Home – Home – Jornals – Chemistry for Sustainable Development 2019 number 5

The necessity to introduce the principles of green economics into subsoil management as one of the most important branches of Russian economy affecting the quality of the environment to the highest extent is considered. The main kinds of the effect of mining and primary processing of mineral resources on the state of geological environment, surface relief and soil cover are presented, as well as the forms of the influence on human health for different stages of the industrial process. The long-term negative effect of the consequences of mineral resource mining is stressed, together with the high cost of recultivation and rehabilitation works. The major goals in the introduction of green approaches in subsoil resource management include improvement of the normative-legal basis of subsoil usage with respect to the ecological aspects of raw material mining and processing, the formation of the state authorities for geological management and innovative development of the economics of the country, broadening of the range of application of financial mechanisms for the technological renewal, public disclosure of the entire ecologically significant information on the companies involved in subsoil resource management.