LANDS AND SOILS AS INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT, ISSUES OF THEIR ASSESSMENT, REGULATION AND MANAGEMENT (REVIEW)

Abstract

In the scientif c and industrial spheres of the country, to date, there have not been clear ideas about the separation of the functions of soils and lands in the f eld of assessment, rationing and quality management, which leads to a confusion of concepts and some confusion in the management of modern environmental management and environ-mental protection. T e features of the functioning of soils and lands as independent components of the environment in matters of their assessment, rationing and quality management system established by the law «On Environmental Protection» are considered. T ere is a certain scientif c and regulatory and methodological inadequacy in relation to the development of indicators for the total assessment of environmental components included in the natural com-plex of lands, especially industrial lands and settlements of the country. T e ideas about acceptable indicators of soil quality and levels of anthropogenic impact on them are generalized. Some attention was also paid to the issues of land standardization with the development of ideas for establishing the natural and natural-anthropogenic background of soils and related features of assessing the quality of soils of lands of various economic purposes. T e paper touches upon the issues of the specif c trinity of the functioning of lands based on the development of ecological, resource and socio-economic components. At the same time, the analysis of socio-economic regulation of land quality con-tributes to the selection of the optimal direction in the organization of sustainable development of the territory and the functioning of the entire natural resource complex of lands. To separate the concepts of «soil» and «land» at the scientif c and practical level, related to the peculiarities of their assessment, rationing and management, it is proposed to pay special attention to the development and adoption of the federal law «On Soil Protection»