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THE ROLE OF EVALUATION IN SUPPORTING A HUMAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A COSMONOMIC PERSPECTIVE

Nijkamp, Peter - In: Regional Science Inquiry III (2011) 1, pp. 13-22

This paper offers a new perspective on the issue of urban sustainability. Starting from a positive perspective on city … life, it makes a typology of critical roles of the city that are to be considered with a view to urban sustainability. Next … multicriteria analysis for urban sustainability may usefully be based on this integrative methodology. …

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Community Development - The Interference between Professionals' Practice and Active Involvement of Community Actors. An Ethical and Social Assessment

CARAS, Ana; SANDU, Antonio - In: Anuarul Universitatii „Petre Andrei” din Iasi / … (2012) 9, pp. 119-138

The article proposes a explorative approach to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing a community development program in rural areas. By making the present research we wanted to contribute to help increase awareness among project beneficiaries on the importance of participation in community...

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HUMAN RESOURCES, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PAWN IN SOUTH-WEST OLTENIA REGION

MARIN, Camelia - In: Management Strategies Journal 15 (2012) 1, pp. 25-30

Sustainable development is a strategy by which people seek ways to economic development, benefiting also from the local environment or to benefit quality of life. Aim of this paper is to highlight that each county has different sustainable development opportunities, according to demographic and...

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ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CASE STUDY: VALCEA PROVINCE

MARIN, Aurelia-Camelia - In: Management Strategies Journal 16 (2012) 2, pp. 19-25

Involving local governments is one of the key issues and challenges for the development of each region, not least for the development of Romania, as an EU member country. The main purpose of this paper is to identify the main factors affecting the ability of local authorities in Romania,...

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ANALYTICAL SUPPORT TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURES

Akgün, Aliye Ahu; Leeuwen, Eveline van; Nijkamp, Peter - In: Romanian Journal of Regional Science 5 (2011) 2, pp. 1-24

multi-method integrated toolkit for sustainability assessment, the so-called SMILE toolkit . This toolkit is developed to …

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Ecologization of production in the light of innovation development

Burmatova, O.P. - In: Journal "Region: Economics and Sociology" 4 (2012)

The paper analyses the opportunities and limitations to introducing innovations into environmental management, basic trends of ecologization of production associated with introducing innovation economic development principles to solve environmental problems, and principle difficulties in the...

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Renewable energy and nuclear power towards sustainable development: Characteristics and prospects

Karakosta, Charikleia; Pappas, Charalampos; Marinakis, … - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 22 (2013) C, pp. 187-197

(EFR). The examination was made with regards to technology characteristics, sustainability factors and potential deployment …

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Development without energy? Assessing future scenarios of energy consumption in developing countries

Steckel, Jan Christoph; Brecha, Robert J.; Jakob, Michael; … - In: Ecological Economics 90 (2013) C, pp. 53-67

We analyze the relationship between economic development and energy consumption in the context of greenhouse gas mitigation. The main contribution of this work is to compare estimates of energy thresholds in the form of minimum energy requirements to reach high levels of development with output...

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A guidance chart for most probable solution directions in sustainable energy developments

Mansoor, Muhammad; Mariun, Norman; Ismail, Napsiah; … - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 24 (2013) C, pp. 306-313

based works related to sustainability, energy scenarios and eco-efficiency. It co-relates TRIZ philosophy, methods and tools … in purview of energy and sustainability. It proposes guidelines in a tabular chart form which can help engineers as a …

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Aracruz Celulose: best practices icon but still at risk

Osland, Asbjorn; Osland, Joyce S. - In: International Journal of Manpower 28 (2007) July, pp. 435-435

best practices in sustainability and HRM that, nevertheless, is challenged by a contentious land dispute with indigenous …

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