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Strategic environmental assessment is not only an effective mechanism in solving environmental problems, but also a way of implementing the principles of «environmental democracy». It is generally accepted that the concept of «ecological democracy» has gained popularity after the signing of the Aarhus Convention in 1998. The Aarhus Convention is based on three main principles: access to information, public participation and access to justice. To date, most countries in Europe, the CIS, Canada, Ireland, the United ...

The operation is based on the identification of the working area on the old land book plan. This includes the topographic numbers of the area where the building is located and all representative details, namely water courses, roads, road intersections as well as other linear elements well established in time. On the old land book plans, each plot is highlighted with a distinct topographic number, topographic number that is entered in the land register and corresponds with a land book. The old land book plan was dr...

The article attempts to explain different impacts of border effect on different types of borders and the question of whether the border effect has a greater intensity at the national border than at the border between the regions of one country and how big this difference is. The hypothesis was tested on a case study of the Liberec region, located in the Czech Republic at the border with Poland and Germany (part of Euroregion Nisa ? Neisse ? Nysa). For quantifying the border effect, the gravity model of spatial int...

The article shows the stages of creating an interactive map of tourist resources of the Akmola region by using Web-technology. The main tourist resources of the region and methods for their assessment were determined. The tourist resources of the region are represented by natural (geological and geomorphological, climatic, hydrological, botanical), cultural and historical, also socio-economic resources. Evaluation of geological resources was carried out by using the cartographic method (the cartograms mode). To as...

Greenhouse gas emissions are high among global environmental issues, which is also true for Russia. Based on an analysis of government reports on the state and environmental protection of the Russian Federation and on the state and use of the subsoil of the Russian Federation, it has been established that over the past five years at least 70% of greenhouse gas emissions in Russia account for the fuel and energy complex. Significant reductions in the emissions of these gases in industry are very problematic due to ...