At first sight the potential discrepancy between competitive behavior of market participants, trade rules and the basic notion of sustainable development may seem to be of a negligible importance. However, during the interactions of market processes with sustainability goals through various...

Orchard development on eroded uplands is considered as a successful method in integrating soil erosion treatment with economic development in many developing countries. However, much attention focused on its present achievements without thinking over the economic viability over long plantation...

The thesis examined in the article is the argumentation against a popular belief that industrialised agricultural systems and intensive agriculture are beneficial. Objective facts, reports and commonly available data confirm such argumentation. Intensification in animal farming – in a...

In this paper we consider the impact of Human Development Index and Environmental Health on sustainable development in 178 observed countries. We focus on the necessity of multidisciplinary approaches that estimate and predict how selected indicators such as:(1) Improved sanitation facilities (%...

Obszary chronione są zazwyczaj zlokalizowane tam, gdzie występują: duża lesistość, mała liczba mieszkańców, słabe gleby, a także niedostatecznie rozwinięta infrastruktura komunikacyjna oraz przedsiębiorczość. Na takich terenach często dochodzi do konfliktów na tle gospodarowania...

Przedstawiany tekst jest próbą rekonstrukcji filozofii dziejów Skolimowskiego, dającej się wyczytać z jego różnorodnych tekstów. Koncepcja ekofilozofii Skolimowskiego jest de facto filozofią społeczną, krytycznie oceniającą kondycję dzisiejszej cywilizacji ludzkiej. Ratunkiem dla...

The practice has indicated that there is a particularly sensitive relationship that exists between ecological and economic subsystem of sustainable development. Therefore this research suggests to compare the states of these two subsystems as a new conceptual frame which is essential for...

Sustainable development is a difficult issue to measure and there is no one method agreed upon. In this article a statistical method, which synthesizes many indicators into one quantitative indicator is proposed. 27 member states of the European Union has been analyzed. The results have...

From thought to action, ideas to implementation, that is the way to go. Industrial ecology as a set of tools and strategies to shape the world of the future and enable it to develop sustainably, needs to adjust and evolve over time. There is often a risk of having to rob Peter to pay Paul which...

Environmentalism is not a recent movement, but one which dates from at least since the nineteenth century, and which has been subject to periods of contraction as well as growth. Moreover, the philosophical impulses underlying this movement have deep historical roots (and numerous antecedents)...