Man-Made Hazards Environmental Management in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Authors: Prohorov, V A, Lukina, N A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Sakha; Republic of Sakha; Sakha Republic; Yakutia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/459/2/022008; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/459/2/022008/pdf; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/459/2/022008

Abstract It is shown that the technological safety ensuring is in demand in the modern world, the person and society interests protection is impossible without the environment preservation. The safety problem of socio-natural-technogenic systems is relevant in the territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The technological hazards specificity of the region’s territory is determined by the extreme climate characteristics. Probable man-made hazards on the republic territory are shown and the main indicators of water pollution are given. Common technogenic dangerous objects on the Republic territory are established: production associated with the extraction, transportation, oil and petroleum products storage and tailing dumps. Social components determined by the traditional environmental management violation and the way of indigenous peoples’ life are not sufficiently taken into account in the damages assessment. The basic principles of environmental policy are given.