CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY WITHIN THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM: AN ECOSYSTEM-BASED MODEL
Abstract
The aim of the article is to conceptualize social security in the coordinates of sustainable development and to substantiate the ecosystem structural model. The paper demonstrates that existing approaches to interpreting social security are fragmentary and insufficiently integrated into the framework of sustainable development. The article proposes a definition of social security as an ecosystem, which is determined by interrelated components: economic, social, environmental, behavioral, evolutionary, and regulatory, and has two levels of provision. The author's approach is to include the behavioral component as a corrective mechanism of social security to harmonize individual and collective responsibility. It is concluded that social security functions as a systemic characteristic of socio-economic systems and as a prerequisite for their long-term stability, cohesion, and adaptive capacity in conditions of global uncertainty.
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