No 1 (2009)

The article considers the protective function of soluble and membrane-linked SH proteins of hydrophytes and hydatophytes in their adaptation to heavy metals. It has been found that compared with hydatophytes, hydrophyte leaves have greater ability to fix Cu, Cd and Ni by proteins and SH groups.

The article presents results of weather study from 1998 till 2007. The data received indicate climate warming on the territory of interest.

Cyclic-wave methodology can be considered as a universal means of present-day reality cognition. It may be useful for the analysis of any community at any time and on any territory. The methodology presents economic development as a scope of one-type economical cycles and the integral dynamics of economical evolution as the result of those cycles combinations. The author of the article brings out the notion of «market economy cycles». These cycles are characterized by the scope of production and non-production processes developing in specific socio-economical areas on the basis of geographical clusters. Each cluster is formed on the basis of market economy particular cycles. The main aim of the clusters is profit earning, competitiveness and image. Geographical clusters forming is the main direction in the usage of the resources and the most effective means of socio-economical guarantee that Asian Russia's economy complies the interests of the region's development under the conditions of the global business competition and the present state of market.

Maintenance of biodiversity, their impact on the atmosphere heating and surface water quality are the main functions of peat bogs. Economic evaluation of the bogs functions loss damage is underestimated. To overcome the regulatory contradictions Peat Bogs Resources Management Group should be set up and Peat Bogs Exploitation Law has to be adopted.

Owing to the Commission of the European Communities grant, the Siberian Research and Engineering Institute of Rational Nature Management together with the Swedish Environmental Research Institute is working out Environmental Risk Management for Contaminated Marsh Land in Khanty-Mansiysk («EnRiMa ConMa») project. Important problems of regulatory and methodological support as well as recultivation technology for oil contaminated and saline lands in Khanty-Mansiysk region have been handled within the framework of the project. Methodological approaches to the solution of the present-day problems are proposed on the basis of the European and domestic experience.

Analysis of the license areas allocated for oil extraction in Khanty-Mansiysk gives evidence that there are some economical, administrative, legal/jural and regulatory factors enabling peat bogs development and peat resources extermination. Alternative oil field engineering in areas of the least ecologico-economical value allows to minimize the swampy woodlands and peat resources damage. At the same time reduction of the equipment cost becomes possible.