Strong sustainability defends that certain forms of natural capital (environment) are critical and therefore, non-substitutable. There is an increasing concern for conserving the natural environment due to its unique contribution for sustenance and wellbeing of all living beings. The development...

Sustainability essentially involves maintaining level of per capita well-being over time. With coming of the concept of sustainability the line of distinction existing between Human and society got vanished and there was a paradigm shift to understanding the various dimension of human society...

Sustainable Society Index (SSI) is a composite indicator constructed to measure and describe societal progress along all three dimensions of sustainable development: human, environmental and economic. In this paper, we explore possibilities to evaluate and enhance SSI ranking calculation...

The survival of social groups depends on internal factors (the size of a group, its socio-diversity, inner organization, coherence and synergy of actions for the common good), external factors, mostly on a safe natural and social environment, and on sustainable interactions with this...

Education for sustainable development has not featured strongly in the discourse promoted by the journal, Problemy Ekorozwoju/Problems of Sustainable Development. This paper provides a brief background to environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) and focuses on...

This article offers three instruments to effectively mitigate climate change in the context of COP26 and beyond. The first is the interaction between the climate and trade regimes. To that end, this article presents a thought-provoking premise – that mega-regional trade agreements (RTAs) can...

The article explores the implications of natural resource scarcity in terms of global cooperation and trade. We investigate whether there exist stable international long-term agreements that take into account the disparities between countries in terms of geological endowments and productive...

The work consists of two interrelated parts. The first one presents general issues relating to sustainable development. There are examples of the road investments, in which the problems arising from the lack of a general approach to environmental principles and consequently sustainable...

It has been observed that employing the natural processes occurring in the Earth’s ecosystem for mitigating the greenhouse gases emission is sustainable. One of the main sources of methane emission is agriculture (rice cultivation and livestock raising). Limiting the cultivation of rice would...

Lawn has been used for landscaping, gardening, and beautification of homes and cities for a long time. The evolution of the lawn reflects important cultural and biophysical interactions between humans and nature. The American lawn, which was from Europe and has been a part of the American dream...