Sustainable development has been now for more than 15 years, at the center of the objectives of the EU, being already enshrined in the Amsterdam Treaty of 1997. The basic concern of this now ubiquitous term is to assure the current generation’s demands will be fulfilled without endangering the...

The paper reviews the concepts and strategies regarding sustainable development in European Union and Romania. The concept of sustainable development is built on the premise that human civilization is a sub-system of the Ecosphere and is dependent on its material and energy flows, on its...

Sustainable development follows and tries to find a stable theoretical framework for making decisions in any situation where finds a relation man / environment whether it's environmental, economic or social.<p>Paper: http://ccefa.spiruharet.ro/materiale/dder.pdf

A possible way to overcome the economic crisis in Portugal is rapid change in favour of an innovative approach to economic development through increasing investments in human resources and implementing new ideas in its high-tech sector, gradually shifting towards alternative energy sources.