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Ms. Vera Yurak
Ural state mining university

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Journal article
Published: 14 July 2021 in Gornye nauki i tekhnologii = Mining Science and Technology (Russia)
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The study hypothesis is determined by the statement that the identification of a set of issues covering all stages of introducing technogenic deposits into economic turnover will allow focusing on solving a set of complex problems associated with technogenic mineral accumulations (mining waste). The aim of the study was to identify problems requiring priority resolution, which, in turn, accelerated the transition to a circular economy (implementation of the concept of closed supply chains) in the context of handling technogenic mineral accumulations. In the course of the study, issues of legal nature were identified (caused by the absence of the legal status of technogenic deposits and the regulation of their use regime in the Federal Law of the Russian Federation “On Subsoil”). A number of aspects are due to the complexity and cost of development of technogenic deposits, which are rightfully classified as unconventional types of raw materials, and in most cases require state support (for involving in commercial exploitation) in the form of a system of economic incentives, the feasibility of which should be confirmed by newly-elaborated regulatory legal acts. State should use the tools of public-private partnership in solving waste problems, in particular, referring to the positively proven experience of implementing regional target programs for processing of technogenic mineral accumulations. Viability of transition to circular economy in the sphere of handling technogenic mineral accumulations depends on the timeliness of the identified problems solution.

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M. N. Ignatyeva; V. V. Yurak; A. V. Dushin; V. E. Strovsky. Technogenic mineral accumulations: problems of transition to circular economy. Gornye nauki i tekhnologii = Mining Science and Technology (Russia) 2021, 6, 73-89 .

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M. N. Ignatyeva, V. V. Yurak, A. V. Dushin, V. E. Strovsky. Technogenic mineral accumulations: problems of transition to circular economy. Gornye nauki i tekhnologii = Mining Science and Technology (Russia). 2021; 6 (2):73-89.

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M. N. Ignatyeva; V. V. Yurak; A. V. Dushin; V. E. Strovsky. 2021. "Technogenic mineral accumulations: problems of transition to circular economy." Gornye nauki i tekhnologii = Mining Science and Technology (Russia) 6, no. 2: 73-89.

Article
Published: 20 April 2021 in Environment, Development and Sustainability
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The article identifies possible challenges and threats to balanced subsoil use, in particular mining, and assesses the danger of effects, which allows to highlight the main ones for elimination. The concept of balanced nature management has been clarified, and evolutionary changes in its content have been found out: from the balance within only the economic subsystem to the balance of all three components: environmental, social and economic. The definition of balanced mining has been formulated. The conceptual and categorical apparatus has been clarified regarding the occurrence of danger to the balanced mining: the definitions of global challenges, internal and external threats and risks, and their relationship to each other. We identify economic, environmental, social and institutional threats, and their structuring in relation to challenges. The methodological foundations of their assessment are developed, which include the fundamental principles of assessment procedures and the methodical tools—guidelines for assessing threats. The assessment procedures involve the calculation of particular indicators for each of the areas of threats; the calculation of general indicators taking into account the weight of particular indicators; and the definition of an integral indicator taking into account the weight of general ones. The classification of the integral indicator has been done with the allocation of four groups of the threats’ danger degrees. The guidelines were tested on the Sverdlovsk region, Russia.

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Margarita N. Ignatyeva; Vera V. Yurak; Alexey V. Dushin; Irina G. Polyanskaya. Assessing challenges and threats for balanced subsoil use. Environment, Development and Sustainability 2021, 1 -19.

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Margarita N. Ignatyeva, Vera V. Yurak, Alexey V. Dushin, Irina G. Polyanskaya. Assessing challenges and threats for balanced subsoil use. Environment, Development and Sustainability. 2021; ():1-19.

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Margarita N. Ignatyeva; Vera V. Yurak; Alexey V. Dushin; Irina G. Polyanskaya. 2021. "Assessing challenges and threats for balanced subsoil use." Environment, Development and Sustainability , no. : 1-19.

Journal article
Published: 20 April 2021 in Applied Sciences
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Nowadays, the sorption-oriented approach is on the agenda in the remediation practices of lands contaminated with heavy metals. The current growing quantity of research accounts for different sorbents. However, there is still a lack of studies utilizing the economic criteria. Therefore, to ensure a wide application of opportunities, one of the necessary requirements is their economic efficiency in use. By utilizing these criteria, this manuscript researches the generally accepted natural sorbents for the assessment of heavy metal ions’ adsorption, such as peat, diatomite, vermiculite and their mixtures in different proportions and physical shapes. The methodological base of the study consists of the volumetric (titrimetric) method, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and atomic absorption spectrometry. Experimental tests show a certain decline in the efficiency of heavy metal ions’ adsorption from aqueous salt solutes as follows: granular peat–diatomite > large-fraction vermiculite > medium-fraction vermiculite > non-granular peat–diatomite > diatomite.

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Vera Yurak; Rafail Apakashev; Alexey Dushin; Albert Usmanov; Maxim Lebzin; Alexander Malyshev. Testing of Natural Sorbents for the Assessment of Heavy Metal Ions’ Adsorption. Applied Sciences 2021, 11, 3723 .

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Vera Yurak, Rafail Apakashev, Alexey Dushin, Albert Usmanov, Maxim Lebzin, Alexander Malyshev. Testing of Natural Sorbents for the Assessment of Heavy Metal Ions’ Adsorption. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11 (8):3723.

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Vera Yurak; Rafail Apakashev; Alexey Dushin; Albert Usmanov; Maxim Lebzin; Alexander Malyshev. 2021. "Testing of Natural Sorbents for the Assessment of Heavy Metal Ions’ Adsorption." Applied Sciences 11, no. 8: 3723.

Journal article
Published: 15 April 2021 in Sustainability
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Nowadays, circular economy (CE) is on the agenda, however, this concept of closed supply chains originated in the 1960s. The current growing quantity of studies in this area accounts for different discourses except the holistic one, which mixes both approaches—contextual and operating (contextual approach utilizes the thorough examination of the CE theory, stricture of the policy, etc.; the operating one uses any kind of statistical data)—to assess the capacity of circular economy regulatory policy packages (CERPP) in operating raw materials and industrial wastes. This article demonstrates new guidelines for assessing the degree level of capacity (DLC) of CERPPs in the operation of raw materials and industrial wastes by utilizing the apparatus of the fuzzy set theory. It scrupulously surveys current CERPPs in three regions: the EU overall, Finland and Russia; and assesses for eight regions—the EU overall, Finland, Russia, China, Greece, France, the Netherlands and South Korea—the DLC of CERPPs in operating raw materials and industrial wastes. The results show that EU is the best in CE policy and its CERPP is 3R. The following are South Korea and China with the same type of CERPP. Finland, France and the Netherlands have worse results than EU with the type of CERPP called “integrated waste management” because of the absence of a waste hierarchy (reduce, recover, recycle). Russia closes the list with the type of CERPP “basic waste management”.

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Margarita Ignatyeva; Vera Yurak; Alexey Dushin; Vladimir Strovsky; Sergey Zavyalov; Alexander Malyshev; Polina Karimova. How Far Away Are World Economies from Circularity: Assessing the Capacity of Circular Economy Policy Packages in the Operation of Raw Materials and Industrial Wastes. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4394 .

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Margarita Ignatyeva, Vera Yurak, Alexey Dushin, Vladimir Strovsky, Sergey Zavyalov, Alexander Malyshev, Polina Karimova. How Far Away Are World Economies from Circularity: Assessing the Capacity of Circular Economy Policy Packages in the Operation of Raw Materials and Industrial Wastes. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (8):4394.

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Margarita Ignatyeva; Vera Yurak; Alexey Dushin; Vladimir Strovsky; Sergey Zavyalov; Alexander Malyshev; Polina Karimova. 2021. "How Far Away Are World Economies from Circularity: Assessing the Capacity of Circular Economy Policy Packages in the Operation of Raw Materials and Industrial Wastes." Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4394.

Journal article
Published: 06 November 2020 in Sustainability
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This article considers the concept of natural capital as a basic construct of sustainable development. However, after numerous studies, a number of aspects of accounting and valuation of natural capital remain unspecified. The relevance and imperfection of the guidelines used to assess natural capital make relevant the development of such issues as the conceptual apparatus and methods to natural capital assessment. Therefore, the core objectives of the paper are: (1) to substantiate the structure of natural capital, taking into account the natural resources and ecosystem approaches; (2) to clarify the concepts of “function” and “services” in relation to abiotic and biotic components of the environment; (3) to generalize and analyze the classifications of ecosystem services, and to develop the authors’ classification; (4) to identify the most common methods for the economic assessment of natural capital’s components, and to implement these methods within a specific territory. These methods have been tested on the Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug (KhMAD, Russia). The most typical ecosystems of the region and their inherent ecosystem services have been identified. Assessment results are presented for (1) forest ecosystems, (2) mountain ecosystems, and (3) ecosystems of swamps, lakes, and rivers.

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Margarita Ignatyeva; Vera Yurak; Oksana Logvinenko. A New Look at the Natural Capital Concept: Approaches, Structure, and Evaluation Procedure. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9236 .

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Margarita Ignatyeva, Vera Yurak, Oksana Logvinenko. A New Look at the Natural Capital Concept: Approaches, Structure, and Evaluation Procedure. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (21):9236.

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Margarita Ignatyeva; Vera Yurak; Oksana Logvinenko. 2020. "A New Look at the Natural Capital Concept: Approaches, Structure, and Evaluation Procedure." Sustainability 12, no. 21: 9236.

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Published: 10 June 2020 in Resources
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The article considers the concept of the circular economy as an important tool for achieving sustainable development, which relates to the preservation of renewable resources’ mass through the renewal of withdrawn resources and the restoration of disturbed ones. It is directly linked to remedial land treatment in post-mining disturbed land. However, after numerous studies, the conceptual apparatus of recultivation remains unspecified. Moreover, there is a gap regarding the trends of evolutionary changes in studies of legislation and feasibility on the subject of recultivation. Employing comparative law as a tool, the aim of the study is to develop a consistent approach based on circular economy by establishing the stages of legal support for recultivation and identifying the content of all these stages regarding economic efficiency. Currently, the environmental priorities of the economy are triggering the usage of the ecosystem approach for assessing the ecological result of recultivation. Therefore, the core of the paper is the development of a consistent circular economy approach by (1) clarifying the concept of recultivation, (2) identifying the stages of the development of a legal framework for recultivation and (3) revealing evolutionary changes in feasibility studies on recultivation. The authors prove that recultivation should be considered from the perspective of geoaesthetics, which implies a harmonious incorporation of the recultivated landscape into the environment.

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Margarita Ignatyeva; Vera Yurak; Natalia Pustokhina. Recultivation of Post-Mining Disturbed Land: Review of Content and Comparative Law and Feasibility Study. Resources 2020, 9, 73 .

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Margarita Ignatyeva, Vera Yurak, Natalia Pustokhina. Recultivation of Post-Mining Disturbed Land: Review of Content and Comparative Law and Feasibility Study. Resources. 2020; 9 (6):73.

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Margarita Ignatyeva; Vera Yurak; Natalia Pustokhina. 2020. "Recultivation of Post-Mining Disturbed Land: Review of Content and Comparative Law and Feasibility Study." Resources 9, no. 6: 73.

Conference paper
Published: 27 January 2019 in Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Far East Con" (ISCFEC 2018)
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Total economic value concept operates as a consistent approach for economic evaluation of natural resources in the context of exacerbation of the ecological crisis and overexploitation of natural resources. However, the essence and structure are still the subject of scientific research. This article determines that along with the existence of subjective,...

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A.V. Dushin; V.V. Yurak. Total Economic Value Concept: Essence, Evolution and Author's Approach. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Far East Con" (ISCFEC 2018) 2019, 1 .

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A.V. Dushin, V.V. Yurak. Total Economic Value Concept: Essence, Evolution and Author's Approach. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Far East Con" (ISCFEC 2018). 2019; ():1.

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A.V. Dushin; V.V. Yurak. 2019. "Total Economic Value Concept: Essence, Evolution and Author's Approach." Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Far East Con" (ISCFEC 2018) , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2017 in Economy of Region
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I.G. Polyanskaya; V.V. Yurak. Institutional Assessment of Environmentally Oriented Subsoil Use. Economy of Region 2017, 355 -368.

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I.G. Polyanskaya, V.V. Yurak. Institutional Assessment of Environmentally Oriented Subsoil Use. Economy of Region. 2017; ():355-368.

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I.G. Polyanskaya; V.V. Yurak. 2017. "Institutional Assessment of Environmentally Oriented Subsoil Use." Economy of Region , no. : 355-368.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2013 in Economy of Region
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I. G. Polyanskaya; V. V. Yurak. Institutions, mechanisms and methods of innovative subsurface resources management. Economy of Region 2013, 205 -215.

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I. G. Polyanskaya, V. V. Yurak. Institutions, mechanisms and methods of innovative subsurface resources management. Economy of Region. 2013; ():205-215.

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I. G. Polyanskaya; V. V. Yurak. 2013. "Institutions, mechanisms and methods of innovative subsurface resources management." Economy of Region , no. : 205-215.