Capital cities in CEECs are changing rapidly. Their capacity to join the network of European business metropolises is evaluated here on the basis of their relative specialization in high-order services and their connections with the rest of the world. The comparative analysis covers Bucharest,...

Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) as a means of enhancing sustainability has been the topic of a model project promoted by the EU during the late 1990s. Meanwhile, all member states areurged by an EU recommendation to develop national ICZM strategies, based on a set of criteria derived...

Storey (1994) reviews a number of socio-economic variables that have been widely hypothesised toimpact upon small business formation. These are:- population (change, density, age structure)unemployment, wealth, education, industrial structure, and public policy. These factors are consideredwith...

The present study analyses a current and important problem because we are currently experiencing an unseen growth of the volume of production in parallel with its diversification. The introduction in production of the new products is preceded by the preliminary execution of some manually...

The impacts of climate change on human systems depend not only on the level of emissions but also on how inherently vulnerable these systems are to the changing climate. The large uncertainties over future development and structure of societies and economies mean that the assessment of climate...

The future of the European energy system will strongly depend on a future world energy context that will be dominated by two key challenges. The first challenge corresponds to the necessity of meeting the energy needs of a growing population in Asia, South America and Africa, while some key...

Deux des principaux auteurs des modèles relatifs à l'effet de serre (des pionniers en la matière), William Nordhaus et Alan Manne ont fait partie du staff de la Cowles Foundation. Les premiers travaux fondant les approches économiques de la réponse à l'effet de serre font partie des «...

The paper builds predictive scenarios for the agricultural sector of eleven Mediterranean countries (Med 11), namely Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. First, it assesses the performance trends of the Med 11 agricultural sector with a...