ABSTRACT

KEYWORDS: Sustainable Development, Oil Industry, Common Good, Tension,

Harmonization, Oikonomy

Moments of crisis can represent an opportunity, given that fact that they allow
for the cleansing of ideas and behavior, through a process of discernment, becoming a
primordial opportunity to implement the so called Sustainable Development. The
moments of tension may arise in different configurations; in fact, tension is everywhere
and its part of the human condition. Only a correct judgment will be able to turn it into
an opportunity for Sustainable Development, otherwise it would compromise heavily
the common good.
The Index of Human Development classifies Norway as a country with a better
quality of life. According to the indexs criteria, such rating is only possible in a country
with a great approximation to the Oikonomic paradigm (home management with the
common wealth in mind). The following investigation has as its goal to dwell further
into the way how tension in the norwegian development process has been harmonized,
since the day it became independent, up until the present day, so that it becomes
possible for us to understand how close it stands to the concept of Oikonomy.
In order to answer the question, we organize our investigation into eight
chapters, those corresponding to three parts. In the first one we will proceed to the
historic analysis of national values, culture, resource management, with a highlight on
the contribution that they had in the history of sustainable development. In the second
part, we will investigate one of the most appointed factors as a reason for success oil,
in a way so that well be able to identify which are the real responsibilities of resources
in Sustainable Development.
On the third part, we highlight the tensions addressed, mainly the inherent to the
Oil Industry. Harmonic growth requires tension, faces difficulties and demands a certain
level of corruption; the challenge consists in reducing them to minimum levels so that it
is bearable by the Sustainable Development. Therefore, the green growth or
development, demands a balance between matter and perennial values, between politics
and economy (oikonomy), which is the same as saying between desire and
responsibility.
Do we have in the case of Norway, a proximity to this (once again) new
paradigm of development? The study of the actors and the dynamics of Sustainable
Development, in the way tension is managed, will show how the so called sustainable
process of solution formulation may result in a political instrument, of efficient
implementation in Sustainable Development in a given area.

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