Is Sustainable Development Really Sustainable – Theoretical Reflections, Statistics and the Need for Changes

Q2 Social Sciences

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.2478/jtes-2022-0023

E. Jermolajeva, Inese Trusina

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Abstract The aim of the article is to explain holistically the main provisions of sustainable development in the nature-society-human system based on the methodology for analyzing changes in energy flows and the power of socio-economic systems. The authors consider the development of society as a creative process aimed at changing the direction and speed of free energy flows (useful power) in Space and Time. They also consider sustainable development in the nature-society-human system to be consistent with the laws of the global evolution of living nature and the laws of the historical development of humankind. The paper focuses on key questions concerning the new concepts of sustainable development; the methodology for designing the sustainable development using the concept of energy flows in open, non-equilibrium stable systems and power change analysis approach. The results of the main positions of the models and their interpretation are presented based on the statistical data of United States of America (USA) in the period of 1960–2021. One of the most important primary things in order to bring about changes in people's thinking, understanding and attitude towards sustainability issues is their education in different forms – formal education and non-formal education opportunities. Creating an interdisciplinary approach and explaining sustainability as a set of economic, social and ecological factors also play a crucial role in raising public awareness of sustainability issues.

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可持续发展真的可持续吗——理论反思、统计和变革的必要性

本文的目的是在分析能量流变化和社会经济系统力量的方法论基础上，从整体上解释自然-社会-人类系统中可持续发展的主要规定。作者认为社会的发展是一个创造性的过程，其目的是改变空间和时间中自由能量(有用的力量)流动的方向和速度。他们还认为，自然-社会-人类系统的可持续发展是符合全球生物自然进化规律和人类历史发展规律的。本文着重探讨了可持续发展新理念的几个关键问题;利用开放、非平衡稳定系统的能量流概念和功率变化分析方法设计可持续发展的方法。基于美国1960-2021年的统计数据，给出了各模型的主要位置及其解释结果。为了改变人们对可持续发展问题的思维、理解和态度，最重要的一件事是不同形式的教育——正规教育和非正规教育机会。创造一种跨学科的方法，并将可持续性解释为一系列经济、社会和生态因素，在提高公众对可持续性问题的认识方面也起着至关重要的作用。

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Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability Social Sciences-Education

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期刊介绍： Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability (JTEFS) is a forum for the meeting of different views, ideas and research to promote the further development of studies and practice of teacher education in all areas of formal and non-formal education in relation to sustainability. Contributors are encouraged to submit articles with relevance to content and forms of teacher professional and academic education, problems and tasks of teacher in-service education and other issues to help teachers to become responsible mentors for the sustainable development.