An environmental management system (EMS) provides the framework for continual environmental improvement through effective management of an organization?s environmental impacts. The most well-known and accepted EMS is the ISO 14001 standard on environmental management established by the...

Rapid expansion of industry, urbanization and increasing population, especially in large cities like Bani Walid, has dramatically increased the amount of municipal solid waste (MSW) generated in Libya. However, issues related to environmentally sound municipal solid waste management –...

At the competitive tourist market today (including the Kosovo) the imperative for the Country, region and tourist enterprises is to keep its market position and existing customers. Having known the fact that the tourism as branch of economy in Kosovo is in the phase of consolidation and...

While tourism has been praised by a variety of international organizations as a means to promote the local economy in developing countries, tourism led growth has never been seen to be supported by a developing countries' intellectual property regimes. Intellectual property rights, particularly...

There is now abundant scientific evidence that humanity is living unsustainably. The environment is gradually becoming more overstressed. People now are transforming ecosystems throughout the world at a faster and more extensive pace than any other time in human history. We are culturally given...

Using ideas from complexity theory and its application in the areas of ecology, biology, chemistry and medicine this paper shows how the paradigm of complexity is able to offer the conceptual frame in which they can project, evaluate and coordinate processes specific to the living world. Because...

Increasing energy consumption has been one of the major issues in the environmental and industrial economics in the context of global climate change. Recent literature has dealt with several methodological and application issues related to the technique of decomposing changes in industrial...

A large proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas. Therefore, local mitigation policies have to play an important role in any effective global climate protection strategy. Based upon a literature review, this article gives an overview of drivers and barriers for local...

Many European municipalities develop energy supply concepts based on renewable energies to reduce energy related greenhouse gas emissions and stimulate regional and rural economies. Improvement of security of supply using regional energy sources is an additional motivation for renewable energy...

Travel and tourism industry, like many industries, displays particularities of pricing. These arise partly from custom and practice. The pricing decisions can be affected by tourism demand, costs, the competition in the field, tourism supply, government policies on pricing, customer legislation...