RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY FACULTY OF GEOGRAPHY, LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY, RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES No. 04 (v. 08) 2015 GEOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY EDITORIAL BOARD EDITORSINCHIEF: Kasimov Nikolay S. Kotlyakov Vladimir M. Vandermotten Christian Lomonosov Moscow State Russian Academy of Sciences Université Libre de Bruxelles, University, Faculty of Geography, Institute of Geography, Belgium 04|2015 Russia Russia Tikunov Vladimir S. (Secretary-General) Kroonenberg Salomon Lomonosov Moscow State University, Delft University of Technology 2 GES Faculty of Geography, Russia Department of Applied Earth Sciences, Baklanov Alexander The Netherlands Danish Meteorological Institute, Kulmala Markku Denmark University of Helsinki, Division of Baklanov Petr Ya. Atmospheric Sciences, Finland Russian Academy of Sciences, Malkhazova Svetlana M. Pacific Institute of Geography, Russia Lomonosov Moscow State University, Chalkley Brian Faculty of Geography, Russia University of Plymouth, UK Meadows Michael E. Chubarova Natalya E. University of Cape Town, Department Lomonosov Moscow State University, of Environmental and Geographical Sciences Faculty of Geography, Russia South Africa De Maeyer Philippe Nefedova Tatyana G. Ghent University, Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Geography, Belgium Institute of Geography, Russia Dobrolubov Sergey A. O’Loughlin John Lomonosov Moscow State University, University of Colorado at Boulder, Faculty of Geography, Russia Institute of Behavioral Sciences, USA Haigh Martin Pedroli Bas Oxford Brookes University, Wageningen University, Department of Social Sciences, UK The Netherlands Gulev Sergey K. Radovanovic Milan Russian Academy of Sciences, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Oceanology, Russia Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijić”, Serbia Guo Huadong Sokratov Sergei A. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Remote Sensing Faculty of Geography, Russia and Digital Earth, China Solomina Olga N. Jarsjö Jerker Russian Academy of Sciences, Stockholm University, Department of Institute of Geography, Russia Physical Geography and Quaternary Tishkov Arkady A. Geology, Sweden Russian Academy of Sciences, Kolosov Vladimir A. Institute of Geography, Russia Russian Academy of Sciences, Wuyi Wang Institute of Geography, Russia Chinese Academy of Sciences, Konečný Milan Institute of Geographical Sciences and Masaryk University, Natural Resources Research, China Faculty of Science, Czech Republic Zilitinkevich Sergey S. Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland CONTENTS Svetlana M. Malkhazova, Varvara A. Mironova HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT: THE URGENT PROBLEM OF MODERN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH . 4 04|2015 GEOGRAPHY Svetlana M. Malkhazova, Natalya V. Shartova, Sergei A. Timonin 3 GES SPATIAL PATTERNS OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN RUSSIA . 7 Tatiana V. Dikareva, Vadim Yu. Rumiantsev DISTRIBUTION OF ALLERGENIC PLANTS IN RUSSIA . 18 Tatiana A. Trifonova, Anton A. Martsev NATURALFOCAL DISEASES IN THE VLADIMIR REGION RUSSIA . 26 ENVIRONMENT Altangerel Enkhjargal, Badrakhyn Burmaajav IMPACT OF THE AMBIENT AIR PM2.5 ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES OF ULAANBAATAR RESIDENTS . 35 Semen A. Kurolap, Oleg V. Klepikov, Pavel M. Vinogradov, Tatyana I. Prozhorina, Liudmila O. Sereda INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT AND GISMAPPING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL STATE OF THE CITY OF VORONEZH RUSSIA . 42 SUSTAINABILITY Wuyi Wang, Yonghua Li, Hairong Li, Jiangping Yu, Linsheng Yang, Li Wang ENVIRONMENTAL MECHANISM OF REGIONAL LONGEVITY IN CHINA . 54 R.B. Singh, Md. Senaul Haque, Aakriti Grover DRINKING WATER, SANITATION AND HEALTH IN KOLKATA METROPOLITAN CITY: CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS URBAN SUSTAINABILITY . 64 NEWS AND REVIEWS Sergey R. Chalov, Vladimir A. Kolosov GEOGRAPHY, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY FOR OUR FUTURE EARTH . 82 Giovanni De Santis HEALTH MANAGEMENT. A MEDICAL GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE . 85 Taniana A. Trifonova MEDICALGEOGRAPHICAL ATLAS OF RUSSIA “NATURALFOCAL DISEASES” . 90 HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT: THE URGENT PROBLEM OF MODERN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH1 04|2015 The problem of the relationships between organized by the Faculty of Geography of the humans and the environment is becoming Lomonosov Moscow State University and the 4 GES increasingly urgent, which is reflected in studies Department of Biology and Ecology of A.G. of medical geographers, anthropologists, and N.G. Stoletov Vladimir State University. The and scientists of other disciplines. The scope seminar was attended by 45 scientists from 7 includes theoretical and experimental countries; 19 oral and 11 poster presentations research on natural and anthropogenic risk were made; the themes of the presentations factors, medico-geographical consequences were related to the most important modern of regional changes of the environment, problems. population health of urbanized territories, background factors promoting the spread of One of the main traditional research areas is infectious and parasitic diseases, organization the effect of various environmental factors of health care, etc. The interest to this problem on the population health, which covers both has increased as a result of new challenges of the role of the individual components and the last decades, namely, global change of their combined effects. Many researchers natural environment, increased population addressed one of the most important issues migration, appearance of a new group of this field of studies – the meteorological of “emerging” diseases, etc. The results of factor. The presentations included works these research efforts have been presented on the bio-climatic and meteorological at numerous medico-geographical and conditions in the Central (E. Kulagina et al.) environmental anthropology conferences.1 and the North-Western regions of Russia (E. Semina et al.; M. Trubina) and on heat waves One of the sections of the Regional in the Kuban region (E. Carvajal Ciomina et al.). Conference of the International Geographical Natural hazards in Europe were analyzed by E. Union (IGU) held in Moscow in August of 2015 Semina et al. The role of geochemical factors was devoted entirely to the issue of “Health (the content of arsenic in drinking water) in and Environment.” The section hosted 28 oral the spread of skin tumors was discussed by and 7 poster presentations from 12 countries. Y. Xia using Inner Mongolia as an example. Influence of a complex of environmental Prior to the Regional Conference, the IGU factors on the population health of an Commission “Health and Environment” industrialized area was demonstrated on the conducted a scientific and practical seminar example of the Vladimir region (Trifonova on medical geography and human ecology et al.). The study noted that in recent years in the city of Vladimir. Such workshops are a there has been a continuous increase in long-standing tradition of the Commission the incidence rate in the populations of all which organizes them immediately prior to age groups, which the authors attributed the congresses or regional conferences in mainly to poor environmental conditions. the hosting country. The 2015 seminar was Local geographical factors and their impact on health in Chechnya were analyzed by H. 1 The review is based on the Book of Abstracts of International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Health and Environ- Eldarova. ment Pre-Conference Meeting on Medical Geography and Human Ecology, 13–16 August 2015, Vladimir, Russia. Vladimir, 2015. – 35 p. and the IGU 2015 Book of Abstracts, International Allergy has long been one of the most Geographical Union: Moscow, 2015. – pp. 516–556. common problems of the population of S.M. Malkhazova, V.A. Mironova HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT: THE URGENT PROBLEM... developed countries. The role of biotic Another important topic in modern research factors was demonstrated in the study on the on medical geography and human ecology is distribution range of plants-allergens in Russia urban health. Spatial and temporal patterns of (Dikareva, Rumyantsev) who studied the main population growth in large cities in China were pattern of their distribution. A presentation discussed by Wang Wuyi et al. Conventional by O. Konstantinova et al. was devoted to studies have focused on different aspects intoxication from snake-bites in the Republic of the relationship of the environment and 04|2015 of Guinea. The use of folk remedies by local health. The results of assessment of the communities was discussed on the example impact of air pollution on environmentally- of the population in Maharashtra, India dependent diseases were presented by Wang 5 GES (Ravindra G. Jaybhaye, Bhaskar I. Gatkul). These Wuyi et al. (Y. Cheng et al. and Xiaofeng Gao, interdisciplinary studies, based on traditional Huiping Liu. The relationships between disease methods of biogeography, ecology, and incidence in various population groups and human health geography, are a good example the location of large industrial enterprises for of cooperation between experts in different a large industrial center (the city of Voronezh, areas. Russia) were discussed by S. Kurolap et al. The scientists demonstrated that the use of GIS One of the problems of human ecology on the technology is a reliable tool for presentation agenda at the beginning of the XXI century is of spatial differentiation of disease incidence the problem of population aging. This issue has and can be used in development of long-term been studied relatively well in China, where health care programs for the populations of the share of the older