Abstract
The human civilization as the planetary phenomenon is constantly occupied with justification of its socio-cultural bases. If the 21st century and the first half of the 20th century are considered to be the era of technical civilization, social cataclysms, the linear growth of the world population, urbanization, then from the 1950th the content of the planetary civilization processes has radically changed. One of the priority values of the new civilization is the concept of sustainable development. The principle of sustainable development is not limited by the environmental and economic factors. Sustainable development is an important part of modern culture in the world. To achieve sustainable and balanced development there should be taken some measures to stabilize the economic and population growth by ensuring the necessary volume of agricultural production, resource consumption per capita and the permissible level of pollution. In the scientific literature, also in the UNESCO documents concerning the world culture, sustainable development is understood as balanced state of the globalized world culture, where the desire to preserve the environmental sustainability is combined with actions aimed at poverty eradication, poorness, social and ethnic conflicts and cataclysms.