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 consists of three parts. The first presents the Enlightment’s philosophy of history, presenting human-ity as the principal subject of history. The next describes the concept of civilization pluralism (Toynbee, Hunt-ington) in which humanity does not appear - only great and...

This paper provides consideration on sustainable development in postmodern time, which should conduct shaping of social development as well as development of local and global communities. Ensuring sustainability of development is a multilevel process. In particular, that means that...

Mineral raw materials belong to non-renewable resources. Their content in the Earth’s crust is limited and they undergo regeneration only in specific geologic conditions during hundreds, thousands or even millions of years. The sustainable use of mineral resources depends mostly on their...

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...

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...

The article is focused on ESCM - environmentally sustainable supply chain management. The main question is: how can organizations develop a ‘business case’ for valuing the practice? The answer goes far beyond environmental and technical improvements

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...

Sustainable development has undergone an important evolution over recent years. It has been used not only as a tool to decide among several options in research programs but also in political decisions. However, how can we measure if something is sustainable or not? It seems that Life Cycle...