SEARCHING NEW PARADIGMS OF ECOLOGIZATIONOF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (METHODOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM)

Abstract

Topicality. At the present stage of social development, characterized by complication of relations between society and nature and degradation of the natural environment, the problem of ecologization of all spheres of human activity is actualized. In these circumstances, the importance of methodological understanding of present economic and environmental issues and ensuring the sustainability of social development is increasing.Aim and tasks.The aim of this paper is to study new approaches to the paradigms and meanings of sustainable development, its economic, environmental, social and technological dimension. In order to achieve this goal, the paper discusses set of issues including trends in social development and development of new approaches to solving problems of society.Research results. The paper analyzes the problems of theoretical and methodological basis of ecologization of social development. Attention is paid to the modern realities of economic and ecological relations, which are characterized by the presence of elements of primitivism, insufficient study of complex non-linear problems, which complicate ecologization of social development.We stress the need to take into account current trends of development, such as, for example, "catastrophizing" of the modern world, activation of the intellectual potential of the community in order tosolve environmental problems and provide economic security, growing attentionof scientists to the problems of instability and non-linearity of development and the need to move from the linear understanding of the world to paradigms of non-linearity. The problems of searching of new approaches and paradigms on the World Economic Forums in recent years are discussed.Conclusion. The analysis of modern economic-ecological relations demonstrates the need to understand environment as a complex non-linear system, to search new paradigms of social development and strategies for economic-ecological harmonization. From the point of view of a non-linear approach to ecologizaiton, one of the basic conditions is the change of imperatives, movement from the policy of "force pressure" to the co-evolution of economic, environmental and socio-political systems.