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Russian Federation and the Czech Republic: a dynamic view of sustainable development
The concept of socio-economic systems’ sustainable development has been developed by the world community. One of the most important areas is the methodology improvement for the assessment of sustainable development. Most of the existing indicators` systems are static and do not allow to estimate the dynamics of the balance level of social, economic and environmental components indicators. Considering sustainable development as a dynamic process, the author proposes to use the method of dynamic standards. In this article, new method of estimating comparative dynamics tempo characteristics of sustainable development indicators of the national socio-economic systems is proposed. The equilibrium dynamics of sustainable development indicators – social, economic and environmental of the Russian Federation and the Czech Republic for 2005-2012 are analyzed on the base of proposed method. The results of the study revealed an imbalance in the ratio of individual social, economic and environmental indicators’ tempo characteristics. Problems of struggle against the environmental consequences of economic activity, implementation of resource and environmentally friendly technologies, reducing the rate of environmental pollution, measures intensification for reducing the incidence of population, income growth and decent of living standard are actual for both countries. The research results can provide the basis for the elaboration of sustainable development programs for the Russian Federation and the Czech Republic