Section

Geoecology

Title

CURRENT ISSUES OF LAKE BAIKAL PROTECTION

Сontributors

I. V. Bychkov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Supervisor of the Irkutsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch

of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of Siberian Branch

of Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the SB RAS on the problems of Lake Baikal

I.I. Maximova, Ph. D. (Economics), Dr. Habil., Senior Researcher of the Irkutsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch

of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Scientific Secretary of the Scientific Council of the SB RAS on the problems of Lake Baikal

Abstract

The main current issues of Lake Baikal protection are analyzed in the article, with the focus on large-scale changes in the coastal zone, the condition of the environmental monitoring system for the unique ecosystem, the past environmental damage elimination of the activity of the Baikal paper mill. The authors state the low level of knowledge of the causes and factors of eutrophication of coastal areas, the impact of the hydrological mode changes on the basic biological processes, the lack of consideration of the Baikal uniqueness in the current monitoring, which do not allow us to make a comprehensive and science-based decisions in the area of Lake Baikal protection, and environmental and socio-economic problems of the region. The estimation for realization efficiency of the federal target program “Protection of Lake Baikal and the socio-economic development of the Baikal natural territory for 2012—2020” has been made and the proposals of the content and organizational changes have been developed. The proposals addressing the priority issues for Lake Baikal protection and the main guidelines of the research and project work to overcome environmental threats have been made.

Keywords

рrotection of Lake Baikal , the state of the ecosystem, management of the level mode, monitoring the unique ecosystem of Lake Baikal, waste of the Baikal paper mill, cross-border water resources, the federal target program.

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