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Environmental education in rural areas - a real support for sustainable development,

Ghiurca, Ana-Andreea; Lamasanu, Andreea; Mihai, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Sustainable development represents the future for Romanian rural areas and a viable solution to solve the environmental … problems. This concept can be put into practice through the interaction between economic, sociocultural, environmental and … areas and their involvement in environmental policy decisions. So, a low level of ecological education in rural areas leads …

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Sustainability assessment and indicators: Tools in a decision-making strategy for sustainable development

Waas, Tom; Huge, Jean; BLOCK, Thomas; Wright, Tarah T.; … - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2014

Recognizing the urgent need for sustainability, we argue that to move beyond the rhetoric and to actually realize sustainable development, it must be considered as a decision-making strategy. We demonstrate that sustainability assessment and sustainability indicators can be powerful...

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THE ROLE OF CHANCES EQUALITY AND SOCIAL INCLUSION IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Iuliana Petronela, GÂRDAN; Daniel Adrian, GÂRDAN - In: Annals of Spiru Haret University, Economic Series 5 (2014) 4, pp. 37-47

The article deals with the issue of equality of chances, seen from the perspective of the importance that it may have in relation to social inclusion of individuals and economic development at the level of national economy. Social integration of both women and men is a natural goal, specific to...

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Ukraineâ€™s agricultural sector water supply peculiarities in the context of food security and energy efficiency

Levkovska, L.; Sunduk, A.; Dobryanska, T. - In: Balanced Nature Using 7 (2013) 2-3, pp. 27-33

This paper presents basic characteristics of the water supply in agricultural sector and population of Ukraine, features within the system of food safety and energy efficiency. Strategic and tactical priorities to improve water supply that will enable substantially improve its basic...

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Aid dimension of the Commitment to Development Index: case study of the Czech Republic

Syrovátka, Miroslav; Krylová, Petra - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 4 (2012) 4, pp. 323-339

The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) aims to assess rich countries' policies that affect sustainable development perspectives of poor countries and to rank rich countries from this perspective. The index consists of seven components and one of them - foreign aid - is explored in this paper....

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Implementing sustainable energy - four case studies

Peura, Pekka; Kuittinen, Hanna; Knuckey, Lindsay; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 6 (2014) 1, pp. 19-44

This article aims to increase knowledge and find the best practices on how sustainable energy (SE) can be boosted and implemented at a regional level. It presents the main results from the RESGen (RES Generation - from research infrastructure to SE and reduction of CO2 emissions) project and the...

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Farm size and economic efficiency: a case study of tea production in West Bengal

Maity, Shrabanti - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 4 (2012) 1, pp. 53-70

Once tea was the major source of export earnings for India, but now India is trailing behind in the field of tea production and exports. Darjeeling tea is considered as Indiaâ€™s pride and almost entire production are exported. The depressed tea export of India actually caused the breakdown...

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Prospects of sustainability-oriented innovation assessment

Möller, Klaus; Bizer, Kilian; Krüger, Lukas; Kubach, … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 6 (2014) 1, pp. 64-81

integrates environmental and social factors into the assessment. By applying an interdisciplinary view, we furthermore argue that …

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Editorial: agriculture in Turkey – structural change, sustainability and EU-compatibility

Aerni, Philipp - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 6 (2007) 4/5, pp. 429-439

Rural Turkey is dominated by a large agricultural sector that still relies on extensive state support and policy intervention. There is a general agreement that structural change is needed to make its rural economy more innovative and competitive. Yet, as long as the main architects of Turkish...

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IMACLIM-R: a modelling framework to simulate sustainable development pathways

Sassi, Olivier; Crassous, Renaud; Hourcade, Jean-Charles; … - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 10 (2010) 1/2, pp. 5-24

To assess the sustainability of future development pathways requires models to compute long-run Economyâ€“Energyâ€“Environment scenarios. This paper presents the IMACLIM-R framework, aimed at investigating climate, energy and development inter-related issues. The model was built in an...

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