Current diagnosis and foresights analyzes show that the pressure on natural resources will increase if significant efforts are not made ??through the integration of technological, organizational and social modernization factors in agricultural public policies in Southern and Eastern...

Europe is going through a period of economic crisis and we can consider that it could be too early to judge to what extent the crisis has affected spending on education but it will become possible to measure the true impact when we will have a wider time frame. At the end of 2011, the European...

The issue of sustainable development in education have been developed since the agenda of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johanesburg 2002th have a great impact on educational system around the world. Higher education (HE) can be involved in sustainable development in many...

The Maastricht criteria with their focus on nominal and macroeconomic convergence are important conditions that Western Balkan (WB) countries have to comply with. A significant threat to convergence of these countries is their large and persistent Current Account (CA) deficits. In this paper, an...

The environmental impact of touristic production is different from that of other productions. Touristic services are produced the same as every other private good by profit maximising firms, but part of the production itself consists of environmental improvements. The naturalistic resource is...

The aim of our paper is to represent the intermediate research results of the case study of the Ydria Motors LL Company which produces semi products for household appliances. The company is a part of the ebmpapst international group and is opting for the ambitious goal of becoming the competency...

The conceptualisation and measurement of brand value, including its sources and outcomes, are a challenging task, particularly in a global marketplace. In contemporary marketing research, there is a general consensus in marketing and management theory that tangible resources of the organisation...

This paper attempts to link Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) scores with the actual level of disclosure as published in the UK FTSE 100 companies' sustainability reports. By investigating the level of disclosure on a range of climate change related activities, the findings suggest that disclosure...

The paper analyses the forces which influence energy intensity in the textile and clothing sector for environmental and energy policy in Mauritius. Using the stochastic frontier analysis, the study finds that energy intensity is statistically lower for export-oriented enterprises, most likely,...

This paper investigates potentials and opportunities in the development of solar power plants in rural areas in Slovenia as a supplementary or as an entrepreneurial activity to generate incomes and sustainable rural development. The focus is on agricultural household buildings. The estimated...