sustainability Article Green Development in the Construction of Family Houses in Urban and Rural Settlements in Slovakia Mária Moresová 1, Mariana Sedliaˇciková 1,*, Jarmila Schmidtová 2 and Iveta Hajdúchová 3 1 Department of Business Economics, Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology, Technical University in Zvolen, T. G. Masaryka 24, 960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +421-455-206-420 Received: 5 May 2020; Accepted: 27 May 2020; Published: 29 May 2020 Abstract: Measures that have been implemented to promote green development and environmental protection are increasingly affecting the construction of family houses and hence the economic and social growth. The representatives of the Europe Regional Network of World Green Building Council claim that the building emissions in Europe create up to 36% of the total carbon dioxide production. Therefore, the application of ecological building materials can be one of the possible ways to reach equilibrium between the social-economic growth and green development. The main objective of this paper was to find out the approach of people in urban and rural settlements in Slovakia towards the question of green development in terms of selection of building material for the construction of a family house and their economic-social situation. The issue was mapped in Slovakia using the empirical survey in the form of a questionnaire.