The objective of the doctoral thesis “Research on different territorial levels of Romanian-Hungarian Cross-Border Cooperation with special emphasis on Debrecen – Oradea Eurometropolis (European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation EGTC)” is to emphasize the importance of the cross border...

We compare the short- and the long-run consequences of Russia's Energy Strategy to 2020 and of the project of the Strategy to 2030 with a hypothetical scenario of the weak-sustainable oil extraction, starting from 2008 and providing asymptotically constant per capita consumption in the long run....

As explained in the paper namely, “Measuring a Societies Knowledge base”, it is not difficult to measure the knowledge base of a society, though it would be very laborious and time consuming. Knowledge is simply all the laws of existence a society knows plus all the products that a society...

This paper provides a few general comments on the nature and economic value of industrial minerals and rocks and the need for an increased exploitation and use of these materials in developing countries. These materials are of great economic value as main raw materials for the construction,...

Urban tourism is a relatively recent phenomenon but is now being embraced by most European cities, which are using substantial funds to compete for visitors, thus generating new infrastructures for this process. Cities so as to differentiate themselves from their competitors, attempt to manage...

These couple of pages discuss upon the retroactive influence (Systemic Retroactive game, or SyR) between people’s behaviour and environment. The latter is intended as physical environment (type of cities, climate, geography…), normative environment (laws), moral environment (religions,...

One of the most interesting issues in the literature of urban studies, the last thirty years especially,, concern the significance of city marketing procedure on high degree of city competitiveness achievement. The basic questions arising refer to the effectiveness of city marketing and how it...

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) released a new economic development plan, Accelerating Growth, on April 25, 2006, which has as its primary aim or “vision” to boost the state’s personal income per capita to the national average by 2020. To accomplish this, the IEDC...

In the article on the basis of the methodology of the theory of self-organization ana-lyzes the practice of monitoring social and economic contradictions in the Russian Federation. The author proposes to use as a methodological basis for indicative planning the system analysis of in-ter-level...

The main purpose is the presentation of a Place Marketing Pilot Plan (PMPP) for the city of Chester and its unique Canal. This plan was produced in the context of the INTERREG IIIc project CultMark (Cultural Heritage, Local Identity and Place Marketing for Sustainable Development). The PMPP is...