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Natural resources and technology : on the mitigating effect of green tech
Wendler, Tobias; Töbelmann, Daniel; Günther, Jutta - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330597
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Biodiversity in the Sustainable Development Goals
Dinculescu, Corina - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 130-138). 2023
- when development does not respect the environment, biodiversity experiences negative transformations. The EU Biodiversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547042
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[Implications of an increase in domestic prices of gas in Russia, an application of the regional economic model SUSTRUS]
Heyndrickx, Christophe; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; … - 2012
The present paper studies the effect of an upward correction of the natural gas price on the Russian domestic market. Russia has the largest gas reserves in the world and currently produces around 550 billion cubic meters of gas each year. Sixty percent of the production is sold domestically at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522021
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The attractiveness of the European South as described by a cusp and a butterfly catastrophe model
Angelis, Vasilis A.; Angelis-Dimakis, Athanasios; … - 2013
Over the past years a large number of regional growth theories have been developed and a number of models have been built in an effort to describe, explain and eventually predict regional development trends. However, until a few years ago, the large majority of those models assumed the existence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543475
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The role of environment in a region's sustainable development as described by a butterfly catastrophe model
Angelis, Vasilis A.; Angelis-Dimakis, Athanasios; … - 2012
employment is widening. Environmental factors test the ability of national and local governments to manage resources in a …, pollution, contamination, waste generation) or decline (abandoned land, degradation of the built heritage, lack of investment … sustainability decision-making more objective, systematic and rigorous. Our aim is to outline the changing role of environment in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506381
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The Romanian rural household under the impact of rural development policies
Chiţea, Lorena - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 254-261). 2020
The present paper aims to assess to what extent the rural development policies have had any impact on the Romanian rural household. For this purpose, it was decided to develop a theoretical model for assessing the degree of modernization and socio-economic development of rural areas from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518655
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Strengthening the Romanian rural household by improving current demographic structures
Chiţea, Lorena Florentina - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 209-214). 2021
The main purpose of this research was to establish measures to prevent demographic structural changes, which would positively influence the process of modernization-sustainable development of the rural household and the Romanian rural area. The starting point of the research was the creation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013189183
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Abandoned land : a barrier for sustainable development of agriculture of the Republic of Moldova
Leah, Tamara - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 85-90). 2016
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...
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Modernization and socio-economic development of the Romanian rural area : 1995-2016 evolution
Chiṭea, Lorena Florentina; Dona, Ion - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 89-95). 2018
The present paper intends to establish a reciprocity relationship between the modernization and development level of the rural space, as main modernization-development point of the rural household. On the basis of the interdependence relation between rural area modernization and development, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012055222
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Defining aspects concerning the rural household and the sustainable socio-economic development in Romania
Chiţea, Lorena Florentina; Dona, Ion - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 102-109). 2017
Rural development has as main subject the rural space as a system in which the main components (natural resources, people) interfere and have a specific (economic, social, cultural, political, institutional) behaviour. The rural household is the main actor in the rural space, owner of the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853904