Rural tourism is an important factor in the activation and sustainable develeopment of rural areas in Republic of Croatia. Although, rural tourism in Croatia is still in its initial phase, it represents a great potential which has not been given enough attention so far. This article shows that...

Changes in awareness, educational values and social responsibility in educational institutions have an increasing influence on sustainable development. Learning about sustainable development for young people is an essential tool for achieving sustainability. Schools should be models of...

Modern societies aim to solve the global challenges of the 21st century with sustainable solutions such as resource efficiency, use of renewable energy sources and recycling. Engineers are called upon to create the cutting edge technological solutions that can help to address these challenges....

This article briefly outlines the food–water–energy interlinkages for sustainable development in India. It begins by underlining the emerging severe land constraint and relates it to water development strategies since water use not only raises agricultural productivity, but releases the land...

The meanings of public administration, inclusive governance and sustainable development in a globalized context are reviewed in order to explore how public administration can ensure sustainable development in the contexts of limited resources, poverty and inequality. The key argument is that...

This paper reports long-run tests of how comprehensive investment (CI) predicts future well-being in the USA. Theory suggests that a country with a positive level of CI should experience non-declining future utility. Despite the widespread uptake of CI, previous tests of its predictive power are...

La production d’agrocarburants menace la sécurité alimentaire dans les pays en développement en provoquant la hausse des prix des denrées alimentaires et en renforçant la concurrence entre alimentation et énergie.

According to experts, investments are the most important means of development and economic growth (if not the only one). Indeed, any stable economy cannot be conceived without the support of significant investments in all fields of activity: economic, social, cultural etc. Sustainable...

The article refers to one of the biggest challenges of the future, precisely the contemporary societies’ transition towards an organization of the production and of the social life style in harmony with ecological requirements; transition which is blocked for the moment by private economic...

The goal of the study is focused on the identification of the citizens’ perceptions regarding the main factors for supporting the sustainable regional development and for an adequate mitigation of the financial and economic crisis. Besides the quantitative approach of the sustainable...