DYNAMICS OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT QUALITY INDEX IN TO THE CITY OF KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR 2018-2019

The goal of the study is to make a comparative analysis of the dynamics of indices of economic indicators and sufficiency indicators used to calculate an urban environment quality index of a Russian municipality. The city of Kirov, Russia, was taken as a sample for the study, which went on from 2012 through 2018. The analysis demonstrated practically no statistically significant correlations in the dynamics of indices of individual subgroups of indicators, as well as in the dynamics of indices of individual indicators, although with a few exceptions. The results of the study confirm the need to improve the methodology of calculating the integral indices of cities and regions. These indices are related to urban ecology, quality of life, and sustainable development issues. The results also demonstrated the inadequacy of such tools for systematic and comprehensive international analysis of today urbanization problems.

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SOME APPROACHES TO THE CALCULATING OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT QUALITY INDEX

Economics Profession Business ◽

10.14258/epb2019101 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 61-66

Author(s):

E.N. Koroleva ◽

Val. V. Mishchenko

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Urban Environment ◽

Russian Federation ◽

Quality Index ◽

Statistical Data ◽

Environment Quality ◽

Green Areas ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Targeted Assistance ◽

The City

The article is devoted to the method of calculating the urban environment quality index on the territory of the Russian Federation. The authors reviewed the existing methodology for calculating the urban environment quality index of cities, and made a comparative analysis of statistical data and sample research materials on this issue. As a result, some discrepancies were found in the calculation of the following indicators: “the share of green areas”, “attractiveness of green areas”, “variety of services in green areas”. The article proposes a method for calculating the indicator: “the share of green areas” and a model for adjusting the following indicators: “attractiveness of green areas”, “variety of services in green areas”. Application of this method and adjustment of indicators will not only lead to changes in the calculation of the urban environment quality index for the city of Barnaul and for other cities of the Russian Federation, but will also allow to “qualitatively” evaluate Russian cities by the level of improvement and comfort of living of residents. Thus, Federal authorities will be able to provide targeted assistance to municipalities in areas where there is an urgent need.

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Regular Monitoring of the Condition of Soils and Green Plants As a Direction for Assessing the Quality of the Urban Environment

Natural Systems and Resources ◽

10.15688/nsr.jvolsu.2021.3.1 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 5-13

Author(s):

Anna Tikhonova ◽

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Anna Kholodenko ◽

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Quality Index ◽

Soil Cover ◽

Local Population ◽

Well Being ◽

The West ◽

Regular Monitoring ◽

Zone Of Influence ◽

The City

This paper examines the existing in the Russian Federation approaches to assessing the quality of the urban environment, the concept of the quality index of the urban environment; the analysis of indicators for calculating the quality index of the urban environment and the factors that form the ecological well-being of the urban environment for the local population has been carried out. The territory of the northern industrial hub of Volgograd was chosen as the object of research, in particular, the zone of influence of the ferrous metallurgy enterprise AO “VMK ‘Krasny Oktyabr’”, which has a historically specific location relative to the functional zones of the city. The analysis of the results of monitoring the content of mobile forms of heavy metals in the soil cover, carried out by the method of atomic absorption spectrometry, and the assessment of the general life state of tree green plantations in the territory of the sanitary protection zone of the enterprise based on the enumeration of trees is presented. The identified zone of influence of the enterprise, taking into account the presence of additional sources of pollution of the soil cover and MPC of metals, instead of their background concentrations, extends for 3.5–3.7 km from the border of the enterprise in the form of elongated areas of increased concentrations. Cartographic visualization reveals the presence of two clearly pronounced foci of pollution located to the west of the existing SOC of the enterprise. When assessing the general condition of trees, it is also possible to recognize the worst territory of the test plots located to the west of the operating TWCs in accordance with the directions of the prevailing winds. The data obtained confirm the feasibility of organizing regular monitoring of the soil cover and the state of green forests in the city as one of the directions for assessing the quality of the environment and taking these indicators into account when calculating the quality index of the urban environment.

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Sustainable Development as a Concept to Improve the Quality of the Urban Environment of Single-Industry Towns

Bulletin of Kemerovo State University Series Political Sociological and Economic sciences ◽

10.21603/2500-3372-2020-5-4-505-515 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2020 (4) ◽

pp. 505-515

Author(s):

Irina Antonova ◽

Timur Belalov ◽

Anna Zhdanova

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Urban Environment ◽

Quality Index ◽

Federal Programs ◽

Existing Problems ◽

Environment Quality ◽

The Past ◽

Single Industry ◽

Urban Settlements

The research featured the urban environment quality index for single-industry towns and non-single-industry towns in 2018–2019. The research objective was to identify statistical differences between single-industry towns and other urban settlements in terms of the components and combined value of the urban environment quality index. The paper introduces several strategies for the development of the urban environment of single-industry towns based on the concept of sustainable development. The study employed statistical methods and Statistica 10 program. Based on parametric and nonparametric criteria, the author revealed statistical differences for such aspects as "green areas" and "public and business infrastructure" for 2018 and 2019, as well as calculated the combined value for 2019. The strategies described in the present paper can help to overcome the existing problems of single-industry towns and avoid repeating the mistakes made by government when implementing similar federal programs in the past. The study may be of interest for executive authorities, municipal authorities, and residents of single-industry urban settlements.

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Human centered development of Russian megacities: Opportunities and limitations

Вестник Пермского университета Серия «Экономика» = Perm University Herald ECONOMY ◽

10.17072/1994-9960-2021-2-183-201 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 183-201

Author(s):

Olga Vasil'evna Artemova ◽

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Natalia Modestovna Logacheva ◽

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Urban Space ◽

Local Governments ◽

Population Decline ◽

Living Conditions ◽

City Development ◽

Cost Of Living ◽

High Quality ◽

Environment Quality ◽

The City

Currently, the role of the big cities in the development of economy and society, the organization of high-quality urban space for people are widely discussed. However, there are still many unresolved urban issues with the crucial one being the need for the city-person interaction. Better interaction, diversity in satisfying the population’s needs, feedback from an active citizen who influences the development of the city are the attributes of modern metropolis that competes for any person. City’s advantages result in a greater population size and better quality of their life. Otherwise, the city shows the degradation signs and population decline. The purpose of the study is to justify the need for a multi-criteria assessment of living conditions in the Russian megalopolises under the citizens’ needs and the improvement of modern urban space. This assessment could guide the managerial decisions in defining the strategic priorities in city development. The following methodological tools were used: experts’ assessments of urban environment quality, demographic analysis of urban population movement; positioning of Russian megacities by criteria ‘urban environment quality’ and ‘population’s cost of living’, their grouping by the qualitative characteristics of urban environment; content analysis of the strategic documents for the development of the largest megacities. The novelty of the study is a new interpretation of the concept of ‘place’ in terms of the urban area. It is defined in a broader sense rather than a particular localization with the borders. It is an urban environment with a set of different opportunities to meet citizens’ growing needs. The study arrives at the approaches to a multi-criteria assessment of the living conditions in million cities under the citizens’ needs. To do this, the authors applied the methods of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities in the Russian Federation and analyzed the conditions and dynamics of the urban environment, studied the demographic processes, and evaluated the megalopolis attractiveness under the income and cost of living ratio. This revealed the challenges of the cities which could be theoretically solved in the strategic documents of megalopolis development, while the development of efficient mechanisms could help in the practical implementation of the solutions (municipal programs and projects). The article offers to analyze and constantly update the strategic documents of the million cities with regard to the public opinion and the needs of city dwellers in high-quality urban space. The authors worded the need to re-define the urban space which used to be interpreted as a place for living and the human role in its development. The results of the study could be of interest to public authorities and local governments that strategically manage the million cities. Further research is seen to be connected with the development of a comprehensive integral multi-criteria assessment for the current condition and dynamics in the urban space quality to define the megalopolis competitiveness in terms of their interest for the citizens.

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Vitality structure of Acer negundo populations in an urban environment

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/895/1/012030 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 895 (1) ◽

pp. 012030

Author(s):

G Yu Morozova

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Quality Index ◽

Anthropogenic Impacts ◽

Living Condition ◽

High Plasticity ◽

Urbanization Gradient ◽

Acer Negundo ◽

Urban Conditions ◽

The City

Abstract The results of a comparative analysis of the vitality structure of Acer negundo populations during ontogenetic development in an urban environment are presented. The vitality structure of A. negundo populations is changing from prosperous to depressive, with the changing living condition of individuals and the quality of populations in urban conditions. The quality index of A negundo populations was in the amplitude from 0.5 to 0.166 along the urbanization gradient. High plasticity and variability of A negundo in combination with the dynamic vitality structure on the background of anthropogenic impacts provide active colonization of this invasive species in the city.

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ANALYSIS AND DIRECTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE METHODOLOGY FOR THE CALCULATION OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT QUALITY INDEX

ECONOMIC VECTOR ◽

10.36807/2411-7269-2021-2-25-128-137 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (25) ◽

pp. 128-137

Author(s):

V.V. Chernykh ◽

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V.A. Ivanenko ◽

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Quality Index ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Index Structure ◽

Street Crime ◽

City Development ◽

Environment Quality ◽

Development Analysis ◽

Level Of Living ◽

Public Opinion Polls

The article describes the process of creating the present methodology of forming the integral urban environment quality index, according to which, in the past three years, the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation has been assessing the level of living comfort in Russian cities. This methodology has proven to be an effective tool for identifying strengths and weaknesses of city development, helping the authorities to introduce an integrated approach to planning this development. Analysis of the index structure showed the necessity to include in this methodology a number of the street crime indicators for evaluating the safety of citizens in the daytime and at night. It was concluded, that the list of the official data sources for calculating the urban environment quality index should be supplemented by the results of the independent public opinion polls.

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Investigation of the ecological component of the urban environment quality based on the available spatial data

10.25743/sdm.2021.58.57.053 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

A.A. Gosteva ◽

S.P. Ilyina ◽

A.K. Matuzko

Keyword(s):

Surface Temperature ◽

Urban Environment ◽

Land Surface Temperature ◽

Spatial Data ◽

Land Surface ◽

Information Space ◽

Landsat 8 ◽

Ecological Situation ◽

Environment Quality ◽

The City

The city is a complex system in which all components of the ecosystem interact with each other. In the course of the constant collection of information about the ecological situation, significant amounts of data are accumulated, the combination of which in a single information space provides new opportunities for obtaining new knowledge about the study area. The paper presents a study of the ecological component of the urban environment quality on the example of Krasnoyarsk city using open spatial data. Since one of the main factors for the assessment is the natural and ecological situation in the city, the following quality indicators were selected: the nature of thermal anomalies, air and land surface temperature, relief, number of storeys of residential and industrial buildings, concentration of suspended particles. The data on the land surface temperature were prepared using the Landsat-8 satellite data from 2013 to 2020, cloudless scenes were selected during the snowless period, which amounts to 30 scenes per city territory. The Open Street Map database was used to determine the number of storeys and types of all city structures. To achieve the goals, the authors selected the necessary vector layers for analyzing the urban environment, carried out a search and download of data on the air temperature and the land surface temperature, organized a single information space for geoinformation analysis across the Krasnoyarsk city. As a result of the geoinformation analysis, the search for relationships between objects was carried out, a comparison of data on one indicator from different monitoring sources was made. A vector polygonal layer has been created from small segments on the territory of the city that are more homogeneous in terms of buildings and relief features to search for relationships. Sets of layers where seasonal thermal urban anomalies are displayed have been created, the ratio of stable elevated temperatures to local climatic zones has been found, and existing sources have been evaluated regarding assessment of atmospheric air in relation to stable heat islands.

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Lichens as Indicators of the Urban Environment Quality

Environment Technology Resources Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference ◽

10.17770/etr2013vol3.872 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 20

Author(s):

N. B. Istomina ◽

O. V. Likhacheva

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Ecological State ◽

Environment Quality ◽

The City

The ranging of lichens among classes of poleotolerance were made. The most widely spread species from each class are mentioned. The estimation of the ecological state of air environment of the city of Pskov with lichens was held.

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