Socio-Cultural Methodology of Environmental Protection. Collection of Articles

This book is focused on a very important problem of considering the human factor in environmental conservation. The articles include the results of studies of social and cultural peculiarities of different territories for solving the problems of rational use of environmental resources and nature protection. It is especially important in the present conditions of transformation in the Russian society, since imported uniform mechanisms of nature conservation, typical to the process of economic globalization, require adaptations to different social and cultural conditions. This book will be useful for the specialists in the field of rational environment use and nature protection, and everyone interested in economic, regional, social, and political geography, regional economy, and ethnic and social aspects of conservation administration.

Key words: environmental protection, environmental management, rational environmental management, socio-cultural features of the territory, territorial management of environmental protection.