Training Manual . - M. : Progress-Tradition, 2000. — 416 s. 18 ll. The book analyzes and summarizes modern ideas about sustainable development in environmental, economic, social, demographic, scientific, technical, ethical and philosophical-methodological aspects. Sustainable development is understood as one in which a person does not exceed the economic capacity of the biosphere - the permissible threshold of environmental impact, beyond which environmental catastrophe becomes inevitable. The threat of such a catastrophe is the main challenge to humanity in the 21st century. The transition of world civilization to sustainable development is interpreted as the only possible response to the environmental challenge. The problems of Russia's transition to sustainable development. The book is recommended as a training manual for the specialties "Ecology", "Environmental Management", "Economy of Environmental Management", as well as for specialists - ecologists, economists, employees of educational, environmental and economic institutions .