Anthropogenic impact on the local ecosystems: the main factors

Alla Ovcharenko,Alexey Lebedev,Svetlana Kucherenko,Liparit Badalyan,Khamzat Gazgireev,D Rudoy,S Ignateva

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202017506007

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https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202017506007

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Abstract

The represented study aims to assess the technogenic impact on the human-transformed landscape on the example of one of the Russian Federation regions. The hydrocarbon fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in the local area are proposed to use as the main indicators of anthropogenic impact on the ecosystem. The research accents the neсessity of taking into account the motor vehicles’ negative impacts on the natural environment. The integrated application of suggested criteria allows assessing the actual state of the environment, to trace the correspondences between fuel consumption and the environmental pollution, and to formulate recommendations on the reduction of ecological and economic damage to the ecosystems.

Highlights

Condition assessment of the environment transformed by dynamically changing technogenic impacts is one of the most important tasks of environmental protection services when developing sustainability guidelines for the local area
The air pollution analysis often overlooks the negative impacts caused by motor vehicles, despite automobiles’ being one of the main polluters, especially for the urbanized, densely populated areas [7]
The hydrocarbon fuel consumption and the yearly carbon dioxide release represents the main indicators of technogenic impact in the local territory

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Introduction

Condition assessment of the environment transformed by dynamically changing technogenic impacts is one of the most important tasks of environmental protection services when developing sustainability guidelines for the local area. The basis of authors model of motor vehicle fuel consumption and exhaust gases emissions evaluation is the kinematic and dynamic parameters of the automobile (velocity, acceleration, the relative power, etc.) [15] along with the data acquired by Russian researchers during the petrol and diesel cars tests (Kurov, Kolchin, Smajlis, etc.). The obtained results may be used as basic benchmarks when developing a set of environmental criteria and sustainability goals for the local area This approach allows using the whole territory of the Republic as a research subject, despite the diversity of geoenvironmental conditions (relief, climate, water bodies distribution, etc.) and an uneven territorial distribution of industrial facilities on its territory. The data on the factual pollution in the local area are supposed to apply in the following studies of ecosystems’ ability to resist the technogenic influence, in particular, for calculation of the supply air volume which is needed in the processes of air exchange to facilitate the atmosphere self-purifying of contaminating substances

Taking into account the hydrocarbon fuel consumption in the local area

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