Environmental Protection Task and Development of Permafrost Region (Zadachi Okhrany Okruzhaiushchei Sredy i Osvoenie Oblasti Mnogoletnemerzlykh Porod)

• Main Author: Melnikov,P. I.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1977
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; Human Factors Engineering & Man Machine System; *ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; *PERMAFROST; USSR; DEPLETION; DAMAGE; AIR POLLUTION; NATURAL RESOURCES; EROSION; ECOSYSTEMS; TRANSLATIONS; VEGETATION; CIVIL ENGINEERING; PREVENTION; ARCTIC REGIONS; Arctic; Vestnik; Ice; permafrost; Subarctic; Siberia
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA039540; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA039540

The nature of Siberia, the Arctic and Subarctic regions is exclusively sensitive to the activities of man and is easily damaged. Its protective functions are limited and everything is in a state of maximum equilibrium. In the area of wide spread permafrost the problems of the environment have three aspects: environmental pollution, destruction of ecological equilibrium, and depletion of natural resources. These areas are addressed briefly in this report. (Author) Trans. of Akademiia Nauk SSSR Vestnik (USSR) n10 p37-45 1976, by Rosetta Stone.