Zrównoważony rozwój - od idei do polityki

Abstract

In the sixties of the last century there appear the first publications and case studies challenging the current model of development. They pointed the global threats which it may cause. Interpenetration of these threats, causing in effect their strengthening, resulted in a real threat of an ecological catastrophe to an unprecedented scale, so far, because a global scale. The mankind began to realize that this is the effect of the existing trends in development of civilization which led to a huge disproportion between the desire of making the largest increase in production and consumption, and possibilities regarding the raw materials and regeneration of the Earth. The deepening divisions into the poor and rich were not without significance as well. Deepening of these factors led on one hand to the apathy and social pathologies, on the other hand – led to a new fanatical ideology creation, to the extremist movements and terrorism formation. A vision of a global outbreak of war with the use of mass destruction weapons was also terrifying. These phenomena, on account of the potential threats, became a subject of interest by the international politics run by the United Nations and its departments. As a result, there arose a new concept of a global development, which is now called a balanced development.