COMPLEX JUSTIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS REGARDING THE REDUCTION OF PRODUCTION IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

Approaches to substantiation of innovative ecological solutions to reduce the production impact on the environment have been studied. Ways to increase environmental safety on the basis of sustainable development through a well-founded complex selection of innovative solutions are proposed. Based on the method of analysis of hierarchies (MAI), a methodical approach for determining the priority innovative ecological solutions. The developed approach makes it possible to involve experts in environmental, urban planning, social, and economic direction of municipal management bodies of a specific settlement, industrial, residential, and military facilities. According to the developed approach, criteria formulated as influencing groups of factors. Relevant experts, relying on various types of information (data of direct measurements, statistical and predictive estimates) on the specific purpose and innovative ecological solutions, give their own judgments regarding the priority of the advantages of the specified criteria. Expert judgments are processed according to the formal procedure of the MAI, which is implemented on a computer, and is the basis for decision-making when choosing the innovative ecological solutions in specific conditions. The multi-criteria hierarchical structure of innovative ecological solutions is represented by a sequence of actions that include the following stages: development of elements of a methodical approach; verification of the consistency of the proposed hierarchical structure for determining priority technologies based on the input data of several objects of settlements; obtaining data on the priority of innovative ecological solutions for implementation on these objects. The advantages of the proposed methodical approach should include the possibility to link to a single algorithm for the justification of the required decision data that differ both in their content (ecological, biological in terms of higher aquatic plants, urban planning, social and economic) and in the form of presentation (data of direct measurements, statistical and predictive estimates). Keywords: environmental safety, balanced nature management, system approach, technologies, tools and ecological and economic aspects of environmental protection activities, environmental quality, processing of eco-data, regulatory framework, sustainability.