摘要
We carried out an analytical summary and a systematization of the national and international methodological approaches in assessing impacts of agriculture on environment. The most noteworthy among them are the assessments of life cycle, ecological risks and threshold impacts as well as energy-ecological strategy (including Emergy). We give an outline of the most demanded (for practical purposes) foreign systems of indicators and analyze the features peculiar to them. We suggest our own technique for assessing the influence of agriculture to be used in strategic governance of nature management. It includes diagnosing the specific character and selecting the indicators, assessing the degree of impact and of its deviation from the optimal level, correlating the value of agricultural pressure with the landscape structure of the study area on the basis of landscape (geosystem) approach, and analyzing the positive and negative consequences for natural systems. A set of indicators is recommended for the steppe and forest-steppe zones of Western Siberia, which depends on the scope of research and the specialization of agriculture that takes into consideration the consequences of impacts on environment. This technique was tested for the agrarian-oriented and agrarian-recreational territories of Altai krai to show high performance in territorial planning for purposes of balanced agricultural nature management in so far as it can be used for strategic governance of any region. Keywords agriculture critical load indicators of impacts integral assessment consequences of impacts