Justification of the size of complex sanitary protection zones using the methodology for health risks assessment from air pollution can optimize environmental costs and contributes to improving the quality of environmental management aimed at ensuring a quality habitat and protecting health.
We conducted risk assessment studies on the territory of the Yaroslavl region, in central, northwestern, Volga regions of Russia, in the Chukotka Autonomous Area, and the Republic of Bashkortostan. In the sectoral context, research was carried out for a wide range of facilities - for chemical and petrochemical enterprises, fuel and energy complex, machine building, transport industry, food industry, service sector, solid domestic and industrial waste landfills, seaports, etc.
In Yaroslavl large-scale work on risk assessment was carried out within the projects on establishing unified boundaries of the sanitary protection zones of the Southern Industrial Hub in Yaroslavl, where more than 60 enterprises are located, and the Northern Industrial Hub, where more than 100 industrial chemical, oil refining, heat power, machine building, construction enterprises are situated.
The results of the work showed the effectiveness of the use of risk criteria for solving the problems of ensuring the normative environment quality at the border of residential areas and new opportunities in managing complex sanitary protection zones of industrial hubs, primarily in the development and application of economic and administrative mechanisms for the organization and maintenance of the territory, as far as in accordance with the current Russian legislation, sanitary protection zones are classified as territories with a special regime of use.