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Rural Tourism and Ecotourism – the Main Priorities in Sustainable Development Orientations of Rural Local Communities in Romania
Dorobantu, Maria Roxana; Nistoreanu, Puiu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
At this moment, both in our country and in the European Union, rural tourism and ecotourism are among the most dynamic … challenges. Sustainable development of Romanian local communities through ecotourism and rural tourism represents a requirement … tourism and ecotourism, between the need for sustainable development and the need to preserve the local traditions, and to …
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Tourism - Part of Sustainable Local Development
Avramescu, Tiberiu Cristian; Popescu, Ramona Florina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Local development could be described as an attempt of global territorial development including economic, social, ultural, political aspects, encouraging the endogenous development -involving all human and financial means which contribute to it and assuring their convergence. It is a process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835779
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Rural Livelihoods, Forest Access and Time Use: A Study of Forest Communities in Northwest India
Naidu, Sirisha C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of the size of private land holdings and access to forest commons on the labour allocation to livelihood activities. The statistical analysis indicates that land and forests are complementary assets in the rural production process. Differential access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025306
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The conditions for functional mechanisms of compensation and reward for environmental services
Swallow, Brent; Leimona, Beria; Yatich, Thomas; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Mechanisms of compensation and reward for environmental services (CRES) are becoming increasingly contemplated as means for managing human–environment interactions. Most of the functional mechanisms in the tropics have been developed within the last 15 years; many developing countries still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694161
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Forest-based Tourism in Bangladesh: Status, Problems and Prospects
Alam, Mahbubul; Furukawa, Yasushi; Akter, Salma - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
forest ecosystems. The article attempts at exploring various dimensions of ecotourism industry and critically analyzes the … relationship among the stakeholders, overall strength-weakness of ecotourism sector and impediments hindering its development … forest degradation hindering expansion of ecotourism industry. For sustainable development of forest-based tourism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646793
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Compulsory tutorial programmes and performance in undergraduate microeconomics: A regression discontinuity design
Schöer, Volker; Shepherd, Debra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As South African universities experience extremely low graduation rates, academic staff implement a range of interventions, for instance tutorial programmes, in order to improve student performance. However, relatively little is known about the impact of such tutorial programmes on students’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259276
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Right to water and access to water
Anand, P B - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines the scope for a rights-based perspective on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by focusing on right to water. The paper adapts Hohfeldian framework of elements of a right developed by Wenar. According to this, a right should be interpreted in terms of powers, privileges,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259587
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An Inquisition into Bivariate Threshold Effects in The Inflation-Growth Correlation: Evaluating South Africa’s Macroeconomic Objectives
Phiri, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Is the SARB’s inflation target of 3-6% compatible with the 6% economic growth objective set by ASGISA? Estimations of inflation-growth bivariate Threshold Vector Autoregressive with corresponding bivariate Threshold Vector Error Correction (BTVEC-BTVAR) econometric models for sub-periods...
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Air Transport and Destination Performance – A case study of three African countries (Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa)
Tchouamou Njoya, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Tourism is increasingly being promoted as an important source of economic growth especially in developing countries. While there are many elements that contribute to tourism growth, without an efficient air transport system, it is almost impossible for a number of landlocked and geographically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260537
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The King Reports, Independent Non-Executive Directors and Firm Valuation on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Ntim, Collins G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
South Africa (SA) has pursued corporate governance reforms in the form of the 1994 and 2002 King Reports. This paper examines the association between the presence of independent non-executive directors (INEDs) and market valuation of a sample of 169 firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260623