HUMAN SECURITY AS AN ELEMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
HUMAN SECURITY AS AN ELEMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

Summary/Abstract: The most popular definition of sustainable development is contained in the Report of the Brundtland Commission of 1987, according to which sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Although this definition is widely accepted, it still requires further discussion, which is the subject of the present study. This is partly due to the fact that understanding of the term sustainable development is not uniform in the literature, which some even consider a premise to reject the term. The concept of sustainable development goes back to the 1970. However, its beginnings may be seen even in earlier publications from 1950 and 1960. Some even think that this concept accompanies mankind from times immemorial – such a statement may be found in the reasons for the judgment in the case Gabćikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia) of 1997. In the separate vote it was stated that sustainable development not only is a principle of modern international law; it is one of the oldest concepts in the history of mankind. The face of the principle of sustainable development is different, depending on the place, in which it is carried out. Its constituents, that is social and economic development with concurrent preserving of the environment, are differently treated in developed countries and in developing ones. This variety of approaches affects the range of the understanding of the principle. It seems that this aspect of the principle should prevail that decides about the environmental protection – as the principle of sustainable development allows ensuring intergenerational equity in access to natural environment resources. An important role in developing the concept of sustainable development and in implementing sustainability in various aspects of people’s lives is played by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which were defined in 2015. The aim of the article is, among other things, to verify whether the concept of sustainable development developed in the second half of the 1980s is still valid and whether it takes into account all dimensions and needs of the digital society. Moreover, the aim of the article is to show that the concept of sustainable development is a research problem that can be analyzed on a multidisciplinary basis, especially in the field of law and sociological sciences, because sustainable development concerns many aspects of social life in a collectivist culture.

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