This paper discusses the development of four production sectors of the economies in Southeast Asia since the end of the Second World War: agriculture, non-renewable natural resources, manufacturing, and services. First, although Southeast Asia has experienced sectoral transformation toward...

Non-point source water pollution mainly comes from farmland chemical fertilizers which has become an obstacle of agricultural sustainability and ecological health. As a public policy tool for assessing global ecological crisis and environmental pollution, ecological compensation is important for...

Experience gained in numerous European countries indicates the need for a comprehensive approach to education for sustainable development. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that an increasingly important role in this process is played by educational farms. Moreover, the very notion of...

Eco-energy anthropopressure specifically affects the agricultural landscape, but is essential for society to survive and grow. While developing new dependencies and demonstrating large transgressions against the present state, eco-energy investments affect redefinition of the identity of place,...

The relationship between rural industries and agriculture during the early stages of economic development is not well understood, despite its potentially central role in economic transformations. I investigate the expansion of small-scale gold mining and processing in north-western Tanzania...

This paper reviews some reasons why natural resource abundance and extensive agriculture appear to impede economic growth around the world. The paper presents empirical, cross-sectional evidence of various aspects of this relationship in the transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe and...

The fact that inclusive growth involves the width of growth, benefit-sharing, and human development pertaining to health care makes this study to examine the impact of crude oil, natural gas and agriculture output on inclusive growth in Nigeria between 1970 and 2017. We use employment, life...

The aim of the paper is to present the core of the “Green Grid’ - an environmentally functioning web of linear and surface elements in the city and its urban fringe that have been planned for multiple purposes, including ecological, recreational, cultural, aesthetic and other uses in the...

This paper reviews some reasons why natural resource abundance and extensive agriculture appear to impede economic growth around the world. The paper presents empirical, cross-sectional evidence of various aspects of this relationship in the transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe and...

The agricultural sector in Kazakhstan experienced declining output throughout the 1990s, partly because relative prices shifted from being distorted in favor of farmers to being distorted against them. After the end of the decade public policy shifted towards support for (or less discrimination...