Environmental citizenship and participation. The role of education programs

Promoting effective environmental citizenship is one way to achieve sustainability - people should be encouraged to act to preserve the environment and the common good. The citizen’s qualities and attitudes will determine the evolution of our society at all levels. Individuals must develop a cultural capacity that in modern society turn them...

European Forest Management Tracking Sustainability: Current Lacks

During this decade forest companies have been diversifying their operations and product ranges from traditional forestry, timber and pulp and paper both to energy and biofuels and to RFID technologies, labels, wood and plastic composites, and biochemicals. Basic products and high tech products are developed side by side. Each company desires new...

Household perspectives on risk and homeownership across the EU (draft version)

Workshop 3. Session A. Abstract. Home ownership sectors in most European countries have experienced a strong growth in recent decades and by the mid-1990s the majority of EU households were home owners. Whilst a great deal of attention has been paid to the rise in home ownership per se, the extent to which households in different European...