STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY: PROBLEMS, METHODOLOGY, SOLUTIONS

Abstract

The scientific and methodological relevance and practical and applied priority of studying the processes of sustainable development of the industrial economy are argued by the global environmental problems of our time, which are the result of the centuries-old environmentally destructive practice of involving resource and raw materials in economic circulation, the predatory exploitation of soil and land cover, water and air basins, vegetation and animal worlds, irrational development of the habitat. The theoretical basis of the publication is the fundamental scientific work of Russian and foreign scientists-representatives of the classical economic school on the issues of sustainable environmental development of the industrial economy. The purpose of the publication is to study the theoretical and methodological foundations, problems and priority areas for their solution that arise in the process of forming a strategy for sustainable environmental development of the industrial economy. The objectives of the publication are to study the cause-and-effect mechanisms of the environmental problems emergence, which involve a critical rethinking of the theoretical and practical foundations for the industrial economy functioning, a comparative description of the scientific heritage of classical and neoclassical economic schools, the interpretation of technogenic factors of our time, the recognition of their strategic failure and, as a consequence of the need to replace the alternative concept of sustainable environmental development. The subject of the study is the conceptual, methodological and practice-oriented provisions of the strategy for sustainable development of national and international industrial complexes. In the process of research, the methods of monographic examination and scientific deduction, analysis, synthesis and logical abstraction have been used. The problems of the industrial economy, which are priority in terms of environmental significance, have been identified, the most important of which are pollution of the atmospheric basin, deterioration in the quality of the water area, dehumidification of lands and an increased threat of soil depletion, depopulation of animal and plant communities, and environmentally irrational development of the subsoil. The conceptual and methodological significance and relevance of the scientific heritage of the Rome Club have been established and empirically confirmed, whose representatives interpreted the empirical and factual information characterizing the results of the environmental activities of mankind, in general, and the functioning of industrial and industrial complexes, in particular. The scope of the obtained results: the economics of industry and the development of a strategy for its sustainable environmental development. Thus, the theoretical and methodological study presented in the publication is of undoubted relevance and strategic importance in the context of the formation of the national concept of sustainable environmental development of the industrial economy of the Russian Federation