

economic assessment of natural resources and ecosystem services;
introduction and use of natural-resource management of environmental & economic accounting systems in practice;
environmental management in conditions of administrative reform;
development and introduction of innovative management mechanisms in the field of natural-resources;
sustainable development of territories (regional and municipal aspects);
environmental protection technology.
Research and practical conference "Innovations in environmental management and environmental protection: government & business cooperation", held in Yaroslavl on the basis of the Institute "Cadaster" and Yaroslavl Institute for skills development of leading employees and experts of chemical and petrochemical industry in 2002. Recommendations of the conference.
Second inter-regional research and practical conference "Innovations into environmental management and environmental protection under conditions of preparation for Russian accession to the WTO", held in Yaroslavl on the basis of the Institute "Cadaster" and Yaroslavl institute for skills development of leading employees and experts of chemical and petrochemical industry in 2003. Recommendations of the conference.
Workshop «Experience and current development problems of industrial and sanitary-protection zones», held by the Institute “Cadaster” jointly with the N.P.Pastuhov's State academy of industrial management in Yaroslavl on 16 February 2007. Experts of the Yroslavl city hall, territorial administration of Rospotrebnadzor in the Yaroslavl Region, representatives of industrial enterprises took part in the workshop. Recommendations.
Workshops concerning economic assessment of natural resources and ecosystem services. Representatives of environmental regulatory bodies practically from all regions of Russia took part in it.
All-Russian meetings concerning natural resources accounting and assessment were held on the basis of the organization (1993 and 1995).
Since 1997 the Institute has the department of “Environmental economics and problems of sustainable development” of the N.P.Pastuhov's State academy of industrial management (Academician of the Russian Academy of Natrual Sciences, Dr. George Fomenko is the head of the department).
Since 2002 the department of “Environmental economics and problems of sustainable development” educates people on the right to operate in the field of production and consumption waste management. 390 people have been trained for the last three years.