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By applied to spatial planning tasks, a multi-level spatial sustainability assessment system should be taken into account. The paper considers the district spatial level which includes the coastal district municipalities within their administrative borders. All coastal district municipalities have features of their socio-economic statement and environmental status, due to various physical, geographical and socio-economic aspects, which determines the current state of stability of the spatial system. The following ...

A technology of pre-design comparative assessment of hazardous industrial facilities alternative options is described in this paper. The technology was designed by the St. Petersburg environmental and design company "Eco-Express-Service" LLC. Options? comparison is carried out in two stages using a score/ranking multi-criteria assessment: at first, a determination and comparison of environmental safety criteria values, and then ? a summary assessment of all set of criteria. 4 competitive methods are used for obtai...

The relationships of environmental and economic costs during marine dredging and the volume of transported soil for water areas of Russia?s High North and the Arctic region and the other, more southern, seas of the Russian Federation are identified and analyzed. The analysis was carried out using a representative material of more than 300 dredging projects from the database of the St. Petersburg environmental and design company Eco-Express Service LLC. As a result of the work carried out, it was revealed that the ...

The process of increasing the capacity of the Russian Arctic harbors has been gaining momentum in recent years due to the environmental change associated with the global warming process and increasing role of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). An important component of this process is the operation of the Sabetta seaport in the Ob Bay, Kara Sea, intended for the transportation of hydrocarbons (oil and gas products) produced on the Yamal Peninsula in the NSR. The construction project of the Sabetta seaport includes the ...