Modern Approaches To Sustainability And Spatial Development: Educational Aspects

Abstract

Today we are not talking about sustainable development alone, but also about its spatial understanding. This new vision of sustainable development is shaping the modernization of the educational process, which takes the transformation of traditional approaches to modern requirements into consideration. Traditional theories of spatial development basically examine it in a two-dimensional (i.e. territorial) aspect. Generally speaking, the systems' stability or sustainability is a measure of its ability to keep movement, or changes within the system, on the intended trajectory, despite the influence of outside forces. The three forms of stability, inertness, recoverability and plasticity, will be discussed in this paper (Grodzinskiy 1993). The modern approach to understanding the spatial sustain-ability of a system should be based on the ability of the system to meet these forms. This paper will also discuss the properties that each element of a system must have in order for the system to model special sustainable development. The up-to-date educational process should be focused on new understanding of management for sustainable development and on corresponding sets of tools.