scholarly journals SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Lyudmila G. Titova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Territorial Conflicts ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Temporal Aspect ◽  
Religious Problems

The article examines the problems of sustainable development of modern societies, identifies their causes and the evolution of views on the origins of unstable and non-equilibrium development in the spatial and temporal aspect of social and political processes. Identify the factors of territorial sustainability, stresses the importance of humanization of development of all spheres of society, the role of education in formation of personality, able to independently decide within fragile and conflict in the world. The fact of General global instability of development is emphasized. Achieving the sustainability of social systems is currently a debatable and difficult task, the main problem of its solution is the inability to meet the growing needs of both individuals and society as a whole due to the exhaustion of resources on a global scale. Of course, production and distribution in some countries is ahead of time, in others it leads to a lag at the level of previous centuries. The uneven evolution of different countries in the direction of technological structure and artificial replenishment of their own resource base, the desire of countries that have entered the era of technological take-off to take priority political and military positions, gives rise to many planetary and territorial conflicts. The technological progress itself is contradictory, all the consequences of which are still unclear, poorly understood by people, and therefore are often perceived as a threat to man himself and the future of mankind. The new era has shown that at the current level, political management and police-military pressure cannot cope with numerous social, economic, environmental, ethnic, and religious problems, and their resolution must be at a deeper intellectual and cultural level. It is obvious that the importance of forming a person who is able to understand the risks of modern civilization is increasing, breaking through the muddy waves of information flows, misinformation and myths, and the role of education and upbringing is growing many times. Step-by-step solution of these tasks can begin with separate territories that localize and concentrate the rules, methods and methods of concretizing the combined actions of administrations, citizens, parties, social movements, and cultural and educational institutions.

The Denaturation of Environmental Education: Exploring the Role of Ecotechnologies

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Gough ◽  
Noel Gough
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Natural Resource Base

AbstractThis article explores the changing ways ‘environment’ has been represented in the discourses of environmental education and education for sustainable development (ESD) in United Nations (and related) publications since the 1970s. It draws on the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and discusses the increasingly dominant view of the environment as a ‘natural resource base for economic and social development’ (United Nations, 2002, p. 2) and how this instrumentalisation of nature is produced by discourses and ‘ecotechnologies’ that ‘identify and define the natural realm in our relationship with it’ (Boetzkes, 2010, p. 29). This denaturation of nature is reflected in the priorities for sustainable development discussed at Rio+20 and proposed successor UNESCO projects. The article argues for the need to reassert the intrinsic value of ‘environment’ in education discourses and discusses strategies for so doing. The article is intended as a wake-up call to the changing context of the ‘environment’ in ESD discourses. In particular, we need to respond to the recent UNESCO (2013a, 2013b) direction of global citizenship education as the successor to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005–2014 that continues to reinforce an instrumentalist view of the environment as part of contributing to ‘a more just, peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, secure and sustainable world’ (UNESCO, 2013a, p. 3).

Sustainable livelihoods: The central issue of human security and sustainable development

Social Change ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 174-185
Author(s):  
Ashok Khosla
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
National Development ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Employment Gap

The central issue of sustainable national development is the creation of sustainable livelihoods. Some IS million jobs have to be created every year to close the un-employment gap in India by the year 2015. Conventional industrialisation is important to maintain competitiveness in a globalising economy but it can hardly create one or two million jobs a year. Employment in agriculture is also reaching a plateau. Thus 10 million additional jobs will have to be created, off-farm and outside conventional industry, every year. Only mini and micro industries are capable of creating this many jobs. To create these jobs without further destroying the environment or the resource base, and in the process generating the goods and services needed by local people, totally new types of jobs of technology and different types of enterprises will be needed from those that exist today. Developing these will, in turn, need new approaches to the innovation and delivery. This paper describes the role of the independent sector in creating large number of Sustainable Livelihoods.

scholarly journals Transformative Investments in Sustainable Economic Development: Infrastructure Aspect

2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 03031
Author(s):  
Elena Dvoryadkina ◽  
Gulnara Kvon ◽  
Olga Pozdeeva
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Face ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Favorable Conditions

The article is devoted to the study of the role of infrastructure in the sustainable development of the economy, the investment of which makes it possible to ensure the achievement of social and environmental results along with economic ones. This type of investment has great potential in solving global problems of mankind, providing a positive impact on the economies of various countries. Mobilizing investment in infrastructure that catalyzes the improvement of environmental, social and political processes in economic systems stimulates the development of industries and often must precede this. The relevance of transformative investments is growing in the face of a lack of resources of governments of various states to address the priority problems of overcoming poverty, social inequality and reducing social tensions in this regard. Despite the fact that transformative investment is a relatively new topic, which is reflected in various discussions at the global level, the implementation of this form of investment to achieve the UN sustainable development goals in order to ensure a decent standard and quality of life for the population contributes to the creation of favorable conditions for interaction between countries.

scholarly journals Small Farms and Sustainable Development: Is Small More Sustainable?

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard D'Souza ◽  
John Ikerd
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Effective Size ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Post Industrial

AbstractA new, post-industrial, paradigm for agriculture is emerging under the concept of sustainable agriculture. The sustainability paradigm has emerged to solve problems created by the industrial model, primarily environmental pollution and resource base degradation. The role of farm size in this transformation to a more sustainable agriculture is the issue addressed. Using a descriptive approach, and relying on a survey of the literature including emerging paradigms and observations, we conclude that, from a sustainability perspective, the smallest effective size will be the most competitive size for farms, as for other knowledge-based enterprises of the future.

scholarly journals The importance deliberative practices in dfemocratisation of politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
Serghei Sprincean ◽  
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Grigore Pirtac ◽  
Victoria Mihalas ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Special Character ◽  
Systemic Impact ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
Political Economic

The importance deliberation models in the formation and streamlining of political democratization is crucial in the context of deepening of the global crisis. In the article are emphasized several important aspects regarding the specific of the contemporary global crisis in the perspective of better institutionalization and instrumentalization of normative and deliberation-election components of political democratization. The stringent necessity of overcoming the global menaces imprint a special character to the political processes such as elections or public deliberations, creating new forms of political behavior. These political processes have to be better organized and more efficient in the way to fulfill functional goals of the strategy of overcoming global crisis. The socio-political, economic, cultural, religious, ethical, mental or technological-communicative differences, with a major impact on living standards, on the quality of life standards in human communities inhabiting planet Earth, contribute to the strengthening of mankind's potential to cope with the most violent and destructive effects and results of the multidimensional global crisis, through the diversity of chances and identities it generates. Moral and legal norms must be respected as well, for minimizing the macro-systemic impact of any types of deflections during democratic deliberations and elections. In this piece of work is discussed as well the contribution of ethical conceptions to the facilitation and increasing of the deliberative liberty as a basic condition of the contemporary processes of democratization of the society. Amplifying of the insecurity at global scale plays a negative role of the adverse social-political environment in the progress of democratization and freedom of political debates and elections.

scholarly journals A Comprehensive Approach: Inclusive, Smart and Green Urban Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-160
Author(s):  
Justyna Przywojska ◽  
Aldona Podgórniak-Krzykacz
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Homo Oeconomicus ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Subject

The subject literature provides knowledge about various contemporary concepts of urban development, emphasizing a variety of goals and priorities of this process. Although sustainability should be a key objective of development policy, the methods of achieving it seem to be diverse. As a result, there are many theories describing development processes on a local scale, but there are no scientific attempts to summarise them or to comprehensively evaluate them. In the presented article such an attempt was initiated – the evolution of the concept of sustainable development in the context of transformation of the role of man in socio-economic and political processes from homo-oeconomicus to homo cooperativus was outlined and the assumptions of contemporary concepts of urban development (smart city, eco city and compact city) were identified and evaluated in terms of their cohesion and implementation of sustainable development principles. On this basis, a conceptual framework for an inclusive urban development model was defined, considering their key values in a synergic way.

The Role of Customary Law in Sustainable Development

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Orebech ◽  
Fred Bosselman ◽  
Jes Bjarup ◽  
David Callies ◽  
Martin Chanock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Customary Law

Role of Teachers in Building the Concept of Sustainable Development: Success or Failure

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayaz Muhammad Khan ◽  
Amber Jamshaid ◽  
Tayyibah Roohi ◽  
Amna Ramzan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Primary Level ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Role Of Teachers ◽  
Major Factors

Sustainable Development (SD) is a rich, challenging and thought-provoking construct in social sciences. The main purpose of this paper was to identify and explore the role played by primary school teachers in building up the idea of sustainable development (SD) among students. This paper was intended to identify that how a teacher can successfully execute the concept of SD by influencing students’ minds at the primary level. Quantitative survey technique were utilized for data collection. All the primary school teachers of Lahore division comprised the population of the study. Through multistage sampling technique, 352 primary school teachers were selected as participants of the study. A self-developed SD questionnaire incorporating four major factors (teachers’ awareness, pedagogy, curricular and co-curricular activities) with Cronbach’s alpha value = .93 was used to measure the role of teachers in building the sustainability concept among students at primary level. The results indicated a significant mean score difference among SD scores of teachers, sector wise (private and public). Furthermore, the results also reconnoitered the significant difference (p=.04) between the mean scores of female and male teachers in building up the SD concept in students’ minds.

Directions and Perspectives of Political-Economic Studies

2008 ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
A. Libman
Keyword(s):  
International Political Economy ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Economic Methods ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Economic Studies

The paper surveys the main directions of political-economic research, i.e. variants of economic and political approaches endogenizing political processes in economic models and applying economic methods to policy studies. It analyses different versions of political-economic research in different segments of scientific community: political economics, evolutionary theory of economic policy, international political economy, formal political science and theory of economic power; main methodological assumptions, content and results of positive studies are described. The author also considers the role of political-economic approach in the normative research in economics.

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