THE INTEGRATED INDICATOR OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND POLICY TOOLS

摘要

Sustainable development is based on both the intergenerational and intragenerational socioeconomic and ecological justice of society and focuses on a permanent livability (ecocentric rationale) and human well-being: the necessary material minimum, freedom and choice, health and bodily well-being, clean diverse environment, good social relations, personal security, and the conditions for physical, social, psychological, and spiritual fulfillment. In this paper, human health is proposed as the integrated indicator of sustainable development. The specific policy tools focusing on socioecological economics are suggested as the necessary conditions to achieve sustainability while the internal human sustainability based on the ecocentric rationale is considered as its sufficient condition that can be achieved through educational policy. Although these tools can significantly contribute to environmental security in all countries, including transition countries, they should be necessarily complemented by adoption of precautionary and responsibility principles.