Linking socio-economic developmet and environmental pressures
Sustainable development paradigm requires new approaches to the study of linkages betweensocio-economic development and its accompanying environmental pressures. To this end, athree-level regional geographic model of interactions has been developed. This new indexattempts to evaluate the level of ge...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)
2007-01-01
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| Series: | Dela |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/oddelki/geo/Publikacije/Dela/files/Dela_27/08_vintar.pdf |
| Summary: | Sustainable development paradigm requires new approaches to the study of linkages betweensocio-economic development and its accompanying environmental pressures. To this end, athree-level regional geographic model of interactions has been developed. This new indexattempts to evaluate the level of general balance of development in each country or region,upgrading well established human development index by an environmental aspect (i.e.ecological footprint) and consequently strongly modifying deeply rooted images of wellbeingin the world. |
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| ISSN: | 0354-0596 1854-1089 |