The concept of sustainable development considers issues of environmental rationality and responsibility within the framework of measures aimed at identifying the foundations of ecology and environmental issues to underpin today's important processes. The article establishes the importance of a dialectical approach, which allows for the consideration of environmental rationality and responsibility not as independent categories, but as complementary and mutually reinforcing elements of a single system. Rationality without environmental responsibility becomes instrumental and potentially destructive, while responsibility without rationality loses its cognitive basis and becomes a declarative norm. Their unity creates a qualitatively new type of thinking and action that corresponds to the global threats and challenges of sustainable development.

sustainable development; environmental rationality; environmental responsibility; socio-philosophical concept; environmental consciousness; environmental culture; human-nature relations; environmental safety; global environmental issues; sustainable development strategies; environmental policy; rational use of resources.

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