Title :
The global model of sustainable development for protecting the living environment — Possibilities or utopia
Author :
Pataki, Eva ; Sagi, Andras
Author_Institution :
Polytech. Eng. Coll., Subotica, Serbia
Abstract :
The author considers the problems of planning and realizing sustainable development aiming at protecting the living environment. In this research, the author recognizes that the stable and sustainable development together with the protection of the living environment is not possible without recognizing self-regulating mechanisms of the nature and their adequate application to the advancement and modernization of social and concentric circles of realization and feedback mechanisms. In researching, the author presents and analyzes the fundamental functioning and possibilities to construct the so-called global models and system-synthesis models. The author comes to the pessimistic conclusion that all the attempts to construct the global model of sustainable development, including the living environment protection have failed. To design and apply such a model in the world proportion, however, it is necessary to solve a row of different and difficult problems, and this elaboration the author plans to do in her next work.
Keywords :
environmental science computing; concentric circles; global model; living environment; self-regulating mechanisms; social circles; sustainable development; utopia; Economics; Humans; Pollution; Production; Sociology; Statistics; Sustainable development; general system theory; living environment pollution; self-regulating mechanisms; sustainable development; system-synthesis model;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY), 2012 IEEE 10th Jubilee International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Subotica
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4751-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4749-5
DOI :
10.1109/SISY.2012.6339481