Today no one from among the sane scientists and politicians have questioned the existence of environmental problems of global significance, as well as the futility of continuing the previous (technocratic) society's development. The question is: how come for concerted action reporter "local" public aspirations?
With mass awareness of the ecological imperative has begun a sharp politicization of environmental problems and movements, which contributed to the alarmist tone of the first models of global development.
Awareness of the ecological imperative is the need for urgent action to save the Habitat of mankind — occurred in the West in the early 1970s. In this regard, two particularly important developments in 1972, 2005: the first International Conference on environment in Stockholm under the auspices of the UN and the book American scientist d. 's and co-authors "limits to growth".
Under the environmental medium most often means the combination of the conditions and influences. If the environment is understood, then it can be many things: and the Earth and the atmosphere, and even outer space. In other words, the environment covers a set of physical, chemical and biological entities, as well as social factors that may directly or indirectly, instantly or a lot of time affect all living creatures and the people.
Social ecology (or socioekologia) is a set of scientific disciplines dealing with the relationships in a society, the natural environment and developing the scientific basis for the optimization of the human living environment. The terminology in this area is not well established. From the point of view of some scholars, social ecology is to examine the ratio of a geographical, social and cultural environments; According to the position of the other is a section of human ecology, examining the relationship of social groups in society with nature, and more from this socioekologia in some cases includes human ecology, in others the socioekologia is part of the human ecology.
