We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracy on institutional quality is increasing...

The studies of environmental awareness or the so-called people's pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) became a popular topic in Europe, North America and Asia, but not yet in Russia. Many studies investigated PEBs revealed that monetary saving and health concern are considered to be the most...

Given the rapid expansion of wind power capacities in Germany, this paper estimates the effects of wind turbines on house prices using real estate price data from Germany’s leading online broker. Employing a hedonic price model whose specification is informed by machine learning techniques,...

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 policy of the fishing sector in Romania, in terms of commercial fishing, it envisages measures that ensure the sustainable exploitation of living aquatic resources, efficient management, stimulating those who work in this sector to unite in associative forms, the collection of statistical...

Model Forests (MFs) are social and participatory processes aiming at the sustainable development of a territory where the forest plays an important role. Individuals and organizations share knowledge and combine expertise and resources to provide income-generating opportunities, balancing...

This article analyzes how forest resources have been used in Brazil since 1930, in an attempt to prove two hypotheses. The first hypothesis is that the destruction of our forests and the unsustainable use of the remaining forests have always been linked to the developmental policies adopted in...

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...

The paper is part of the research carried out under the ADER Project 16.1.2 - Models of development of the short chains of valorization on primary production-services-storing-processing-marketing pathway, Stage 4 and is based on the results of applying questionnaires to vegetable / fruits...