Landscape-hydrological basis for water resources protection and development of the Baikal territory

1st International Geographical Conference of North Asian Countries "China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor: Geographical and Environmental Factors and Territorial Development Opportunities"

地球科学;生态环境科学;经济学

Gagarinova, O.V.^1

Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia^1

关键词: Anthropogenic changes;    Anthropogenic influence;    Hydrological functions;    Hydrological properties;    Moisture transformation;    Quantitative characteristics;    Water resources management;    Water resources protections;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/190/1/012007/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/190/1/012007

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Landscape-hydrological research in the Lake Baikal catchment area has identified individual hydrological properties of landscapes. We analysed physicogeographical conditions, ecological and socioeconomic features of the territory and identified the areas responsible for the formation of qualitative and quantitative characteristics of natural waters, determined areas with significant loads on the aquatic environment, revealed areas with different resistance to anthropogenic influences. Functional zoning of the territory provides the basis for the schemes of water resources use and protection as well as recommendations for the development of the Baikal Natural Territory in relation to the water factor. Our experience in the practical implementation of the landscape-hydrological approach for the water resources management within the Lake Baikal catchment area is represented in the projects of ecological justification of economic activity, water protection zoning of natural and residential areas. Assessing opportunities for the development of the territory based on the water factor rooted in the analysis of water and ecological natural potential, in the stability of hydrological functions of landscapes to natural and anthropogenic changes we examined using the example of zoning the southern shore of Lake Baikal for the recreational purposes. The conception of moisture transformation mechanisms in landscapes as it moves to the draining water body is taken as a basis of water protection zoning.