Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2015 8 (6)

Authors

Larionova, Tatiana V.

Contact information

Larionova, Tatiana V.:Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; E-mail:

Keywords

region; globalization; regional sustainability; social and economic tendencies; sustainable development

Abstract

The article studies the problems connected with peculiarities of the regional sustainability establishment regarding social and economic issues. The author analyzes social and philosophical peculiarities of regional sustainability system, especially important in the conditions of globalization, which has been significantly transforming regional economics. The article demonstrates that regional sustainability in Russia has its own specifics and may become an efficient alternative to negative globalization tendencies of the modern world. Globalization as a natural process of nations’ approximation is based on system sustainability, which supposes sustainability of separate structural units especially well observed during the research of regional social institutes. In our opinion, the concept of “sustainable development” is mainly social and can be defined by two of its main features: anthropocentric and biosphere-centric. In a general sense, the anthropocentric sign is understood as the survival of humanity and the ability (possibility) of its further ongoing (stable) long continuous development for our descendants to have the same opportunities as the current generation to meet their needs in natural conditions and ecological environment of the Earth and space. Sustainable development refers to a form of human development when the needs of the present generations are met without doing harm for future generations. Sustainable regional development is a balanced development based on historical traditions and mentality of a particular self-sufficient social unit, thereby providing a continuous, not only socio-economic but also spiritual progress of the society in harmony with others. The study of peculiarities of regional sustainability in the global world supposes implementation of dialectic principles. During the analysis of regionalization, the fact that globalization of politics is expressed in the appeal to the public point of view, is not taken into consideration, while the public point of view is often a subject of different kind of manipulations. The necessity of the regional approach is also explained by the fact that true democracy is not unification and not forced similarity, but the unity in variety, community of the different. According to this approach, the empirically present form of democracy cannot be something single valued. In the meantime, the author highlights that regionalism is not chaotic self-determination of social groups. They develop their own rules. Unfortunately, the modern situation in the society contributes more to the immersion of crowds than to the creative development of the personality. Our consumer civilization generates a threat to the total depersonalization and dehumanization of a person. According to the author, the conception of regionalization obtains specific clarity and intensity in the works of the scholars, who connect real globalization processes with the information stage of the modern research and technology revolution and its real impact on the development of the world economy. Herewith, the modern stage of regionalization similar to internationalization can be called transnationalization, but overbuilt, newer and higher sphere of human historical existence. Regional sustainability is closely connected with solving global problems, which even though expanding to the planetary size, at the same time are quite local. For example, the notion of environmental activity in the aspect of global studies demonstrates new ultimate content in the planetary scale. Such are the activities in relation to any global problems, as they affect the vital interests of all the humankind and every single person, even if they do not realize it. The solution of global problems and elimination of globalization negative effects require international cooperation and consolidation of the world community. The growing interdependence of individual countries and regions due to globalization adds new aspects to the concept of “national and international security”. It is quite natural that this historical concept has a strong national connotation, nevertheless there is an overall tendency, which characterizes the entire world community. In particular, the number of external factors affecting the stable functioning of society has been constantly increasing. The state of international security increasingly affects the national security, so the maintenance of stability at the global level, formation of such international mechanisms that would ensure balanced and sustainable development, have become one of the main concerns of regional communities. The author concludes that the real prospects for sustainable global-regional world order are associated with the dialectical approach to contemporary international processes. Sustainability of the regions is provided by inability of brining diverse social life to a common socio-cultural type determined by its own methods of production and reproduction of social life. The crisis of the ideology of globalism is a natural phenomenon, while it is based on disregard for history, mentality and traditions of a great part of the humankind, because the basis of their policy is the consumer principle of development

Pages

1206-1214

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/16882

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