The EU's environmental policies and strategies have been developed since the 1970s and underline that the sustainable economic development and well-being of the European Union countries are based on their natural environment. They are aimed at national and global air quality regulations that...

Social exclusion may manifest through spatial concentration of deprived population in communities located in certain areas. The globalization has reshaped the social and spatial geography of cities which led to major implications for research on social exclusion. Thus, in any practical...

Sustainability has become one of the constant concerns of active participants in the food chain: producers, traders, consumers, and regulators. The paper aims to identify consumers' perceptions of the use of sustainable food packaging, in an exploratory survey of a sample of 280 respondents,...

Quality of life and social welfare are objectives of the social policy of any state. The study aims to identify the influence of factors such as the circular economy, digital innovation, sustainable entrepreneurship on social progress and completes the current approach identified in the...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been part of organisational activity for a long time, but until the launch of the ChatGPT application at the end of 2022, it was not discussed in such a comprehensive way. This type of application brought to the public's attention the concept of artificial...

The paper shows that the world economic stratification, as well as that of all natural, social and political systems is a natural law and a prerequisite for progress. Stratification itself may mean, however, both the remedy, but also the demise of systems, by exacerbating social inequalities....

The volume contains the papers accepted and published in the proceedings of the 6th International symposium entitled: Agrarian Economy and Rural Development -- Realities and Perspectives for Romania', organized by the Institute of Research for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development,...

The first mentions of working from home date from 1979, the appearance of the Internet leading to an increase in the number of companies that have applied this system. Remote work, work from home, telecommuting, as well as teleworking are concepts that describe an alternative activity of...