Monitoring of effects, caused by the anthropogenic factors of the municipal economy functioning, on the occurrence of floods and groundwater flooding

Abstract

The article considers topical issues of preventing environmental hazards during the functioning of urban economy system as a factor for the occurrence and development of natural emergencies – freshets and groundwater flooding. The study aims to form a configuration of a comprehensive monitoring system for making reasonable organisational, technical and managerial decisions on the prevention of emergencies with dangerous environmental consequences. The objective of the study was to investigate proposals for the creation of such a system using an example of specific natural emergencies: floods, groundwater flooding and freshets, caused by anthropogenic activities, associated with the functioning of human settlements. The object of the study includes freshets and floods in terms of natural emergencies. The subject of the study involves a set of factors, conditions, parameters and restrictions, affecting the occurrence and development of floods, groundwater flooding and freshets. The research methodology is based on the application of a system analysis to factors, functioning parameters, conditions, restrictions, cause-and-effect relationships of technogenic events and natural phenomena, leading to the occurrence and passage of groundwater flooding and floods as a natural emergency with environmentally hazardous consequences. Using the study of anthropogenic causes of floods and groundwater flooding, this paper presents proposals for the organisation of a system for integrated monitoring of urban areas in order to timely prevent, identify and mitigate adverse events, hazards, threats, risks and potential consequences for the infrastructure of urban economy and population vital activity.