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The relationships of environmental and economic costs during marine dredging and the volume of transported soil for water areas of Russia?s High North and the Arctic region and the other, more southern, seas of the Russian Federation are identified and analyzed. The analysis was carried out using a representative material of more than 300 dredging projects from the database of the St. Petersburg environmental and design company Eco-Express Service LLC. As a result of the work carried out, it was revealed that the ...

Soil erosion is one of the most dangerous environmental problems of rural areas, which is a major environmental threat to the sustainability and productivity of agriculture, but also one of the main threats to sustainability of economic and environmental development. Currently, erosion is understood as one of the forms of degradation and as a complex of various endogenous soil-forming processes. So the assessment of this process is necessary for better environmental policy. The environmental and economic assessmen...

The traditional ?linear? path of business doing must be changed according to the new principles of circularity, because the circular economy is considered to be a new economic system for society and economies at a macro level. At a micro level, the circular economy represents the ultimate business strategy. The circular economy eliminates the concept of waste, because waste is conceptualized as a resource. The mission of the circular economy as a new philosophy is to change the production of global economies, as w...

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...

The process of increasing the capacity of the Russian Arctic harbors has been gaining momentum in recent years due to the environmental change associated with the global warming process and increasing role of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). An important component of this process is the operation of the Sabetta seaport in the Ob Bay, Kara Sea, intended for the transportation of hydrocarbons (oil and gas products) produced on the Yamal Peninsula in the NSR. The construction project of the Sabetta seaport includes the ...

The paper dwells on examining and testing a mechanism for determining exposure to transport noise followed by dividing an area of a large industrial city with population exceeding 1 million people into specific zones as per health risk criteria. Noise spread was modeled with ?Ecolog-NOISE? specialized software basing on a vector map of the city and using geoinformation systems. To create a database on transport noise sources, the authors collected and analyzed data on traffic intensity on city motorways. Basing on...

Based on the analysis of morphogenetic transformations of shells of the brachiopods, a scheme of phylogenetic development of the genus Jakutoproductus was developed; according to this scheme, three phylogenetic branches of Jakutoproductus, originating from one species - Jakutoproductus tatjanae Abramov et Grigorjeva, developed simultaneously at the end of the Carboniferous and in the Early Permian. In the morphogenesis of the genus, there are changes in the width of the shell, the degree of convexity of the ventra...

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...

Because, in most cases, dust explosions cause significant damage to the environment, they can be treated as a disaster. Appropriate measures must be taken to prevent explosions. These measures are aimed at preventing the formation of explosive atmospheres, preventing the occurrence of ignition sources and limiting the effects of the explosion. Static electricity is one of the sources of ignition of the potentially explosive atmosphere of dust / air. Assessing the occurrence and the possibility of initiating discha...

The use of geographical space is closely related to the favorability of natural factors, its productive potential and improvement work. The influence of the anthropic activity on the geographical landscape is large, complex and with various effects depending on the specific local conditions, triggering a wide range of observation for geographical research. Using the land according to his different needs, man caused, on the one hand, the reduction of the areas occupied by natural plantations (replaced by agricultur...

Agricultural land is an important natural resource exploited for agricultural production to provide food for the population. The pressure on agricultural resources has increased in the world, as the population grows and non-food land uses increase. In Latvia, the utilized agricultural area (UAA) has decreased since 1991, and in 2020 it was 2.3 mln. ha or 36% of the total area of the country, while the forest area increased, and in 2020 it was 3.1 mln. ha or 48% of the total area. In 2019 in Latvia, the unfarmed an...

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...

The hydraulic systems used in the aviation industry use pressurized fluids that transmit energy to various driving systems of the aircraft (hydraulic motors, cylinders or hydraulic actuators). It is known that hydraulic fluids, along with the fuels used, present a potential risk of fire, which can lead to damages or the loss of the aircraft, often with very serious consequences. At the same time, in the event of a plane fire after the crash, hydraulic fluids can be an additional fuel source. For these reasons, the...

Introduction. The extreme nature of environmental meteorological factors and the asynchronous change of day and night are considered to be one of the reasons leading to a decrease in the life quality in the Extreme North. These might lead to a violation of adaptive mechanisms under certain conditions. The combination of variants of polymorphic candidate genes causes functional disorders of the cardiovascular system. The research aims at studying the genetic polymorphism in children having pathologies of the cardio...

The Southern Dobrogea is situated in SE Romania, being included, tectonic point of view, in the Moesian Platform. The Southern Romania is bordered by the Danube to the West and the Black Sea to the East. In the N, the Southern Dobrogea is bordered by the Capidava-Ovidiu subcrustal fault; towards south, it continues to the northern Bulgaria. In the Southern Dobrogea, a carbonate platform developed from Mesozoic (Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous), and continued through the Paleogene up to the Miocene. The Pliocene is m...

Radon (222Rn) is a natural gas produced by the radioactive decay of uranium-bearing rocks and soils in the Earth?s crust. Geology is one of the main factors controlling source and distribution of radon. Most rocks and soils possess small amount of uranium, but there are particular types of bedrocks and unconsolidated deposits characterized by higher than average uranium contents. These lithological types include some granites, light-colored volcanic rocks, phosphatic rocks, ironstones, limestones and shales rich i...

It is well known that geomagnetic field varies in time, as well as in space. Besides, the world magnetic models which are the main sources of information concerning the values of geomagnetic field elements in a particular place, we present more precise and accurate model of these elements covering the territory of Bulgaria. Our study uses information from the last absolute geomagnetic survey involving measurements in 473 points, secular data from Panagyurishte (PAG) and several other Intermagnet observatories near...

The area of underwater seismic and geophysical exploration is now rapidly growing with increasing complexity of the employed equipment. At present, more reliable data are gathered by Ocean Bottom Seismometers - autonomous instruments used in long duration seismic surveys. The general idea behind this equipment is that autonomous devices are unable to transmit data in real-time and require offshore operations for periodical deployment. However, the task of a permanent underwater monitoring for seismic events with o...

Construction and further operation of buildings and engineering structures in karst-hazardous areas in most cases is connected with possible man-made increase of geodynamic manifestations of karst processes. As a result of this, in the soil foundations of engineering structures, the appearance of decompression zones with reduced load capacity is possible. In some cases, an active manifestation of karst-suffusion processes is possible. In this case, the probability of unacceptable deformations of the soil base with...

In this research, the term risk follows the definition by the United Nations (UNDRO [1]) and refers to the expected losses from a particular hazard to a specified element at risk in a particular future time period. In our case, population exposure refers to the human occupancy of hazard zones in Bulgaria, or the population present within the hazard area that would be potentially directly affected by an event. Placed at the central part of the most seismically active region in Europe, the territory of Bulgaria is s...

The threats of global change in the 21st century are becoming increasingly significant. Soon, humanity will face not only new climatic phenomena, but also many other related events, which clearly include demographic unrest on many continents. The consequences of these events will be reflected in increased tensions between countries, peoples and groups of people, who will tend to avoid new, in many cases negative, conditions. . The changes will affect not only vulnerable areas, but also regions with a relative calm...

The paper presents the results of a study of the granulometric composition of terrigenous reservoir of the Nizhne-Karmalskoye super-viscous oil deposit. The main interest is a sand pack composed of weakly cemented and loose fine and medium-grained sands and sandstones. Clastic grains are mainly bonded with high-viscosity oil. the thickness of the sand pack on the deposit varies widely. The grain size of reservoir rocks has a significant impact on the reservoir properties of rocks and reservoir productivity as a wh...

Biological and, of course, economic yield is the result of interaction of internal plant characteristics, namely its genetical and biological potential, and external environmental factors. The efficient plant species, where grapevine is clearly integrated, is a basic limiting factor in the creation of organic material air temperature, which influences vital functions such as nutrients receiving, transpiration, photosynthesis, respiration, and others. In this context, the most often used thermal characteristics are...

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 ...

This paper will explore the characteristics of matrix structures and their relationships with project success managers, such as quality of communication, collaboration, support in problem solving and the effectiveness of project management among project team members. The matrix characteristics that were expected to be positively related to project success are mainly related to success leaders. However, the characteristics that are expected to negatively impact project success did not indicate such significant rela...

Environmental protection and maintaining the ecological balance are the most important state development priorities. Environmental policy issues are closely related to the level of technological equipment of economic sectors, sustainable development of territories, social policy and are aimed at ensuring environmental safety. The expansion of the geography of oil and gas production in Russian Federation in the direction of the northern and Far Eastern territories, the development of new territories (Eastern Siberi...

The study was conducted during 2015 in the region of Rahovec in Kosovo. The aim of the study was to identify weed species, the impact of total herbicides dose, and mechanical weed control on the floristic composition in vineyards. Two different total herbicides with different doses in a randomized block design were applied in the vineyard, namely Basta (a.i glyphosinat-amonium) and Touch-down (a.i glyphosate), and two additional treatments included mechanical weed control and the control treatment (without herbici...

Alarm systems are designed to protect life, health and property. These systems have been used more and more frequently in recent years, and together with them, protection through the connection of the building and a monitoring center are also used. The purpose of the connection is additional protection in order to verify the indicated alarm by the employees of the security service. This verification must be performed for each indicated for which the owner is not in the building. According to the Act of the Slovak ...

The National Geo-Information Center (NGIC) is a newly established research infrastructure which is part of the National road map for scientific infrastructure (2017-2023) of Bulgaria. Its primary strategic objective is to improve the coordination and integration of the efforts of the existing scientific infrastructure networks to integrate the primary Earth observation data into a single complex geo-information center, and to support their joint analysis for the assessment, forecasting and prevention of natural an...

Development of heavy oil deposits increases each year, due to consumption of conventional oil reserves. However, extraction process of heavy oil faces a number of problems. The main of these problems are high density and viscosity of heavy oil as well as high content of asphaltene-resin-paraffin components, which can be precipitated. Currently, the main methods that are being used for heavy oil recovery are thermal methods, like steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), cyclic steam stimulation (CSS) and in-situ com...

The world practice of taxation shows that tax policy in most cases, when introducing environmental taxes, pursues the main goal of protecting the eco- system from pollution. This applies both to natural resources and to the conservation of aquatic bio resources, also considering the impact of the extinction factor of endangered species, listed in the state registers of flora and fauna. In this regard, each state independently determines the scope of environmental taxation on its territory. At the same time, it is ...

The problem of increasing the energy efficiency of the national economy is the most important for countries with developing economies. For example, in the Republic of Ecuador (RE), the average GDP growth rate was 5.73% over 2010-2019. This requires high-quality development of the energy sector to ensure sustainable development of the national economy. The power generation structure in RE is not optimal because the share of oil is 87%, while the share of hydro resources is 6%. For RE, this reduces the efficiency of...

The integration processes taking place in the modern world increasingly determine the level of international relations. The implementation of integration relationships, as well as the implementation of any phenomenon, is accompanied by certain risks. Currently, there are a lot of classifications of both integration processes and the risks that arise during their implementation. From our point of view, the integration risks with respect to specific international associations, in particular the Eurasian Economic Uni...

Research conducted in INCD URBAN-INCERC, within the National Network for Seismic Monitoring and Protection of Constructed Heritage, converges towards the development of a large monitoring system, capable to allow remote identification, in a very short time after a seismic event, of possible dangerous changes in the condition of the instrumented buildings. In order to obtain correct information regarding the behavior of a structural system (due to the lack of data needed to create a reliable model), the advantages ...

The scientific article is based on a wide range of sources ? archival documents, publications of periodicals, Internet materials. The influence of public environmental associations on the functioning of atomic energy in Ukraine, for example, the 1980s - 2010s, is analyzed. The catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986 became the impetus for the mass formation of non-governmental environmental public organizations in Ukraine, which at that time was part of the USSR. An important vector of activ...

The identification technique of hazardous clouds using infrared spectrometry is based on the spectral analysis of electromagnetic radiation that is absorbed and emitted by the molecules of a gas cloud. Molecules can be identified by analyzing the location of lines inside the spectrum, representing the energy differences between the cases involved and the strength of the lines, which is the probability of a photon being absorbed or emitted. This method is often called passive infrared spectrometry because no artifi...

In the current context, in which the analysis of the failures by infrared thermography for the hydraulically operated machines is an increasingly widespread internationally method, starting from the year 2016, in Romania, at INOE 2000 - IHP Bucharest the first thermographic analyzes were laid made on hydraulic equipment. It is known that by maintaining normal limits of variation of the temperature and viscosity of the hydraulic oil in the actuation plants, are created the conditions of the productivity increase an...

In Russia, Best Available Techniques (BAT) are considered to be Environmental Industrial Policy instruments, used both by environmental and industrial authorities. The Ministry for Natural Resources and Environment (Minprirody) and the Federal Supervisory Natural Resources Management Service (Rosprirodnadzor) are responsible for the development of environmental legislation and its enforcement. The Ministry for Industry and Trade (Minpromtorg) works out industry-related acts, sectoral and regional programmes, and u...

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...

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...

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...

Phthalates and phthalic acid esters are actively used in the production of PVC-materials in order to make them resistant and flexible. They might migrate from the materials to the environment both under exposure to external physical factors, and without them. Phthalates impact negatively on the human organs and systems like the hormonal system, liver, kidneys. In addition, they have a systemic effect. The analysis of phthalates migration from polymer packaging into food is of the greatest interest for the research...

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...

One of the crucial problems for wind farm development is wind farm layout optimization. It seeks the optimal positions of wind turbines inside a wind farm, so as to maximize and/or minimize a single objective or multiple objectives, while satisfying certain constraints. Although this problem for wind farms in flat terrain or offshore has been investigated in many studies, it is still a challenging problem for wind farms in complex terrain. Designing wind farms in complex terrain is becoming more and more important...

In the world practice, lead-zinc karst deposits occupy one of the leading positions in terms of reserves and rich ore mining. In terms of metal content, they excel all other commercial-genetic types. Karst deposits are a new commercial-genetic type for Kazakhstan. One of the promising regions for discovery of the karst deposits is the Great Karatau, known for such objects (Achisai, Karasai, Kantegi, Araltau and oth.). The area of the Achisai ore cluster is composed of thick carbonate strata of limestones and dolom...

The dependence of the relative deviation of the critical frequencies of the ionospheric F2- layer (foF2) and the total electron content (TEC) on geomagnetic disturbances was investigated based on data from an ionosonde station at Sofia (National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) for the period of 1995-2014. The local time dependence is presented by a Fourier decomposition including four harmonics of the diurnal course. The average daily dependencies for each calendar m...

Here we focused on the massive, non-pedogenic, loess-like siltstones, which are common within the fluvio-lacustrine Middle Permian red sediments of Kazan Volga region, to refine their depositional settings. Sedimentological, mineralogical and geochemical methods including field description, grain size analysis, optical microscopy, bulk geochemistry and X-ray diffraction, were used. Siltstone facies from the Urzhumian red beds of this region are represented by two types: laminated and massive, the last one is commo...

At present, the use of oil and gas as efficient energy sources determines the pace of development not only of the economic system, but also the social sphere. The oil and gas industry occupies a special place in the Russian economy and ensures the life-sustaining activity of the national economic complex and forms a significant part of the budget revenues. The idea of sustainable development comprises the economic efficiency of mineral resources management in a social and environmental perspective. This approach a...

Nowadays, the problem of environmental pollution by heavy and radioactive metals is still remaining crucial. Extraction is one among the most efficient ways to remove the metals from contaminated soil and wastewater. However, this process is complicated by a number of factors, including the difficulty of separating extractants from soil and water, as well as the technological problems in the process. Herein, polymer granules based on crosslinked polyvinyl alcohol and possessing magnetic properties due to the iron ...

The authors proposed management optimization areas of Kherson region territorial communities? recreational resources in the process of decentralization and reform of administrative and territorial structure of Ukraine. The perspectives of local socio-economic development, new economic opportunities and directions of tourism and recreational capacities using through international partnership are identified, including involvement of Kherson region and certain territorial communities in the international project ?Dec...