Estimating the relationship between economic development and energy demand and determining whether that relationship changes as levels of development change have been popular questions in energy economics. The current paper contributes to the literature by assembling a wide panel dataset of...

Far from protecting the environment, most rail transit lines use more energy per passenger mile, and many generate more greenhouse gases, than the average passenger automobile. Rail transit provides no guarantee that a city will save energy or meet greenhouse gas targets. While most rail transit...

In this article, Professor Kaswan argues that hoped-for greenhouse gas reductions cannot be achieved without reducing consumption. Given their control over land use and buildings, cities can play a key role in reducing consumption. She argues that, while existing federal proposals for a...

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...