Sustainable development in the conditions of globalization : contemporary challenges

The new theoretical approach of the sustainable development processes in the conditions of globalization and global transformations is described in the article. The main idea is that the sustainable development processes may be attributed to the category of global transformation. The sustainable development processes are analyzed in the general context of global transformation. The phenomena and systematics of global transformations as well as their impact on the sustainable development processes are analyzed in the article. Global transformations, their expression and influence on the modern society and its life are characterized by wide variety and significant common regularities. The perspective ways of the research on sustainable development in the conditions of global transformations are describe