Today, there are a lot of studies on climate change and sustainability from social sciences' perspectives. Achievements of sociology, psychology or political sciences can be extremely helpful in designing, adopting, implementing and evaluating of effective climate and sustainability policy....

The aim of this article is to underline that the core paradigm of mainstream economics, the economics’ standard model (ESM), rests upon an explanatory theory that draws on deductive assumptions which are not supported by what observations of the reality of market economies shows us; either in...

Politikberatung ist in einer komplexen Umwelt nicht trivial. Versucht man mit theoretischen Modellen Politikfragen zu beantworten, sind die Modellvoraussetzungen entscheidend, aber oft nicht mit der Realität vereinbar. Der Sachverständigenrat setzt auf eine evidenzbasierte Politikberatung....

Kriminalität kann in der Regel nicht unmittelbar wahrgenommen werden, sondern nur mittelbar über die Medienberichterstattung. Im Hinblick auf die wahrgenommene Bedrohungslage kommt insbesondere den lokalen und regionalen Abonnementzeitungen eine hohe Bedeutung zu. Im Mittelpunkt des Beitrags...

Urban pride is an individual and collective response to living in a given city. Unlike other emotions such as life satisfaction or happiness with which it is weakly positively correlated, pride involves stake holding; to be proud of something requires having an investment in its success...

In analyzing the mobility of the intra-industry specialization processes in Romania in the period of time 2000-2010 on regional level, we started from the assessment of the of the structural convergence of the specialization from the point of view of the econometric connections between the...

The policies regarding regional development in the last years took tourism more and more into account, as a strategic sector for the assurance of a dynamic economic growth of regions with an important tourism potential. Consequently, we intend to analyse the implications of the North-East...

At present, both in Romania and in Europe, tourism has the tendency to become one of the biggest industries, with great possibilities of development in the future. This is possible due to the implication of European Union, who has been supporting us not only in the process of economic...

At present, both in Romania and in Europe, tourism tends to become one of the biggest industries, with great development possibilities in the future. The economic development of Romania including tourism benefits from the support of the European Union, and has the purpose to reduce the gaps in...

The article analyzes the beta-convergence of the EU-10 countries and the EU-15 for 2004 and 2015 at four levels - the state, NUTS 1, NUTS 2 and NUTS 3. The strongest beta-convergence is at the level of the EU-10 countries; however, the lower the level of the regional unit, the weaker the...