Estimated and Predictive Mapping of the Geographical Environment of the Mongolian-Siberian Region Based on Ideas about the Organization of Geosystems

A methodology has been developed for the scientific preparation of cartographic information about a natural geographical object to assess the environmental risks of environmental management in the regions. The study was performed on a scale of 1 : 8 000 000 for the territory located in the sector of the catchment area of the Arctic Ocean, extending from the world watershed located in the center of Mongolia to the oceanic subarctic of the Russian Federation. Using geoinformation methods, a basic map has been developed from multiscale maps of geosystems previously created for individual sections of the studied region as a single methodological and information basis for assessing the state of geosystems and predicting its possible anthropogenic change. Using the principles of classification and methods of integration mapping of geosystems proposed by academician V.B. Sochava, a special classification of geosystems adapted to a new scale has been created, reflecting their organization, mechanisms of functioning, and transformation. Based on the results of landscape-ecological and anthropoecological interpretation of geosystem information, indicator signs and criteria for assessing natural environmental risk were developed, which were used as an information basis for cartographic multifunctional zoning of the territory. The "Geosystems of the Mongolian-Siberian Region" and "Geoecozones of the Mongolian-Siberian Region" maps will have theoretical and practical significance for solving complex problems of environmentally oriented nature management and planning and forecasting the development of a vast territory of extratropical Asia.