The sustainability concepts of the "Brundtland-Report" and the "Rio documents" call for a combination of ecological, economic, social and institutional aspects of social development. This paper describes briefly, several models of sustainability and discusses social sustainability as...

The article assesses the material footprints of households living on a minimum amount of social benefits in Finland and discusses the consequences in terms of ecological and social sustainability. The data were collected using interviews and a questionnaire on the consumption patterns of 18...

Mobility is one of the most important key factors that determine economic development and growth in most modern countries all over the world. Therefore, investments in infrastructure can have multiple effects when it comes to economic and social growth. What is more, economic development is...

This paper analyzes problems of excessive emphasis on expansion of urban land, improper village and town construction, and low land utilization efficiency in urban-rural integration construction. In line with characteristics and principle of intensive land use of urban-rural integration, it puts...

Rice paddies are artificial wetlands that supply people with food and provide wildlife with habitats, breeding areas, shelters, feeding grounds and other services, and rice paddies play an important part in agricultural ecological systems. However, modern agricultural practices with large-scale...

As afforestation programs of former farmlands take hold in Taiwan to achieve a variety of ecological and socio-economic values, it is becoming necessary to define best forest management. Hence, we simulated mixed stands of <i>Cinnamomum camphora </i>and <i>Fraxinus griffithii</i> planted through a gradient of...

A nemnövekedés (degrowth) a fejlett országok számára ajánlott új gazdasági paradigma, amely hosszú távon bolygónk ökológiai fenntarthatóságát és az igazságosabb társadalmak kialakítását eredményezheti. A fogalom karrierje Latouche francia közgazdász 2006-os könyvével...

"Beyond an ungreen-economics-based political philosophy" John Rawls's liberalism is the dominant political philosophy of our time. But is it compatible with the values of green economics? I argue in this paper that it is founded on ungreen economics. In particular, Rawls's 'difference...