The article contains a critique of the concept democratic deficit EU. Its logical unsustainability is revealed by demonstrating that it based on ‘fallacy false analogy’. Several numerous implications this assertion are elaborated, with special emphasis ‘no-demos thesis’. does not treat idea EU merely as an analytical analogy and thus logically incorrect. For has been persistently used in politi...

In an economy with multiple consumption goods (including environmental amenities) that uniquely maximizes the present value of utility with constant discounting, constant or falling augmented green net national product, or zero or negative augmented net investment, at any time implies that the economy is unsustainable then. "Augmented" means that time is included as a productive stock, which in...

The vast majority of development projects, and in particular Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) projects, fail to reach their objectives and only a small number of projects effect change that lasts (Heeks, 2002;Toyama, 2010). The sustainability of a project is an important but ill-defined concept. Sustainability has been defined from various perspectives, but many...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is associated with both positive and negative impacts on people planet, much attention currently devoted to analyzing evaluating these impacts. In 2015, the UN set 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), consisting of environmental, social, economic goals. This article shows how SDGs provide a novel useful framework for categorizing benefits harms AI. AI here consi...

with the publication of the brundtland report carried the sustainability discussion into governments and businesses worldwide, much effort has gone into clarifying the meaning of the sustainability concept. to make the concept measurable and applied city sustainable idea, some new method was needed. so the method named ecological footprint has been presented.the ecological footprint method that...

Migration represents a major transformation of the lives those involved and has been transformative societies economies globally. Yet models sustainability transformations do not effectively incorporate movement populations. There is an apparent migration-sustainability paradox: migration plays role as driver unsustainability part economic globalisation, yet simultaneously phenomenon potential ...

Given the importance of keeping consumption levels within environment’s carrying capacity and natural limits to growth, this article examines interconnections between postmodern society, United Nations (UN) sustainable consumption. Throughout article, main characteristics society their relationship with problem unsustainability are analyzed. The historical process UN’s struggle for a global com...

The spread of pandemics, war and the climate crisis has shown how close unsustainability current development model, oblivious places their inhabitants, now come to a point no return; but at same time it made more transparent – as well urgent reasons for eco-territorialist turn, centred on conceptual operational device urban bioregion. Delving into discussion already underway, essay describes su...