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Over the past decades, the modernization of agriculture in the Western world has contributed not only to a rapid … corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, originally seeking to reconnect agriculture and society, frequently provoke … debate, conflict, and protests. In order to make sense of this pattern, the present paper contends that Western agriculture …
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. The evolution of the territorial role of agriculture has implicated the coexistence among various economic activities … contexts realized by agriculture, the set of economic activities can take advantages from the sustainable use of the same …
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Agricultural production systems are a composite of philosophy, adoptability, and careful analysis of risks and rewards. The two dominant typologies include conventional and organics, while biotechnology (GM) and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) represent situational modifiers. We conducted a...
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Umweltschutzmaßnahmen und der Frage, wie eine umweltschonende Landwirtschaft stärker gefördert werden kann. … measures and the question of how to better support an environmentally friendly agriculture. …
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), sustainable agriculture must meet the needs of present and … systems need transition to become more sustainable. The use of renewables in agriculture allows to reduce energy costs and GHG … emissions and implement cyclic economy principles. Sustainability assessment of agriculture can be done by applying various sets …
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Sustainability tends to become in the new millennium the most important characteristic of economic and social development. The possibility to ensure economic development in the context of a reasonable use of raw materials, energy and natural resources in general and to decrease the impact of all...
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Research on sustainability is now fast approaching half a century of dedicated work. Although there have been significant breakthroughs, sustainability and its corollary, sustainable development, have proven a tough nut to crack. In our paper, we have started from some fundamental questions,...
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The process of integration and future developments within the European Union (EU) covers the issues of environmental protection, sustainable development and energy efficiency. These issues are becoming a significant part of economic and social development and appear as a factor for assessing the...
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Sustainability implies the extension of companies' classic relations outside the economic sphere, leading to the necessity of justification and legitimisation of the actions performed by them and being a premise for organic growth, a concept known as smart growth. This means creating more...
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Aim: This paper studies the concept of sustainable development, which has been overly present in recent times on global arena of debates about issues most pressing to humanity in variety of contexts, political, legal, social and environmental. It has been appropriated by governments and NGOs...
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