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New Goals of Sustainable Future
New Goals of Sustainable Future

Author(s): Arkady Ursul, Tatiana Ursul, Mideg Dugarova
Subject(s): Human Ecology, Political Ecology, Environmental interactions
Published by: Международное философско-космологическое общество
Keywords: biosphere; ecological problems; global development; global governance; MDGs; noosphere; SDGs; security; sustainable development; UN;

Summary/Abstract: This article investigates the process of transition from the Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors have set an objective to demonstrate that SD as a future form of development of civilization from the very beginning had a “target orientation” and from the beginning and anticipated realization and staging of the whole hierarchy of objectives needed for the establishment of an effective global governance. In the future, global development in its “anthropogenic” aspect will be to implement the goals and principles of SD, which will be updated with each new stage of the implementation of this kind of socio-natural evolution. The paper argues the position that the concept of SD should be radically transformed into a “global dimension.” Attention is drawn to the fact that Russia recognized another distant, but very important in the conceptual and theoretical perspective, global goal of “sustainable transition” — formation of the noosphere

  • Issue Year: 18/2017
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 37-50
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English