Provides some background on concerns about the sustainability of agriculture, outlines and discusses views about what constitutes sustainable agriculture and contrasts the sustainability of modern industrialised agriculture with that of traditional agriculture. Then the question is considered...

In this paper, we demonstrate and analyze the substance of the added value effect of a Supreme Audit Institution (SAI), focusing on sustainable development issues.We intend to answer such questions as: how could a SAI respond to global and local challenges and how it could help government to...

We establish the comprehensive evaluation indicator system for sustainable development of micro-credit, constituted by the profitability ratio, financial constitution ratio, loan quality ratio and operating efficiency ratio. Taking the case of micro-credit of China Foundation for Poverty...

With the booming development over the past years, geo-parks have achieved impressive progress together with a series of problems. Most importantly, geological tourism is not in prosperity. How to prosper geological tourism and achieve the sustainable development of geo-parks is the top concern...

Based on existing problems in the course of development of self-study examination of agricultural science disciplines, this paper analyzes logical conditions for its sustainable development. Major logical conditions include requirement for free and comprehensive development of individuals;...

Rural finance is the weakest link in China's financial system. There are still many problems in the traditional rural finance, such as poor business conditions, imperfectly competitive financial markets, and credit information asymmetry; the phenomenon of farmers' loans difficulty has not been...

Based on derivation of permanent income hypothesis (PIH), the conflict is analyzed between expected profitability of migrants and government policy in resettlement protect. Government has provided compensation for relevant building and land losses, but farmers are still unwilling to dismantle...

Using emergy analysis method, I conduct quantitative analysis of social, economic and natural systems in Sichuan's Baisha River valley during the period 2002-2006, through the establishment of indicators. I compare the emergy of Baisha River valley, with that of Xinjiang's Manas River valley and...

There is a long way to go for sustainable development of rural tourism. It is necessary to strengthen the planning for training rural tourism talents, and establish sustainable reserve tourism service personnel; innovate upon the promotion mode of rural tourism and open the tourist source...

The study "Land ownership and land market functionality in the mountain areas - the case study of Romania " is a part of a larger research work on the sustainable rural development in the mountain area Muscel in Romania, from a multi criteria perspective, for the formulation of feasible...