sustainable development Articles
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Aquaculture and sustainable development: a regulatory or governance system?
Governance is defined as a process allowing actors to contextualise the regulatory system and, as a result, to transform sustainable development (SD) into an instrument of action. It will be all the easier for actors to familiarise themselves with SD and its implementation measures if these measures are similar to their representation on SD and its consequences on their activity and social life. ...
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Chile's National Aquaculture Policy: missing elements for the Sustainable Development of aquaculture
This paper reviews the recently enacted Chilean National Aquaculture Policy (NAP). It goes through its central objective, summarises its main components and points out the main actions already underway by the government in the process of implementing this policy. The paper underlines the fact that this is one of the few national policies around the world explicitly setting Sustainable Development ...
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Research on integrated tourism Cleaner Production and tourist landscape eco-design
This paper puts forward integrated tourism Cleaner Production (CP) and demonstrates it is an inevitable course for the sustainable development of tourism industry. Further more, tourist landscape eco-design was discussed, which plays a very important role in the integrated tourism CP but the current research on it is insufficient. This paper uses landscape ecology to make a systemic analysis to ...
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Modalities for future prospects of small-scale agro-processing industries in India
The study further revealed that "lack of physical facilities", "lack of sufficient stock of raw material", "lack of managerial competence", "poor attention on advertisement and publicity of the products", "poor working of various industrial agencies", "lack of cooperation and coordination among different developmental agencies", "technological gap", "lack of sufficient working capital", "problems ...
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Multifunctionality: refocusing a spreading, loose and fashionable concept for looking at sustainability?
The notion of agriculture's Multifunctionality (MF) emerged in the 1980s. It then followed two trajectories since the 1990s: a conflicting period linked to its use in the international trade negotiations on the one hand, a spreading in terms of meaning, use and geographically on the other hand. Specific meanings appeared in connection with policy making, at national or international levels, or ...
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Sustainable rural tourism development based on agricultural resources: the eco-inn initiative in Taiwan
Rural tourism is often considered an economic alternative for rural areas facing decreasing profits and requiring a second or third economic footing. However, like other tourism activities, rural tourism results in a full range of environmental impacts. In particular, accommodation generates various environmental loadings and should be managed carefully. An eco-inn, the environmentally friendly ...
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Editorial[: Rural Change and the Revalorisation of Rural Property Objects]
Property regimes shape the social relations, in particular, social settings, and represent an important element for external intervention and sustainable rural development. The introduction recalls common aspects and specific conceptualisations of property analysis in the field of economics, sociology and social anthropology and summarises main academic discourses about property rights in order ...
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Islands of sustainability in time and space
We review the economics perspective on sustainable resource use and sustainable development. Under standard conditions, dynamic efficiency leads to sustainability of renewable resources but not the other way around. For the economic-ecological system as a whole, dynamic efficiency and intergenerational equity similarly lead to sustainability, but ad hoc rules of sustainability may well lead to ...
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Farm models and economic valuation in the context of multifunctionality: a review of approaches from France, Germany, The Netherlands and Portugal
Multifunctionality of Agriculture (MFA) is a concept that supports the recognition of complex interdependencies between different resources, production processes and outputs of agricultural land use. Political decision making within a sustainable development frame requires extensive information about these interrelationships in order to analyse the impact of implemented policies and to assess ...
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Introduction: Features of environmental sustainability in agriculture: some conceptual and operational issues
This introductory paper aims to address the features of environmental sustainability in agriculture. Recent developments of the concept, which are discussed here, emphasise its multi-faceted nature and lead to various definitions as well as to different implications for policy measures in society. On the basis of all the papers presented in this Special Issue, we draw some perspectives for future ...
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Towards collaborative agro-innovation in developing countries: the Caribbean perspective
Innovation has been recognised as a distinctive input to wealth creation through the stimulation of new ideas, processes and products. A nation's economic prosperity has been attributed to the concerted efforts in research and development, technology transfer and collaboration among firms, knowledge institutions and the government. This paper discusses the challenges and determinants of ...
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Farm size and economic efficiency: a case study of tea production in West Bengal
Once tea was the major source of export earnings for India, but now India is trailing behind in the field of tea production and exports. Darjeeling tea is considered as India?s pride and almost entire production are exported. The depressed tea export of India actually caused the breakdown of the tea industry in West Bengal. Under such circumstances, it is appropriate to verify whether the tea ...
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Environmental sustainability, sustainable livelihood and poverty reduction: the case for tribal agricultural technology
Environmental degradation is very closely associated with economic growth, which leads to the popular concept of sustainable development. The idea of sustainable development also has a component of damage to the environment, though it is minimum. However, there is one thing that has the potential of promoting development along with poverty reduction with the true spirit of the idea of ...
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Pedagogies for persistence: cognitive challenges and collective competency development
Education for sustainability is a challenge that is being met in many different innovative ways under many different circumstances in many different parts of the world. In this paper, the author draws on his personal experiences with radical systemic pedagogies within a context of agriculture and rural development appropriate to an emergent Era of Persistence in Australia, to design and conduct a ...
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Project - Green Leh Ladakh (Jammu & Kashmir)
SankalpTaru has initiated a vigorous green campaign in the most difficult terrain of cold arid desert of Leh Ladakh. Amidst of inclement weather conditions, with support from local communities we are sustainably developing the region by creating lush green forests in this desolate area to help check soil erosion and preserve environment. Species planted: Apple and Apricots Regions covered: ...
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A comparative analysis of Turkish and European Union environmental legislation regarding cleaner (sustainable) production concept
The term cleaner (sustainable) production has been cited in many policy and strategy documents of the top level agency/institutions on science, technology, development, etc., in Turkey for over a decade. However, it is not sufficiently known and applied except its energy efficiency aspect in Turkey. So as to overcome this deficiency, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry supported the project ...
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Afforestation and reforestation in the clean development mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol: implications for forests and forest people
The social and environmental implications of plantations in the CDM are analysed under a hypothetical laissez faire approach and a proactive approach to Sustainable Development (SD), bounded by existing COP7 agreements and efficiency and equity considerations. Implications for timber rich, timber depleted and inherently timber poor regions are assessed. The social risks of industrial plantations ...
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Perspective: Investing in research and promoting trade are critical for Africa's agricultural transformation
Africa is now in desperate need of entrepreneurial political leadership which seeks innovative and sustainable development pathways to address the plethora of current and emerging socio–economic and environmental challenges facing the continent. To meet the growing and changing economic aspirations of the largely young population, major productivity increases in agriculture and trade in ...
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Exploring sectoral elasticity vis–à–vis per worker income with a focus to agriculture: a study of Sub–Saharan Africa
In this study, we explore the contribution from sectoral share towards per worker income in the Sub–Saharan Africa (SSA) region over the years, 1980 to 2009. Within the last three decades, agriculture and services did not contribute positively towards growth in per worker income. Manufacturing sector on the other hand, had a transcending effect with a positive contributory power (0.31%) towards ...
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Rural communities and protected area management in the Mount Cameroon Region of West Africa
This study is aimed at highlighting aspects of the management of protected areas within rural communities in the Mount Cameroon Region of West Africa. The region is characterised by rapid exploration of the natural forest through illegal practices of poaching. This has led to the rapid extinction of animals such as the drills. This has been a major problem as it impedes sustainable forest ...
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