development of human capital is the critical determinant of long-term sustainability and that efforts to accelerate the evolution … changes have become the predominant factor in evolution. Humanity is itself evolving from animal physicality to social …. This article examines the linkages between population, economic development, employment, education, health, social equity …

being made to reduce the serious soil erosion as well as regional poverty. Agricultural development of the Loess Plateau is … of development towards sustainability offers a possible and important way to face the challenges. This study tried to … develop a holistic “variation-selection-replication-retention” model to analyze the transformation of agricultural development …

could lead to four types of evolution—cultural, regulatory, ecological, and technological—that could individually or in …

country's level of development in the European Union, this linkage being reviewed using the median of GDP per capita expressed … gaps may have positive and negative effects on growth depending on the stage of development, this providing important …

twenty-first century. The analysis reveals vividly the risks of conventional development approaches and the real danger of … value changes for getting there. A fundamental shift in the development paradigm is found to be an urgent necessity for …

in interaction with the environment and its built-in systemic features that contradict long-term sustainable development … continued promotion of expanding consumption; (d) globalism and the contradictions of continued Western-style development; and …

is linked to issues of development, whereby adaptation is essential to counteract the negative impacts and improve the … potential of the population to undergo development processes. Findings additionally revealed a gap in the literature about how …