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Probabilistic-Entropic Concept of

Sustainable Development of the

Alexander Nikolaevich Tyrsin, Al'fiya Adgamovna Surina

Nowadays the problem of sustainable development became one of the topical issues. However, many authors point to conceptual complexity, which is that the concept "sustainable development" includes two terms "development" and "sustainability." At the same time, each of these terms is treated not unambiguously. It leads to the emergence of different interpretations of sustainable development in relation to specific systems. A new concept of sustainable development of systems is proposed. According to this concept, the sustainable development of a complex multidimensional system will be understood as the dynamics consisting in the presence of a trend of balanced change in the entropies of randomness and self-organization while maintaining an acceptable risk level in multidimensional systems. The proposed concept is approved on practical examples. Dynamics of vector entropy and multidimensional risk of Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk regions

Keywords: sustainable development, differential entropy, risk, multidimensional

The term "sustainable development" originally was used in 1972 at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. In 1987 in a report entitled as "Our common future" of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) where Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland was a chair, the term definition of "sustainable development" has been formulated: "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" [1]. The "sustainable development" interpretation is very common and does not show a particular way to move into practice [2]. One can point out the main conceptual complexity, which is that the concept of "sustainable development" includes two terms "sustainability" and "development." Moreover, each of these terms is interpreted in different points. These terms are multidirectional. Really, maximizing efficiency usually increases risks, reducing the stability of the functioning of a system. Rather, excessive stability leads to an increase in the costs of its maintenance, reducing the

random variable, monitoring, vector, randomness, self-organization

Example of Territories

and Alexey Sergeyevich Antonov
