Household waste generated is often uncolleted in rural areas causing various types of pollution like: air and water pollution, soil pollution and the aesthetic degradation of the landscape. The environmental legislation proposed by the European Union was transposed on the national legislation...

Open dumping of waste generated and uncollected is the most common option in waste management schemes from rural areas. Lack of sanitation services or rudimentary waste management systems favored this practice. This paper proposes a method to estimate the amounts of household waste uncontrolled...

Absorption of EU funds remains, in the sixth year of integration, a key objective of regional policy in Romania. Regional Operational Program (ROP) represents the most important instrument of regional policy, which it can compare and assess the situation and the forecast made of the projects...

This paper investigates the impact that ownership of eco-certified properties has on the corporate performance of U.S. REITs. Given the financial benefits associated with individual eco-certified properties, ownership of such properties within an overall real estate portfolio should translate...

ABSTRACT The few academic papers on this topic are summarized as those published by international institutions such as the OECD, under the economic aspect and the balance between the trade- offs of implementing measures, some universities with specialist departments in the shipping market (eg...

Contemporary problems are fragmented by public policies, academic formats, mass-media headlines and market-place interests; unsustainable paradigms of growth, power, wealth, work and freedom are embedded into the cultural, social, political and economic institutions. An ecosystemic approach is...

This research proposes an empirical approach to assess the impact of ICT on the level of innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean, considering the existence of economic factors and institutional business environment that contribute to the development of innovation activities to this end an...

Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assumed to be indifferent across space. This condition implies that research on cities is different from research on countries, and that work on places within countries needs to consider population,...

The terms of reference for the inquiry on First Home Ownership asked the Commission to evaluate the affordability and availability of housing for first home buyers.The Commission's preliminary findings were released for public comment in December.In its final assessment, the Commission...

This paper has emerged out of the conviction that linguistic theory has more to offer to translation theory than is so far recognized and vice versa. One reason for the relative separation between the two fields is, perhaps, the domination of formal approaches to language study for a...