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Furthering the use and scope of the Project Implementation Profile (PIP): Critical success factors for small scale livestock production foreign aid projects
Pelletier, Daniel; Mukiampele, Chantal - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
Success factors have been extensively studied in the field of project management. The PIP (Project Implementation Profile), designed by Pinto & Slevin, is often used as an assessment method enabling project managers to identify critical success factors either at the beginning or at the end of...
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The forest roads’ spatial planning contribution to the sustainable development of small islands. The case study of Thassos island, Greece
Tampekis, Stergios; Samara, Fani; Sakellariou, Stavros; … - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015
Small islands due to their small size face environmental risks, because of the pressures arising from the projects and actions aiming at economic development. Forests constitute vulnerable ecosystems that change at great speed. In most of the occasions the change is downgrading. The right...
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ROMANIAN MANAGERIAL APPROACHES
Rusu, Liviu Dumitru - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015
Globalization has deeply turned the macroeconomic environment as well as the behaviour of organizations on the global market. Increasingly fierce competition on this market has contributed to the emergence and crystallization of the euro management which was called upon to respond to this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276171
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Contrasting Paradigms of Energy Security: Which Way for the Future? An Ecological Economics Perspective
Proedrou, Filippos - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
substantial retreat of energy consumption is not only feasible, but will also efficiently address the sustainability challenge and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207317
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Phenomena of Social Innovation: Practical attempts from Slovakia
Ková, Jaroslava - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015
A social innovation represents unusual inspirational ideas to various kinds of social problems which are more effective, efficient, sustainable, or introduce solutions for which the value created arises primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals. The term social innovation...
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Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generators in Wind turbines and its impact on the Wind Energy
Ramesh, Rashmi; Vetrivel, Ramanujan; M, Purushotham - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015
With rapid development of wind power technologies and significant growth of wind power capacity installed worldwide, various wind turbine concepts have been developed. The wind energy conversion system is demanded to be more cost-competitive, so that comparisons of different wind generator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276152
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Abandonment of Capital Investments and Survival of Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from Nigeria
Bolarinwa, Sehilat; Yusuf, Babatunde; Idowu, Khadijah; … - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
This paper presents empirical evidence on the impact of abandonment of capital investments on the survival of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria. It employs mixed methodological framework to question the extent to which abandonment of capital investments affects the performance of...
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Green Economy and Development: Towards Place Making and Community Sustainability
Turvey, Rosario - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
economy and community sustainability. Canadian communities are adopting environmental action strategies to protect natural … understanding of the relationship between ‘green economy,’ sustainability and local development strategies for place making in … sustainability context. The second is to contribute to an emerging research agenda on sustainability and economic prosperity of local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210046
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Renewable Energy Sources and their Reflection on Regional Economic Growth in the Czech republic
Jankovi, Vukica; Mitwallyova, Helena - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
Paper explore relation betweeen energy and regional development and more precisly the influence of renewable energy installation and production on regional economic growth in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic has long tradition in energy sector, more than 100 years of stable and self...
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Urban development and air pollution: evidence from a global panel of cities
Hilber, Christian A. L.; Palmer, Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We exploit a unique panel of 75 metro areas (‘cities’) across the globe and employ a cityfixed effects model to identify the determinants of within-city changes in air pollution concentration between 2005 and 2011. Increasing car and population densities significantly reduce air pollution...
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