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With the development of scientific, technical, and socioeconomic processes in industrialized countries in the second half of the twentieth century, a new multidisciplinary scientific direction was “brought to life” and was related to the effective use of the results of research and development aimed at improving the quality of human life—innovation. Naturally, the quality of life of a person cannot be considered in isolation from the state of the natural environment in which this person lives, works, and rests. The goal of the study is to show a close interaction, apparently, of the main sciences of the twenty-first century—ecology and innovation and integrated influence on man. In the contribution, the aspects of innovation activity in ecology (ecological rationing, new methods of bioindication and biomonitoring, waste utilization, ecological audit of the territory, public health, etc.) are considered in detail. The issues of innovation management of nature protection activities aimed at improving the quality of life of the population are discussed in detail. The authors examined “from start to finish” aspects of the interaction between innovation and ecology. The main conclusion is that a program of step-by-step innovation activity is needed that can describe the content and sequence of the planned measures and set the ultimate goals of the reform of the environmental management system, activities.
Latin subtitle of the article (“from egg to apple”, “from beginning to end”).
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June 21, 2012. Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev spoke at the third session of the plenary session of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development “Rio + 20.” In particular, he said: “Society, economy and nature—are inseparable. That is why we need a new development paradigm that can ensure the welfare of society without excessive pressure on nature.”
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All the pros and cons of using indices for assessing sustainable development (“indexology”) have been repeatedly considered (14, 17). The problems of aggregating various indices into a single index were also considered in the report of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (18). The main difficulty in aggregating information into indices is to determine the weights of the original indices without loss of significance and without excessive subjectivity. With the increase in the level of aggregated information, the complexity of weighing incomparable quantities increases.
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The problems of rational nature management and the list of critical technologies of the Russian Federation—technologies for monitoring and forecasting the environmental well-being, preventing, and eliminating its pollution were among the priority areas for the scientific, technological development.
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Khasaev, G.R., Lazareva, N.V., Kudinova, G.E., Kuznetsova, R.S., Rozenberg, G.S. (2019). Ecology, Innovation, and Quality of Life: AB OVO USQUE AD MALA. In: Ashmarina, S., Vochozka, M. (eds) Sustainable Growth and Development of Economic Systems. Contributions to Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11754-2_9
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