Environmental monitoring as a method of counteracting environmental risks in the context of sustainable development

Abstract

The problem of assessing environmental risks in science is covered from various angles. Its versatility is due to the intensive development of modern society and, in particular, the growth of industrial production and large-scale mining. In view of this, mechanisms that provide for forecasting and risk assessment have a significant advantage, which is characteristic of environmental monitoring. At the same time, the interrelationship of social processes, taken as its subject, the central element of which is a person, forces us to rethink the content of ecological mechanisms for environmental protection. Mechanisms for countering environmental risks should include not only technical procedures and mathematical calculations, which are widely applicable in risk assessment in the event of insurmountable natural events, for example, but also risks that can give rise to a wide range of negative consequences if natural resources are not properly treated. Taking into account the identified needs, elements of environmental monitoring were presented, forming a mechanism aimed at predicting and assessing environmental risks, which corresponds to the stated goal of the study.

Monitoring and protection method as elements of a mechanism for ensuring environmental safety in the context of sustainable development

“…Environmental monitoring is one of the popular ways to prevent risks of threats to environmental protection and allows for the assessment and forecasting of environmental risks, identifying facts of violations in the implementation of relevant relations, and identifying persons violating the requirements for ensuring environmental safety [4].…”

“…Environmental monitoring is associated with a comprehensive system of monitoring the state of the environment, including assessment and forecasting of environmental changes under the influence of natural and anthropogenic factors [9]. In this connection, the content of this mechanism is the relationship that ensures environmental safety and environmental protection through the use of a set of established methods, methods, rules and techniques for using planning tools for monitoring activities, obtaining the necessary information, recording it, summarizing, analyzing and evaluating, forecasting, registration and publication, as well as implementation of its results [4].…”