Showing 1 - 10 of 2,144
the long-term goals of urban sustainability and resilience. In essence, a smart and sustainable city is an urban locality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323776
opportunities emerge in the bioeconomy context and what competencies entrepreneurs need to act on them. By conceptualizing the … requires unique knowledge (transformative knowledge) and specific competencies (sustainable valorization of biomass, marketing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013464616
What global shifts in markets and power mean for the politics and governance of sustainability.In recent years, major … agricultural sector. How this shift affects the governance of sustainability, and thus the future of the planet, is the pressing … the food-producing countries of the Global South. At the center of Schleifer's study are Brazil and Indonesia—two key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014458250
Understanding the political economic drivers of energy planning in the Brazilian Amazon is critical since the forest is increasingly vulnerable to destruction and related, increased poverty. This research investigates how political economy affects biomass and hydroelectricity development in that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532345
Since 2007, the organic farming is becoming a part of the European and French agricultural policies, It is display in local and national programs as a factor of territorial development, in particular for the new form of periurban areas. The politicians use this argument to boost the emancipation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332704
Managing and controlling "land take" of agricultural and natural land for urbanisation is the target of European and national policies. Although this objective seems to be increasingly understood among the actors, the prioritisation of issues and the measures taken by governments to achieve it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014475801
The climate crisis is inevitably looming over the horizon. Some countries are much more vulnerable than others to its harshest consequences due to their existing issues of poverty and underdevelopment. At the same time, developmental policies pursue economic growth at the cost of environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412263
(OECD), with the greater purpose of analyzing Brazil's performance compared to OECD member countries. The indicators …) unemployment rate; ix) exports by business size; and x) imports by business size. Brazil has an adequate performance, comparable to … evaluating the OECD indicators were highlighted. Such weaknesses pointed out potentially affect the evaluation of Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486170
This paper analyses the development strategies followed by the governments of Argentina and Brazil since the election … of left-oriented parties (2002 in Brazil and 2003 in Argentina), and focuses on the role the trade union movement has had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531627
following question: Is the green economy approach a good way to promote sustainable development in countries like Brazil? To … ideology and the thesis contemplated in the expression, "green economy" and the current development model in Brazil, we … to an industrial society, a process that occurred in Brazil during the 20th Century. This path Brazilian society has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372055