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Measurement of Public Interest in Ecological Matters Through Online Activity and Environmental Monitoring

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Taking into account the global world trends in the development of digital technologies and their diffusion into the economic and social space, it is proposed to use indicators of social interest in ecological matters (environmental responsibility and environmental concerns) for the population of Russian regions. An original approach to the estimation of these indicators according to the online activity of the population was proposed. It was found out that the data on the number, prevalence and dynamics of search queries for keywords related to environmental pollution, cleanliness of water and air, reflect the degree of responsibility and concern of the population with the environmental situation in the region and can be considered as an indirect indicator of environmental ill-being. Dependencies have been established between indicators of environmental interest and environmental monitoring data.

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The research described in this paper is partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grants 15-08-08459, 16-07-00779, 17-08-00797, 17-06-00108), Russian Humanitarian Found (grants 15-04-00400), state research 0073–2018–0003, Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation grant GSGK-37/18.

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    Dmitry Verzilin

  2. Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health, St. Petersburg, Russia

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  3. ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Tatyana Maximova

  4. Russian State Hydrometeorological University, St. Petersburg, Russia

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  5. Territorial Fund of Compulsory Medical Insurance of the Leningrad Region, St. Petersburg, Russia

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  6. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Verzilin, D., Maximova, T., Antokhin, Y., Sokolova, I. (2018). Measurement of Public Interest in Ecological Matters Through Online Activity and Environmental Monitoring. In: Alexandrov, D., Boukhanovsky, A., Chugunov, A., Kabanov, Y., Koltsova, O. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 858. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02843-5_11

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