ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Inconsistencies in the Dynamics of Sustainable
Development Dimensions in Central
and Eastern European Countries
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, CERNESIM Environmental Research Center, Iaşi, Romania
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Iaşi, Romania
Submission date: 2020-08-11
Final revision date: 2020-10-24
Acceptance date: 2020-11-04
Online publication date: 2021-04-01
Publication date: 2021-04-16
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Simona-Roxana Ulman
CERNESIM Environmental Research Center, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iaşi, Bvd. Carol I, no. 19, 700506, Iasi, Romania
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2021;30(3):2779-2798
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Sustainable development aims at balancing the performances of economic, social, and environmental
sectors, a key question in this regard remaining whether progress has been made. Accordingly, our
attention was directed on the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) and on their wellbeing
particularities, with focus on the environmental dimension. The aim of this paper was to analyze the
dynamics of environmental wellbeing in relation to human and economic wellbeing. Using national
data of CEECs registered between 2006 and 2016, pooled, fixed, and random effects panel models
were applied. The main results revealed that, in the considered countries, the economic and social
dimensions report different evolutions compared to the environmental one. The economic components
register a negative influence on environmental wellbeing while the human dimension and its social
components are positive in relation to it, good governance excepted. Our paper also intended to analyze
the relationship among the three wellbeing dimensions in both the efficiency- and innovation-driven
economies of CEECs. In the latter ones, the economic component plays a greater role in determining
the level of environmental wellbeing while, in the others, priority has to be given to human wellbeing
components, especially the ones related to basic needs, personal development and health.