Issues of the Territory Assimilative Potential and Anthropogenic Impact Comparison

Abstract

The paper aims to evaluate, using different methods, the ecological capacity of the territory and maximum anthropogenic impact that it can withstand as the result of economic activity. Timeliness of the study is determined by the need of Russia transition to the model of sustainable development. In this context, the paper examines the approaches to the estimation of the territory's maximum capacity in relation to anthropogenic impact, methods of quantitative assessments of the environmental capacity of the territory in units and in fuel equivalents (energy approach), and its correlation with the actual anthropogenic impact and energy consumption. © 2014 WIT Press.