Sustainable development under globalization conditions

Abstract

The goal of our study is to explain the concept of sustainable development, its significance for the environmental functioning and political controversies hindering the path to the sustainable development of the entire biosphere. Our presentation will include not only a theoretical definition of sustainable development but also the practical consequences resulting from the conflict of proponents of unrelenting and unbound economic and technological development on the one hand, and the environmentalists, on the other hand. The consequences of this conflict reflect in economic, social, political and other dimensions which are almost revolutionary in their content and significance all over the world and along the course of civilization. Our paper comprises the explanation of these processes, the seek for the forms of their manifestation and their influence to the life of a common man. This also includes the research of globalization process, disintegration of sovereignty and independence of states and the influence of other political and economic factors to the idea and practice of environmental protection as well as the process of sustainable development. We shall clarify those tendencies in the field of environmental protection which dominate worldwide, whereas we must point out the difference between the underdeveloped and developed countries.

Predmet rada je objašnjenje pojma održivog razvoja, njegovog značaja za funkcionisanje životne sredine i političkih kontroverzi vezanim za prepreke koje stoje na putu održivom razvoju celokupne biosfere. Pored teorijskog određenja održivog razvoja, razmatraju se i praktične posledice koje nastaju iz sukoba pobornika neumitnog i ničim sputanog ekonomskog i tehnološkog razvoja, na jednoj, i boraca za zaštitu životne sredine, na drugoj strani. Posledice ovog sukoba ogledaju se kroz ekonomske, socijalne, političke i druge dimenzije koje su u svetskim razmerama i civilizacijskom hodu gotovo revolucionarne po sadržaju i značaju. Predmet rada obuhvata objašnjenje ovih procesa, traganje za pojavnim oblicima njihovog ispoljavanja i njihov uticaj na život običnog čoveka. To obuhvata i istraživanje procesa globalizacije, rastakanja suvereniteta i nezavisnosti država i uticaju drugih političkih i ekonomskih faktora na ideju i praksu zaštite životne sredine i proces održivog razvoja. Razmatraju se i tendencije u oblasti zaštite životne sredine koje dominiraju u svetskim okvirima, pri čemu se ukazuje na razlike između bogatih i siromašnih država.