XXI Century Alternative Population Policies: Context of Modern Civilization Humanitarian Values And Malthusian Ideas of Growth Limits Concept

The relevance of the study is determined by the search for approaches to solving the demographic problem, as the grounds for the development of society, focused on the preservation of the biosphere and man. For the first time, based on the materials of this study, the substantiation of population policies' humanitarian priorities in the structure of ecological values of modern civilization is made as an independent scientific area. In the process of implementing the leading research method – monitoring the priorities of demographic strategies in the structure of environmental values, the advantages of the humanitarian nature of these processes are established and the scientific and practical inconsistency of growth limits concept in relation to the population of developing countries is proved. Based on the results of the study, for the first time an attempt was made to theoretically substantiate the humanitarian priorities of population policies aimed at overcoming the trends of growth limits concept. In this regard, the study established and disclosed the evolutionary nature of population policies in the modern world; geopolitical trends of the concept of growth limits are defined. Based on the results of the study, the model of humanitarian priorities of population policies is substantiated and their effectiveness in the development of environmental values’ structure is proved. The materials of the article are of theoretical and practical importance for the design of innovative approaches to improving the quality of demography.

Keywords:

alternative approaches , humanitarian priorities , population policies , geopolitical trends , the quality of the population life , the concept of limits to growth , Malthusian utopia , monitoring , ecological system