ASSIGNMENT OF THE NEW TYPE OF ECOLOGICAL SERVICES FOR PROVIDING HUMAN SAFETY UNDER CONDITIONS OF URBAN ENVIRONMENT

  • Kateryna Vasiutynska Odessa National Polytechnic University,, Ukraine
Keywords: ecological service, urboecosystem, safety, urban environment, natural capital, human life and health risk

Abstract

The main aim of the study is to separate a new category of ecological services for providing human and environmental safety under conditions of accelerated urbanization in the system of eco-services.

Urbanization decreased the potential of ecological services and the set of provided functions at the expanse of absorbing essential territories of natural ecosystems and disturbing the ecological balance of the environment. The urbogenic environment that men made and natural dangerous phenomena intensify synergetically in models the new level of threats for both a human and all biotic and abiotic components. 

There was offered to separate an integral safety service as a new type of eco-services, based on the principle of providing human safety through environmental one. It was demonstrated, that safety services will improve other categories of ecological services, widen the assortment, diversity and mutual dependence of functions.  

There was presented the succession of steps for identifying and assessing safety services. Indicators and possible types of giving safe and high-quality drinking water to the population were given.

The demand for safety services will grow with the development of urbanization processes. Separation and provision of services by functions of the human protection against natural and men made threats increases the total potential of eco-services.

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Author Biography

Kateryna Vasiutynska, Odessa National Polytechnic University,

Department of Applied Ecology and Hydrogasdynamics

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2018-04-05
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Vasiutynska, K. (2018). ASSIGNMENT OF THE NEW TYPE OF ECOLOGICAL SERVICES FOR PROVIDING HUMAN SAFETY UNDER CONDITIONS OF URBAN ENVIRONMENT. EUREKA: Life Sciences, (2), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.21303/2504-5695.2018.00598
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Ecology