressure zone at a rockburst hazardous deposit. The aim of the research is substantiation of the measures to protect the mine workings from the impact of high tectonic stresses. The stress-strain state calculations were carried out by the finite element method in volumetric setting. Numerical models have been developed on the basis of in-situ measurements data of stress field parameters. The stress-relief ...

The use of a qualified electronic signature has become more widespread in recent years, and one of the main prerequisites for this is the development of electronic services using a qualified electronic signature for authentication. Some of the services require additional entry of a username and password and they show that a qualified electronic signature complements the security of authentication by becoming the so-called "Second factor". All services provided by a qualified electronic signature in the browser are...

The constant need for techniques that contribute to the environmental preservation has led researchers worldwide to intensify their studies regarding different routes that enable the environmental protection. Azo - dyes can be found in aquatic matrices and conventional procedures applied in effluent treatment plants showed not so good results in respect to degrading this type of dyes that are usually persistent and refractory. Also, textile dyes release important amounts of toxic and resistant color effluents that...

Historical mapping of landscapes shows the characteristics of the relationship between man and landscape in certain chronosections and gives the opportunity to analyze and reconstruct the dynamics of nature management, environmental situations and the anthropogenic evolution of landscapes. An analysis of the development of the relationship between man and specific landscapes, studies of the dynamics of nature management of the old habitable territories are currently impossible without landscape-historical mapping ...

Phytoremediation is a complex process by which plants reduce environmental contamination. Plants that are able to remove toxic metals from the environment by the process of their accumulation in their tissues, are collectively called to as hyperaccumulators. Metal accumulating species can be used for phytoremediation (removal of contaminant from soils) or phytomining (growing plants to harvest the metals). Hyperaccumulator plants often appear to be restricted in their distribution to metalliferous soils, from whic...

The worldwide exponential increase of vehicles in operation generates, in addition to meeting transport needs, serious problems with environmental pollution. Vehicle pollution means not only pollution with exhaust emissions, but also tire pollution. Microparticles resulting from the interaction between tire and driveway or waste tires have a negative impact on the environment, regarding air, water and soil pollution. Solutions to reduce this type of pollution are not only the subsequent treatment or reuse of waste...

The identification of the landslide preparation and development mechanisms is the key to the sustainable development of landslide and landslide-prone urban and mining areas. The understanding of the landslide preparation mechanism is necessary for landslide hazard and risk assessments and designing proper protection measures and monitoring. A new equation for calculation of a slip surface depth (of a landslide basis) was obtained, using slope morphological and soil strength parameters. A new elaborated approach fo...

The river is the consequential landscape ? forming element as it is rinsing and transporting the weakest rocks, scraping the bed and accumulating the sediment. During these processes in the river, diverse ecosystems are forming in various areas that provide habitats for a wide range of plant and animal species. In almost every river there is occurring a natural process as erosion. River erosion assessment should be considered in river management and included in management measures, as erosion can be determining fa...

The article presents methodological approaches to the improvement of the environmental monitoring system. To increase the objectivity and to improve the visual aspects of data presentation during ecological monitoring, the authors proposed to involve remote sensing methods of the Earth and geoinformation technologies. The presented set of methods is effectively used for general, operational and background monitoring. The authors have developed an algorithm for monitoring the state of ecosystem components by remote...

The paper presents the synthesis of the results of the research obtained in the development of the infrastructure for evaluating the safety of explosives for civil use in terms of friction sensitivity, using a modern BAM Friction Apparatus test equipment, FSKM-10 characterized by a high degree of technology, in order to determine the friction sensitivity of civil use explosives (assuring loads from 0.1 N to 360 N), being of the last generation and capable of meeting, at the highest level and in terms of economic e...

The shelterwood strip cutting is the main felling technique, where the stand is cut in shelterwood the width of which does not exceed the average tree height of the stand. The information obtained in the study reflects how the characteristic forest vegetation develops, depending on the location and orientation of the object, as well as the cleaning type of forest residues. The development of vegetation shows which type is the most efficient and in which the vegetation develops the fastest. Two North-South (N-S) an...

The sphere of public tourism and recreational services of the population, as one of the sustainable resource usage type, can make a significant contribution to the realization of the nature protection tasks and way of natural ecosystems sustainable functioning maintenance. Ecotourism can be one of the most effective environmental protection tools in case of proper management and planning of recreational nature management. In Iraqi Kurdistan, tourism is spontaneous and usually had the form of private trips to touri...

The Brown Coal Research Institute j. s. c. is realising the long term research and survey of the mining area of the Most Basin. One of new important tasks is problem of climatic changes. The Most Coal Basin area is known for its largest Czech brown coal deposit. It is situated in the region of North Western Bohemia - Czech mining region. The main mining companies are the North Bohemian Mines, j.s.c. and the Seven Group j.s.c. The main mining localities are the Bilina open pit mine, the Libous open pit mine, the Vr...

Petroleum companies have leading roles in modern economy, as their financial and economic performance to a large extent form the economies of petroleum producing countries. With the background of highly volatile petroleum markets and increasing inter-fuel competition, it is essential for the companies to find an optimal strategy for the long-term sustainable growth. The research aims a comprehensive study of set of indicators reflecting the performance of companies in the oil and gas industry (on an example of Rus...

Road transport is an important component of urban infrastructure planning in developed countries. Not only big cities but now also smaller cities with a smaller population and a smaller area face the problem of a high number of road vehicles. The operation of these vehicles requires the construction of sufficiently high-capacity roads, intersections, parking lots, etc. And it is at intersections, i.e. places where traffic flows meet, that the biggest problems occur, i.e. high traffic accidents, high noise, deterio...

The results of instrumental observations of geomagnetic variations caused by eruption of Taal Volcano on January 12, 2020 are given. Its geographical coordinates is 14.002? N, 120.993? E. Taal volcano is located within the Macolod Corridor in the large convergence zone between the Eurasian and Philippine tectonic plates which is characterized by active volcanism, crustal thinning, extensive faulting and block rotations. The data in the form of one-minute interval means which are available on web-site of the INTERM...

The article is dedicated to the study of hydrometeorological parameters on a stationary oceanographic platform in the Black Sea. The research paper contains the description developed in the Marine Hydrophysical Institute?s complex for measuring meteorological parameters (wave height, wind speed and direction, free-air and sea temperature, barometric pressure, relative humidity). The measurements were carried out on a stationary oceanographic platform located in the coastal zone of the southern coast of Crimea at a...

This paper describes an algorithm that proposes compositions of structures that are in contact with the cooled environment based on the user's priorities. Specifically, the algorithm evaluates the construction of floors, flat, and pitched roofs. The algorithm compiles these structures based on individual technical criteria and their set priorities in combination with the price of materials. Multi-criteria methods such as the Saaty method and the weighted sum method are using to determine the importance of individu...

Agriculture has been the only known and proven method to obtain food in order to meet demands of human population already for thousands of years. Quality and quantity of produced food depend on the technologies used in plant cultivation and on the condition of used land. Soil organic matter (SOM) together with soil biota form basic soil property referred to as soil fertility. Maintaining appropriate content of SOM in soils is possible by the application of organic fertilizers. However, these are not always availab...

The main difficulties nowadays in Bulgaria in agricultural land governance, land administration and land management stem from weaknesses in the legal framework. To this can be added the historically accumulated lack of interest in land stewardship and the inherited soil degradation processes. Nowadays chaotic land use does not provide territorial conditions for taking advantage of modern agricultural technologies. The socio-economic development requires complicated interaction between the private, state, municipal...

Soil unit weight is one of the most important parameter used in all geotechnical calculus related to design process of any type of constructions. Determination of this gravimetric -volumetric data can be done through laboratory tests in firm soils, or indirectly as itderive from some in situ investigations such as Cone Penetrations Test (CPT) or as severalgeophysical investigations such as Down hole, Cross hole, Logging P-S velocities, insoils which can?t support undisturbed samples (very wet organic soils or sand...

The Volinian Adancata sandstone (Lower Sarmatian) is exploited from the northwestern part of the Moldovian Platform, which represents the continuation of the great East-European Platform and which lies in front of the Eastern Carpathians (in Eastern Romania). Adancata sandstone is a slightly micaceous carbonate sandstone that has been exploited since the Middle Ages to the present, with some temporal syncopes after the Second World War. The current exploitation of the sandstone levels is made in two quarries locat...