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- This
publication is the outcome of theoretical and scientific-organizational
work that lasted for many years. In the same time
it is only the beginning of a long way to understanding
the idea of World Ecological Constitution (WEC), elaborating
of its concept and project, solving the problem of
perception and adoption of this global legal act of
environmental security and sustainable development.
- Though
the elaboration of WEC idea started as far back as
in April of 1992, on the eve of famous UN Conference
on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro,
this great work still requires a lot of conscientious,
honest, thinking and highly professional peoples,
that need not only their daily bread,
career, wealth and prosperity, but are thirsty of
some lofty and sacred ideals that concern the survival
and sustainable development of mankind in XXI century.
- The
book is aimed to contribute to realizing of real danger
for civilization to vanish from the face of the earth
and necessity to divert it, understanding of those
things that are eclipsed with daily troubles. At the
same time the
publication rather popularizes the idea of WEC as
a tool for achieving the global environmental security
and sustainable development than presents its complete
conceptual fundamentals. It is of great importance
for this idea to penetrate the consciousness, to be
accepted by civil society and states and, finally,
to take root in the life.
- Problems
of environmental security and sustainable development
became of great importance due to approaching Earth
summit “Rio+10” in August-September 2002 (Johannesburg,
South Africa) and Fifth Pan European conference of
environmental ministers “Environment for Europe” (Kyiyv
2003). Those were these events that gave author the courage to publish this collection of incomplete
and different by their seriousness materials.
- So
this book is rather the starting material for elaborating
the concept of World Ecological Constitution than
the concept itself. It cannot be qualified as a complete
work, it cannot be seen even as a sketch option or
concept outlines of World Ecological Constitution
that are to be filled only. This is the material for
reflections, discussions, for elaborating the unique
idea aimed at preserving the life on Earth that sooner
or later should be acknowledged and realized by the
world community for the sake of survival and socio-economic
development.
- Author
tenders his thanks to reviewers of the manuscript,
academicians Yu. M. Pakhomov and Yu. S. Shemshuchenko
and professor O. I. Shabliy. Special gratitude to
academician M.A. Holubets (one of those who drafted
the Constitution
of Ukraine that is in force today), who thoroughly
read each page of manuscript, made
qualifying remarks and gave useful advices as how
to put in order qualitatively various components of
the book and to improve its contents.
- Valuable
help in elaborating of the World Ecological Constitution
idea, particularly on the very beginning, was provided
by doctor of jurisprudence, Professor M. V. Kostytskiy
(Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine) and
candidate of economic science T. Yu. Tunytsya (research
fellow of the Lviv national University named after
I. Franko). Author is also grateful to B. A. Nevelyuk,
P. Ya. Makarchuk, S. N. Krayevsky, L. V. Kalagurka,
Ya. O. Chopyk and to many other colleagues that made
a lot of efforts for this book to be published.
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