Sustainability and Sustainable Development: Chance of System Failure Due to Event Characteristics

C. Backman
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While performance along social, environment and economic dimensions has gained traction in business and society, the focus has been on system continuity. Because of the different interpretations which can be attached to sustainability or sustainable development, consensus on appropriate goals of the system, whatever the system might be, may be more difficult to develop than consensus on what is not wanted – such as a system failure. System failure in this context is meant to convey a system’s inability to adapt to changes in the external or internal environments brought on by an event that disturbs the equilibrium of forces acting on it (the system). A failure then is linked to the interaction between the event and the characteristics which differentiate one event from the next, and the system and the characteristics which differentiate one system from the next. This paper focuses on sustainability and system continuity in terms of understanding conditions that promote system failure from the perspective of the event characteristics. It examines threats to system failure in the context of the characteristics of the event which causes the disturbance threatening system stability.
可持续性与可持续发展:事件特征导致系统失效的可能性
虽然在社会、环境和经济方面的表现在商业和社会中获得了牵引力,但重点一直放在系统连续性上。由于可以对可持续性或可持续发展作出不同的解释,就系统的适当目标达成协商一致意见,无论系统可能是什么,可能比就不想要的东西达成协商一致意见- -例如系统失败- -更困难。在这种情况下,系统故障意味着系统无法适应外部或内部环境的变化,这些变化是由干扰作用于它(系统)的力的平衡的事件引起的。然后,故障与事件与区分一个事件与下一个事件的特征之间的相互作用,以及系统与区分一个系统与下一个系统的特征之间的相互作用联系在一起。本文从事件特征的角度出发,关注可持续性和系统连续性,理解导致系统失效的条件。它在引起威胁系统稳定性的扰动的事件特征的背景下检查对系统故障的威胁。
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