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 A few days ago the Head of the Department of Economics and Business Administration, the Director of the Institute for Development Economics at Sumy State University, Dr., Prof. L.G. Melnyk returned from the research and teaching mission in Massey University (Auckland, New Zealand).
During the program he completed his monograph “Trialectic bases of management of economic systems development” (the book will be published in the nearest future). He also completed the work on the article “Trialectics of evolution of capital and value in the process of economic systems development” for Scopus publication and prepared a section for a new textbook “Economics and Business”, as well as a training module in the framework of Jean Monnet grant supported by the EU.
Fruitful discussions with scientists and graduate students of Massey University were also held. Issues of economic analytics, the formation of sustainable (“green”) economy, the study of innovation life cycles, initiating the economic development, the problem of mutations in economy, etc. were also discussed. Professor L.G. Melnyk was asked questions about the perspectives of “green” economy in Ukraine and methodological principles of his trialectics concept of systems factors development.
During the program the experience of New Zealand in achieving sustainable development was studied. It must be mentioned that there is much to learn. First of all, the insistence with which New Zealand forms bases of “green” economy and “green” energy deserves respect. Both the spheres are based primarily on the use of renewable natural resources.
Suffice it to say that today the share of energy produced from renewable sources is close to 80% (60% of energy is from HPP (Hydrological Power Plants), which usually are located on mountain rivers; which minimizes the negative impact on the environment. Geothermal, solar, wind and biogas energy sectors produce the rest of the energy). The country plans to completely abandon the “carbon” energy, i.e., one that uses non-renewable energy resources (oil, gas, coal) by 2020. In New Zealand, there is a complete ban on the use of any nuclear facilities.
Speech by L. Melnyk during a round table
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