Sustainable Development Ideas: an «Apple of Discord» or a Platform for Unification?
https://doi.org/10.38050/01300105201762
Abstract
The article analyzes the main foreign approaches to the interpretation of the «sustainable development» definition, the directions for the formation of various concepts, programs, political attitudes based on the definition and ideas of sustainable development, identifies shortcomings of the most common approaches and concepts. An overview of the main approaches and theories of sustainable development is compiled, their classification is proposed, a spatial model of the conceptual areas of the concept of «sustainable development» and spheres of its application is presented. The study concluded that the alternative approaches to understanding the role of the environment in the existence of mankind, to the assessment of both the impact of industrial and agricultural production and the results of people’s livelihoods (especially in the context of a sharp increase of urbanization rate) on the global environmental situation, have led to the formation of various concepts of sustainable development that form the basis of national strategies and programs of sustainable development. As a result, the ideas, and the very concept of sustainable development, are increasingly becoming a field of disagreements and contradictions between states and individual regions of the world, rather than a common platform for combining efforts to solve global problems of mankind.
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Mingaleva Z.A. Sustainable Development Ideas: an «Apple of Discord» or a Platform for Unification? Moscow University Economics Bulletin. 2017;(6):23-41. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.38050/01300105201762
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