Nature and Economy in the Mining Region: Holistic Approach

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to establish the relationship between the nature and the economy of the mining industry in the mining region in the context of the imminent depletion of the fuel and energy nonrenewable natural resources, which actualizes the research issue. The subject of the article is the qualitative relationship between nature and economy in the “nature -anthroposociety -economy” system. At the same time, the anthroposociety (man, society) is considered both as the creator of the economy, and as its condition along with nature. Much attention is paid to the world-view foundations of the issue -anthropocentrism and ecocentrism. In the study the issue of the relationship between nature and economy in the mining region is elaborated from the position of the holism methodology, which ensures the scientific novelty of the study. The scientific and practical significance of the study is in the establishment of the parity as a qualitative relationship between nature and economy in the mining region. This parity can be implemented to substantiate the transfer of the regional economic system of the Kemerovo region, an important mining region of Western Siberia, to a new resource-saving, high-tech and environmentally sound model of development.