Open AccessENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INDICATORS
Author(s) -
G. Ya. Novik
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
vide. tehnoloģija. resursi/environment. technology. resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2256-070X
pISSN - 1691-5402
DOI - 10.17770/etr2001vol1.1945
Subject(s) - sustainable development , quality (philosophy) , environmental quality , environmental resource management , environmental science , environmental indicator , environmental economics , environmental planning , conformity , business , natural resource , environmental protection , ecology , geography , meteorology , economics , philosophy , epistemology , political science , law , biology
Despite the fact that environmental indicators are investigated for long time the solving o f indicators problems is far of completion yet. Paper discusses the results of investigation environmental indicators in conformity with quality of environmentally sound technologies and their impact on man's life quality. As a result o f investigations three groups of indicators were worked up: 1) for environment quality in cities - anthropogenic pressure indicators on atmosphere, water and earth, 2) for estimation of technologies, containing information about useful exploited natural resources and utilization waste products, 3) for assessment mutual changes of environment quality and man’s living quality. The paper offers equations which characterize possibilities for development o f industry on the principles of sustainable development.