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December 2013. ::: Vol.64 No. 06

Lorena Korošec
Dora Smolčić Jurdana

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLICY – INTEGRAL PART OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION Pregledni rad Sustainable development has become a part of global society’s modern thinking Formally speaking, sustainable development is a global political agreement that is made up of the balance between the social, economical and ecological aspects of development on all levels, from local to global. The European Union has also put forward the concept of sustainable development, which introduces a systematic solution to the question of envi- ronmental preservation as the key political paradigm of promoting sustainable consump- tion and production, environmental management in an ecologically acceptable manner, the process of informing the public about negative effects, as well as the production of ecologically acceptable products. It has also provided guidelines for its execution for all members of the European Union. The implementation of environmental legislation in the economy in relation to sustainable development represents the general principle of the new, competitive, dynamic and knowledge-based growth model of the European economy in the third millennium. In order to implement the principles of sustainable development, the European Union has numerous political and ﬁ nancial instruments at its disposal which are supposed to contribute to reaching the goal of sustainable development. In the research the special attention will be on the efﬁciency of these instruments and factors that affect their efﬁciency. This paper examines the efﬁciency of these instruments and the factors that are signiﬁcant in their implementation. The paper analyzes various applicative ap- proaches of the implementation of the politics of environmental preservation with the goal of the Union’s sustainable development (examples of Slovenia and Sweden are given), as well as the speciﬁ cities of individual conceptions, their elements and domains. politics of environmental preservation; environmental preservation instruments; sustainable development. Puni tekst: pdf (294 KB), Hrvatski, Str. 605 - 629

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLICY – INTEGRAL PART OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Pregledni rad

Sustainable development has become a part of global society’s modern thinking Formally speaking, sustainable development is a global political agreement that is made up of the balance between the social, economical and ecological aspects of development on all levels, from local to global. The European Union has also put forward the concept of sustainable development, which introduces a systematic solution to the question of envi- ronmental preservation as the key political paradigm of promoting sustainable consump- tion and production, environmental management in an ecologically acceptable manner, the process of informing the public about negative effects, as well as the production of ecologically acceptable products. It has also provided guidelines for its execution for all members of the European Union. The implementation of environmental legislation in the economy in relation to sustainable development represents the general principle of the new, competitive, dynamic and knowledge-based growth model of the European economy in the third millennium. In order to implement the principles of sustainable development, the European Union has numerous political and ﬁ nancial instruments at its disposal which are supposed to contribute to reaching the goal of sustainable development. In the research the special attention will be on the efﬁciency of these instruments and factors that affect their efﬁciency. This paper examines the efﬁciency of these instruments and the factors that are signiﬁcant in their implementation. The paper analyzes various applicative ap- proaches of the implementation of the politics of environmental preservation with the goal of the Union’s sustainable development (examples of Slovenia and Sweden are given), as well as the speciﬁ cities of individual conceptions, their elements and domains.

politics of environmental preservation; environmental preservation instruments; sustainable development.

Puni tekst: pdf (294 KB), Hrvatski, Str. 605 - 629