Nature-Based Solutions for Europe's Sustainable Development

Making Integrated Solutions Work for Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development and the Reinvention of Nature

This paper explores the contradictions inherent in what has become the buzzword of the 1990’s: sustainable development. I argue that despite claims of a paradigm shift, the sustainable development paradigm is based on an economistic, not ecological rationality. Discourses of sustainable development embody a view of nature specified by modern economic thought. One consequence of this discourse i...

Sustainable Solutions in Development Countries – Lithuania Case

The Role of Scaffolding in Nature School to Promote Sustainable Development in Education

Purpose: The overall purpose of this study was to investigate the role of Scaffolding in nature school in order to promote sustainable development in education. This research was practical in terms of purpose and survey in terms of descriptive method. Methodology: the present study is practical in terms of purpose and survey in terms of descriptive method. This statistical population consisted ...

Paradoxes of Sustainable Development and Abandonment of Nature

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and various international environmental agencies have developed the concept of ‘ecosystem services’ and ‘natural resources’ to describe ways in which humans benefit from healthy ecosystems. Biodiversity was recognized to be of great social and economic value to both present and future generations. Accordin...