EURO-ECO 2010 Hanover 2 - 3 Dezember 2010	Environmental, Engineering - Economic and Legal Aspects for Sustainable Living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover University of Bremen, Bremen

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In recent years ecology was enriched by new knowledge and became the science that deals with all spheres of economic, social and spiritual life. Today’s ecological situation can be characterized as close to critical.

Among global ecological problems we can highlight the following: thousands plant and animal species are destroyed; the rate of deforestation is very high; mineral reserves decrease very quickly; the World Ocean is exhausted and it ceases natural process regulation because of living organisms destruction; the atmosphere pollution level exceeds sanitary standards and clean air becomes very scarce; ozone layer protecting us against deadly space radiation is partially broken; natural landscapes are polluted and disfigured.

Due to these factors we face the necessity of taking urgent measures for the solution of global ecological problems. It becomes vital for the mankind nowadays to change the philosophy of the attitude towards nature.

The most important point is to form an ecological consciousness in the society. The nature must be understood as a living creature, which can’t be dominated without any harm for everyone. Environmental education should be conducted since early childhood at the state level. New ideas and achievements shouldn’t impede harmonious coexistence of humanity and nature.

Facing the global challenges of modern life, human’s abilities, talents and qualities become more and more significant under the circumstances of hard resource, ecological and demographic limitations. It means that new century is the century of education, because its purpose is to provide human’s reproduction as a social creature, moral, thinking and responsible person. The transition to the synergetic model of cognition and assimilation into this world presupposes new goals of the educational system. They are reflected in the educational and ecological doctrines of Russia, which determine the main purpose to form integral world view and attitude, ecological culture and tolerant consciousness.

Modern society produces new professional and training level requirements of future ecologists. New standards are also introduced for methods and organization of informational and communicative technologies application for their training. It is important for future ecologists to have integrated world view based on fundamental knowledge and skills of applied ecological problem solution. Application of informational technologies is also necessary for their ecological activity. Future specialist must learn how to make informational and environmental models of researched processes and events. According to the recent development analysis of the ecological education conceptions in Russia and abroad, the main aim of the ecologist training nowadays is to form the attitude towards the environment. It gives future specialists motivated and conscious aspiration to mastering skills and knowledge, necessary for their personal participation in prevention and solution of ecological problems. That is why extensive use of modern information technologies is necessary for environmental education. Ecologist training should include interactive possibilities of environmental models visualization to develop their creative thinking.