Waste management has become particularly important in the analysis of the sustainable development of any territory, given the pressure they exert on local systems, human health, environmental costs or the aesthetic value of landscapes. As a result of industrial development and accelerated...

Our planet can not sustain indefinitely a growing population, having more and more complex and diversified needs, without taking into account the need to satisfy the conditions for environmental protection and sustainable development. Thus, each state must take all necessary measures to support...

Sustainable development imperatively requires the existence of a market economy based on fair competition, honest behavior regulations and observance of the law as well as prevention and fight against the offence of bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is an offence pertaining to the business environment....

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol has a dual objective: to encourage low-cost emission reduction and to promote sustainable development in the host countries of CDM projects. The CDM has by and large delivered on the first objective but arguably not on the second. This...

Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is contro-versial, both due to the conditions through which it is justifed and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...

This article purports to trace the origin of money on the basis of factors in interpersonal relationships, affecting a sustainable development and public happiness, namely trust, reciprocity and the concept of we-rationality. Both the historical approach and the one based on traditional economic...

Jatropha is emerging as an important biofuel crop throughout developing countries in the tropics. Initially lauded as an environmentally-benign ‘wonder crop’ suitable for arid wasteland cultivation that would avoid competition with scarce livelihood resources, it has recently begun to...

The character of the youngsters can be sketched by four features: pragmatism, curiosity, insight and the need of appurtenance. In this way, we can understand the youngster's orientation towards new things. Any type of practice can be considered „new”, regardless of its seniority, if it has...

Sustainable development represents a civilization challenge that should meet the needs of today’s generations without jeopardizing the ability of the Earth to meet the needs of the future generations. This challenge, as an evolutionary process in which the social and economic development and...

Globally, poverty is an issue that has generated a lot of concerns to both the government, private individuals and non-governmental organizations. In Nigeria, the alarming growth rate of poverty and its effects on the teeming populace is quite de-humanizing. Successive government in Nigeria...