Normatywny i pozytywny charakter kategorii rozwoju trwałego
Normative versus positive character of sustainable development

Summary/Abstract: The goal of the paper is to define the microeconomic foundations of sustainable development, and to prove that its normative and positive prerequisites should be perceived as complimentary and not competitive or mutually exclusive. The normative approach towards sustainable development implies that this category is regarded as a development pattern or integrated order. The positive approach involves striving for the identification of factors and premises which apply to microeconomic entities. They enable a transition from the hitherto prevailing development patterns to sustainable development, or at least make it plausible. To explain microeconomic behaviours in the sphere of broadly understand natural resources management, it is not enough to take as one's cognitive foundation the notion of homo oeconomicus and utility maximization hypothesis. In the paper, the authors define the conditions that are necessary for the realisation of the model of microeconomic behaviour (or behavioural model) which is described in the subject literature as homo sustinens.

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