Keeping in mind the needs to preserve the environment and quality of life, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology has been developed to meet these needs. At present the main two direction of LCA research are to fulfil the requirement of the broader sustainable development concept and to...

Increasing the role of leisure in promoting rural areas, to ensure their sustainable development and meet the needs of tourists has led to its transformation into tourist motivation itself, leading to the emergence of new types of vacations. Recreational activity is one of the effective ways for...

The main aims of this paper were to evaluate, debate and disseminate SMEs initiatives in the area of sustainable development, to identify further dissemination strategies and options for SMEs and to identify information needs of SMEs. Small and medium-sized enterprises cover 99.8% of all...

The theme of this paper is the relationship between tourism and environment, with particular reference to the ways of protecting tourist areas characterized by fragile ecosystems, such as parks and beaches. This paper analyzes and tries to show that environmental protection is not only a legal...

The labour content, its structures and the finality of the social action were always in a permanent relation with the historical type of society and with the manner of producing goods and services. The humanity passing to the global economy, to a new manner of economic growth places in front of...

Starting with the main characteristics and causes, who generates the reducing of the economical capacity the research reveals the main possible effects that may be produced in the next years. The research insists for necessity of prevention of these effects, with measures that can be adopted by...

The capital market plays an important role in every modern economy, regarding both, its current state and its sustainable development. The aim of this paper is to present the main role of the capital market on all of the three levels on which they appear (the macroeconomic level, the...

Sustainability is like a visionary road map to guide our actions, as individuals, and in relation to the institutional structures with which we have contact. Over the past few decades, it has been widely recognized that sustainability cannot be reached without a strong science base, which is...

The model of economic growth that Romania adopted was not sustainable. The recent economic crisis proved that. With the continued growth in salaries and pensions without a complex analysis of the budget and its future projections, and without an increase in productivity, Romania was turned into...

Regional development is a long process, but while difficult, is a continuous process of compromise and consensus solutions to identify realistic development potential for each region, which means: transparency, information, communication and cooperation. But to put these principles requires...