Published paragraph is presenting the set of key environmental problems on regional level – in the case of Spodnje Podravje region. Degraded areas and under-used degraded surface are one of key challenges of sustainable spatial development in Slovenia. The future management with agriculture land is therefore crucial, so pressure to agriculture land from different activities should be diminished.
COBISS.SI-ID: 45625954
Teaching in the 21st century is focused on learning for life and sustainable development. Sustainable water management is one of key topics. Lifelong knowledge, which is focused on education for sustainable development, could only be obtained with experiential learning, where students can come up with new knowledge through research and observation. Geography can bring many lifelong skills for students from the field of sustainable development. Paper presents ecoremediation educational polygons in Slovenia. They are intended to offer young people the most authentic environment through direct experience in a real environment and in nature. Education on such polygons offers a great opportunity for young people to acquire practical knowledge, which can be used for effective decisions in life in relation to the environment.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18816520
The paper presents the global and regional environmental impact of the developmental model of permanent (quantitative) growth. The constantly increasing anthropogenic material and energy flows of recent decades have exceeded the regenerative and neutralising capacities of the planet's ecosystem, and environmental globalisation is the sum result of excessive environmental impacts. Should the developmental model of permanent growth continue for the next 50 years, pressures on the environment would increase by several times, while the carrying capacity of the environment could even be slightly reduced. The long-term welfare of humanity, of future generations and ecosystems, can only be guaranteed by a developmental model which is environmentally sustainable, i.e. observing the limitations or capacities of natural systems. Therefore, biophysical restrictions should be imposed on the economic process and market mechanisms, meaning restrictions determined by preservation of the optimum functioning of the planet's ecosystem. A developmental model of welfare, without (quantitative) growth, and of a balanced economy has gradually been formed which should provide 'sober' material welfare to all inhabitants of the planet and environmental security for future generations as well. Notwithstanding the fact that Slovenia has reached a higher degree of environmental pollution and an excessive use of natural resources per capita, it does have the key environmental capitals at its disposal to allow a more daring orientation towards environmentally sustainable development.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30731869