Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future -- Theoretical Foundations of Efficient Ecological Economic Studies -- Study on the EKC Characteristics of Regional Industrial Pollution Emissions in an Open Economic Environment -- Analysis of the Efficiency of Forestry Production and Convergence in...

Foreword / J. Rotmans -- Prologue / J. Köhler and G. Holtz -- Making it a science : aspirations and hesitations of transitions research / F.J. de Haan -- Modelling and social science : problems and promises / F. Bianchi and F. Squazzoni -- Modelling and multi-level perspective : the MATISSE...

"This book is a vital reference source for the latest research findings on the challenges and benefits of implementing sustainability into the core functions of contemporary enterprises, focusing on how green approaches improve operations in an ecological way. Highlighting a range of topics such...

Contents : Foreword by Janez Potocnik and Julia Okatz -- 1. Introduction and overview / Miguel Brandão, David Lazarevic and Göran Finnveden -- Part I: Fundamentals of the circular economy -- 2. The circular economy: a strategy to reconcile economic and environmental objectives? / David...

Basic concepts and ideas -- Limits to growth -- Economics in a full world -- The challenge of ecological economics : historical context and some specific issues -- Issues with the World Bank -- Sustainable development : definitions, principles, policies -- The illth of nations : comments on...

1. An investigation on the growth performance of small tourism countries -- 2. Forecasting international tourism demand and uncertainty for Barbados, Cyprus and Fiji -- 3. Land, environmental externalities and tourism development -- 4. Tourism, increasing returns and welfare -- 5. How to develop...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Kenneth E. Boulding (1966), 'The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth', in Henry Jarrett (ed.), Environmental Quality In a Growing Economy, Chapter One, Baltimore, MD, USA and London, UK: Johns Hopkins Press, 3-14 -- 2. Herman E. Daly (1974), 'The...

Cases on Information Technology Planning, Design and Implementation brings together a variety of real-life experiences showing how other companies and organizations have successfully, or not so successfully, planned, designed, and implemented different applications using information technology....

Abstract: Das Leitbild nachhaltiger Entwicklung hat zwar in der öffentlichen und politischen Diskussion breite Zustimmung gefunden, bislang mangelt es aber noch an Konzepten, die eine integrierte Betrachtung der ökologischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Dimension ermöglichen. Nachhaltige...