EURO-ECO 2011 Hanover 21 - 22 November 2011	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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The events which took place in Japan in spring 2011 draw our attention to the problem of environmental security and make us look at it in a different way. We saw it on the TV screens how within a short period of time the cities turned into accumulations of trash. In fact, all the material values achieved in Japan disappeared. One more time the nature proved that society is always in the zone of the constant risk and instability.

Environment and economy have always been closely connected with each other. Economic relations should have taken into consideration the environmental aspect since the time when the mining industry emerged or even earlier – since the appearance of economic activity of human-beings. The sphere of environmental security is to do with the possibilities to forecast the development of economic systems and management of this development. The aspect of «green» economy is becoming very popular.

Economic life is getting more and more complicated, new forms of activity and new ways to satisfy the needs appear.

«Green» economy means reduction of anthropogenic use of biosphere from 7-10% (which is to be observed today) to 1-2%.

Nowadays (Muravykh A.I. Synergetic approach to the management of environmental security // Law and security. – 2004. - ? 3(12)):

from 242 thousand plant species 14% are on the verge of extinction;

from 9,6 thousand bird species 11% are on the verge of extinction, and for 60% a decrease in the number is to be observed;

from 4,4 thousand species of mammals 11% are under threat of dying out;

from 24 thousand species of fish 33% are on the verge of extinction.

We live in an asynchronous world, since information flows constantly overlap, and vectors of decision-making can be directed at the different planes. The speed of decision-making is compatible with the speed of information distribution. Exponential growth of an information flow, which creates new waves of consumption development, and, consequently, production development, takes place. All this causes exponential growth of environmental problems, technogenic and anthropogenic disasters, damage to the noospheric ideology. There is a need in a new system model of environmental security, which will outline the required state of the ecological system and determine the mechanisms for its development.

It is highly likely that in the nearest future we are to expect boost in new technological advances negating the classical concepts on the development of new equipment and technologies, and denying the classical principles of management. It is possible to forecast rethinking of the role and forms of industrial culture, significance of manufacture, technological level, training modes and ways of population socialization, and also forms, methods and tools for information access and its processing. From this point of view, economists and news people joining their efforts together make it possible to determine the prospects for transition to the information-oriented society, and such cooperation is becoming very popular nowadays. Environment and its state for human development will become indicators of the loyalty to the model which is being adopted. After all, economists can observe the limits to which existing technological models are able to develop, even in environmental indicators.