In a recent years the concept of Sustainable Development has rapidly diffused throughout
the legislation of the European Union and has meanwhile been formally established as a …

We are occasionally, and appropriately, reminded these days that environmental change
has been a fact of life on this planet for all the time it has existed. Human societies thrive in …

The research project “Instruments for Sustainable Regional Development”(INSURED) has
been carried out between April 1996 and June 1998 by five research teams from five …

The activities of human being often cause unfavourable environmental changes. The quality
change of environmental elements reacts to the human being and to the society (SZABÓ …

Economic and social issues have become a top priority in the public debate in Europe,
whereas environmental concerns more and more often are considered as obstacles to …

The integration of environment into the EU policies (Agriculture, Development, Economic
and financial affairs, Energy, Industry, Internal Market, Fisheries, General Affairs, Transport) …

During the last two decades the environment has become an important element in a number
of areas of member state and European Union policy. A key instrument for the delivery of …

Global warming and other and more local aspects of the dynamics of change of the natural
and man-made environments are slowly beginning to influence policy. The …

The concept of sustainable development is with us since about two decades. Declarations
have been signed, strategies have been drafted, conferences and workshops have been …

Sustainable Development as a concept is generally widely accepted. The crucial issue is its
operationalisation. This paper starts from the assumption that both words are intuitively tight …