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Farm Education as a Component of Sustainable Development in Selected Countries of the European Union
Kowalska, Magdalena - 2016
Experience gained in numerous European countries indicates the need for a comprehensive approach to education for sustainable development. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that an increasingly important role in this process is played by educational farms. Moreover, the very notion of...
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Ecological Compensation Standard for Non-Point Pollution from Farmland
Zhang, Yin - 2017
Non-point source water pollution mainly comes from farmland chemical fertilizers which has become an obstacle of agricultural sustainability and ecological health. As a public policy tool for assessing global ecological crisis and environmental pollution, ecological compensation is important for...
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Sustainable Development and Wind Farms
Mroczek, Bożena; Kurpas, Donata; Klera, Magdalena - 2014
According to assumptions adopted by the European Union, energy production from renewable energy sources (RES) on a community-wide scale will reach 20% by 2020. One way to achieve this ambitious target is to develop wind energy. However, its evaluation is inconclusive. Among the benefits, its...
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Beyond the Dilemma Facing China's Agriculture - Toward a Chinese Constructive Postmodern Agriculture
Zhihe, Wang - 2013
The accomplishments in Chinese agriculture have been impressive during the past 30 years of growth in the Chinese … rural life. Who should be responsible for these problems? Should China’s agriculture return to the past or should it … continue on the current path toward modernization? Is there any alternative to the current form of modern agriculture …
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Urbanization, Food Insecurity and Agriculture – Challenges for Social Sustainable Development
Karthika, Dr. P.; Karthikeyan, P. - 2016
insecurity and agriculture. Among the various reasons for growing food insecurity the key one has been Urbanization and its …
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Agricultural Biodiversity for Sustainable Development
Krajewski, Piotr - 2016
Agricultural biodiversity should be considered as a key resource and the most important human heritage. Biodiversity of farm animals and plants gives the foundation to food production that ensures the existence and future of contemporary civilizations. Rapid economic development, unfortunately,...
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Decomposition Analysis of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the European Union
Drastichová, Magdaléna - 2017
Climate change is a significant threat to sustainable development (SD). Using the Log-Mean Divisia Index Method (LMDI) a decomposition of the data on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union (EU) in 2000-2013 is carried out. To detect if decoupling of the environmental variable...
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Multi-Criteria Evaluation of the Eco-Innovation Level in the European Union Countries (Wielokryterialna Ocena Poziomu Ekoinnowacji W Krajach Unii Europejskiej)
Kobryń, Andrzej - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the level of eco-innovations in the European Union countries. For this purpose, a new method of multi-criteria analysis were used, i.e. PROTERRA method, which was developed by the authors of this article. Analysis concerns a data from the year...
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Perspectives for Development of Hydrotechnical Infrastructure in Poland in View of the European Union Water Policy
Walczykiewicz, Tomasz - 2014
The article presents general conditions and perspectives for development of hydrotechnical infrastructure in Poland, as compared to the European Union water policy, which take into account demands of sustaina-ble development. The hydrotechnical infrastructure analyzed in the article includes...
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Sustainable Development of Rural Areas
Sobczyk, Wiktoria - 2014
Economic development of rural areas guarantees stable employment for the local inhabitants and is prerequisite for implementing investments aimed at environmental protection. This article contains a number of examples of actions taken in compliance with the concept of sustainable development in...
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