A comparative analysis of the existing methods of land evaluation has shown that none of them ensures a comprehensive assessment of the diverse economic and ecological functions of soils. An original methodology developed by the authors includes the evaluation of the soil ecological quality in addition to the traditional cost assessment of land plots, and adequate correction coefficients accounting for the chemical and radioactive contamination of soils are suggested. The effect of changes in the market price of the land on the inflation processes is analyzed.

As a development of the ideas of ecological and economic assessment of land degradation, the notion of societal land value is suggested as a characteristic that simplifies the consideration...

This article discusses the evaluation of the role of soil as a medium that attenuates doses of radiation during the determination of ecosystem service costs. Some problems of simulation of doses of radiation in terrestrial ecosystems are also considered. An algorithm of the description of the establishment of doses of radiation to living organisms in the soil, on its surface, or at some distance from it is proposed. This algorithm makes it possible to take into account the migration of radioactive substances in a certain volume of soil and the irregularity of its shielding properties. The possibility of connection of the module of the dynamics of soil moisture is shown. A version of the simulation model—namely, DoseMod_3D_soil—is given as an example of implementation of the algorithm.