SOCIOLOŠKA DIMENZIJA EKOLOŠKE BEZBJEDNOSTI
SOCIOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF ECOLOGICAL SECURITY

Summary/Abstract: Scientific research and expert opinions agree with that the threat to ecological security is becoming a predominant issue of social reality. The pursuit of profit in various spheres of modern business forces us to ask ourselves what kind of natural environment future generations will live in. Disturbance of food chains, climate change, rising sea levels, exploitation of natural resources cause multivariate degradation of the natural environment components, which ultimately leads to the need to change public perception in order to protect the natural environment. The sociological aspect of this issue determines the indirect and direct impacts on sociological relations ranging from the individual to multidomain relations in the work and life of hierarchically established systems. Ecological security therefore comes to the pedestal as a necessity and aspiration for finding adaptive methods based on the basic postulates of security, awareness of the need for environmental protection and finding innovative solutions based on information and communication systems. The success of sustainable development concepts and strategies is not possible to achieve without a multidisciplinary approach in which the basic elements are the implementation of social changes that should be in accordance with socio-economic reality. Special attention is given to the relationship between dynamic economic systems designed by man and ecological systems that are dynamically more inert, but which should be in ecological balance. The paper aims to point out the importance of developing awareness of the sociological perspective of ecological security in the broader contextual plane of sustainable development.

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