Methodological Approaches to Man-induced Impact’s Assessment on Urban Lands (Using the Example of Moscow Region)

Abstract

There were considered Moscow Region’s features connected not with prevalence of non-industrial potential and building of industrial establishments, but with use of tertiary industry, building of large logistic centers, shopping plazas, cottage settlements. There were revealed nuclei of man-induced impact by the procedure of The Blackmith Institute, adapted to Russian statistical specificity. There was compiled the ecological rating of Moscow Region’s cities. There was made ecological and economic regionalization of two types: on units of administrative-territorial division and on real area of man-induced impact. There were developed indicators for impact assessment, analyzed advantages and disadvantages of used methods.