A NATURAL SCIENCE APPROACH TO THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT OF REGIONAL ECONOMIES IN THE CONTEXT OF A MULTIPOLAR WORLD FORMATION
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https://doi.org/10.18623/rvd.v22.n6.3747Keywords:
Sustainable Development, System "Nature-Society-Human", Parameters of Design and Management, Natural Science Units, Useful PowerAbstract
Modern socioeconomic systems are designed and managed without regard for the regenerative capacity of the natural environment or the fundamental laws of nature. This has generated trends whose consequences neither the planet nor humanity can sustain in the long term. Without deliberate, science-based management, it is fundamentally impossible to break free from the cycle of crises plaguing contemporary civilization and achieve genuine sustainable development. This article presents a multi-level model for designing, planning and managing the sustainable development of socioeconomic entities within an invariant coordinate system expressed in universal energy or power units of measurement. The novelty lies in identifying natural-science indicators of sustainability—across socioeconomic, technical, and environmental dimensions—and reducing them to a single energy-based metric applicable to systems open with respect to energy input and output. Calculations are based on Eurostat, World Bank, and United Nations databases. The proposed methodology was tested using a dataset of the world's largest economies - USA, China, India, Brazil and small open economies as Latvia for the period 1990–2022. The results of the analysis demonstrate a significant discrepancy between traditional economic rankings and rankings based on physical invariants.
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