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The principal objective of the environmental agriculture programmes is to promote Systems of agricultural production which are friendly to the environment. Farmers of the Podkarpacie region search for new opportunities for their activities. They benefit from the opportunities to develop their farms offered by the environmental agriculture programmes. Promoted by media and environmental advisers, the programmes have become an important element of environmental education in rural areas.

Sabina Zaremba-Warnke: Realisation of the principles of environmental education at the training classes of the lecturing subjects on environmental marketing and consumption models. The article presents an analysis of the role of environmental awareness in the education of economists for sustainable development. Principles of efficient environmental education are characterised. An attempt to put these principles into practice on the example of a training course in the subject of Environmental Marketing and Consumption Models carried out at the specialisation of Management of Quality and the Environment at the University of Economy in Wrocław is presented.

Paweł Skowron: Creating environmental knowledge in an enterprise. The term “knowledge” is presented with special focus on its environmental aspect. Actions aimed at building environmental knowledge as one of the primary factors influencing a sustainable development of enterprises are characterised. The author has carried out a questionnaire survey to make a diagnosis of the methods used to build environmental knowledge in selected manufacturing and service providing enterprises.

Anetta Zielińska: The role of environmental education for protected areas. Environmental education shapes the environmental awareness of the society. Protected areas are a practical example of environmental education which should contribute to the improvement of the system of values, attitudes and behaviors of the society with regard to the changes taking place in the environment.

Joanna Czema-Grygiel: Humań and social Capital in education for sustainable development. The article presents the importance of the human and social Capital in the process of education for sustainable development. The main policy of action, both in the case of the State administration and local govemments should be aimed at supporting the activities and financing the improvement of the human factor ąuality as the most effective investment in the way to sustainable development of the civic society.

Adam Płachciak: The morał significance of the sustainable development concept in the conditions of the free market economy. The morał dimension of the sustainable development concept plays a fundamental role in addressing the issues related to the interface the humans-nature, with justice representing a critical ąuality in this context. Therefore establishing a successful communication process between the business, social and public sectors is a priority task together with finding Solutions to problems resulting from the activity of the free market economy in an effective way. It is possible only when based on the functioning of a civic society.

Karolina Maliszewska, Jakub Kronenberg, Piotr Magnuszewski: „The dynamics of sustainable development” education project - training in fining Solutions to combined socio-ecological problems using participating simulation. The paper describes an innovative educational project ‘Dynamics of sustainable development’, carried out in 2002-2003, in the region of Karkonosze and the Oder river valley. The project was realized by an