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The seasonal imbalances and price premiums of natural gas imports (NGIs) seriously affect the sustainability of these … imports in major Northeast Asian countries, namely, China, Japan, and South Korea. Research on NGI seasonality might provide … monthly and quarterly data. The results suggest that Chinese NGIs lacks identifiable monthly or quarterly seasonality, while …
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This paper explores the importance of incorporating the socioecological realities of alternative networks into analyses of rural development. Cultural theory is examined, which provides a base upon which rural development can identify difference in worldviews based on difference in sociological...
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The current development of tourism is environmentally unsustainable. Specifically, tourism’s contribution to climate … main structural cause for tourism’s emission growth and show the consequences thereof for (mitigation) policies. It is … reasoned that the main cause for tourism’s strong emission growth is the time-space expansion of global tourism behavior …
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watching tourism product within a global market place. This paper examines how a remotely located community in the Arfak … Mountains of West Papua overcomes these difficulties and plans for community based tourism (CBT) in their locale. …
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This paper analyses some aspects of the management of municipal solid waste in one of the islands of the Galapagos … National Park surrounding the inhabited area. The role of tourism in the generation of waste is analyzed too. …
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Tourism and its “midwife”, aviation, are transnational sectors exposed to global uncertainties. This scenario … long-haul tourism (LHT), with a 2050 horizon. The basic <i>problematique</i> is that unconstrained growth in aviation … tourism depends. Following an intuitive-logic approach to scenario-building, three meta-level scenarios that can be regarded …
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and management perspectives, extending from space design to economic, environmental, cultural, and tourism considerations …”, which do not fit to the mainstream cultural tourism behavior, and prefer to visit lively creative spaces based, not only on … new alternative approach to urban cultural tourism and hopefully functioning as a spin wheel for the regeneration of the …
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All over the globe, cooperatives are plagued by pervasive member heterogeneity problems that are induced by the radical and dynamic changes in the business environment. Most current solutions to these problems emphasize strengthening member loyalty and commitment. Yet, many of these solutions...
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sustainability of these clusters is often questioned because of the negative social and environmental effects they can have both …-analysis of biocluster case studies. As a result, we constructed a framework that combines the aspects of sustainability …
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This conceptual paper aims to expand the notion of “farming newcomers” in Europe by also including those that we label “involuntary newcomers”, who correspond to the workforce coming unwillingly to farming for reasons associated with spatial (im)mobilities. We fully develop our aim in...
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