Environmental Assessment of Thermal Energy Facilities Impact on Ecosystem Services for the Production of Oxygen in Urban Settlements

The article provides a comparative environmental assessment of thermal energy facilities impact on ecosystem services for the production of oxygen in the area of their direct influence in urban settlements. A significant share of thermal power plants in atmospheric pollution indicators was noted. Types of terrestrial ecosystems with the greatest potential for oxygen production have been identified. Based on the calculations made by the Index O (oxygen production index), the differentiation of the impact of TPPs on the environmental service of oxygen production by local terrestrial ecosystems is detailed by 3 load groups: high, medium and optimal. At the same time, it is necessary to consider not only the local capacity of terrestrial ecosystems, but also the regional potential, as well as the geographical location of energy facilities in the Russian Federation and their capacity. The presence of a large number of forests in the Asian part of the country allows for increased buffering of the ecosystem service of oxygen production in the zone of direct influence of the majority of thermal energy facilities located there. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Авторы
Artamonov G.E.1 , Vasenev I.I. 2 , Gutnikov V.A. 3 , Erofeeva V.V. 4, 5
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Springer
Язык
Английский
Страницы
272-282
Статус
Опубликовано
Год
2021
Организации
  • 1 Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 2 Russian State Agrarian University, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 3 CIRD of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 4 Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, Moscow, Russian Federation
  • 5 RUDN University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Ключевые слова
Ecosystem; Ecosystem services; Energy; Environmental assessment; Oxygen; Thermal power plants
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