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Realisation of the social objectives of sustainable development is related to the education issues. Efforts determining a proper development łnclude ensuring an equal access to education for all inhabitants, a guarantee of the continuity of education at all levels as well as an adeąuate ąuality of the education.

Dariusz Kiełczewski, Tomasz Poskrobko: Teaching the economy of sustainable development. To implement the sustainable development principles, economists are reąuired to make efforts towards building theoretical principles of sustainable development as well developing teaching methodologies of economy for sustainable development in which education conceming management of the naturę Capital seems to play a role of special importance. Teaching the economy of sustainable development includes also an important task of establishing the relations between the natural environment, the society and the economy as well as gaining the skills to implement this development concept.

Marcin Łuszczyk: Developing the attitudes of homo sustinens among economists. The

paper presents the concept of homo sustinens which is an altemative to the still commonly accepted attitude of homo economicus. Adoption of the new concept by the economists should become a strategie objective of environmental education. The author has additionally proposed to include on a permanent basis the category of sustainable development to the education programmes.

Joost Platje: Indicators of sustainable development and education for sustainable development. Institutional Capital deals with the importance of property rights and transaction costs for achieving sustainable development. An outline will be provided for developing indicators of elements of institutional Capital: the public domain, institutional strength, good governance and an institutional equilibrium. Afterwards, implications for education for sustainable development will be discussed.

Daria E. Jaremen, Janusz Turakiewicz: The concept of sustainable tourism - the basie principles and assumptions. The article presents the attitudes towards sustainable tourism represented by UNWTO, WTTC and the European Union as well as the bodies of tourism policy in Poland. The essence of sustainable tourism has been presented including its features and principles summarized in the slogan “Sustainable tourism: one goal for many entities”.

Aureliusz Miklaszewski: Key issues of environmental education. Environmental education of society, and in particular of the decision makers, is a necessity to ensure a successful realisation of the sustainable development principles. The article presents some main issues related to environmental education which should be carried out in a way as to satisfy the needs of sustainable development.

Andrzej Rapacz, Piotr Gryszel, Daria E. Jaremen: The concept of sustainable development in the awareness and practical actions of the inhabitants of tourism municipalities.

Putting the principles of sustainable development intopractice is of special importance to the resorts and tourism regions. Their inhabitants play a critical role in this process. The article is aimed at evaluating the involvement of the local communities in the application of the principles of sustainable development in tourism municipalities. The conclusions have been drawn based on a questionnaire studies performed on a group of over four hundred residents of selected municipalities of the Lower Silesia Voievodeship.