Development of regional innovation system (RIS) and its role in regional development is a debated research topic. Most of the theoretical and empirical works are traditionally focused on RIS situated within a national context and applies institutional theory. Recently the application of RIS...

This paper presents a methodology for evaluating the relationship between governance and several variables commonly related to the concept of sustainable development, using financial indicators for control. We explore the theoretical framework linking the level of governance of the countries...

Reducing the impact of greenhouse gases (CO<SUB align="right"><SMALL>2</SMALL></SUB>) on climate change in an attempt to tackle global warming issues is a challenge many companies and businesses are trying to undertake. Businesses across the globe need to take a leadership role in reducing their carbon footprint. This paper proposes a...</small></sub>

A new research agenda and ground breaking approaches should be adopted in order to overcome energy system inertia and pass through the current carbon constrained economy to new prosperous and more sustainable energy development paths. The wide consensus of the energy sector community (business,...

In this study, we explore the contribution from sectoral share towards per worker income in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region over the years, 1980 to 2009. Within the last three decades, agriculture and services did not contribute positively towards growth in per worker income. Manufacturing...

To analyze China industrial sustainable development featured with high energy consumption and high CO2 emission, this paper constructs the input and output panel data of China’s 38 sub-industries, estimates their productivity and carries out the green growth accounting based on translog...

The paper presents an interesting analysis of the future economic development of EU countries, offering in the same time some comparisons with USA. Starting with an analysis of the annual dynamic rates of GDP for the EU countries, during 2000-2012, there are identified two periods which are...

This paper focuses on how the development of a particular region consistently requires actors to share a certain level of cognitive resources. In the case studied here ? the Nord Pas-de-Calais region, this cognitive proximity is built via the local policies involving sustainable development....

This contribution proposes to define a method for evaluating the quality of public spaces "QUEP" in a development project, defining a decision and design tool in the context of sustainable development. The application of the method in the intermediate phase on a project of ?exchange pole? in...

2002 is a key year for sustainable tourism because of its international recognition at Johannesburg Summit. This one is due to tourism actors? mobilisation. However, multiple initiatory make sustainable tourism difficult to understand, mainly about production offered. When one analyse both...