From Chernobyl to Fukushima: Socio-Ecological Analysis. Russian Outlook

The authors aimed to analyse the typical socio-ecological problems in contemporary Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova and the main reasons of their appearance in terms of socio-ecological consequences of Chernobyl nuclear disaster. These tragedies - Chernobyl, Russia 1986 and Fukushima, Japan 2011 – have shown that everything people do is not enough to prevent the damage to environment and societies if the country is not nuclear free. The findings of the expert survey present the definite level of socio-ecological tension in the region of explosion even after 25 years of this event. The data selected in the article is the result of comparative sociological research, conducted in Post-Soviet area since 2006 till the present. Observation, content-analysis of mass-media devoted to ecological problems and expert survey were used during the research. The conception of reflection of ecological environment to social behavior and orientations of different social-demographic groups of population was adapted and developed as well as conception of socio-ecological monitoring and conceptual scheme of origin and development of social-ecological (tension) conflict in Post-Soviet dimension.  The conceptualization of reflection of socio-ecological interests in mass behavior of different social communities in transformation was approved.  Such important issue as a problem of availability of information on environmental activities is presented. It is characterized by:

• establishment of united federal unified information system on nature use and environment protection;
• introduction of up to date information technologies and systems into the process of the decision making in the areas of nature use and environment protection;
• provision of state guarantees of public participation in solving of environmental problems, development of effective social partnership;
• organization and implementation of the environmental education of population.