Environmental Safety: Crisis is Continued

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of modern Russian Federation environmental safety. Main reasons and consequences of the problem are analyzed. The differences of danger evaluation approaches between native MАC (maximal acceptance concentration) method and internationally accepted risk method are considered. The role of photosynthetic organisms as an integral indicator of the environmental safety level is defined. It is shown that many safety problems lie in the legal framework that ignores quantitative estimates of the safety level, the level of necessary and sufficient safety, the concept of acceptable risk and international risk management experience. Possible ways to resolve the crisis are shown in the article.