Sustainable Development and Related Economic Subjects:from Systematic Perspective

Sustainable development, including ecology sustainable, economic development, social justice and so on, is an ideal state of harmonious development of ecology, economy and society. The leading position in sustainable development research has been occupied by natural sciences, for example, ecology and environment because of the concept was originated from the western environmental movement after 1950s. In the gradually cross, classified and detailed economic system, some economic theories about resources are in agreement with inner requirement of the sustainable development. These theories include Pareto Optimization and social welfare maximum in welfare economics, accounting exhausting natural resources and degenerating environment in resource and environmental economics, and opinion of social-economic system has a development limit in ecological economics. Facing the complicated reality and rich content of sustainable development, these theories still have disadvantages. In the future, research on sustainable development should be conducted base on systematic perspective, and integrate relative subjects aiming at key fields and important science problems.