Sustainable development and principles of sustainable development in strategic documents of the Republic of Serbia

Abstract

The paper analyzes the strategic documents that the Government Serbia adopted in the period from 2008 through 2011, from the point of the extent to which basic ideas and principles of sustainable development are present in those strategies. By adopting the National Strategy for Sustainable Development in 2008 the Republic of Serbia has accepted that sustainable development becomes its permanent development orientation and of course one of the prerequisites for entry into the family of modern European states. However, given the symbolist, traditional and declarative approach to the concept of sustainable development, it can be established that most the adopted strategic documents, that is, national strategies are not essentially, but only formally, in line with the National Strategy for Sustainable Development. The reasons are certainly found in the fact that the state, that is, the administrative structure, did not understand the essence of sustainable development and the opportunities it provides. Although the idea of sustainable development should be approached from a critical standpoint, there is no doubt that by its political ignorance in the politics of the Serbian government it loses the necessary and costly time needed to strengthen the process of modernization and ecologisation of the society in Serbia.

U radu se analiziraju strateški dokumenti koje je Vlada Republike Srbije usvojila u periodu od 2008. do 2011. godine, sa stanovišta u kojoj meri su u tim strategijama prisutne osnovne ideje i principi održivog razvoja. Usvajajući Nacionalnu strategiju održivog razvoja 2008. godine, Republika Srbija je prihvatila da održivi razvoj postane njeno trajno razvojno opredeljenje i, naravno, jedan od uslova za ulazak u porodicu savremenih evropskih država. Međutim, imajući u vidu simbolistički, tradicionalistički i deklarativni prilaz koncepciji održivog razvoja, može se utvrditi da većina usvojenih strateških dokumenata, odnosno nacionalnih strategija, nisu suštinski, već samo formalno usklađene sa Nacionalnom strategijom održivog razvoja. Razlozi tome se svakako nalaze u činjenici da državne, odnosno administrativne strukture nisu shvatile suštinu održivog razvoja i mogućnosti koje on pruža. Iako prema ideji održivog razvoja treba pristupati sa kritičkog stanovišta, nesumnjivo je da se njegovim političkim ignorisanjem u politici Vlade Srbije gubi neophodno i skupo vreme potrebno u jačanju procesa modernizacije i ekologizacije društva u Srbiji.