Abstract
The article analyzes the assessment of the ecological state of the territory by its population in a small town to study the state of public environmental awareness. According to official data, the city of Yelets and the Lipetsk region in general face a significant number of unresolved environmental problems against the background of a quite stable ecological situation. Given the general complex ecological situation in the region, the assessment of the ecological situation in specific settlements, rooted in the local agenda, can be radically different. This allows us to speak about the primary attention of the population to their local place of residence and the problems they face directly. The involvement of the population in the activities to preserve the environment of the region as a whole requires promoting public environmental awareness through a competent environmental policy by state and municipal authorities.
Highlights
No matter how we interpret the idea of sustainable development in the context of practical steps to implement the supposed prospect of improving social institutions, its general focus on harmonizing the relationship between man and nature leaves the improvement of the ecological situation among the main priorities, even against the background of increased attention to recent social issues [1, 2]
Sociology in this case helps to move from theoretical reasoning about the attitude of society to environmental problems to the direct recording of the assessments made and the actions they produce as manifestations of public environmental awareness [8]
Empirical data were collected as part of the assignment of the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Lipetsk region, which involved a socio-political study to assess the level of environmental awareness of the population of the Lipetsk region [9]
Summary
No matter how we interpret the idea of sustainable development in the context of practical steps to implement the supposed prospect of improving social institutions, its general focus on harmonizing the relationship between man and nature leaves the improvement of the ecological situation among the main priorities, even against the background of increased attention to recent social issues [1, 2]. Sociology in this case helps to move from theoretical reasoning about the attitude of society to environmental problems to the direct recording of the assessments made and the actions they produce as manifestations of public environmental awareness [8]
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