The paper shows the current state of environmental concerns in economic theory. Different economic schools have incorporated the environmental analysis into their theoretical framework. They use different presumptions, focus on different environmental aspects and come to diverse conclusions and...

El concepto de capital natural ha sido usado con frecuencia entre los economistas ambientales y ecológicos para denotar la incidencia de las existencias físicas que alimentan el flujo de recursos naturales. En principio, la enunciación de esta categoría podría atribuirse a Herman E. Daly en...

This article is focused both on a general description and the actual process ofwaste management in the area of Slatina city. After the conceptual presentation, causes andclasses of waste, the article develops and describes municipal and industrial waste aroundSlatina by also analyzing their...

In a democratic system, policy makers have to take the preferences of the citizens into account. Since we live in a world with scarce resources, one is asked to make choices regarding the use and management of these resources. In this context, if policy makers decide to invest in the protection...

Entropy cannot be used as a measure of economic scarcity and references to the second law of thermodynamics in economics within this context ignore the fact that the earth is a closed but not adiabatic system. The earth interacts with external sources and sinks of entropy and the resulting...

In this paper, we study transmission of traits through generations in multifactorial inheritance models with sex- and time-dependent heritability. We further analyze the implications of these models under heavy-tailedness of traits' distributions. Among other results, we show that in the case of...

The proposal put forth in this paper is called Effective capital. The objective is to scale resources brought to bear on the SDG’s as efficiently as possible by focusing on outcomes that are normalized across projects and efforts. This allows individual actors and small projects to escape the...

The modern Agri-Food production system is characterised as highly global in nature, however, supporters of globalisation and the neo-liberal state policies have always justified such action as increasing the investment into the sector, but it has met with scathing criticisms in the Global South...

The papers presents an integrated processing of the high-resolution thematic data covering the area of the Beaufort Sea, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, northern Canada and Alaska. Five thematic maps of the Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ocean are presented. The cartographic techniques were performed...

The research paper focuses on the environmental problem of Yamal region, geographically located in the Russian Yamal-Nenets autonomous region, northern-central Russia. This region is characterized by the unique nature and environmental conditions, combining two physical-geographical regions:...