Ecological risks of a steppe nature management: detection, classification and ways to overcome them (on the example of the Orenburg region)

Abstract

The aim of the study is to reveal and classify ecological risks for steppe nature management as well as to suggest the ways to overcome them. The following methods were used: historical, cartographical, logic and field landscape researches, Earth Sensing data, the author's method of an expert ecological-economical assessment of steppe etalons and secondary steppes. The main ecological risks making influence on the condition of steppe land and biological resources are detected and classified for an agrarian and industrially developed steppe region. The conception of an “antiecological” framework is developed. The system of the most substantial risks is highlighted, recommendations to minimize these risks are offered.