INFORMATION DETERMINANTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS
INFORMATION DETERMINANTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with current issues of environmental security, pointing at the importance of the information component in the development of economic, political and social processes. Global evolutionism defines a new vector of humanity's aspirations for economic progress, in which the understanding of the concept of "environmental security" should include the spatial, temporal, material and energetic interaction of society and nature. The article identifies the importance the "sustainable development" concept in terms of the properties of systems controllability with different information flows that perform the function of integration between levels of environmental security, is identified. It is proved that informatization processes may not only contribute to positive shifts in economic development, but also cause social risks for society caused by its low level of information security, the inability of the nation to be realized as the information society and to accept new goals of the economy greening. Formation of strategic priorities including information and environmental components within the system of national, international and global security framework is important for the development of economic progress. New understanding of the configuration of the system of ecological safety is associated with its definition multidimensionality in the communication space and should contribute to its high level of security in the future.

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