Ecological Consequences of Russian Industry Structural Shifts in 1990—2014

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the structural changes impact in production to environmental conditions changing over a 25-year period. There were selected several time steps with different manifestations of environmental impacts as a result of industrial action and identified basic patterns of reaction to changes in the environmental situation in the Russian industry structure compared with the OECD countries. There was identified the effect of human impact on the dynamics of investments in environmental protection and in the basic technologies. For the country as a whole is weakened dependence of the contamination level from the level and dynamics of economic development as a result of modernization processes in the industry, which has been the leading source of anthropogenic influence in the Soviet period.