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Our study provides the implementation of the modern concept "All in One - Total Tourism", already experienced within Bioterra University in the Student Practice Center in Neptun-Comorova Resort, with subsequent scaling at the international level with our bilateral collaboration partner in this field: the Institute of Advanced Specific Studies in Giza-Egypt. The applicability of the concept was achieved through a study conducted in Siwa Oasis, Egypt. This is a top destination, one of the most isolated and fascinati...

The study evaluated people's perception of green spaces located near managed water courses in the urban environment, in the city of Timisoara - "Bega" Canal (Romania) and in Vilnius - "Neris" River (Lithuania). The information was collected in 2025, based on a questionnaire in Google Forms. The questionnaire included six questions categories (QC1 to QC6) with: general information about respondents (QC1), perception of public green spaces (QC2), perception of biodiversity (QC3), impact of climate change (QC4), cons...

Currently, a big problem is increasing the production of residual oil, for which so-called tertiary recovery methods are used. One common tertiary recovery method is the use of surfactants. The use of biological surfactants instead of synthetic ones can solve the problem of increasing oil production and reducing the toxic impact on the environment. To obtain biosurfactants, two strains of Bacillus mojavensis and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens were used. These strains are characterized by the ability to produce biosurf...

Within the current framework of approaching different directions of carbon emissions reduction policy, wood fits as an environmentally friendly building material with low production in terms of energy consumption. In this manner, timber combines its qualities such as high strength/weight ratio and rigidity/weight, low specific gravity, recovery/recycling that make it competitive with classic building materials with the demands of climate change green deal. One specific attention has to be given to the design and e...

Environmental monitoring in specially protected areas is a vital problem, especially in places subject to anthropogenic impacts. The Tunkinskaya Valley (190 km long) is the western extension of the Baikal rift zone. On the territory of the valley there is a national park of federal significance. At the same time, the territory is subject to intensive anthropogenic load. The Tunkinskaya Valley is an attractive place for tourists. The local population (20,000 people) is engaged in cattle breeding. Industrialized are...

Coal mine spoil heaps are subject to reclamation processes in order to restore their environmental, social and economic functions. The reclamation may consist of placing soil layers (topsoil, TS) on the surface of the bare rock (carboniferous rock accompanying the coal seam) and then planting vegetation. However, waste rock (bare rock, BR) is usually left in place without overburden due to high costs. In both cases, there is a spontaneous succession of consisting vegetation of native and alien species. In this stu...

In recent decades, the interest of researchers has focused on the development of methods for obtaining alternative energy sources. Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is one of the methods for obtaining a wide range of hydrocarbons and their derivatives. Ru, Ni, Fe and Co are the widely used catalytically active metals in FTS. To increase the activity of the catalyst, as well as increase the yield of target products, promoters are introduced into catalytic systems. In FTS, oxides of alkaline and rare earth metals, oxides of...

Biochar can be used as an alternative and efficient adsorbent for organic and inorganic pollutants. Therefore, based on previous study in which, a biochar loaded with mixed metal oxides of iron, tin or titanium catalysts results as a by-product of levulinic esters synthesis from biomass carbohydrates, this paper aim was to test this residue as biochar for the retention of phosphate from water samples. The obtained adsorbents based on Fe2O3-SnO2 and Fe2O3-La2O3-TiO2 were characterized by FT-IR and TGA analyses. The...

The deep processing of lignocellulose feedstock (including waste from the woodworking industry, agriculture, and agro-industry) allowing the high-added value products to be obtained is one of the key scientific problems. Lignocellulose biomass is a potential feedstock for the production of heat, electricity, fuel, chemicals, and other bioderived products. The liquefaction is considered to be one of the most promising ways to convert lignocellulose biomass into liquid fuels. During the liquefaction, lignocellulose ...

One of the objectives of the research is to identify the factors influencing the implementation of environmental economics and green governance principles in Latvia. The study focuses on the strategic allocation, implementation and impact of investments, including EU structural funds, on environmental sustainability initiatives in Latvia. The research methodology includes theoretical concepts and research on the development of the environmental economics in the regions of Latvia. In order to achieve the objectives...

This study investigated changes in carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) concentrations in the three components of the forest ecosystem (leaves, bark and soil) along an altitudinal gradient in the temperate forests of Romania. The properties and processes within the forest ecosystem are influenced by altitude. The leaves, litter and soil are important in the good development of the ecosystem and in the cycle of the elements. Plants extract the nutrients necessary for life and growth from the soil in which they carry out the...

Water pollution with oil residues is a particularly important and difficult problem to prevent and solve. The ecological consequences of black tides have proven to be particularly serious and even catastrophic for marine ecosystems. In this sense, the limitation and concentration represent the optimal response action to hydrocarbon pollution. The aim of the work was to digitally design a woven textile reinforcement used as a matrix of the composite material from which the freeboard and skirt of the floating surfac...

Meat and bone meal (MBM) is considered animal waste and can no longer be used in agriculture since the onset of the disease called spongiform encephalopathy in cattle. This waste is burned and then dumped in landfills, which causes unwanted emissions to the environment. This is a real problem nowadays and we must find environmentally friendly solutions must be identified to eliminate this waste by energy recovery. For these reasons, a lot of processes have been developed to recovery the MBM, which are environmenta...

Based on the analysis of literary and cartographic material, zonal-landscape characteristics of the development of a producing economy and the emergence of the first environmental challenges in the territory of Russia are assessed. The first environmental problems were caused by a change in the climatic conditions of the life of the earliest settlers and by the peculiarities of the emergence and development of their producing economy. The emergence of the first centers of producing economy in the territory of Russ...

The purpose of this study is to develop approaches for the monitoring the environmental and reputational risks of building industry’s companies; to confirm the hypothesis that it is possible to use audited financial and environmental reports as sources for monitoring. The basis of the author's idea is the conceptual approaches of the international standards on auditing and true view tasks, as tools to guarantee the reliability of the results of monitoring environmental indicators in conjunction with key audit issu...

The article deals with the issues of domestic tourism. It is proposed to use the ideas of synergetics to assess the development opportunities of the tourism business in three regions of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, taking into account their physical, geographical and economic position. Tourism resources, types of tourism and accommodation facilities were discussed, as well as types of recreational activities in these areas. It is shown that the tourism business is an interdisciplinary science, as it ...

The global problems of the functioning of the economy, industry and energy are among the most important areas of scientific interest and knowledge. Renewable energy sources play a significant role in the global energy sector. The potential applications of these sources are almost limitless, which makes it possible to expand the list of energy resources used. With the economic growth of the forest, woodworking and pulp and paper industries, waste from the wood used in processing-bark and branches, wood chips, scrap...

The exodus of young people from rural areas in Romania, corroborated with the decrease of the population at national level is a major problem of the country. The Common Agricultural Policy integrates this issue, finding several forms of support both in Pillar I, on direct payments, and in Pillar II, on rural development. This paper proposes the analysis of support for young farmers in the second pillar. Thus, the measures related to the support of young farmers through the National Rural Development Program will b...

The article summarizes the total number of technogenic mineral formations in Kazakhstan, which occupies the 9th place in the world over the territory, which has huge mineral reserves. The presented material gives the properties of the waste, its particle size distribution, storage conditions, as well as the approximate volume of secondary raw materials. The integrated use of mineral resources is a very difficult task, including technical, economic and environmental issues, the solution of which requires the joint ...

From the analysis of documents of strategic planning for the development of the region, it follows that the Arkhangelsk region assigns tourism one of the priority areas of development. At present, the region is one of 8 key zones of economic development of the Russian Arctic, where along with industrial and transport nature management, recreational, in particular tourism, is also considered a priority. The article considers the main factors in the development of ecotourism in the Arkhangelsk region. The analysis a...

Energy, which determines the progress of social production, continues to have an adverse impact on the environment. The result of any energy entity is to provide consumers with high-performance ecologically pure kind of energy that objectively defines influence of industrial activities of energy companies on the environment: emissions of pollutants into the atmospheric air, effluents of polluting substances in water objects, placing of production wastes, and also negative effects of noise, heat, vibration, electro...

Relevance of results and scope. Energy, which determines the progress of social production, continues to have an adverse impact on the environment. The result of any energy entity is to provide consumers with high-performance ecologically pure kind of energy that objectively defines influence of industrial activities of energy companies on the environment: emissions of pollutants into the atmospheric air, effluents of polluting substances in water objects, placing of production wastes, and also negative effects of...

Since 2003, the Complex Expedition to study the historical waterways of Russia headed by S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the staff of the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University performed integrated geoecological exploration of the historical waterways of the Russian Plain. The following sites were explored: the Mariinskaya and Severo-Dvinskaya water systems, Ladoga and Onega canals, the lake-canal system of...

For the rational organization of natural territories of historical and cultural significance, it is necessary: to develop a long-term strategy for nature management, to implement functional zoning and integrated landscape and environmental monitoring. The monitoring should be based on a detailed large-scale landscape-ecological research of the territory, including the compilation of a cadastre of landscape and landscape-historical complexes, an assessment of their ecological state and the identification of the mai...

The purpose of this study is to address and consider ancient manor complexes as landscape objects, and to identify the linkages between their formation, location and environmental conditions. Ancient manors are unique monuments of the spiritual and material culture of Central Russia. The landscape has the imprint of the historical and cultural heritage of the past, which, in turn, largely determines its current state and appearance. We consider the manor as a landscape-historical estate complex, which was formed d...

Fields that are in the late stages of development have low potential and opportunities to solve the accumulated technical and environmental problems due to insufficient profitability of their operation, lack of sources of financing. This fully applies to the fields of the Orenburg region, among the main problems of which should be noted: the growth of the share of hard-to-recover hydrocarbon reserves in low-permeable reservoirs, the share of high-viscosity oil; the low level of utilization of associated petroleum ...

Current problems of Russian subsurface users (volatility of the global energy market, ambiguity in the behavior of traditional consumers, an increase in the share of alternative energy sources in the global fuel and energy balance, low level of technological efficiency of fixed assets, insufficient processing depth, high losses of hydrocarbons, lack of technologies for recycling resources, methane emissions, etc.) reduce the environmental and economic efficiency of production, which, in turn, this leads to a deter...

A current global concern is environmental protection. Many of the human activities affect the environment and implicitly have economic repercussions. Economic and social development must be achieved so that economic activities cause as little damage to the environment as possible. The financial amounts allocated depend on the economic situation of each country. Expenditures for environmental protection represent an indicator regarding the actions undertaken by economic agents and the public administration concerni...

The article considers various factors contributing to the development of tourism in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF). On the example of the Murmansk region, the indicators of tourist flow, as well as the impact of tourism on the economy and, accordingly, on the sustainable development of the region, are analyzed. Problems of sustainable development at the regional level were studied in the Kirov-Apatity district of the Murmansk region, where the scientific base of the geographical faculty of Moscow...

One of the most abundant renewable resources with a great potential as raw materials for production of fuels and bulk chemicals are carbohydrates derived from biomass. Among these, esters levulinates have been widely used as solvents and plasticizers in food industry or as fuels additives for transportation. The direct synthesis of methyl levulinate from fructose over solid superacid SO42?/TiO2-La2O3 catalyst was investigated in this study. The influence of different reaction parameters such as reaction temperatur...

Latvia is one of the greenest countries in Europe, and one of the advantages it gives is an opportunity to incorporate its nature and naturalness in tourism products. It is important for Latvia as a small country to contribute to the visibility of tourism products, which could promote sustainable economic growth. Solutions could be found within the scope of government policies. One of the objectives is to promote exports of tourism services without causing problems to the natural and social environments. In touris...

Environmental management is aimed at the safe use of natural processes, taking into account the biological features of management and the socio-economic possibilities of the management company. Responsible business contains a set of principles, methods, means and forms of production management, developed and applied at an enterprise in order to improve the environmental efficiency of production. Environmental management includes an assessment of the social and environmental performance of the organization. Environ...

In modern conditions, the main problem is the threat of loss of natural resistance. Environmental responsibility implies the maintenance of a rational system. Such a system contributes to the preservation of natural heritage for future generations. Environmental resources include climate, biosphere, landscape, aquifer. These resources are used to form innovative clusters. They set the conditions and limitations of business activities [1]. Corporate environmental management is designed to effectively manage the ent...

The rapid change in the technological paradigma of Russian subsoil users is dictated by sharp changes in the energy policy picture of the world; the increase of Russia's geopolitical loneliness; the introduction of sectoral sanctions; the violation of the mechanism of international transfer of advanced technologies; the unpredictability of the global hydrocarbon market. The negative impact of global trends is complemented by unresolved internal problems of oil and gas companies in the regions of their presence. Th...

At the head of all the activities of society are human resources, they are making technological breakthroughs and the development of economic growth. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the development of new technologies is carried out at the expense of organizations working to improve the economy and technological development; organizations face the difficult task of stimulating human resources for a technological breakthrough. In this article, corporate social responsibility is considered as one of the tools...

Marble onyx is a banded aggregate consisting of calcite and aragonite of the most diverse colors. Due to its decorative properties, onyx is valued in the jewelry and construction industry. In nature, marble onyx is formed by layer-by-layer deposition of carbonate substance from carbon-calcium dioxide water. It occurs mainly in the areas of young volcanism, rich in thermal springs. In recent years, information has appeared platform manifestations of onyx mineralization. One of these manifestations was found on the ...

The energy system is an area which requires a large enough attention in the process of automation and the use of all the possibilities of producer of energy from renewable sources. It is not enough to produce energy but also to collect and trade to the true value, without being used intermediate bodies for recouping. Drop is a technology that allows users to collect data, information from one or more establishments located remotely and send instructions with limited control by them. The article presents a study wh...

Rapeseed crop is an economical competitive crop which could have a good yield and a good profit to farmers. Due to its biological particularities the rapeseed crop is at the same time the highest risky crop in Europe, especially due to lower percent of emerged plants after sowing or due to lower hardiness during winter. To increase rapeseed resistance to drought and pests attack, during germination, there is a huge need to develop and use a new products based on Gibberellic Acids (GA3) and amino acids for seed tre...

The main idea of this paper is to develop a multi-agent system, integrating advanced control algorithms and acting scenarios, for optimizing energy management in an intelligent microgrid. In order to achieve this objective, it is proposed a flexible intelligent tool based on multi-agents, able to give alternatives for action to prosumers, through a specialized interface. In this respect, firstly are presented aspects related to the multi- agents (MAS) integration in smart grids? control. In the second part the wor...

The composition of micromycetes of rocks and deposits of the caves Kinderlinskaya and Oktyabrskaya, located in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, have been studied. The caves are formed in the upper Devonian Famennian limestones. These caves differ significantly in anthropogenic load due to their different accessibility to humans. Kinderlinskaya is a horizontal cave with a large entrance often visited by tourists. It needs special climbing equipment to enter to the October cave as it is situated on the height ...

In the current work, a series of poly(sodium acrylate)-co-acrylamide (polyNaA-co-AAm/pectin and polyNaA-co-AAm/bentonite) superabsorbent composites were prepared using pectin, bentonite, acrylamide and acrylic acid (AA) in the presence of N,N-methylenebisacrylamide (MBAAm) as cross-linker and a mixture of ammonium persulfate and TEMED as initiator. The structure and sorption capacity of the developed composites were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), voltammetry and UV-visible spectro...

Murmansk region is a most dynamically developing region of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation, which combines many conflicts in the types of nature use by various maritime sectors, with a negative impact on fragile Arctic ecosystems. The existing Russian and international experience in the application of the concept of marine spatial planning (MSP) was analyzed in terms of its application for the Russian Arctic and the current state and prospects of the socio-economic development of maritime complex was stu...

Reducing energy costs and cost of production is a strategic goal of an industrial enterprise in the field of energy conservation and energy efficiency. The main driving force for the activities of the organization is staff. Therefore, the constant increase of knowledge and competence of employees on energy saving and use of secondary energy resources are the main points of the social and environmental policy of the industrial enterprise [1]. Only by motivating and involving staff, improving the control system, imp...

In this paper, a PVC filled with a biodegradable polymer, such as polyhydroxybutyrate, was investigated. Polyhydroxybutyrate is a natural biopolymer, but its use limits its high cost. These polymeric composites were obtained by rolling. Thermal and thermomechanical properties of polymer composites based on PVC containing various amounts of polyhydroxybutyrate are studied. It has been determined by differential scanning calorimetry method that the glass transition temperature of PVC decreases with increasing percen...

This article discusses the questions of agroecology, its role and significance in the modern economy. It emphasizes the impact of agroecology on food production, country food security ensuring, as well as contribution to the sustainable agriculture. The authors also accentuate the relationship of agroecology with sectoral clusters, which are one of the modern forms of economic activity organization in agro-industrial sphere of Russian Federation economy. The article describes preconditions of the clusters formatio...

This paper presents an assessment of power generation losses of a hydropower plant (HPP) due to an imposed reservoir management plan and comparisons in terms of monetary value with the existing management plan but with an eutrophic reservoir. The study case is represented by Gole?ti reservoir, which is a shallow reservoir in Romania, and the associated HPP. Gole?ti reservoir is an artificial lake of medium size, which has a 55пїЅ106 m3 volume and a maximum depth of 32 m. Its use is complex: it allows flood control...

The study was conducted to explore the phyto- and zooplankton composition and abundance in ponds located at Komsomolsk tailing dump, Kuznetski Alatau, Russia. Four ponds and one lake were sampled in detail: the pond in the northern part of the tailing dump (sample KP-1), the watered trench near the pond (sample KP-8), the red pond formed on the shifted Berikul tailings (sample KP-9), the settling pond (sample KP-10) and the natural lake Bolshoy Berchikul (sample KP-11) located 10 km away from the tailing dump as t...

The modern society is focused on the main recommendations of the TEEB - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity. One of the document directions is "Business can save biodiversity and improve the exploitation of ecosystems". The task is to strengthen those economic development strategies that are environmentally sound, socially just and profitable for business. Such measures are an integral part of the resources rational use policy in modern industrial enterprise. The object of this study was the process of pr...

The purpose of the study was to develop an electrochemical method for detection of lead at low level of contamination in water samples using a carbon glassy electrode modified with the functionalized azulene: (2E)-2-(azulen-1-ylmethylidene) hydrazine carbothioamide (L) as a complexing polymer film. The modified electrodes were prepared in L solutions (1mM) in acetonitrile (CH3CN) containing tetra n-butyl ammonium perchlorate (0.1 M TBAP) as supporting electrolyte. The analyses were performed on Autolab PGSTAT 12 P...

The buildings contribute largely to emissions of greenhouse gases. By bringing about changes in this sector, we can achieve significant reductions in these emissions, with an important role in achieving the EU objectives on Near Zero Energy Building (NZEB). According to the European Council, the energy consumption of buildings represents 40% of total energy consumption, contributes to 36% of the emission of greenhouse gases. Worldwide population growth, especially in urban areas, causes an increased consumption of...