The global financial crisis, brewing for a while, really started to show its effects in the middle of 2007 and into 2008. On the positive side, some scientists think that the crisis will move people to use less energy and help limit carbon emissions. The global slowdown means people will have...

The intensive use of chemicals worked as a catalyst to shift the production frontier but the most critical factor of maintaining a clean environment was totally ignored. The present study attempts to estimate the environmental efficiency of rice production by employing the translog stochastic...

The European model of agriculture refers to a multifunctional and virtuous model of agriculture that is progressively substituting the productivist model of agriculture, that, in the recent past, has been supported by agricultural community policies. However, the European model of agriculture...

The Hungarian government and the regional development institution system has worked out an own development programme for the improvement of so-called most disadvantageous or MD micro-regions. Micro-regional environmental development has a double role: on the one hand, it should plan activities...

Our paper will focus on three aspects. The first one will present a historical perspective on CAP around the question” is CAP a successful story?” The second aspect will focus on the issue regarding what it means, from CAP point of view, the enlargement process. The last aspect will try to...

Presentamos datos comparativos de la evolucion de la renta, los precios y el empleo agrario y no agrario en España, en la UE, USA, Japon y en otros paises de la OCDE durante el periodo 1900-2000. Realizamos un analisis de las causas y consecuencias de la importante revolucion tecnologica y...

This document is a case study that focuses on the air pollution problems of Bogotá and Medellín. These are the largest; most populated and industrialized cities of Colombia. The document presents a brief description of the evolution of relevant institutional aspects. It describes the pollution...

In the theoretical and practical approach of the economic life, more often appears the idea of sustainable economic development, of reconciliation between man and nature in attracting and using its resources without interfering in its natural movement and evolution. In this paper we are trying...

Misunderstanding terms like ciclicity, circularity, and nonlinearity can bring about confusion and endanger a good idea, tested by industrial ecology and widely known as "dematerialization of the economy". That is why the main the objective of the present article is to clarify the concept of...

This paper analyse the way how the sustainable developments components are interacting between them and reflects on a possible trade-off between social, human, economic, technological and environmental progress. In this context, I have computed the Pearson correlation coefficient between the...