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Assessing the NOAA SP on the whole, one should state that unfortunately it is
too strongly directed towards meeting national interests. Even in this context it is
impossible to adequately resolve the problems of ecodynamics without taking into
account the interactivity of processes of local, regional and global scales. The
section of the plan concerning climate problems causes a serious bewilderment.
With an extreme urgency of these problems (mainly due to their strongly politicized
character), of extreme importance is concrete understanding of limited means of
numerical modeling and systems of climate observations as well as planning of
efforts to overcome this limitedness.
Without dwelling upon concrete characteristic of the present global ecody-
namics, we only emphasize: the absence of long-term perspectives of development
of the modern consumption society illustrated by estimates of global ecodynamics
raises no doubts. Therefore at the World Summit on Sustainable Development held
in Johannesburg in 2002, the necessity was emphasized to accomplish 10 year
programmes on reaching a stable production and consumption including the fol-
lowing recommendations (Southerton et al. 2004):
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Assuming by developed countries of the leading role in provision of stable
production and consumption.
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Achieving these goals based on the general but differentiated responsibility.
Imparting the key role to the problem of stable production and consumption.
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Laying emphasis on participation of young generation in resolution of the
problems of sustainable development.
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Use of the
polluter pays
principle.
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Control of the cycle of products evolution from their production to consumption
and waste to increase the productive ef
￿
ciency.
Backing the policy that favours both the output of ecologically acceptable
products and ecologically adequate services.
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Development of more ecological and ef
cient methods of energy supply. An
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exception of energy subsidies.
Support of free-will initiatives of industry in order to raise its social and eco-
logical responsibility.
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Study and application of ecologically pure production especially in developing
countries as well as in small and medium business.
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Though the enumerated recommendations are rather declarative, still they dem-
onstrate a necessity to change the paradigm of the socio-economic development (
rst
of all, this refers to developed countries) from the consumption society to priorities of
social and spiritual values. A concrete analysis of the ways of this development
requires a participation of many specialists in the
field of social sciences.
As has been mentioned above, the main aspect of global ecodynamics (in the
context of biotic regulation of the environment) is the state of ecosystems on
the planet. The development and realization of an ef
cient technology to assess the
ecological safety on global scales may be possible with the organization of the
International Centre on the Global Geoinformation Monitoring (ICGGM). This will
make it possible to realize the mechanisms for the NSS coevolution. The basic
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