Sustainable development and environmental thinking

Abstract

EN: The concept of sustainable development integrates environmental,social and economic components and provides for the creation of stable conditions for a healthylife for present and future generations in harmony with nature. The leading idea of sustainabledevelopment − the interaction of all segments of the population, scientific and culturalcommunity in solving the most urgent problems of civilization: to ensure quality of life andpreserve the environment, not only as a source of resources for future generations, but also as abiological condition of the species Homo Sapiens and spiritual development of humancivilization. Taking into account the human factor and the possible consequences of human behavior − this is the main difficulty of predicting the development of mankind and thecoevolution of man and nature. Greening the public awareness, education, thinking is the maincondition for implementing the concepts of sustainable development of modern society.Purpose of the study − an analysis of the importance of environmental thinking in implementing the concept of sustainable development and need of its formation and development in process of engineering education.