REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM AS A TOOL OF NATURE-USE MANAGEMENT IN CONDITIONS OF HEAVY METAL POLLUTION
A.V. Mikhailenko, D.A. Ruban
Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation
Keywords: инновационная деятельность, проектные решения, Ростовская область, ртутное загрязнение, экологическая экономика, innovation activity, project solution, Rostov Region, mercury pollution, ecological economics
Abstract
Besides direct financial benefits, innovation activity offers wide spectrum of opportunities for solution of given societal problems, including those linked to anthropogenic influence on the environment. It is argued conceptually that a regional innovation system is able to act as instrument of efficient nature-use management in conditions of heavy metal pollution via formation of infrastructure for achievement of complex project solutions. Consideration of the example of mercury pollution in lower Don River in the Rostov Region shows that the initial phase of formation of the regional innovation systems and unsustainability of its development limit the utility of such an instrument, especially in regard to the multiple and heterogeneous sources of pollution.
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