Based on socio-economic development and population growth, rapid urbanisation is currently happening in China, leading to urban expansion and land use changes. This, in turn, affects biodiversity, habitats and ecosystem services. It is therefore important to identify and assess the impact of...

Le développement de la publication de rapports consacrés au développement durable oblige à poser certaines questions sur les publics et les objectifs recherchés par les entreprises qui consacrent des moyens souvent importants à cette activité. La réponse qui est le plus souvent fournie...

The economic development of the community must not be viewed as an ordinary quantitative increase, measured in GDP parts. It must be viewed as a whole, considering all the factors that characterise this community. It will be understood as an effect of a performing management, which manifests...

</titre> The first part is a short presentation of the debates around the 2008 and 2009 WDR?s of the World Bank, devoted to the role of rural and urban spaces in development. The second part is focused upon the relations between actors and territories in development thinking, with a peculiar...

CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research inspired an extensive discussion on the Lisbon Strategy, its goals and objectives, successes and failures. The fervent debate, which took place in Warsaw at the end of 2004, investigated the future of the Strategy in Europe and Poland. The...

This paper outlines the significance of the concept of conservation value and discusses ways in which it is determined paying attention to views stemming from utilitarian ethics and from deontological ethics. The importance of user costs in relation to economic decisions about the conservation...

Sustainable development is another philosophy of human society, where the main purpose is to ensure life on earth as a period of time. At the heart of this new philosophy is man wherever he occupied on earth. To lay the foundations of sustainable development each country must take into account...

L'industrie chimique a mis en place de longue date un programme de gestion et de prévention des risques dénommé “Responsible Care” (« Engagement de Progrès » en Français). Ce programme préfigure, même s'il ne le recouvre pas exactement, le thème du développement durable apparu au...

Are natural resources a “curse” or a “blessing”? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a...

Purpose – The paper's purpose is to highlight conflicting interests between combating climate change and the technique of carbon capture and storage (CCS) within the Norwegian petroleum industry. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is written in a conceptual form. The theoretical...