Aspects of sustainable industrial growth in the face of uncertainty

Abstract

Sustainable development, as a paradigm of a global scale, is the basis of global development, uniting the efforts of people to improve living conditions and solve environmental problems. Reality shows how vulnerable ecosystems with well-established industrial, logistical, and infrastructural ties have turned out to be, which fail in the face of man-made, geopolitical cataclysms. But, if people can preventively assess the impact of these factors, then environmental problems can carry a destructive effect, which many times exceeds the estimates of leading experts. It turns out that industrial corporations act as the driving force of sustainable development. They are at the center of “ecosystem” relations, while representing a source of potential threats of a technological nature, which is why the activities of industrial companies directly determine the ecological situation of entire regions. In the course of the study, it turned out that increased requirements for the design of complex economic facilities demonstrate in practice the possibility of reducing tension in the regions of their presence. With the support of companies, new production facilities for deep processing of raw materials are being created, the production of high-tech products appears, which is typical for both developed and developing regions. It turned out that industrial activity determines the effectiveness of the development of environmental innovations, and the strategy of low-carbon energy goes through a set of decisions on sustainable development under conditions of uncertainty. It is emphasized that the challenges of the external environment, caused by a combination of factors dependent and independent of the activities of industrial companies, increase the degree of responsibility of decisions made in companies that represent an innovative technological “core”.