Assessing challenges and threats for balanced subsoil use

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Abstract

The article identifies possible challenges and threats to balanced subsoil use, in particular mining, and assesses the danger of effects, which allows to highlight the main ones for elimination. The concept of balanced nature management has been clarified, and evolutionary changes in its content have been found out: from the balance within only the economic subsystem to the balance of all three components: environmental, social and economic. The definition of balanced mining has been formulated. The conceptual and categorical apparatus has been clarified regarding the occurrence of danger to the balanced mining: the definitions of global challenges, internal and external threats and risks, and their relationship to each other. We identify economic, environmental, social and institutional threats, and their structuring in relation to challenges. The methodological foundations of their assessment are developed, which include the fundamental principles of assessment procedures and the methodical tools—guidelines for assessing threats. The assessment procedures involve the calculation of particular indicators for each of the areas of threats; the calculation of general indicators taking into account the weight of particular indicators; and the definition of an integral indicator taking into account the weight of general ones. The classification of the integral indicator has been done with the allocation of four groups of the threats’ danger degrees. The guidelines were tested on the Sverdlovsk region, Russia.

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As the initial information for obtaining the calculated indicators, statistical data were used, such as statistical collections for the Sverdlovsk Region for 2013–2017 years and 2014–2018 years, and state balances of mineral reserves for 2015–2016 years. The statistical collections are in the open sources https://rosstat.gov.ru/folder/10705 and http://sverdl.old.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/sverdl/ru/statistics/. To obtain the state balances of mineral reserves, there must be the special permission.

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The authors thank the reviewers for valuable comments and suggestions. The research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in accordance with the state assignment for Institute of Economics of the Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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The research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in accordance with the state assignment for Institute of Economics of the Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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    Margarita N. Ignatyeva, Vera V. Yurak & Alexey V. Dushin

  2. Institute of Economics, The Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences Russia, Moskovskaya st., 29, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 620144

    Margarita N. Ignatyeva, Vera V. Yurak, Alexey V. Dushin & Irina G. Polyanskaya

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All authors contributed to the development of the current paper. The concept, theory, methodology and the guidelines were prepared by M.I. and V.Y., while A.D. and I.P. determined challenges and threats for balanced mining for Russia. The detailed literature review, results and discussion were done by both M.I. and V.Y. While M.I. examined the Russian vision, V.Y. researched the foreign experience. The revision (review and editing) of the proposed literature review, discussion and recommendations were carried out by M.I., V.Y., A.D. and I.P. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Ignatyeva, M.N., Yurak, V.V., Dushin, A.V. et al. Assessing challenges and threats for balanced subsoil use. Environ Dev Sustain (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01420-1

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Keywords

  • Mining industry
  • Sustainable and balances development
  • Guidelines
  • Estimation
  • Assessment of challenges and threats
  • Ecosystem functions and services