The right to environment is one of the fundamental rights of the individual and collective rights. Hence, the legal environmental protection also requires ethical and economic elements that are derived from the precautionary principle. Its assessment should always be interpreted in the context...

The article presents the selected issues in education for sustainable development. It consists of the characteristics of this education. The main emphasis has been placed on the presentation of an original concept of educator for sustainable development educator. A description of such educator...

The article presents the issues and methodology employed in a cross-national research program – the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) Environment. The program consists of different topical modules (the module on environment protection is described in the article), which are carried...

The article presents selected issues of the problems connected with the sustainable development within the global and local perspective. It summarizes the economic aspects of the broadly understood growth process and the socio-economic development. It discusses the possibility of reaching the...

Nowadays, a detrimental impact of the human activity on the environment is a growing concern. This issue has engendered a need for action toward sustainable development, which assumes a conscious shaping of relation-ships between the economic growth and concern for the environment. The new...

In the wake of the Brundtland report (1987) it was argued that ‘development’ ought to be able to accommodate ‘sustainability.’ The discussion of ‘development’ needed to be enlarged and a ‘long view’ taken of society/nature relations. During the last two decades this formulation...

In this article I present a proposition that around the conception of sustainable development, which cannot be possible to realize without radical changes of the social structure and of the style of the economic thinking, an appropriate ideology and a mythology are increasing. Many myths...

The concept of sustainable development has been formulated at a time when modern humanity gained the technological means to carry out almost any transformation of the world around us, but, at the same time also got lost in the goals that their actions should serve. This is connected with the...

The article attempts to present the issue of ecosystem services in the light of a sustainable knowledge-based economy. The category of ecosystem services is of key importance in the emerging economy of sustainable development, which analyses the society-economy-environment macro-system. The...

Agricultural biodiversity should be considered as a key resource and the most important human heritage. Biodiversity of farm animals and plants gives the foundation to food production that ensures the existence and future of contemporary civilizations. Rapid economic development, unfortunately,...