ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY AS A FACTOR OF CONSOLIDATION OF UKRAINIAN SOCIETY

Abstract

Emerging economy based on innovation, technological progress creates new sources of growth, reinterpreted with environmental positions the principles of interaction with the environment.
 The relationship of social systems with the components of the natural environment is established through complex correlations of different orientation and depth. Therefore, the level of general scientific study of the processes of interaction between state, society and nature form a new integrated interdisciplinary approaches that integrate and form an unconventional device methodological study of this area.
 Ecological literacy, which is expressed in the development, justification, and most importantly the practical implementation of optimal methods of environmental impact, can serve as an indicator of social maturity, which determines the nature of personal participation in the process of man-made impact on the environment.
 In the long term ecological literacy must become an integral part of literacy work and find a real reflection of a system of criteria for socio-economic evaluation of production results as every labor collective and the individual.
 In modern conditions, the most important trend in business development is socialization, which means: first, active involvement in solving priority social problems of enterprise development, the region and the state as a whole; secondly, clearly defined socially oriented investments of enterprises in the improvement of the internal and external environment, in corporate social programs; third, various forms of charitable and sponsorship activities.
 Response to environmental risks must become conscious of the need for greening of consciousness and life in Ukraine. That is, learning certain environmental perceptions and attitudes towards nature and implementation in daily practice technologies that do not cause irreparable damage to the environment, changing lifestyles of people to safer spread respect for natural resources.
 The solution to all these issues requires a thorough environmental legal framework will be to: broad international cooperation in the environmental field to address environmental safety and environmental protection; ensuring social and environmental security; monitoring the problems of ecologically oriented lifestyle in Ukraine according to the method of "Green Barometer" (the Green Barometer); the introduction of new technologies in Ukraine; the need to develop principles for the transition from economics to energy economics.