Environmental Sciences at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of basic terms, concepts, ideas, the methodological
and content-related issues of ecophilosophy and sozology. The issues connected
with sozology are focused on the concept of systemic sozology, epistemology of
systemic sozology, the methodology of systemic sozology, the main issues and the
research specifics of the systemic sozology. The third part of the paper is devoted to
environmental sciences, taught at universities as lectures or monographs: ecology,
human ecology, social ecology, the ecology of the human family, sozology, sozosocial
ecology, sozo-technology, sozo-economy, environmental ethics, bio-ethics,
environmental legislation, eco-philosophy, eco-theology, environmental policy,
ecological psychology, eco-medicine, environmental education, and ecological
culture.