Environmental awareness of citizens at different levels of territorial identification in ukraine under decentralization conditions
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The actuality of the study is due to the low level of environmental awareness of Ukrainian citizens, which has led to large-scale environmental problems, which may be related to the peculiarities of the territorial identification of various communities living in Ukraine.
The purpose of the article is the analysis of the manifestation of various community identities in certain regions of Ukraine under conditions of decentralization in terms of their impact on the ecological situation within the area of their residence and activity.
Methods. The case control is used as the main method of the research. It is directed to learn the manifestation of various community identities on the example of individual regions of Ukraine in the context of decentralization for the purpose of their impact on the environment within the area of residence or activity.
Results. It is recorded the paradoxical tendency of the attitude of Ukrainians to Ukraine's natural resources as foreign resources with the intention of their maximum use. According to the criterion of territorial identification there are distinguished such types of identities as local, national, global and transnational. The global identity is considered as one that shares the values of environmental preservation, in contrast to the representatives of the transnational identity, which are guided by the principles of economic growth regardless of the ecological value of certain objects of national and regional importance. There are listed such types of ecological awareness as eco-conservative, eco-indifferent and eco-destructive. The manifestation of one or another type of consciousness depends on the context of identity functioning. On the example of the Donetsk region, it is demonstrated that the processes of decentralization did not prevent the eco-destructive influence of locally formed business communities (Donetski), which later went beyond the regional boundaries and acquired a transnational form of identification. At the same time, it is shown the eco-indifference of the local community "people of Donbas", which has an economic history of forming its own identity and is dependent on the business community. The expansion of local powers in Kyiv further strengthened the dominance of the eco-destructive transnational identity over the local eco-preserving one in the person of the "native Kyivans". On the contrary it was recorded a destructive environmental impact on the part of the local community in the Rivne region, which required centralized intervention by the state.
Conclusions and prospects for further research. It was revealed the dominance of the communities with the eco-destructive forms of behavior who own the different levels of territorial identification. Prospects for further research are the study of the socio-psychological basis of the destructive attitude towards the ecological resources of Ukraine and the development of the appropriate methodological tools.
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