DOI: https://doi.org/10.32515/2663-1636.2022.8(41).68-74

Energy Transformations in the Context of Modern Worldview Paradigms

Larisa Semeniuk, Andrii Semeniuk

About the Authors

Larisa Semeniuk, PhD in Geography (Candidate of Geographical Sciences), Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor of the Department of Geography and Geoecology, Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University. Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8681-0060, e-mail: semenyuk_larisa@ukr.net

Andrii Semeniuk, Postgraduate student, Associated Research Officer, Department of Energy Sector Development and Forecasting, Institute for Economics and Forecasting, National Academy of Science of Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine, ORCID: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0003-2308-4713, e-mail: semeniuk.and.i@gmail.com

Abstract

The article aims to analyse the worldview theories, which have become the basis for the concept of sustainable energy transformations. A number of ideas explaining the close connection between energy and environmental transformations, economic and technological progress of society and the state of the environment are considered. Energy transformations have become the research object due to the processes such as, on the one hand, the understanding of the future energy resources crisis, and on the other, the awareness of environmental problems that can lead to the real threat to humanity. The purpose of the article is to investigate philosophical concepts that lead to a new paradigm of satisfying human, and community needs in energy in the context of international and national economic strategies. The civilizational importance of the problem mentioned above and the urge to solve it at the global and local levels stimulates the curiosity of scientists and the activity of scientific and practical research in various fields. The object of scientific exploration is the economic and environmental effects of implementing renewable energy sources, the investment attractiveness of such projects; the innovative processes of renewable energy implementation and development are studied; environmental impact of various infrastructure elements is evaluated, in particular - in local systems; possibilities of the efficient architecture of the energy and ecological components of the urban environment, territorial communities, etc. are analysed. The concepts of environmental philosophy regarding the need for a harmonious combination of human and environmental needs are increasingly being taken into account in the development of state economic strategies and programs. The article states that an aspect of environmental consciousness change, building a new, socially responsible thinking of an economically and socially active part of society, and, ideally, most of humanity will remain of high importance for achieving sustainable development goals, in particular, sustainable modes of energy consumption.

Keywords

energy transformations, sustainable development, economic expediency, eco-philosophy, ecology

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