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Monitoring of anthropogenic impact in the Left Bank Dnipro and the Eastern Ukrainian regions
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 15th International Conference Monitoring of Geological Processes and Ecological Condition of the Environment, Nov 2021, Volume 2021, p.1 - 5
Abstract
Monitoring of anthropogenic impact was implemented for the Left Bank Dnipro and the Eastern Ukrainian physic-geographic regions. Monitoring used modern spatial data bases and progressive model scheme for cumulative distribution of land use and/or land cover (LULC) systems in physic-geographic taxons. The scheme operates with 10 types of this distribution and the relevant 10 categories of anthropogenic impact intensity from weak to excessively strong. The monitoring results show that a concave distribution is prevalent in the Left Bank Dnipro region, concerning 76% of its districts and marking the low-categorical strong anthropogenic impact on them. This is caused by the fact that only 9% of the regional area belongs to geo-positive LULC systems, such as broad‐leaved and coniferous forest, wetland and nature-protection systems. And more than 90% of the regional area are covered with geo-negative and very geo-negative systems, primary non-forest and broad‐leaved forest tilled, village built-up, recreational and geo-negative hydromelioration systems. In 90% of Eastern Ukrainian region districts the low-categorical strong anthropogenic impact is monitored. This is due to the presence of LULC systems similar to the first region. The applied procedure and the obtained results can be used in regional schemes and projects to optimize the environmental management and to ensure environment sustainable development.