- Abstract:
- The article presents a new methodology for quantifying the environmental efficiency of integrated subsurface development, taking into account the limitations and principles of sustainable development of the mineral resource complex. It is shown that the uncontrollable aggravation of the ecological crisis generated by the systemic antagonism between man and the biosphere, in conditions of the obvious need to preserve the natural environment as a guarantee of the survival of future generations, gradually changes the vector of development of society in the direction of increasing the importance of the ecological imperative, both in general principles and in local methods of building the technosphere. It has been established that the outstripping growth of environmental problems in the field of subsurface use is associated not only with the obvious discrepancy between the rates of consumption of various metals and the geologically caused decrease in the availability of mineral resources of the subsurface, but also, mainly, with the complete absence of motivating technical and economic motives and biologically justified incentives to search for innovative ways of greening the technological paradigm of both the technosphere as a whole and and subsurface use, in particular. A theory and methodology for overcoming these contradictions are proposed based on replacing a purely monetary approach to assessing the environmental consequences of man-made changes in the subsurface with biologically relevant criteria and methods that meet the requirements and limitations of the UN Concept of Sustainable Development of Nature and Society and the current Environmental Doctrine of the Russian Federation.
- Keywords:
- subsurface development, ecological crisis, biota conservation, ecologization of the paradigm, stimulation, justification, methodology, differentiated criteria, methods, subsurface use, sustainable development, environmental efficiency
- For citation:
- Galchenko Yu.P., Yakusheva E.D. Criteria and methods for assessing the environmental efficiency of subsurface use in a sustainable manner. Mine Surveying and Subsurface Use. 2026; 26 (2): 59-64. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.56195/207933322026-26-2-59-64.
- Information about the authors:
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- Yury P. Galchenko – Dr. Sci. (Eng.), Professor, Chief Researcher of the Department of Mountain Ecology, Institute of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
- Ekaterina D. Yakusheva – Leading Engineer of the laboratory of geotechnology of complex development of mineral deposits, Institute of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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