Social activity is a factor of the Russian ecovillages’ self-organization

• Main Author: M. Y. Shchukina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ассоциация независимых экспертов «Центр изучения кризисного общества» (in English: Association for independent experts “Center for Crisis Society Studies”) 2014-10-01
• Series: Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право
• Subjects: социальная активность; самоорганизация; устойчивое развитие сельских территорий; сельское поселение; экопоселение; social activity; self-organization; sustainable rural development; rural settlement; ecovillage
• Online Access: https://www.ogt-journal.com/jour/article/view/126
• ISSN: 2542-0240; 2587-9324

Using example of the Russian ecovillages it is shown that a necessary condition for the formation and intensification of local communities and factor of their successful selforganization is a social activity of the ecovillage residents. It is proposed an approach to the consideration of eco-villages as subjects of sustainable rural development in order to implement their civic initiatives in the territorial public self-government. There is a need to integrate eco-villages in rural settlements that has a great political importance for the sustainable rural development, the provision of public territorial control, the preservation of socio-cultural identity and the country's food security.