environmental indicators

CONCEPTUAL APPROACH TO MINIMALIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD FOR THE POKUTSKO-BUKOVINIAN CARPATHIANS

The existing conceptual approaches to assessment of the environmental security of the Eastern Carpathians have been analyzed. The original vision of the mechanism for maintaining sustainable development in the Pokutsko-Bukovinian Carpathians mountain ecosystem is proposed. The methodological approach used to determine the ecological status and the level of environmental safety of mountain areas is based on the use of sanitary-ecological indicators as sensitive determiners of environmental changes under the influence of the anthropogenic factor.