Ensuring Environmental Security Strategies in Social and Economic Development on the Platform of Responsible Consumption System

Abstract

The optimal formation and selection strategies for ensuring environmental safety is a key topical aspect of the first half of the XXI century. In conditions of limited economic resources and a disturbed ecological balance, is especially important to take into account inter-sectoral externalities that determine the choice of optimal mechanisms, both stimulating and restraining positive and negative external effects from institutional approach standpoint. The article provides an overview of the existing and substantiation of the author’s directions for the strategy of ensuring environmental safety in regional socio-economic systems, taking into account inter-sectoral externalities. The article analyzes the possibility of forming a platform for the system of responsible education in ensuring the ecological balance for present and future generations, aimed at using optimal strategies that allow to gently, without creating tension, regulate the responsible consumption of all types of resources. It is assumed that on the platform of responsible education system, the formation of a personality is carried out, based on: 1) awareness of equal access right of every person to a favorable environment; 2) understanding and accepting responsible resource use; 3) the obligation to adopt the institution of “soft environmental tax mechanisms”; 4) a responsible approach to cross-sectoral positive and negative externalities.