Problemy Transportu i Logistyki

The article attempts to determine whether the social and sharing economics are important components of sustainable development, understood as the harmonious coexistence of the economy, the environment and society. The aim of the research is to indicate the links between the social economy and the sharing economy with the concept of sustainable development. Social economy is based on values such as participation, solidarity and self-governance, and it plays an important role in cities development and supports processes of forming civic society. Sharing economy fits into social economy sphere. Social economy gives people a possibility of organizing production and consumption patterns by independent, democratic forms of cooperation. With not fulfilled by the country or free market needs, social economy brings innovative solutions. With this it has an impact on local development and also on civic society development, and becomes a part of sustainable regional development. Processes of forming and merging social economy entities, in which sharing economy is fitting in, redounded in building new, more sustainable economy. Each component of sustainable development (economical, environmental, social) can be performed by social economy entities that base their philosophy on: sharing, developing local communities in opposition to negative consequences of globalization, domination of social or ecological goals over the financial profits, including people in need in the process of self-helping instead of providing them with fixed solutions.