Scientific-practical potential of determining the essence of sustainable and unsustainable development (part II)

The article is devoted to identifying the research and scientific-practical potential of interpreting the essence of sustainable and unsustainable development as a key methodological imperative of the “paradigm shift”, substantiated in the first part of the general study of the problem. The disciplinary matrix that ensures the achievement of the goal of the article is directly related to the general philosophical characteristics of the essence and phenomenon. Such an approach, on the one hand, allows one to get closer to understanding the essence of sustainable and unsustainable development (“the phenomenon is essential”), and on the other hand, to reasonably characterize the modified actual forms of the considered development (“the essence is”). The heuristic and practical potential of the scientific results of the proposed research consists, firstly, in the interpretation of the essence of sustainable and unsustainable development, as well as in the original definition of its relevant integral forms; secondly, in the innovative conclusion that the society and economy of modern Russia are in a critical state of unsustainable regressive development, which predetermines the need to develop urgent measures to overcome this tendency. The scientific and practical significance of the article lies in the creation and prospective application of a classification matrix for countries and regions of the world, from the point of view of parameters and indicators of their sustainable or unsustainable development.