Abstract
The concept of sustainability and sustainable development, especially systemic sustainable development, still raises controversy in literature. The article makes an attempt to re-examine these concepts from a systems perspective, seeking foundations and applications in the selected sector. It is becoming increasingly clear that sustainability and sustainable development are aimed at integrated economic, social, cultural, political, and ecological factors. This causes a need for a constructive approach to the issue, taking into account all the actors, areas and dimensions involved in the pursuit of systemic sustainable development. As a result, both local and global dimensions and the way they interact must be explored in a multifaceted manner in order to offer a perspective more effective and useful than other analytical approaches, as the systems view is a way of thinking in terms of connectedness, relationships, and context. The article aims to review selected publications and studies so as to form the general idea of systemic sustainable development and define the systemic development of sustainable transport, including in particular the perspective of the actors of the sector, transport providers (passenger, urban), and transport development program, implemented both by local governments and on the European scale. An attempt was made to identify elements of the systemic sustainable development model, setting it in the reality of the following subcategories: “Society”, “Economy”, and “Environment” in sectoral terms. It is supposed that systemic sustainable development is a conglomerate of public administration entities, companies operating in the sector, individual and corporate customers, acting in certain conditions for economic, social, and environmental well-being, and a number of their initiatives of major or minor significance, grouped in six sub-areas, undertaken to achieve systemic value in the examined sector, with a positive or negative business/economic, social, and environmental impact.
Highlights
Rome, included in the report entitled „Limits of Growth”, the concept of sustainable development of all spheres of human life and activity should be taken care of for the purpose of ensuring further nature of life on Earth and possibilities to meet elementary needs of all the people and future generations
In Poland, the principle of sustainable development is included in clause 5 of the Polish Constitution, whereas the definition of sustainable development is encompassed in the Act entitled “Environmental Protection Law” in the following wording: “(it is) such social and economic development in which the process of integration of political, economic and social activities is observed, with maintenance of natural balance and durability of elementary natural processes, for the purpose of ensuring the possibility to satisfy elementary needs of individual communities or citizens of both present and future generations” (Act of 27 April 2001 Law on environmental protection)
Systemic sustainable development is a conglomerate of public administration entities, companies operating in the sector, individual and corporate customers, acting in certain conditions for economic, social, and environmental well-being, and a number of their initiatives of major or minor significance, grouped in six sub-areas, undertaken to achieve systemic value in the examined sector, with a positive or negative business/economic, social, and environmental impact
Summary
Sustainable development [1,2] (pp. 641–642) referred to as balanced development or eco-development, is a concept and way of thinking in economics that presumes the level and quality of life to be the level as guaranteed by civilization development in appreciated time. Rome, included in the report entitled „Limits of Growth”, the concept of sustainable development of all spheres of human life and activity should be taken care of for the purpose of ensuring further nature of life on Earth and possibilities to meet elementary needs of all the people and future generations. It arises from the definition included in standards and documents of the United Nations that sustainable development of the Earth is the special development that meets basic needs of all people. Systemic sustainable development is a conglomerate of values and a compromise between the environmental, economic, and social goals that contribute to the welfare of present and future generations [16]
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