The Concept of Sustainable Development in the State Policies

Abstract

The concept ofsustainable development has become a leitmotif of many international and national policy documents concerning both environmental and socioeconomic development. Due to the fact that the sustainable development (in current sense) concerns not only the protection of the environment (ie environmental issues), but also - and above all issues related to socio-economic development and quality of human life, the article refers primarily to political documents, in which (sustainability - sustainable development) has been saved as a new paradigm of development and its legal citation. Referring to the concept of sustainable development, which is clearly anthropocentric as opposed to sustainability, which is a biocentric concept, it should be noted that both of these approachesinclude a reference to the associated environmental protection. While the sustainability of all the activities ofman surrenders the good ofthe environment, the sustainable development is primarily aimed at achieving and maintaining the quality ofhuman life.