The paper contains a descriptive analysis of selected interdisciplinary research methods developed for the study of complex socio-ecological systems (climate change problems in particular). Institutional analysis and participatory methods of social consensus are in the centre of the focus.

In the area of agricultural policy and the balanced growth of the countryside, the European Union promotes technological development and creation of jobs in ways that fulfil the criteria of ecological sustainability. The latest reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy are focused on the...

This article focuses mainly on the environmental costs connected with legislative compliance in the Czech Republic, possibilities of their identification and observation in corporations and suggestions for cutting them down. First, we present an overview of theoretical concepts regarding...

The study focuses on solutions to energy problems in East Germany and Czechoslovakia within the limits of their own and Comecon primary sources. It analyzes the dependence on the oil and gas import from the Soviet Union and the differences in energy policies of the governments in Berlin and...

Cattle-breeding is one of the most important economical sectors in Bolivia. Its total contribution to Bolivian GDP is 2%. In spite of that, so far, it has not been able to establish stable trade relations with foreign markets. The analysis of supply and demand of meat during the period 2000-2005...

The regression model with categorical dependent variable is a natural generalization of the model with binary dependent variable. It is based on the use of baseline logits. For its building and for the evaluation of its quality, analogous procedures to the case of binary dependent variable are...

The world raw material market has undergone a great change in the recent years. One of the essential reasons is the rapid economic growth of many former developing countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Vietnam, etc. These countries were historically and typically producers and...

The article analyses reasons for state regulation, and deals with present regulatory projects aimed at ensuring increased stability of financial, or more precisely, insurance markets, especially with respect to securing an adequate level of consumer protection and lowering information asymmetry....

This article takes focus on the main basic elements of panel data analysis, fixed effects and random effects models, dynamic panel data models. The last part of this article is about possibilities of testing panel data unit roots with a notice about the usage of the application software and...

The essay is the contribution to analysis of the determination and addition of the utility. There are shown the contradictions between quantitative and qualitative thinking about the problems of utility for the individual and for multitude people in society. In this interpretation rised also the...