Contents of "GEOEKOLOGIYA" No 5, 2002

• Environmental role of the permafrost
  L.S .Garagulya and G.I. Gordeeva
• Rational use of Russian mineral resources as one of the most important factors of sustainable development
  A.E. Vorob'ev and A.V. Dzhanyants

Functioning of Natural and Anthropogenic Systems

• Role of dumping in human-induced changes of marine environment and its international legal aspect
  N.A. Aibulatov and S.N. Tikhomirov

Geoenvironmental Problems in Utilization and Disposal of Waste

• Simplified model for assessing safety in underground disposal of high-level waste and spent fuel in crystalline rock (the normal evolution scenario)
  P.V. Amosov
• Ways of mitigating hazardous impact of sulfide-containing waste on the environment
  V.T. Kalinnikov, V.N. Makarov, and D.V. Makarov

Environment Contamination

• On the correlation between oxidability and chemical composition of ground water (by the example of the northeastern Ukraine)
  V.V. Pedan
• Physico-chemical modeling of natural water composition at the uranium-vanadium deposit
  G.S. Boroduylina and S.I. Mazukhina
• Geochemical estimation of soil-cover contamination in the Valaam Archipelago
  E.G. Panova, V.V. Gavrilenko, N.N. Matinyan, and A.A. Sheshukova
• Application of mathematical modeling to the elimination of soil and groundwater contamination with oil products
  I.S. Pashkovskii, D.V. Konnonov, I.S. Klein, L. Krzhizh, and P. Moteil

Soil and Rock Engineering

• Specifics of mineral composition and particle-size distribution in loess
  V.G. Shlykov and M.Yu. Vasilenko

Natural and Human-Induced Processes

• On the ultimate depth of natural geodynamic phenomena and the absolute energetic scale of their assessment
  V.A. Fokin

Research Methods and Techniques

• Repeated torsion of samples for clay strength characterization
  S.R. Meschyan
• Review of the book "Physical Aspects of Environmental Geoscience"
  G.F.Ufimtsev