Sustainable development: from global idea to the strategy of the company
Sustainable development: from global idea to the strategy of the company

Summary/Abstract: In times of resource depletion, global ecological crisis, intensive scientific and technical development, institutional changes the problem of providing a sustainable development of economy and society becomes more and more demanded and actual. The appearance of conception of sustainable development in the middle of 20th century lead to interpretation of society progress not as an economic growth, but it is necessary to consider economics as a national economy tool, which allow to compound and harmonize economic and social development with nature sources exploitation. For rather short time the theory of a sustainable development became not only one of the most studied and quickly developing economic theories, but also became a part of many state and international documents as the basic concept of providing a sustainable development of economy of the developed countries. Our paper describes the evolution of the concept of sustainable development. Moreover, it analyzes the basic indicators and models of sustainable development and assesses the possibility of applying the concept of sustainable development at the enterprise level.

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