Abstract
The transition to sustainable development implies the spread of new environmental management standards in all industrial sectors – extractive, processing, high-tech, and infrastructure branches. This means that the industries traditionally engaged in the extraction of minerals (coal, ore, oil and gas, etc.) should take a direct part in the process of reducing land use, restoring disturbed landscapes and water bodies, reducing harmful emissions. At the same time, the mining complex is faced with the task of meeting the constantly growing needs of humanity for modern goods and services, the production of which, one way or another, requires an increase in the extraction of natural resources. In this regard, the article considers the monitoring of natural resources as a starting point for the transition of regional production systems to sustainable development. The study was based on the largest Russian coal cluster Kuzbass. The system for monitoring natural resources at the regional cluster level is considered.
Highlights
The impact of mining on the environment and natural resources is multifaceted, long-term and complex
It is of considerable interest to assess the impact on the environment of an individual mining facility, and of the entire complex of mining industries located in a given area [1-2]. Achievement of this goal is ensured by a system of both ground and remote monitoring
Its tasks include the following: - studying of the state of soil and vegetation cover, fauna; - analyzing dynamics of environmental pollution; - researching in dynamics of changes in climatic factors
Summary
The impact of mining on the environment and natural resources is multifaceted, long-term and complex. The impact of mining on the environment has gone far beyond the mining (land) allotments of enterprises, which turns the local environmental problem of a coal mining or coal processing enterprise into a regional geoecological problem In this regard, it is of considerable interest to assess the impact on the environment of an individual mining facility, and of the entire complex of mining industries located in a given area [1-2]. The current monitoring system for the coal industry of Kuzbass (Western Siberia, Russia) as a whole practically does not use modern approaches to analyzing the state and determining the prospects for improving the natural environment [3] It is aimed at controlling a number of ecological parameters of a point nature and does not allow for the provision of a spatial representation of the assessment and forecast of the geo-ecological state of coal-mining regions [4-5]. Let us consider some of the main issues of creating a new methodological apparatus for monitoring, assessing and forecasting the geo-ecological situation based on modern geo-information technologies and modeling tools
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