Authors:
Tatyana Maiorova
;
Olga Ponomareva
and
Olga Nazarova
Affiliation:
Department of management,Magnitogorsk State Technical University, 38 Lenin Street, Magnitogorsk, Russia, Russian Federation
Keyword(s):
Sustainable Development, Ecological Safety, Industrial Area.
Abstract:
The purpose of the article is to study ecological safety as a factor of the sustainable development of industrial
areas. The methodological approach consists in using the basic principles of the concept of sustainable
development as a basis for integrating economic development strategies and ecological policy and
determining the principles of ecological safety of an industrial area, focused on balanced eco-economic
development. The main structural elements and parameters of the industrial area as an eco-economic system
are determined, an integrating factor is proposed, that determines the possibility of economic development
under the condition of ecological safety. The problem of choosing criteria for the ecological safety of an
industrial area, focused on sustainable development, is solved and a system of indicators is proposed, that
characterizes the level of ecological safety of an industrial area from the standpoint of the use of resources in
production systems, an asses
sment of the ecological state and initiative activity, aimed at preventing
degradation and restoring the environment.
(More)