The aim of this paper is to present the economic problems of the spatial environmental services in the emerging economy of sustainable development. Its theory has interdisciplinary bases. It is taking into account the achievements of many scientific fields, including spatial management,...

Today the concept of sustainable development has been adopted as a basis for promoting development at all levels of territorial organisation. While generally worked out for the global level, this conception has also attained a local dimension, after the local Agenda 21 had been drawn up at the...

Use of the forest is the oldest form of human activity and also occurs if it takes place without the physical presence of man in the woods, becoming destructive action – intentional or unintentional, or creative activity – identifying and implementing specific needs. Use of forest functions...

The paper analyses the meaning and implementation of the notion of sustainable development, from the viewpoint of Henryk Skolimowski’s ecophilosophy. The Polish thinker initiated his ecophilosophy 35 years ago, formulating radical criticism of Western civilisation with its dominating forms of...

The article is the result of scientific research carried out by the author during the period 2004-2007. These stud-ies touched on genesis, subject, aim, axiological system, the concept of education and the main problems of the philosophy of sustainable development and the sustainable development...

The article presents the opportunities of implementation of market mechanisms in environment protection and using its supplies. Launching market allocation mechanism can have two basic forms: market allocation based on principle of single auction, as well as based on principle of possible...

In 1968, a paper appeared in the Science journal outlining a macroeconomic concept referring to the problem of common use of environmental resources. Its author, Garret Hardin, stated that the natural human desire to maximise individual economic benefits led to overexploitation of environmental...

The paper shows, that the hopes associated with globalisation, which were also supposed to overcome the effects of the ecological crisis, have not been fulfilled. This situation is associated with the fact that nowadays the biggest influence on the functioning of the global ecosystem is by man...

The article analyzes the impact of public environmental protection expenditure on economic growth. Estimating the strength of this relationship is of particular importance in the context of the recent global economic crisis. The paper is organized as follows. Firstly, theoretical model showing...

This article builds on, and incorporates, an earlier one, in which I used four examples of doctoral theses at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy to show the advantages of experiential learning in dealing with real-world problems of sustainable development. The purpose of the present...