Challenges and ways to improve ecological safety in Ukraine

Abstract

. Problem statement. One of the most important problems of human existence on Earth is the problem of environmental safety. The problem of environmental safety by its nature can not be attributed only to the field of natural sciences or to the field of social sciences, as it covers a complex set of relationships between man and his surrounding nature. Thus, in Ukraine, the development of society, the state of economic and social relations inextricably depends on the quality and size of available resources of the environment, which indicates the merging of resource and environmental threats. Environmental issues are an organic interweaving of economic, political, legal, ethical, as well as scientific and technological components. All human activity, including scientific, was aimed at revealing the secrets of nature to the fullest extent, curbing and subordinating it to the satisfaction of its diverse and constantly growing needs. The purpose of the article is to establish the place of threats of the human factor and their result in the system of ecological safety of Ukraine and to provide proposals for their solution. Conclusion. It has been established that environmental safety as a negation of environmental threats of local, regional and global proportions should include a factor in solving social crises that lead to technological disasters. Ensuring environmental safety in the form of solving environmental problems is impossible without eliminating social threats, guarantees the citizens of Ukraine development and living in safety. The level of national security that has developed and will continue to develop in Ukraine is determined by the level of the state administration system. Therefore, one of such strategically important approaches to the natural and technogenic security of Ukraine should be the formation of an effective system of state and administrative mechanisms for protecting the safety of man, nature and society.