Open AccessTowards Sustainable Development and Green Economy in European Union
Author(s) -
Evangelos C. Papakitsos,
Konstantinos Karakiozis,
Anastasios Mavrakis
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of economics and management sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2576-3016
pISSN - 2576-3008
DOI - 10.30560/jems.v1n2p27
Subject(s) - green economy , european union , workforce , entrepreneurship , sustainable development , vocational education , scale (ratio) , economic growth , economy , economic system , political science , business , economics , economic policy , geography , cartography , law
Sustainable development is suggested by environmentalists as the solution for confronting the intense environmental, social and economic problems that emerge globally in the last decades. This study presents the recent features and trends of the associated concepts, like the green economy, green entrepreneurship, green professions and labour-market, with a particular reference to European Union countries. In the course of transforming the current economic model towards a green direction, vocational education appears as a fundamental prerequisite that will prepare the future workforce of green economy. In this respect, a small-scale research is also presented, recording the relevant opinions of senior high-school students in Western Attica (Greece), being an area of acute environmental, social and economic problems.