SUSTAINABILITY–CULTURE INTERFACE IN THE SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE

The issue of sustainability–culture interface is relatively new, because for a long time was not a subject of detailed analysis. In the context of the title some important questions were developed: how to understand the concept of interface sustainability–culture? what are its contemporary examples? are these examples of the interface a determinant of unfavorable fluctuations? On this basis the following three research aims were formulated: define the notion of sustainability–culture interface, identify contemporary types of sustainability–culture interface, test the thesis that identified types of sustainability–culture interface are in unfavorable fluctuation. The basis of the research was the analytical study of international literature and analysis of statistical data. In the paper the author’s definitions of interface, sustainability, culture as well as sustainability–culture interface were introduced. The achievement of formulated aims allowed to answer all formulated questions in the context of identifying fluctuations assessed from a social, environmental and economic perspective. For the purpose of analysis performed for the three mentioned areas of sustainable development the following indicators were included: urban population exposure to air pollution by particulate matter, greenhouse gas emissions intensity of energy consumption, total R&D expenditure in % of GDP. The subject of the analysis is the European Union (EU-28) scrutinized in the years 2000–2011. To calculate the fluctuation there was used the index of dynamics. The results of statistical analysis proved the thesis of unfavorable fluctuations within two out of the three identified types of sustainability–culture interface.

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