After successful government-led afforestation projects, what are the challenges for forest management in the face of climate change in East Asia? This reprint presents studies from the natural and social sciences related to forest conservation, engineering, disaster sociology, and forest policy...

This paper discusses sustainable development issues in the higher education sector from the value chain perspective. An adapted value chain is proposed for developing countries that would reflect the specific context of the higher education sector of Poland and Vietnam. Secondary data were...

This paper presents new approaches to investigating economic growth and innovation activity as well as analyzing investment in R&D needs and efficiency in the context of contemporary challenges for European integration. Our research modeled the impact of R&D investment on GDP growth under broad...

The closed fishing season, known in Brazil as Defeso, is one of the measures of the National Policy for Sustainable Development of Aquaculture and Fishing. However, most normative acts of Defeso are out of date, largely due to a lack of data on fishing, which has become an obstacle to implement...

Latin American Structuralism is an important strain in development theory, one which focuses on the center-periphery dynamics arising from an international economy ridden by technological, financial and power asymmetries. This paper discusses recent Structuralist contributions around the concept...

Sustainable development highlights the importance of energy sector in any economy by establishing specific targets in the field. Also, for a good human resources management were implemented strategies at national and international level being shown in this way their importance in sustainable...

The present paper is a result of a research conducted in a rural area from North-Eastern part of Romania, analyzing the training need in tourism and the level of education of the working population. The goal of the study is to obtain conclusive information as to establish concrete solutions and...

The paper put in antithesis, theoretically, two models of development and evolution of mankind, namely, economic development based on consumption of the exhaustible resources and pollution and on the other hand the development based on the concepts of sustainable development, involving a new...

The article discusses current approaches to the process of assessing rural development governance, reveals its advantages and disadvantages. The article as well presents performance system indicators of governance process by means of two elements of dynamics assessment, rural development...

The substantiation of the concept of sustainable development has appeared as a necessity determined by economic growth in all indicators. Theoretical economic concepts and also issues related to the relationship between man and environment, economic development and resources, environmental and...