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The Production of Croatia's Future: Integral Sustainability as a Concept and Criterion
Vladimir LAY
Sažetak
The subject of this article is the production of Croatia's future
characterised by integral sustainability as a developmental
concept and criterion. The concept and criterion of integral
sustainability requires and presupposes conscious
management, and not merely a spontaneous sequence of
events, of social processes and relationship to the natural
resources of life. Production is a conscious and planned process. There is sense in using the word "production" in
association with the word "future". The word future denotes
tomorrow, the tomorrow of a society, and here it denotes
primarily the future of the living world, of air, water, earth,
survival, the quality of living and people's health. The article
is a contribution to reflecting upon the concept / criterion of
integral sustainability in the context of Croatian society and
the territory of the Republic of Croatia. In the article the
author presents ecological "environmental", economic and
sociocultural levels of integral comprehensive sustainability.
Part of the text initially analyses the fundamental goals of the
production of Croatia's future characterised by integral
sustainability dealing with a) the preservation and
development of natural resources of life with the aim of
preserving health and the essential ecological, natural
welfare of the population and the whole living world (flora
and fauna), b) gradual "ecologisation" of the overall
production of goods and services and the selection of such
developmental choices which will more resolutely and
sensibly make use of Croatian natural resources as capital
for new forms of bio-economy, c) sociocultural aspects of
sustainability of people's lives in Croatia in the part in which
they are in relation with the ecological and economic aspects
of sustainability. The final part of the article opens the subject
of "production of active participants for the production of the
future". Human resources, their knowledge and orientation
as well as their ability and training for development on the
level of integral sustainability is from a sociological point of
view the fundamental precept for achieving such
development.
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Hrčak ID:
19484
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Datum izdavanja:
31.8.2003.
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