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8 Role of International Relations in the Development of Ecological Nongovernment Organizations in Russia: The International Association Siberian Accord
8 Role of International Relations in the Development of Ecological Nongovernment Organizations in Russia: The International Association Siberian Accord
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N Korotkevich International Association Siberian Accord "The Russian power will increase with the help of Siberia..." These prophetic words of the great scientist M
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In recent decades, powerful intellectual and industrial potentials have been created in Siberia, including branches of three Russian academies and dozens of scientific research institutes and educational institutions. An interregional association of economic interaction among the administrative units of the Russian Federation Siberian Accord (hereinafter IASA - has been created.
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CCE joins forces with other coordinating councils to solve ecological problems, taking into account their interrelations with all spheres of life in the region. THE PROBLEM OF WATER SUPPLY AND USE While water is one of the main life-forming natural factors, the problems of the drinking water supply of the Siberian population and Russia as a whole have become very sharp.
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, it was decided to develop a special purpose program "The Management System for Dangerous Wastes." It takes into account the problems of ecological safety and economic expediency both for destruction and for treatment and utilization of manufacturing and consumer wastes. The Coordinating Councils of Ecology, Energy Saving, and Housing and Communal services joined efforts to solve the problem "On Use of Combustible Wastes of Manufacturing and Consumers as a Source of Heat." The plasma
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With the participation of interested federal territorial bodies (Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Emergency Situations, State Ecological Committee) SCSM generated "The Siberian Block" and submitted it in December 1998 to the Ministry of Natural Resources and the State Ecological Committee as the subprogram "Space Monitoring of Siberia." This formed the basis for the Federal Special Purpose Program of the General State System of Ecological Monitoring.
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on space monitoring (April 1998, Tomsk) developed the Federal Special Purpose Program of the General State System of Ecological Monitoring for the Siberian region.
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Considering the key role of space monitoring in the rational use of resources, CCE for the first time put before the departments of Russia the problem, "Regional ecological problems resulting from separated parts of rockets." A working meeting (Abakan, March 1999) , with participation of representatives from the Russian Ecological Committee, Russian Aerospace Agency, and Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Defense Ministry, identified 10 territories as the regions where separated parts of rockets and missiles fall with a complex of legal, ecological, economic, and social problems for the inhabitants and administrations.
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This experimental platform deals with the continuous ecological education and training for sustainable development of the Siberian region. Dozens of regional schools with special courses on ecology and environmental protection use the books and training material received from Mendeleev University free of charge—for example: Chemistry and Society from the American Chemical Society, Chemistry and Life (Salters Chemistry)
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Krasnoyarsk Territory plays the leading role among the IASA territories in the development of innovative methods of education to deal with the problems of ecological safety and sustainable development of Siberia, as well as in the interactions with international ecological organizations and funds. The head of the Ecological Laboratory of Krasnoyarsk State University, N
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There students directly participate in the solution of nature protection problems. The Regional Youth Center works with a discussion club of pupils "Way To the Twenty-First Century," with the motto "Who, if not We." "Ecological Theatre Poez" has been formed within the regional public organization of the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Ecoclub Avies.
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The seminar included the following: introduction of new methods for use of natural resources, development of ecological management systems and ecological audits, and role of public organizations. The territorial representatives received useful information from a two-year team effort between the State Ecological Comittee of Tomsk Oblast and the British Agency.
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in the form of different ecological atlases and maps are available to interested educational institutions in the framework of IASA. A number of higher schools of the region (Tomsk Polytechnical University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk State Medical Academy)
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" exclaimed Yury Gagarin, who opened the way to Space. But we should remember that only with full knowledge about the world and with the participation of the world's society in sustainable development can we preserve our Earth with favorable living conditions.
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