COMPLEX APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AS A TOOL OF THE DECISION-MAKING SYSTEM AND PUBLIC INFORMATION

Abstract

The publication is dedicated to the study of the complex impact of human activity on the country’s environment. The relevance of the research topic is due to the ongoing process of environmental degradation, which negatively affects the health and quality of life of Ukrainians, the country’s ecosystems, and generates threats to national security. In this regard, there is an urgent need for a systematic scientific approach to assessing the anthropogenic impact on the environment, which is a prerequisite for timely identification of environmental problems and determining ways to prevent and overcome them. The purpose of the study is to improve the decision-making system and inform the public through a comprehensive approach to assessing the anthropogenic impact on the natural environment. To achieve this goal, the following tasks have been set: to analyze the current state of the issue of environmental information provision to the decision-making system, to develop a structure of an integrated approach to assessment, to assess the anthropogenic impact on the country’s environment. The result of the study is the availability of comprehensive, reliable, easily accessible and understandable environmental information on the amount of anthropogenic load on the surrounding natural environment and each of its components. The practical significance of the obtained results in the field of rational nature management and environmental safety lies in the improvement of the methodology of comprehensive assessment of man-made impact on the environment for use in measures to support management decision-making, facilitating the interpretation and generalization of data obtained by the environmental monitoring system, for ranking administrative territories by the level of man-made load, informing the public about the state of the natural environment of the administrative territory and the dynamics of its changes and raising its environmental awareness.