AGROECONOMIC EVALUATION OF SOIL POLLUTION BY HEAVY METALS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF REGIONAL GOVERNANCE
A. V. Mikhailenko, D. A. Ruban
Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation
Keywords: государственное управление, природные ресурсы, региональная экономика, риск, Ростовская область, сельское хозяйство, экологическая экономика, state governance, natural resources, regional economy, Rostov Region, risk, agriculture, ecological economics
Abstract
Implication of scientific approach increases efficiency of regional governance. A method of agroeconomic evaluation of soil pollution by heavy metals is proposed and tested by example of the Rostov region - an important agrarian region of the Russian South. Conceptually, this method is linked to the ideas of risk and ecosystem services, and its result is cost equivalent of pollution taking into account actual content of heavy metals in soil. It is established that among four considered metals (nickel, copper, zinc, and lead), the cost equivalent is the biggest in the case of nickel, its sum for the region’s districts is 62,5 bln RUR. The results can be used to orient regional programs, strategies, and initiatives linked to agricultural and ecological activities, planning and establishing volumes of financial support of the latter. Moreover, these results permit to reveal complexity of soil resources governance within the study region.
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