The Scientific Research Center for Ecological Safety at the Russian Academy of Sciences (SRCES RAS) was established in 1987 as the Leningrad Scientific Center at the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1987 to 1991 it existed as the Ecological Safety Department of the Institute for Informatics at the Russian Academy of Sciences and on 1991 received the rights of an Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The Institute's activities are financed mainly from the budget of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Additional financial incomes are taken from different foundations that support scientific research. The Institute carries out interdisciplinary basic and applied research in the field of ecological safety.

Main directions of the Institute's activity:

1. establishing methods of an integrated assessment of adverse technogenic impacts on the natural environment and human health at the regional, federal, and inter-state levels;
   
   
2. elaboration of a methodology of formulating a nature management strategy aimed to ensure implementation of the principles of ecologically safe development of the city and the region;



3. elaboration of proposals on an environmentally legal framework;



4. studies into strategic planning and development of regional industrial complexes based on the ecological safety and sustainable development criteria;



5. elaboration of a methodology of technogenic environmental risk analysis and ranking based on an integrated assessment of natural, technological, environmental, and economic factors;



6. working out remote-sensing methods for studying global climate changes, natural system thermodynamics, and ecodynamic processes in the context of ecologically safe sustainable development;



7. elaboration of a methodology and substantiation of the tasks, structure, and implementation of the national integrated environmental monitoring system;



8. studies of rehabilitation mechanisms for ecosystems and humans when exposed to anthropogenic loads based on physiochemical, biomedical, and microbiological investigations;



9. studies of the ecotoxicant transformation processes in the natural environment components and trophic chains;



10. further development of the ecotoxicant identification theory aimed at elaboration of a scientific and methodical framework for and implementation of the ecological criminology methods;



11. elaboration of a concept and application of technical systems of ecological safety of regional industrial complexes at various levels;



12. creating ecologically safe methods of air, water, and soil decontamination and management.

• St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences