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Can nature promote development? The role of sustainable tourism for economic growth

Freytag, Andreas; Vietze, Christoph - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We analyze whether biodiversity is enhancing the development process in developing countries (DCs) via increasing tourism receipts in a trade based endogenous growth framework. The underlying assumption is that a rich biodiversity - only if used sustainably - provides a comparative advantage in...

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Will Broadband Networks Make the World Greener? Evaluating Pros and Cons of Broadband Development

TEPPAYAYON, Orada; BOHLIN, Erik; FORGE, Simon - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2009) 76, pp. 19-38

government policy, in particular by the EU and Japan, are moving towards the transition to sustainability by utilizing ICT, as … well as an evaluation of the pros and cons of broadband development. There are many complex effects on sustainability due … negatively to sustainability, and each level will need targeted policies. The five orders of aggregation suggest a comprehensive …

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Agrarian Distress under Global Integration: Impoverishing Growth and “Perverse” Supply Response

Rao, J. Mohan; Vakulabharanam, Vamsi - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2009) 3

This paper aims to explain theoretically two apparently paradoxical phenomena witnessed in the Telangana region of South India between 1985 and 2000. First, despite the rapid growth of real agricultural output during this period, per-capita consumption of the majority of the agricultural...

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Exploring socially responsible behaviour of Indian consumers: an empirical investigation

Singh, Narendra - In: Social Responsibility Journal 5 (2009) June, pp. 200-211

Purpose – With growing consumerism in the country, Indians need to behave in a socially responsible manner for its sustainable development. This study sets out to explore the extent of the relationship between the demography and socially responsible behaviour of Indian consumers....

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HARMONIC TOURISM, FACTOR OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF TOLUCA, MEXICO

BARQUÍN, Rocío SERRANO; MORENO, Silverio HERNÁNDEZ; … - In: Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management 4 (2009) 4(13), pp. 5-24

Urbanism, Sustainability and Harmonic Tourism” are incorporated. Tourism is considered as the axis of the integral planning … provide elements to rethink and build theoretical-methodological alternatives on development, sustainability and tourism is … metropolitan zone in particular; some reflections on sustainability, harmonic tourism and local development are presented, then …

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The PEARL Model: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Sustainable Development

Bilgin, Mert - In: Journal of Business Ethics 85 (2009) 3, pp. 545-554

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Sustainability-Driven Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility: Application of the Integrative Sustainability Triangle

Kleine, Alexandro; Hauff, Michael - In: Journal of Business Ethics 85 (2009) 3, pp. 517-533

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Environmental Conservation NGOs and the Concept of Sustainable Development

Scherrer, Yvonne - In: Journal of Business Ethics 85 (2009) 3, pp. 555-571

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On harnessing natural resources for sustainable development

Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Ever-increasing population and ever-proliferating demand for variety and choice together with a marked preference in favor of deliberate under-utilization of resources as well as deprecation of thrift have exposed the available reserves of natural resources to the danger of depletion. The...

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A method to evaluate composite performance indices based on variance-covariance matrix

Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Ciuiu, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this paper we compute performance indices like those from Mereuta et all. (2007) using the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors of the variance-covariance matrix of these indices. The eigenvalues are used in this paper to give natural weights to the performance indices in order to compute the...

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