Sustainable development focuses on meeting the needs of present without compromising future generations’ prospects of meeting the same needs plus those which will be present then. The concept of sustainable development was internationally established within the report “Our Common Future”...

The problems of the environment are complex and closely related to a country’s social-economic status, to its progress in general. The economic growth must not deteriorate the environment; in fact it has to guarantee a constant protection correlated with the improvement of the life quality....

There is presented the methodic connections between some concepts and methods to be used in the management of the global & national crisis and of the sustainable development in Romania, Restructuring / reengineering of the firm as well as the more general problem of technological and managerial...

At European Union (EU) level, competitiveness has become a topic of key importance in the context of the significant increase in the gap with its main competitors: U.S., Japan, due mainly to lower performance in areas such as education and training (CVT), research - development and innovation -...

The natural environment, by the diversity of its ecologic systems, ensures the existence of all living beings, of the human species implicitly. The agricultural ecosystem is a functional biosphere unit, with a structure generated by the criterion of anthropic utility of supplied biomass,...

The social capital is often defined as the expression of the institutions, relationships, attitudes and values that govern interactions between people and contribute to economic development. From the perspective of sustainable development, social capital plays a key role through relationships...

One of the causes of current family problems is trans-generational transmission of unsolved problems in the past. Now, these problems must be solved. It's like family history comes back in present. In an attempt to preserve family identity, current family attempts to eliminate all those elements...

Within the concept of sustainable development, there is very little known about social impacts and levels of acceptability of compact urban form in the context of cities of developing countries. Social sustainability of these cities in developing countries might have a huge impact on the overall...

As the implications of a changing climate come into focus, attention must shift to effectively stimulating action in response to this dramatically pervasive phenomenon. Responses to climate change, however, are embedded in institutional procedures, technological pathways and cultural practices...

We examined the relationship between industrial transformation and the positive and negative impacts of industry on sustainable development in developing countries. We started by assigning developing countries to five groups based on the extent to which they have transformed and reoriented their...