Abstract
The purpose of the study is to examine the issues of assessing the anthropogenic impact on the ecosystem and sustainable development of a region using the example of Kuzbass. The subject of the study is to substantiate the need to improve the measurements of sustainable development of the regional economy from the point of view of calculating the “ecological and carbon footprints” of Kuzbass, identifying the effect of decoupling the negative impact on the environment and resource consumption in the process of economic activity of coal mining enterprises. The following tasks are solved: 1. The role of the environmental factor in ensuring sustainability of the resource-producing region development is shown. 2. The possibilities of using the “ecological footprint” and the “carbon footprint” as indicators of sustainable development of Kuzbass are discovered. 3. The role of mining enterprises in the formation of the “carbon footprint” in Kuzbass was revealed. 4. The calculation was carried out and the effect of decoupling in the coal mining of Kuzbass in 2013-2017 was revealed. 5. The necessity of including the indicators of “ecological footprint”, “carbon footprint” and the effect of decoupling in the coal mining in the system for assessing sustainable development of the mining region in accordance with the UN sustainable development goals (hereinafter - the UN SDGs) is justified. 5. It is argued that it is necessary to expand voluntary greening of enterprises in the coal mining of Kuzbass. Research methods are elements of system and integrated approaches, comparative analysis methods.
Highlights
Solving the problems of sustainable development and adopting the principles of the sustainable development concept (Stockholm Conference, 1972) increase the role of system approach to the study of the socio-economic development of regions and countries as a three-dimensional model, the main structural elements of which are economic, social, and environmental spheres of life
Ensuring future sustainable development is possible on the basis of a compromise between economic growth and environmental conservation, which is the subject of research by foreign scientists [1,2,3]
Sustainable environmental development means the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Program goals at the level of countries, regions and enterprises (UN SDGs 8; 13 and 15) related to “sustainable economic growth and employment”, “responsible consumption and production”, and conservation of the biosphere [4]
Summary
Solving the problems of sustainable development and adopting the principles of the sustainable development concept (Stockholm Conference, 1972) increase the role of system approach to the study of the socio-economic development of regions and countries as a three-dimensional model, the main structural elements of which are economic, social, and environmental spheres of life. Sustainable development of a region as a socio-ecological-. One of the debated global topics is the economic growth of national (regional) economies without increasing resource consumption and waste generation based on the UN Sustainable Development Program. For the resource-producing region, the calculation of the “ecological footprint” and “carbon footprint” indicators is of particular importance. The “carbon footprint” is considered as part of the “ecological footprint” of enterprises and regions. The authors support the position of scientists who consider it possible to reduce the anthropogenic load on the environment in the context of the growth of the gross product of a country and a region when the decoupling effect in the extractive industry, including in the coal mining and coal processing sectors, is revealed
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