In this paper, we explore the economic impact of promotion and realization of an electric vehicle society (EVS) in Toyohashi City in Japan. More concretely, this paper emphasizes a computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling approach to evaluate the following issues: economic impacts of...

Drawing upon the literature on environmental innovation and social metabolism, this paper investigates whether technology can lessen the problem of scarce natural resources. We focus on fossil and biomass materials as important resources for production and consumption. Utilizing a dynamic panel...

The goal of the present paper resides in the comparative analysis of the statistical FAOSTAT data and information in the last 25 years, for the EU countries and other European countries, completed with data and information from the well known literature and from webographics, refering to the...

Indigenous fruits contribute widely to rural incomes in Southern Africa but their availability is declining. A domestication program aims to increase farm-household income and conserve biodiversity through farmer-led tree planting. Planting domesticated indigenous fruit trees is an uncertain,...

According to the General Agricultural Census the agricultural area utilized in agriculture consist 1.941.400 ha. At the same time, abandoned agricultural area was 246.900 ha, of which 60.600 ha, or 24.5%, belonging firms and 186.300 ha, or 75.5% - individual persons. Neglected land is abandoned...

Aquaculture falls within the scope of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) using the advantage of common market organization and financial measures as in integral part of this policy. Despite all these advantages, the results obtained from European aquaculture did not live up to expectations. Given...

The paper describes the ecology farm STEPA Constanta which practice an original system in the driest zone of Romania, Northern plateau of Dobrogea. The main innovations of this system are associated crops and medicinal plants. The soils are medium fertile. On it grows cereals, pulses, oilseeds...

This is the inaugural paper that introduced a new indicator of sustainability, which the author coins HANPP: Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production. This indicator estimates the extent of human use of ecological and land resources, contributing to the nascent ecological-footprint movement...

The paper has the role to promote certain sustainable production systems, diversified and balanced, in order to prevent pollution of agricultural crops, the environment, the conversion of agri-food waste (whey) into veterinary medical products as well as the implementation of green,...

The primary imperative of the sustainable development of the wine sector is to obtain high production, with low consumption of resources, in conditions of increased economic efficiency and the use of technological links that contribute to reducing energy consumption. High quality wine...