The issue of ecosystem services is a relatively new concept in economic theory. This is the concept considered problematic, due to the difficulty of defining the benefits provided to people by ecosystems and their measurement and valuation. Some of these services are strongly associated with...

Coupled with adopting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) role may not be overlooked. The ADB took substantial measures to ensure environmentally sustainable growth in Asia and the Pacific. They include climate change...

This paper explores whether the EU's new economic development model of "competitive sustainability" could serve as a role model for ecologically sustainable development models for advanced economies in general. To this end, we first discuss theoretically the interplay between "competitiveness"...

The goal of this paper is twofold: first, it assesses the current state of collaboration between institutionalist economics and the academic degrowth discourse on the topic of global inequalities. Since a systematic literature review of the current degrowth discourse shows that the level of such...

Industry has a particular responsibility to shape the transformation from our current economy into an ecologically and socially sustainable one. The ongoing digitalization and networking of industrial value chains as the core of Industry 4.0 offer new opportunities and capabilities for...

The considerations in this article have three goals. The first is to obtain information on the practical experience of young urban residents who use urban horticulture and agriculture products. The second is to determine the readiness to practice such production independently in the future. The...

Within the Era-NET Core Organic - ALL project (Agroecology Living Labs to promote robust and resilient Organic production systems) in the period 2021-2022 in Murfatlar, an innovative system of ecological cultivation of grapevines was experimented, aiming to by increasing the biodiversity of the...

The paper attempts to make a quantitative and qualitative analysis of processes and phenomena determined by the interference of natural and human ecosystems, in the context of the sustainable development of the rural communities located in the area covered by the irrigation system of Brăila...

Increasing the role of leisure in promoting rural areas, to ensure their sustainable development and meet the needs of tourists has led to its transformation into tourist motivation itself, leading to the emergence of new types of vacations. Recreational activity is one of the effective ways for...

The theme of this paper is the relationship between tourism and environment, with particular reference to the ways of protecting tourist areas characterized by fragile ecosystems, such as parks and beaches. This paper analyzes and tries to show that environmental protection is not only a legal...