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Sustainability is currently being implemented in a variety of activities. In practice, however, its achievement is complicated and difficult. In the process of achieving sustainability, it is essential to know the components of sustainable development and their current state. In general, sustainable development is perceived through four pillars - economic, social, environmental and institutional. In some cases, however, achieving a positive result in one of them could cause negative results in other(s). This inverse relationship can also be identified in the case of the economic and environmental pillar of sustainable development. The complexity of pillar´s relations is one of the factors which causes considerable complicated achievement of sustainability. The difference of the individual pillars of sustainable development and difference in the individual European Union countries development (despite their relative homogeneity) is an object of our interest. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the current state and development of the economic and environmental pillar of sustainable development in EU countries, using selected indicators. Keywords: sustainability, sustainable development, economic pillar, environmental pillar

Quality of life and health is very closely linked to the environmental quality. However, the environmental quality is not only perceived as a determinant of quality of life, but it is an internal part of (sustainable) development, in terms of the green growth concept, at these days. The concept of green growth is one of the newer ways to ensure economic and social development in the context of sustainable development. Economic and social development, as well as ensuring and preserving the environmental quality, has its important place in the green growth concept. Green growth requires a new view on management of economic and social development. This article is focused on the evaluation of interregional disparities in selected areas of sustainable development. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the environmental quality of life in European Union countries using the selected indicators of green growth in the context of sustainable development.Keywords: Environment, Quality of life, Green growth, Indicators, European Union countries

At present, all components of the environment are burdened by human activities. These human activities have caused many environmental problems, and without appropriate measures, they will have other far-reaching consequences in the future, which may be irreversible. One of the basic measures for the sustainable future of the environment and human society is to build the environmental awareness of the population. In addition to other entities, universities and their students and graduates have an important role in this process. The study focuses on the evaluation and comparison of environmental awareness and its factors among students of the University of Presov in Presov, Slovakia. Based on the results of this research, social networks and the internet are used as the main source of environmental information and should be used as a means of raising environmental awareness among students. The students of the University of Presov achieved high environmental awareness within the cognitive and emotional factors of environmental awareness, but they achieved only moderate environmental awareness within the behavioral factor. There were no significant differences in the level of environmental awareness between male and female students at the University of Presov. From the point of view of the group of study fields variable, significant differences were found in the emotional and behavioral factors of environmental awareness, with students of "Humanities" and "Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Informatics" achieving the highest scores and students of "Social, Economic and Legal Sciences" and "Healthcare" achieving the lowest scores.