Probabilistic-Entropic Concept of Sustainable Development of the Example of Territories

Alexander Tyrsin, Alfia Surina and Alexey Antonov

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Abstract: 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 in 1992-2017 is given.

Keywords: sustainable development; differential entropy; risk; multidimensional random variable; monitoring; vector; randomness; self-organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.89287

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