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Vladimirov I.A. The environmental component in the structure of the integral assessment of the population’s quality of life: theoretical and methodological justification. Russian journal of resources, conservation and recycling. 2026; 13(1). Available at: https://resources.today/PDF/24EEOR126.pdf (in Russian). DOI: 10.15862/24EEOR126

The environmental component in the structure of the integral assessment of the population’s quality of life: theoretical and methodological justification

Vladimirov Ivan Andreevich
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: vladim.ivan@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8949-3942
RSCI: https://elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?id=957126

Abstract. This study is devoted to the theoretical and methodological substantiation of the place of the environmental component in the structure of the integral assessment of the population’s quality of life. The relevance of the issue is determined by the structural gap identified in the domestic scientific literature: despite the declarative recognition of the environmental dimension as a significant component of multidimensional well-being, Russian methods of assessing the quality of life either marginalize this component, limiting themselves to individual sanitary and hygienic indicators, or include it as an auxiliary block that lacks a theoretically justified positioning. Based on the thesis of limited integration of environmental measurements in Russian scientific schools of quality-of-life research, this article aims to explain the nature of this methodological gap.

The scientific problem of this research is that this situation is not due to chance or a gap in the empirical base, but rather to the inherent duality of the nature of environmental measurement. The environment is both a fundamental condition for human life (clean air, drinking water, and undisturbed natural ecosystems) and a resultant characteristic of anthropogenic activity (emissions levels, solid municipal waste, and the degree of natural resource degradation). This duality creates a fundamental methodological difficulty in constructing integral indices. The scientific novelty of this work lies in the conceptual justification of the dual nature of the environmental component as a methodological reason for its structural marginalization in integral indices of quality of life.

Keywords: quality of life; standard of living; sustainable development; environment; environmental factor; assessment methodology; regional economy

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