Approaches to Evaluation of Environmental and Economic Damage to the Kuzbass Agglomeration Caused by Coal Mining Industry Development

¹ T.F. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University, Kemerovo, Russian Federation
² Kemerovo Institute (branch) of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Kemerovo, Russian Federation

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of coal mining industry problems in a region and environmental and economic damage caused by its activities. It is found that the intensive development of coal mining industry is accompanied by negative environmental consequences associated with the impact on social and economic indicators of a region and the quality of life of the population. The methodology for analysis and evaluation of environmental and economic damage to a regional economy based on the loss of gross regional product (GRP) and associated with the loss of working time due to the incidence of the population, determined by the level of environmental pollution, was developed. The developed methodology solves the problem of evaluating the impact of environmental components not only on environmental and economic damage, characterized by GRP losses, but also on the quality of life of the population. In addition, the optimization nature of the presented model allows finding the economic potential of producers and the objective efficiency of enterprises, which will make it possible to compensate for damage caused by environmental pollution that is adequate to the negative consequences of their activities.