EURO-ECO 2011 Hanover 21 - 22 November 2011	Environmental, Engineering - Economic and Legal Aspects for Sustainable Living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover University of Bremen, Bremen

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Nowadays the assessment of environmental impact is in the basis of payment calculations for exploitation of natural resources and environmental pollution. The data to do the assessment of the impact of economic agents’ activity on the environment are taken mainly from monitoring of production control, calculated regulatory data. Neither of the above mentioned indicators reflects the real picture of the environmental pollution. Besides, production control is carried out irregularly and the impact is measured in terms of emission concentration of harmful substances. The payments are calculated taking into account the total amount of pollutants emitted into the environment. As a result there is no clear picture of the impact of economic agents’ activity on the environment. This situation in its turn generates the following problems:

• ineffectiveness of economic mechanism to provide ecological safety of the society and the natural environment;
• inefficiency of natural management because state inspectors cannot assess the efficiency of use of natural resources and managers of business entities do not know how to do it;
• overstated figures of environmental capacity of Russian enterprises in comparison with foreign ones.

To overcome these contradictions it is necessary to raise the effectiveness of economic mechanism which will provide ecological safety of the society and the nature and improve efficiency of the use of natural resources.

We reckon that it is possible at the expense of the increasing effectiveness of the economy- natural environment interaction due to the implementation of the software product based on the material balance method

Two theoretic-methodical principles are at the foundation of this statement:

1. the model of the economy-natural environment interaction
2. the material balance method to assess the impact on the natural environment

The implementation of this solution is supposed to be carried out in three stages:

1 stage- working out of the software to estimate the negative influence of the industrial enterprises on the environment

2 stage- working out of the software to estimate the negative influence of municipal unions on the environment

3 stage- working out of the software of to estimate the negative influence of the regions on the environment

The results of the implementation will be the following:

1. For the industry
   • assessment of the negative environmental impact of individual structural units;
   • assessment of nature intensity of individual structural units;
   • detection of violations of technological requirements of individual departments;
   • introduction of the internal economic mechanism of nature exploitation in the company, which will lead to the responsibility of managers in the field of environmental protection
   • implementation of a formalized approach to the development and implementation of environmental policies within the enterprise.
2. For the state environmental agencies:
   • improving the efficiency of the state environmental control while reducing the number of state inspectors;
   • improving environmental management of enterprises;
   • increasing the effectiveness of the environmental policy at the municipality, region
   • switching to green taxes.

But most importantly, in our opinion, this proposal will actually allow to reduce the negative environmental impact of economic entities, to improve the environmental responsibility of all managers in the field of environmental management as it will provide an opportunity to determine the degree of inefficient utilization of raw products, materials and energy by particular industries, as well as an overvalued raw material component in the price structure of t the products.

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