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Introduction Violations of autonomic nervous regulation are a multifactorial pathology, while environmental features are an important risk factor for this pathology. Excessive exposure to neurotropic technogenic chemical factors, including benzene, to the biological environment of the human body induces malfunctions of adaptive-compensatory mechanisms and forms an increased risk of developing disorders of autonomic regulation associated with the immune system, which are realized against the background of polymorph...

Substances of petroleum origin that reach groundwater limit water use and can have irreversible effects on ecosystems interacting with them. Quantitative changes in groundwater and synergistic effects generated by petroleum products on ecosystems can be objectively quantified based on a scenario for the transport of pollutants concentrations through the aquifer. In this sense, with the help of mathematical models, the research estimates the spatial and temporal dimension of a possible accidental pollution by petro...

At present, the issue of waste management is becoming more acute because of increased quantity and diversity of waste, as well as because of its more and more pronounced negative impact on the environment. The current paper showcases a study carried out at a compliant household waste landfill where the following were monitored: quality of air containing wind driven suspensions, gases coming from the warehouse surface or from trapping and burning methane resulted from landfill?s cells as well as odorants released i...

Air travel contributes to climate change and causes environmental and economic damage by its CO2, NOx, noise and other emissions. The global carbon emissions from commercial flights are rising to 70% faster than predicted because of the growing demand for air travel in developed countries. The aviation industry accounts for 2 to 3 per cent of the CO2 emissions in the world. The principal purpose of the presented article is to acquaint with one current trend of everyday life, particularly in aviation titled as carb...

Annually more than 300,000 thousand tons of waste are generated in Ukraine, including about 600 thousand tons of hazardous waste. These include used fluorescent lamps, motor oils, batteries, unsuitable and expired pesticides, pesticide packaging, medical waste and others. According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, as of the end of 2018, the total amount of waste accumulated during operation in designated areas or facilities was 12972428.5 thousand tones. Whereas during 2018 the amount of generated waste...

Water resources are vulnerable not only from climate change, but from many other socio-economic drivers of change. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ?Vulnerability is the degree, to which a system is susceptible to, or unable to cope with adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes?. When a trend towards decreased precipitation and runoff coincides with a trend towards higher water consumption or deteriorated water quality, then the given region or river b...

The Carpathian National Nature Park is the first national park of Ukraine and one of the biggest national parks of this country, unique in the nature landscapes what used for the tourist attractiveness. Based on the long-term field investigations, the recreational conditions of the Carpathian National Nature Park for the tourist attractiveness was researched. The results received pose multiple paramount grounds for a scientific approach developing aimed at the optimisation of recreation functions of the Park lands...

In the last few years, the climate change has become more and more apparent. In this time the Central European region has experienced disruption of the precipitation layout, serious storms, heatwaves and droughts. Primarily the droughts have let people feel the need for stable and predictable environment. This problem has usually been addressed as a global effort to reduce the production of greenhouse gases, omitting the option of adjusting the environment on much smaller scale. For mitigating the effects of globa...

The purpose of the analysis is to study the conceptual models and mechanisms of the state?s oil policy in some OPEC countries and Russia. Despite the fact, that today the world is pursuing a course to reduce the energy intensity of the economy and protect the environment, economic welfare largely continues to depend on oil consumption, and the oil industry has a global nature of its functioning. This requires taking into account the mechanism of the state?s influence both on the external and internal segments of t...

Anthropic activities involve the extraction of the transformation and use of natural resources. During the process of extraction at the surface or underground of useful minerals, particles or gases resulting from the natural rocking or release from the rock mass appear in the working environment. The process of transforming useful mineral substances is carried out on the surface in enclosed enclosures, involving the use of complex technological processes. During the course of these technological processes, explosi...

Currently, a lot of environmental problems are related to the development of the city. The relevance of this work is due to the population growing awareness of reaching a critical point of the negative impact of the environment on human life. In the course of the study, sociological information about the population perception of the current environmental situation in the city was collected, summarized and critically analyzed, and the population readiness to participate in solving environmental problems by organizi...

At present, the impact of production factors on natural conditions and the environment of human life assumes a pronounced global scale. The level of exposure to technological factors and the degree of environmental degradation is the main problem of modern society. The sharply aggravated environmental problems set the task for science to comprehend the prevailing trends in environmental and economic development and to develop fundamentally new concepts for the influence of production factors on the development of ...

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 ...

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 article is a summary of transforming geographic and environment research trends and shows new guidelines in the field of natural education in Ukraine in the context of the global process of sustainable development ensuring. It is argued that priority should be given to environmental studies, which will be considered exclusively in a set of three interrelated components. These are: 1) environment assessment as a natural area of society and analysis of its capacity to preserve the socio-economic and environmenta...

Currently in the field of BIM design, the Czech Republic is in many ways behind compared to other countries. In countries in which this method is long established, it makes a significant contribution to improving the economic and environmental efficiency of buildings in all life cycles of construction. The BIM method can save construction costs and conserve the environment, by appropriate design of technical and technological equipment, as early as the preliminary stage of a project, but also when building is carr...

Sources of natural threats include weather extremes, tectonic and soil movements, diseases, and other natural hazards. Epidemics, epiphytes, epizootics, and pandemics can be included in the section of diseases. It is the pandemic that became the biggest threat to the whole world in 2020. Everyone knows that it is a coronavirus infection - COVID-19. This epidemic had spread from China since the end of 2019 when it gradually affected the whole world from Australia and Europe to America. This threat affects all areas...

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...

The construction sector is one of the most material-intensive and power-consuming industries having a negative impact on the environment. The adverse environmental factors include greenhouse gas emissions, depletion of natural raw materials, extensive landfilling or dumping in the sea. In this regard, resource conservation, waste minimization, as well as the reduction of harmful substances emissions into the atmosphere, hydrosphere and soil are considered currently as the most significant environmental challenges....

The problem of the environment is becoming more and more pressing. The economic evolution of the world has led on the one hand to wellbeing, but on the other hand, has not taken into account Natural Resources. Sustainable development is on the agenda of all countries and represents a challenge for a return to green values. The European Union has sustainable development as one of its priorities. However, all this is not possible without proper education. The EU and national governments have set clear targets to gui...

The ore extraction from Krumovo deposit, located at the northern periphery of the Manastir heights in Southeast Bulgaria started in 1906 and continued till 1986. The ore comprised Fe3O4 with admixtures of sulfides such as pyrite, pyrrhotite, marcasite and chalcopyrite. Open pits and underground workings were used. The excavations severely degraded the habitats, vegetation and waters on an area of about 3 km2. By 1986 waste rock (comprising hydrothermally altered basic magmatic rocks, such as gabbro or diorites, ma...