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Landfill Technology of Waste Management
This paper discusses a widespread practice of municipal solid waste (MSW) storage in dumps in open sites and in landscape depressions in Russia, which leads to numerous ecological disturbances, environmental p...
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Decreased Stability of the Infrastructure of Russia’s Fuel and Energy Complex in the Arctic Because of the Increased Annual Average Temperature of the Surface Layer of the Cryolithozone
The impact of facilities of various branches of Russia’s fuel and energy complex (FEC) on the Arctic permafrost zone and their stability due to climate change and the state of the upper horizons of the permafr...
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Is It Better To Incinerate Municipal Solid Waste or Degrade It?
Methods of processing and disposal of municipal solid waste abroad and in our country are compared. A significant technological lag by Russia in this area is noted. Known technologies of waste disposal by inci...
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Territorial Placement of Solid Municipal Waste Landfills
This paper discusses the scientific foundations of spatial planning for the disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW), which has been intensively accumulated in Russia. It is noted that the chaotic, uncontrolled...
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Composition and Biological Activity of Furanoquinolizidine Alkaloids from Yellow Water-Lily (Nuphar Lutea L. Smith) Rhizomes
A method for producing pharmaceutical drug substance from Nuphar lutea L. Smith that used orthophosphoric acid instead of the chlorinated solvent dichloroethane (DCE), which was used previously to produce lute...
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Sustainable Development: Environmental Aspects
The basic principle of the term “sustainable development” consists in improving the quality of human life without destroying the natural environment (biosphere). Sustainable development is implemented when soc...
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ADAPTATION—AN IMPORTANT TECHNOLOGY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA’S SUBARCTIC TERRITORIES
Warming of the Earth’s climate requires that human economic activity adapt to the concomitant changes, especially in permafrost areas. The authors suggest adaptation as an effective mechanism for environmental...
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Biosphere and Environmental Safety
Ensuring ecological security is among the global strategic tasks. This problem is related to the rapidly aggravating threats caused by increasing population growth on the Earth, diminishing life-supporting res...
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Interaction between Man and the Natural Environment: A Major Factor of the Existence of Civilization On the Results of the Year of Ecology in Russia
The history of humans as a biological species is tightly connected with the geological evolution of the Earth, the development of the biosphere, and the consumption of its resources. Life-supporting resources,...
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Hydrogeomechanical Conditions of Karst Sinkhole Formation in the Area of Potassium Mines in Berezniki T., Perm Krai
The study area refers to the class of highly complex geotechnical conditions. Hazardous geological processes (HGP) are active here, including high seismicity up to 7 points MSK-64, karst, suffosion, subsidence...
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Methodology of natural risk assessment in Russia
The Russian Federation territory is prone to various natural hazards. The paper analyzes the most hazardous natural processes that may cause human deaths, injuries and health damage, as well as considerable ec...
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Methodological Principles of Geo-Hazard Vulnerability Evaluation of Capital Construction Assets in Urbanized Areas
The impact of hazardous natural (geological) processes on construction assets is examined. Questions concerning information support for vulnerability evaluations of capitalconstruction assets within cadastral ...
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Seismic risk assessment for the Greater Sochi area
Earthquakes, among other natural phenomena, often cause loss of life and significant economic damage. According to the statistical data of the International Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters...
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Friction and Cohesion as Multifaceted Factors of Soil Shear Resistance
Aspects are examined of dispersive soils that are conditioned by the mechanism and magnitude of their shear resistance. From a general physicochemical perspective, we study factors not considered in the Mohr-C...
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Anthropization and current tasks of earth sciences
This article considers the development of anthropization on the Earth as a result of the activity of technically equipped man, aimed at assimilating natural resources and creating a social and economic infrast...
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Hydrogeochemical features of water-rock interaction in Verkhnekamskiy Saliferous Basin
The hydrogeochemical features of water interaction with soluble minerals are considered in the case of salt strata in Solikamsk Depression in natural (the area of the anticipated Verchnekamskaya Hydropower Pla...
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Active porosity and its effect on the physical mechanical properties of clay
The definition of active porosity given by B.N. Gumenskii is revised. The active porosity is taken to mean the bulk porosity less the pore space volume occupied by adsorbed water. The methods of calculating th...
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Physicochemical Theory of Effective Stresses
The above-discussed results of the Terzaghi theory modification are of great importance for the modern soil mechanics, because they improve understanding of the relationships between the effective stresses in ...