Regional ecodevelopment: ecological initiatives of youth (opening Pandora’s box …)

Abstract

Traditional forms of economic development followed up to now in Greece were based on administrative procedures where:

• every decision was taken in centrally;

• all information and knowhow relevant to the decision was making importend from outside;

• responsibility for the realization of the decisions taken was held by a directorate at the top of the administrative hierarchy, the members of which had reached such a position as a result of their conservatism.