The Ways of Securing Crisis-Free Ecologically Focused Development of Ukrainian Industry

Abstract

The paper argues that Ukraine should change conventional concept of economic development, based on extensive consumption of natural resources and a large impact on the environment. The authors present how the concept of sustainable development might function to secure ecologically focused (continuous, crisis-free) industrial development. The main prerequisites to sustainable development are innovations, as well as ecologically loyal institutional rules of business. But these innovations have to be ecologically focused on nature and for mitigating eco-destructive impact. The authors pay attention to the analysis of ecological problems in development of Ukrainian industrial production during the recession period and propose methodological basis for a concept of ecologically focused anti-recessionary management of industrial production development.

Donbas as an ecological disaster area:technogenic challenges and threats

“…At the same time, at the beginning of the ХХІst century long-term system challenges (From Rio to Rio…, 2012), which reflected both world trends and internal institutional barriers of development, arose in the area of guaranteeing the environmental safety of Ukraine and its regions . The major ones include (Bryzhan, Hryhoryeva, 2014;Hannigan, 2006;Dunlap, Jones, 2002;): the non-compliance of the regulatory system of safety management with the pace of development of the technosphere; the need to develop risk assessment methods; the increase in traffic flows and their complications; global climate changes; complication of causal relationships; the strengthening of the role of synergistic risks; the transformation of information space; the rise of new threats and risks.…”