Abstrakt:
With the 21st-century globalization, worldwide dangers to humankind coming from hundreds of years of expansionist, self-absorbed utilization practice are progressively perceived by the global community. Global warming, pollution, poverty, and other forms of biological and ecological problems becomes a modern issue, influencing international bodies and governments to create methods of sustainable living and keep up conventional human presence conditions in the world.
The thesis is devoted to comparison of sustainability indicators of four selected European countries, Sweden, Estonia, The Czech Republic and Poland, to uncover depict methods for sustainability fulfillment at the national level. By comparing these four counties with Eurostat's ten sustainable indicators sets, the thesis reveals the irregularities and barriers to sustainability. Ramifications of poor adherence to EU sustainability development rules and proposals for consistence change are examined in the last segments of the thesis.