Greening of Economy: Selected Issues

The present study consists of selected papers that originate from the monograph of the Department of Industrial and Environmental Policy at the Cracow University of Economics. They address the issues of economic development and in particular questions concerning the industry along with the paradigm of sustainable development. Economy is subordinated to the environment, so it can be said that it is a subsidiary of the environment. Economy conditions the social life, the economic development and generally speaking the civilization. At the same time the man and the economy, while using the services of the environment are obliged to protect ecosystems and to maintain them for future generations. So the economic growth must be less raw materials absorbent and the effects of using raw materials should always be the subject of the calculation and the ecological and economic account. Such an approach to the philosophy of economy and management is the essence of the category of greening