Environmental capital and its role in the development of mining territories

Abstract

Environmental capital of the territory is an integral part of its total capital, which largely characterises the conditions for favourable and harmless living of the population, conducting industrial and commercial activities by economic entities, maintaining the indicators of socio-economic development of the territory at a good level and in constant positive dynamics. A high level of ecological capital, its stability and ensured renewability is currently becoming the hallmark of every enterprise, territory and region. However, only a small part of the Russian Federation can be characterised as a territory with a high level of ecological capital, where negative environmental factors affecting the components of the environment (air, water, soil, vegetation, fauna), the population living in the territory, objects, and monuments of cultural and natural heritage, etc. are absent or minimised. A significant role in the deterioration of the quality of environmental capital is played by industrial enterprises, whose production facilities, industrial sites, logistics and infrastructure units are located in the territories. All of the above determines the relevance of the study of environmental capital in the model of development of mining territories. The aim and objectives of the study include generalisation of the constituent theoretical and methodological foundations of the interdisciplinary approach to the study of environmental capital of the territory. The methodological basis of the study will be a set of general and private scientific methods, the use of which makes it possible to achieve the objective of the study.