QUALITY OF LIFE AND OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN A ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPED WORLD
Autor (i): Iuliana Parvu; Cristina Ciami
Cuvinte cheie: quality of life, quality of the environment, sustainability, green public procurement
Abstract:
Economic development is a major and a permanent desideratum of the countries. However, this cannot
be an end in itself but an intermediate goal needed to support a better quality of life. Also, the quality of life is
not only determined by the level of the economic development but also by the quality of the natural environment.
The issue of the impact of economic development on the quality of the environment and, from this perspective on
the quality of life, has been debated since 1987, in the Bruntland Report. The present paper analyzes how the
economic development of the last decades has supported and has affected simultaneously the quality of life and
also the way in which the states of the European Union act by greening the procurement process in order to
create a sustainable economy.