Geoecological zoning of the territory to assess the impact of municipal solid waste landfills on adjacent agricultural land

Abstract

The paper shows that as a result of scientific study, original geoecological zoning of agricultural areas was developed to take into account and evaluate the impact of pollutants contained in the soil cover on the geoecological potential of the analyzed area. Zoning uses original criteria not previously used for these purposes, which also determines the novelty of the proposed study. The results of this zoning during the implementation of proposed works on the assessment of the territory will have critical and promising significance. This is determined by the fact that the proposed zoning will allow not only obtaining new, previously not used geoecological characteristics of the analyzed territory, but also assessing the geoecological stability of territorial complexes from the point of view of both a natural and an economic object in conditions of active impact of negative anthropogenic activity. The use of the proposed zoning is illustrated by the effect of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill on adjacent agricultural land. As shown in the above example, such zoning, along with the above, will allow determining the possibility of promising (planned) environmental and economic use of each of the allocated territorial zones taking into account the content of heavy metal salts in the soil with the development of methods and techniques for rehabilitation and restoration of the territories of these zones. The obtained zoning results may also be used for spatial correction, including the selection of locations for MSW landfills, incinerators, points of observation (monitoring) of the spread of pollutants, as well as the basis for initiating lawsuits related to the violation of the ecological state of territorial facilities and the geoecological state of the territory as a whole. The most important result of using the method of zoning agricultural areas described in the paper is the possibility of using the geospatial properties of the land to solve the economic and environmental problems of the country - the strategic task of its sustainable development.