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MODERN GLOBAL TRENDS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROBLEM
Ramaz ABESADZE1, Vakhtang BURDULI2
Present and the Coming Challenges
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (98-99) 2018, Publication date: 8 December 2018
Keywords: global trends, sustainable development, economic development, social transformations
Abstract Today mankind faces a very serious problem of depletion of natural resources and violation of the processes of reproduction of the natural environment. Due attention was given to this problem only since the late 60s - early 70s of the last century, when a number of international events were held: on environmental issues and economic development, the 1972 Stockholm International Conference (“Zero Growth”) and the conference 1992 in Rio de Janeiro (“Agenda for the 21st Century”), the report of the UN Commission on the Environment and Development (1987) “Our Common Future” and others, on which it was feared that if the current rates of growth and preservation of existing technologies of production were maintained, mankind will face a catastrophe. As a result, the concept of sustainable growth was adopted, the essence of which is that in order to meet the needs of the current generation, continuous development must go on, but without causing harm to the existence of subsequent generations. For this, a rational exchange of substances and energy must be carried out between society and nature, so that economic development is subordinated to the needs of self-reproduction of nature and reproduction of the economy, that is, so that co-evolution of the development of society and nature takes place, during which the biosphere of our planet passes in the new qualitative state - the noosphere, the thinking shell, where people reduce the biosphere’s negative effects brought not only by their own, but also by the natural destructive forces.
Paata Gugushvili Institute of Economics of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
E-mail: ramazabesadze@yahoo.com
Paata Gugushvili Institute of Economics of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgi