Environmental Management: The Basics of Socio-Cultural Methodology

The book is devoted to the problems of human involvement in environmental management. It includes the basics of the sociocultural methodology for the management, as well as the most important areas of its practical implementation. The author developed the approaches to environmental management that are based on the "responsible person" model. The author also examines in detail the very important problems of importing environmental institutions with different socio-cultural traditions, reducing the intensity of conflicts caused by these processes. In the practical aspect, the author suggests new approaches to the program-oriented management of environmental activities. The book is of interest to a wide range of specialists in environmental management and environmental protection.

Key words: nature protection activity, environmental management, socio-cultural methodology of environmental management, environmental institutions, prevention of environmental conflicts, program-oriented management.