Global financial and economic crisis and its impact on strategic approaches to sustainable economic development

The article clarifies the scope and main features of the current world crisis. It opens interrelations of this crisis with an aggravation of energy-environmental problems in the world. The author estimates approaches to the decision of energy-environmental problems in developed and developing countries. He examines three possible scenarios for sustainable economic development in the world.

types of crises in the economy, the concept of sustainable development, the Club of Rome, resource intensity of the economy, energy consumption per capita, environmental pollution factors, power consumption per capita, energy intensity of the economy, energo-ecological balance