The global population is mostly concentrated in cities, created as areas that face many challenges such as economic, social or environmental ones. The impact of urban areas is felt not only in cities but also in other regions so well designed and well managed urban areas are premises for...

The process of urbanization represents the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities as a result of people movement from rural areas to urban areas. Urbanization is widely accepted as a process with several consequences, such as social, economic or environmental and it...

Urban tourism is an old concept having its origin in antiquity, especially when existing ports were frequented at the time. Even though we cannot say that at that time tourism was a concept clearly defined, it is common practice for a few millennium particularly in the Mediterranean area...

Overall environment has witnessed an intense process of degradation due to both increasing the numbers of population and to resource consumption. The importance of the environment has determined and mobilized the adoption of different sets of measures and means to reduce the negative impact on...

Many connections existing between urban space and environment, attracts the attention of corporations to adapt to the environmental rules, imposed because of the reasoning that the existence of urban space implies respect for the environment, any deviation from this implying a denial of the...

The evolution of the global environment situation and the increasing levels of pollution impose permanent adjustment and adoption of all necessary measures in order to improve the quality of the environment. The concept of sustainable development supports the correct evolution of societies as a...

This paper aims to review the different impacts of income inequality drivers on the Gini coefficient, depending on institutional specificities. In this context, we divided the European Union member states in two clusters (the cluster of member states with inclusive institutions / extractive...

The economic value is expressed by prices, but their high volatility was a strong reason to consider other elements to be used for measurement. The most appropriate elements for this were established by the theories of value that explain how value is created, enhanced, transferred, and how it...

Companies can contribute to the achievement of the sustainability goals through their procurement function when they opt for green procurement. In the current paper, the authors focused on the procurement of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified products. Having known that attitudes...