Harmonization of the water legislation of the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-66
Author(s):  
Yu.V. Grishchenkova ◽  
A.G. Bubnov
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Industrial Wastewater ◽  
Wastewater Discharge ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Water Legislation ◽  
Discharge Regulation ◽  
The Russian Federation

Industry is one of the main water users, since water is used in most technological and production processes. Control and treatment of industrial wastewater in order to prevent and reduce environmental pollution are among the most important areas of environmental policy. The example of wastewater discharge regulation in Germany can provide additional potential for harmonization of legislation in the Russian Federation.

Evaluating the efficiency of the environmental security policy in the Russian regions

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 633-649
Author(s):  
G.T. Shkiperova ◽  
P.V. Druzhinin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Environmental Situation ◽  
The Russian Federation

Subject. Considering the existing environmental situation, it becomes especially important for the State to regulate the anthropogenic footprint on the environment in the Russian Federation. Current amendments to the legislative framework for environmental security are intended to ensure the innovative development of regions concurrently with a reduction in adverse environmental effects and more active environmental policy. Objectives. The research is to devise methodological tools to evaluate the efficiency of environmental policy in regions. Methods. The research employs qualitative and quantitative methods of economic analysis, including statistical and content analysis, rating, matrix zoning. The dataset proceeds from the Federal State Statistics Service, governmental reports on the current environmental situation and environmental protection in the Russian Federation. Results. We propose our own approach to evaluating the efficiency of environmental policy. It may help trace the correlation between the quality of strategic documents and changes in environmental indicators for a certain period, flag the challenging areas in terms of the environmental policy implementation and outline possible development paths. The approach extends the list of quantification indicators in line with those ones adopted internationally and presented in the Environmental Security Strategy of the Russian Federation up to 2025. We evaluated the efficiency of the environmental policy referring to the regions of the Northwestern Federal District for the period from 2012–2016. Conclusions. Having analyzed the evaluation results, most of the Northwestern regions tend to be controversial and ambivalent in setting environmental goals and achieving them. The findings may prove useful as the analytical and data basis for articulating the environmental and economic policy of the regions.

Environmental and Epidemiological Aspects of V. cholerae O1 Contamination of Water Bodies in the Republic of Kalmykia

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
EA Moskvitina ◽  
EG Yanovich ◽  
ML Kurilenko ◽  
VD Kruglikov ◽  
AK Noskov
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Quality Indicators ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
Pcr Analysis ◽  
Wastewater Discharge ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The City ◽  
Chemical Water

Background: Within the framework of cholera surveillance in the Russian Federation, annual isolation of nontoxigenic V. cholerae O1 strains from water bodies is registered in the Republic of Kalmykia. This fact is the rationale for the present study and analysis of data on contamination of water bodies with V. cholerae O1 with account for some environmental and quality indicators of water bodies used for recreational purposes. Objective: To study contamination of water bodies with V. cholerae O1 as a component of cholera control surveillance in the Republic of Kalmykia. Materials and methods: We used notifications issued by Offices of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, passports for V. cholerae O1 strains, and information from “Cholera vibrios. Russia” database for 1991–2019. Results: In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, several outbreaks, sporadic and single imported cases of cholera were registered in the republic. The total of 446 strains of V. cholerae O1 El Tor were isolated during the analyzed period. The PCR analysis identified them as V. cholerae O1 ctxA–tcpA– and V. cholerae O1 ctxA– tcpA+. We observed an increasing trend in the number of isolated strains with the approximation coefficient of 0.374 against its general decrease in the country in 1991–2019. Strains were isolated annually, mainly from the Elista River, Zayachy Pond and other water bodies with poor microbiological and chemical water quality parameters. V. cholerae O1 ctxA– tcpA+ were isolated mainly at the wastewater discharge sites, which indicated their imported origin, along with V. cholerae O1 ctxA– tcpA– with InDel and PCR genotypes not previously found in this region. We consider the contamination of water bodies with V. cholerae O1 ctxA– tcpA– and V. cholerae O1 ctxA– tcpA+ as prerequisites for possible deterioration of the local epidemiological situation due to cholera importation from endemic areas. Conclusion: When analyzing the pollution of water bodies in the Republic of Kalmykia with V. cholerae O1, we established a long-term annual isolation of cholera vibrios from some water bodies in the city of Elista, including Elistinka river, Zayachy and Kolonsky ponds, notorious for poor microbiological and chemical water quality indicators. The contamination was mainly attributed to domestic wastewater discharge and poorly treated effluents of sewage treatment plants into the Elistinka river within the city boundaries, as well as watercourses from hollows. This proves the imported origin of the bacterium confirmed by isolation of V. cholerae O1 ctxA– tcpA– with InDel- and PCR-genotypes not previously found in this region.

Basic Risks of the Environmental Policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 51-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.G. Kharchenko ◽  
E.Yu. Dorokhina
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Scenario Analysis ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Presidential Decree ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Development Approach

The article is devoted to the analysis of the basic risks of the Russian Federation environmental policy. Unresolved problems of the environmental policy are considered and analyzed. The main reasons of insufficient scientific and methodological basis of this document, its structure, principles and priorities are investigated. An alternative view on the content of the strategy is substantiated, possible ways of quantitative strategy development based on scenario analysis and Decision Analysis scientific direction are considered in the article. An essential peculiarity of this strategy development approach is the assessment of the decision-making consequences in terms of costs, benefits and risks. This approach fully corresponds to the economy digitalization trend noted in the May presidential decree.

scholarly journals Sustainable management of municipal solid waste: a systematic approach and legal challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 06007
Author(s):  
Natalia Vedysheva ◽  
Maria Mukhlynina ◽  
Elena Vinogradova ◽  
Andrey Nikiforov ◽  
Olga Efimova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Russian Federation

The problem of sustainable management of municipal solid waste at the legal and organizational levels both in the Russian Federation and in the world is now coming to the fore and requires immediate solutions. After analyzing the documents of strategic planning and other normative legal acts, the authors of the article attempt to consider current legal problems in the field under study in an interesting aspect of the modern state environmental policy of Russia, which implements the UN sustainable development goals in the environmental direction. The authors make judgments that a successful environmental policy aimed at achieving the UN sustainable development goals in the field of waste management and production is possible only if a systematic approach to the implementation of environmental legislation is implemented and should be based on the principles of efficiency, expediency, and others. In conclusion, a number of conclusions are drawn about the legal acts adopted in the Russian Federation and the organizational measures implemented to help solve various problems related to the sustainable development of the most important segment of the economy and the environment – waste disposal and recycling, reducing their volume and the possibility of secondary use.

scholarly journals Mathematical Model of the Ufa River Tandem Reservoir System

2013 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Reservoir System ◽  
Water Legislation ◽  
System Functioning ◽  
The Russian Federation

With the use of HEC-ResSim 3.0 software a mathematical model of the Ufa River tandem reservoir system functioning has been made with taking into account requirements of the standing regulations of the Russian Federation water legislation in accordance with the current conditions and prospects of water use development. The model is aimed at carrying out water/economic, water/energetic and hydraulic calculations in the process of the development of draft Regulations for Water Resources Use for the Ufa River tandem reservoir system.

scholarly journals Implementation of the Objectives of Environmental Policy in the Framework of the State-Private Partnership as a Factor of Sustainable Development of Russia

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
V G Baev ◽  
I A Kalinina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
The State ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Russian Federation

The purpose of this article is to study the possibilities of public-private partnership in the in realization of environmental policy of the Russian Federation and the Concept of sustainable development. Authors consider that the Russian government should be solving in the process of development of the Russian economy problems of ecology (providing the favorable environment; decrease in anthropogenous load of the environment; increase in efficiency of use of energy resources; correction of negative consequences of resource-intensive industrial development). The public-private partnership is investigated as special legal institute and as a form of interaction between government and business. The potential of public-private partnership in solving problems in the sphere of ecology is studied in these planes.Public-private partnership is studied in various aspects: form of investment in environmental protection; mechanism of achievement of ecological interests of the state and society; a way of stimulation of introduction in economy of innovations which are capable to provide interests of ecosystems.Authors support adoption of the comprehensive and integrated programmatic law which will provide a triad of interests: investments - innovations - ecology. The analysis of legal base of public-private partnership and programmatic laws on sustainable development of the Russian Federation has allowed to draw a conclusion on absence between them direct connection. This has a negative impact on the implementation possibilities of state-private partnership to overcome the environmental crisis. Authors offer changes in the legislation for elimination of this inconsistency. They define the problems of public initiative and public oversight in public-private partnership in the field of ecology.Authors approve need of creation of mechanisms of public control for this sphere.

The Impact of Air Transport Enterprises on the State of the Air Environment as Exemplified by Sheremetyevo Airport

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 64-70
Author(s):  
E.M. Messineva ◽  
A.G. Fetisov ◽  
N.B. Manuylova
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Component Composition ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
International Airport ◽  
Passenger Flow ◽  
Key Indicator ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Impact

The dynamics of the impact of the largest airport of the Russian Federation "Sheremetyevo International Airport (IAS)" on the quality of the surrounding air environment is analyzed using an example. The most important sources of atmospheric impact located on the territory of OJSC "MASH" at present, and the dynamics of emissions for 2010–2018, as well as changes in their component composition are indicated. Analysis of the implementation of the environmental policy of this enterprise showed that it is generally quite effective. A key indicator confirming this efficiency is a noticeable decrease in total emissions per 1000 passengers served, which allows MASH OJSC not to increase its total emissions, despite the ever-increasing passenger flow.

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