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Evaluation of cyber-tools in cultural tourism
Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter; Leeuwen, Eveline S. Van; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 14 (2011) 3/4, pp. 179-205
Nowadays, e-services technology has demonstrated a pervasive character in the modern tourism industry. E-services implemented by the tourism industry, e.g., e-tourism, appeared to produce significant cost reductions and market efficiencies. Since online services are continuously accessible, time...
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The unplanned creative city: an emerging sustainability? Crossroads between education and innovation in Santiago, Chile
Blejer, Luis Valenzuela; Moya, Juan Pablo Blanco - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 1/2, pp. 58-68
's case those are the information and communications technologies (ICT) and biotechnology, mainly clustered in central areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010669537
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Towards transition: resourcing socially learned decisions
Nolan, Terry; Varey, Richard J. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 17 (2014) 2, pp. 208-226
being co-constructed, and ICT may act to improve or to diminish the quality of this relationship. Further understanding of … the potential of ICT to enable and support public/social learning and democratic decisions on courses of action will be a …
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Economic sustainability of the economy: concepts and indicators
Spangenberg, Joachim H. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 1/2, pp. 47-64
Every society can be described as comprising four dimensions, the economic, social, environmental and institutional. Each of them is a complex, dynamic, self-organising and evolving entity in its own right, making the coupled system one of tremendous complexity. For this system to be...
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Problems and prospects in the conservation and development of the Himalayan medicinal plants sector
Kala, Chandra Prakash - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 4, pp. 370-389
With the advent of a market-orientated economy, the medicinal plants wealth of the Himalaya has become a high price commodity. As a result, many wild populations of valued medicinal plants are declining due to over-harvesting. In order to prevent the further loss of medicinal plants in the wild...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754342
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Problems and prospects in the conservation and development of the Himalayan medicinal plants sector
Kala, Chandra Prakash - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 4, pp. 370-389
With the advent of a market-orientated economy, the medicinal plants wealth of the Himalaya has become a high price commodity. As a result, many wild populations of valued medicinal plants are declining due to over-harvesting. In order to prevent the further loss of medicinal plants in the wild...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563766
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The risks and opportunities in starting a carbon trading firm within the carbon marketplace
Sridhar, Kaushik - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 14 (2011) 1/2, pp. 141-153
This paper looks at the viability of starting a carbon trading firm in Australia, based on the understanding and nature of carbon trading and its acceptance and implementation in the economy. The main function of the firm is to work as a broker on behalf of organisations or individuals for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010669540
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Information and communication technology and the popular appropriation of sustainability problems
Pereira, Angela Guimaraes; O'Connor, Martin - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 2 (1999) 3, pp. 411-424
-making process. Frequently, IA exploits computer models and other information and communication technology (ICT) in ways that are … interactive use of ICT can promote a social "appropriation" of sustainability problems. This paper explains, with the example of … greenhouse gas emissions, how the reciprocal interactive use of ICT can help to create the necessary social and political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563700
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Information and communication technology and the popular appropriation of sustainability problems
Pereira, Angela Guimaraes; O'Connor, Martin - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 2 (1999) 3, pp. 411-424
-making process. Frequently, IA exploits computer models and other information and communication technology (ICT) in ways that are … interactive use of ICT can promote a social "appropriation" of sustainability problems. This paper explains, with the example of … greenhouse gas emissions, how the reciprocal interactive use of ICT can help to create the necessary social and political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005553136
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Comprehensive analysis of greenhouse gas emissions in Hungary
S. Molnar, M. Molnar, T. Takacs - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 5 (2002) 1/2, pp. 195-203
This paper overviews the anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in Hungary in the period 1985–95. The emissions have been determined and reported according to the IPCC methodologies. The emissions of greenhouse gases decreased until 1994, basically as a result of the economic recession....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130162