Sustainability. E-book for students

Abstract

The subchapter deals with the theoretical and political roots of the sustainability concept and its changes over time. It identifies four main directions of theoretical, political, and business practice, whereby the relationship between economic growth and its environmental and socio-economic consequences were first identified, then gradually transformed into approaches focused on critical issues in the present. Each of these roots has some links to how economic and political thinking developed from the 1960s to the first decades of the 21st century and reflects the changing environment and approaches to their solution. The subchapter also points out that the actual result of these efforts has not yet been sufficiently reflected in most political and economic practice, despite many declaratory political acts.