A Systemic Description of Sustainable Progress

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to shed light from a systemic perspective on the question: ‘How can the sustainable progress of the real systems SR(t,c,g) in any space-time-resources domain Dstr(t,c,g) of Universe/Multiverse be defined?’. In the first part of the paper, within a traditional, limited, non-integrative and non-systemic approach, the manner of the concept and determinants of sustainable progress is established. In the second part, a systemic approach is applied to the elaboration of new principled models for defining and achieving the integrative sustainable progress PsS(t,c,g), through c, c+1, ….. behavioural cycles and g, g+1, …. successive - parallel generations of entities SR(t,c,g). The principled model emphasizes the determinants categories of the progress PsS(t,c,g) in a domain Dstr(t,c,g): (1) Sustainable resources and environments RMs(t,c,g); (2) Sustainable competitive power CKs(t,c,g); (3) Sustainable/self-sustainable stability Sas(t,c,g); (4) Sustainable integrative innovation Iis(t,c,g); (5) Competitiveness and sustainable competitiveness program/culture Kcs(t,c,g); (6) Sustainable periodic welfare Bps(t,c,g); (7) Sustainable activation/entrepreneurship and mobility Ams(t,c,g) in the domain Dstr(t,c,g) or/and in other domains Dstr(t,c,g), more favourable for the future progress. The determinants categories of the progress PsS(t,c,g) are detailed in a model of the sustainable progress cycle with more space-time-resources domains {Dstr(t,c,g)}.