Polish and German Experiences in Planning and Implementation of Sustainable Development

Abstract

The article presents issues connected with planning and initiating sustainable development in different sectors. Polish and German experiences, despite the differences of datum-points, don’t really vary. The scientists from both countries point at the necessity of building up scientific background to the political acting through providing the politicians with necessary scientific information. They mention also that politics of sustainable development can’t be only implementation of scientific knowledge, but it also has to include interplays of science and politics in continuous cycles of learning and resonance. Science for sustainable development should have specified research fields, where the background are axiological components, empirical verifications, extrapolation using modeling and simulation, evaluation, results’ interpretation or verification of strategies and actions.

In the further part the article we are moving to issues of sustainable industry, sustainable agriculture and educa-tion for sustainable development, where education becomes the main initiator for building sustainable develop-ment awareness and – in connection with that – the base for actions in other sectors.

Note: Downloadable document is in Polish.

Keywords: sustainable development, sustainable industry, sustainable agriculture, education for sustainable development

JEL Classification: O13, Q2, Q32, Q41, R11, M14