Formalizing the past and sustainable development strategy

Despite the progress made in recent years, Polish land transport still faces numerous challenges that may become an obstacle to achieving lasting and sustainable growth and further convergence with the European Union. Achieving faster, lasting, and sustainable development in the transport sector currently requires urgent changes in expenditure planning and the system of incentives for basic modes of transport.

In [8], three variants of transport policy were proposed, defined based on assumed priorities and accepting certain compromises: variant one – immediate road mobility, implementation of a program co-financed by European Union grants; variant two – implementation of a program co-financed by European Union grants, increased rail traffic; variant three – financial and economic sustainability of the sector, environmental sustainability.
The share of transport in greenhouse gas emissions remains significant, and there are many indications that Poland will not be able to achieve the goals set by the European Union without taking more decisive action. The increase in greenhouse gas emissions in Poland reflects global trends, according to which most of the emission growth comes from transport. Currently, the Polish transport sector is responsible for 12% of CO2 emitted in Poland, with road transport accounting for 92% of this emission.
The road sector requires further significant institutional reforms, improved coordination, and restructuring of financing.
The task facing economists of shaping the economic future is difficult, however, all the more so because economics is a social science, and therefore a science in which there is no universal certainty.
The article presents the essence of grounded theory methods, qualitative case study research, and the concept of path dependence in terms of their application in the process of formalizing the past in sustainable development strategy research.
Formalizing the past for the purpose of sustainable development research
Transport plays one of the most important roles in the modern world and is part of almost every human activity. It determines economic, social, and environmental effects and is one of the essential aspects of sustainable development. (…)

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