Merged phytosociological and geographical approach for multiple scale vegetation mapping as a baseline for public environmental policy in Mexico

Subject. Considering the existing environmental situation, it becomes especially important for the State to regulate the anthropogenic footprint on the environment in the Russian Federation. Current amendments to the legislative framework for environmental security are intended to ensure the innovative development of regions concurrently with a reduction in adverse environmental effects and more active environmental policy. Objectives. The research is to devise methodological tools to evaluate the efficiency of environmental policy in regions. Methods. The research employs qualitative and quantitative methods of economic analysis, including statistical and content analysis, rating, matrix zoning. The dataset proceeds from the Federal State Statistics Service, governmental reports on the current environmental situation and environmental protection in the Russian Federation. Results. We propose our own approach to evaluating the efficiency of environmental policy. It may help trace the correlation between the quality of strategic documents and changes in environmental indicators for a certain period, flag the challenging areas in terms of the environmental policy implementation and outline possible development paths. The approach extends the list of quantification indicators in line with those ones adopted internationally and presented in the Environmental Security Strategy of the Russian Federation up to 2025. We evaluated the efficiency of the environmental policy referring to the regions of the Northwestern Federal District for the period from 2012–2016. Conclusions. Having analyzed the evaluation results, most of the Northwestern regions tend to be controversial and ambivalent in setting environmental goals and achieving them. The findings may prove useful as the analytical and data basis for articulating the environmental and economic policy of the regions.

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ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY: SOME SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF HARMONIOUS DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Journal of look to the past ◽

10.26739/2181-9599-2020-2-3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 20-28

Author(s):

Tuhtamish Azizov ◽

Keyword(s):

Environmental Policy ◽

Environmental Safety ◽

Harmonious Development ◽

The Real

The article analyzes the national legislative base of regulatory legal acts in the field of environmental safety, which adequately regulates not only the powers of state authorities, but also creates conditions and guarantees for the real protection of individuals and the environment from disasters and accidents

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Factors influencing line officers' decisions about National Environmental Policy Act project design and development.

10.2737/pnw-gtr-766 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Donald G. MacGregor ◽

David N. Seesholtz

Keyword(s):

Environmental Policy ◽

Project Design ◽

National Environmental Policy Act ◽

Design And Development ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Line Officers ◽

National Environmental ◽

National Environmental Policy

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Geoinformation research and vegetation mapping (digest based on the proceedings of the InterCarto. InterGIS conference. 1994–2020)

Geobotanical mapping ◽

10.31111/geobotmap/2020.78 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 78-98

Author(s):

T. V. Kotova

Keyword(s):

Forest Management ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Geographical Information Systems ◽

Biological Diversity ◽

Far East ◽

Vegetation Mapping ◽

Geographical Information ◽

Plant Resources ◽

Ecological Functions ◽

Geoinformation Technologies

Proceedings of the International conference (ИнтерКарто. ИнтерГИС, Russia) devoted to geographical information systems for sustainable development of territories have been published annually since 1994. The articles discuss theoretical and methodological aspects of geoinformation support for environmental, economic and social aspects of sustainable development, issues of geoinformatics, cartography, remote sensing of the Earth, problems of environmental sustainability and environmental impact assessment. Over a quarter of a century, the conference proceedings got more than 125 articles related to the use of geoinformation technologies to the study and mapping of vegetation. The review of proceedings gives the concrete examples how to solve problems of vegetation mapping using GIS, it is focused on publications providing some examples of GIS application to the vegetation studies. The review is organized into thematic sections according the field of application of Geoinformatics: 1.Vegetation, 2. Dynamics, state and ecological functions of vegetation, 3. Biodiversity and its assessment, 4. Plant resources, 5. Monitoring of vegetation. The Vegetation section contains publications on vegetation studies and mapping performed for some regions of Russia — the North of the Far East, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Tyva Republic, Central Siberia, and others. More than half of the articles are devoted to vegetation dynamics, state and ecological functions of vegetation at different hierarchical levels. Some papers present the results of the studies based on new types of information sources (photographs) and visualization methods (animation). The use of geoinformation technologies to study biological diversity was included in the agenda of five conference sessions and later reflected in more than ten publications. They cover the development and creation of GIS, the use of geoinformation technologies for the analysis, assessment and mapping of biodiversity, for its monitoring and conservation. Quite a large number of articles are devoted to the study of forest resources. GIS technologies were used to solve problems of forest management, cartometric analysis of forested areas, determination of taxation indicators, systematization of forest conditions, etc. Examples of geoinformation versatile research for medicinal plant resources are given to assess their quality, resources and productivity in the region, to identify growing areas, including ones to be protected. Most of the published materials concerning to vegetation monitoring mainly relate to forests and forest management.

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