Authors:
M. S. KUBAREV, candidate of economic sciences, associate professor,
URAL STATE MINING UNIVERSITY (30 Kuibysheva Str., 620144, Ekaterinburg)
G. D. KOROTEEV, post-graduate student,
INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS, THE URAL BRANCH OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (29 Moskovskaya Str., 620014, Ekaterinburg)
Abstract. The question arises about the forecast of the social and ecological consequences of anthropogenic activity associated with the development of mineral deposits, when assessing the options for developing the natural potential of the territory. At the pre-project stage, the forecast estimate provides for obtaining average estimates. The forecast of environmental consequences and the forecast of the economic damage decrease from harm caused to existing and promising Special Protected Natural Areas (SPNA) as a result of development of subsoil resources become of particular importance in the conditions of northern low-developed areas. The basement of damage assessment is the calculation of the decrease in economic value of environment-oriented landscape area, taking into account the list of functions and ecosystem services, as well as the their regeneration period after a disturbance due to anthropogenic impact during the development of the deposit. The clarification of the guidelines concerns the assessment of the economic value of the natural-resources potential of the territory of the environment-oriented landscape area, which is conditioned by the flows of environmental, production, recreational and information services. We present a calculation of the broad estimates of economic damage for the conditions of predicted for the development of the Verkhnetolinsky uranium-thorium ore deposit located in the western part of the Berezovsky district of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug in the territory of the environment-oriented landscape area “Northern Urals” within the boundaries of the prospective SPNA called “Severouralsky Nature Park”. The amount of calculated damage is equal to 1.5 million rubles per year. The total amount of damage, based on periods of the deposit development and regeneration of disturbed landscapes, is 110 million rubles, which is comparable to the profit from the deposit development.
Keywords: economic damage, natural-resources potential, environment-oriented landscape area, ecological zone, decrease in value, regeneration period.
