fully integrates socio-economic and environmental issues, as well as broader
participation of the public [2].
Today, development and deepening of the the sustainable development concept is
constantly in the focus of attention of international organizations, which demonstrates
the relevance and urgency and the general concern of humanity about the very nature
of this development in terms of aggravation of socio-economic and environmental
problems on the planet. At the same time, questions about declaring sustainable
development goals are being updated. Thus, the adoption of the Millennium
Declaration in 2000 at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations contributed to
the statement of the conceptual framework and values of sustainable development,
which presented eight international development goals until 2015 (Millennium
Development Goals): eradicating hunger and extreme poverty, ensuring access to
education, ensuring gender equality, reducing maternal and child mortality, reducing
HIV/AIDS and other diseases scope, ensuring environmental sustainability and
harmonizing external assistance for developing countries [3]. The latest list of 17 goals
and 169 targets in the field of sustainable development was developed and approved in
2015 by the 193 Member States of the United Nations, which the world committed to
achieve by 2030. In the report, in particular, it is noted that “in the last quarter of a
century the world has changed, and with it – development problems and challenges ...
Globalization has united nations, markets and labor, and the digital revolution has
changed people's lives” [4].
In scientific thought it is believed that the main provisions of the economic theory
of sustainable development, on which foreign researchers rely, were covered in the
well-known monograph “Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable
Development” [5]. In the future, the emphasis in research is on substantiating the
transition to a co-evolutionary relationship with nature, suggesting that future world
goals in the social context should be supplemented by social and natural security both
on a global scale and at the level of an individual enterprise. In particular, the studies
of the features of the sustainable development level analysis at the micro level by such
foreign scientists as J. Staniskis and V. Abrasikauskas, G. Mitchell, E. Warhurst and
others are quite thorough.
At the same time, the overwhelming majority of studies of Ukrainian scientists on
problematic issues of implementing the sustainable development concept, following
the doctrine by V.I. Vernadskyi on the noosphere, focuse on macroeconomic theory
[6-8], although the issues of meso and microlevel are also in sight [9,10]. Thus, B.
Andrushkiv offers to interpret sustainable development from the viewpoint of a
system-integrated approach as a process of permanent changes, in which the use of
resources, including educational components, investment direction, scientific and
technological development, innovation implementation, personnel development and
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