Environment and Migration

Direct activity of the population is the principal cause of the climate change. All ecological costs of this change have to be born by the population of the Earth. As a result there is health deterioration (physical, mental, spiritual), which, in turn, leads to a reduction in labour productivity and increases in the public expenditure on social sphere. The breach of the interrelation in the system «Population – Environment - Population» generates a great number of problems, ecological migration being one of the most pressing. In order to find solutions to the problems of social and economic development of the global community in general, and Russia in particular, it is necessary to consider the interaction of elements of the system "Nature-Population-Economy". The forced migration caused a natural factors ( (floods, ect.) and/or ecological disasters, has become one more global problem at the present time. Besides, migration, both forced and voluntary, often results in greater urbanization, more intensive use of natural resources, increased pollution of territory by waste products. Migration has two aspects: on the one hand migration can be a cause of deterioration of ecological conditions of the accepting region, and on the other hand it can serve as a good indicator of ecological problems.