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Liberalising European electricity markets: opportunities and risks for a sustainable power sector

2003

The process of liberalising European electricity markets, encompassing a wide range of restructuring activities, has mainly been spurred by the attempt to increase the economic efficiency of the whole sector. This process might be used to trigger a development towards a sustainable power sector by increasing the use of renewable energy sources and enhancing energy efficiency on the supply and demand side. However, by taking a closer look at the current trends of the European electricity markets, it becomes obvious that the liberalisation not only implies opportunities but also risks for the creation of a sustainable power sector. Many of these risks are due to market distortions and imperfe…

How can we apply the models of the quality of life and the quality of life management in an economy based on knowledge?

2017

The scientific substantiations of quality have been applied to models that pertain to mathematical statistics, the probability theory, the information theory, fuzzy systems, graphic methods, time series, and algebraic and numerical methods. To these, this article aims to present a new method of applying mathematical modelling in an economy based on knowledge, by using the concept of the definite integral, the composite function, and mathematical optimisation. The research methods used in the realisation of this article are bibliographic research, creation of new models, and problem-solving. Mathematical modelling, the simulation of the quality of life, etc. are methods and techniques of bot…

The cities of future – between expectations and the reality

2017

Gastronomic Tourism, an Opportunity for Diversifying the Tourist Offer in the Sibiu Area

1899

In the tourists’ motivation to choose a holiday destination, gastronomy is gaining important insights, which has led to an increasing supply of quality-based local products and a stronger market growth. Gastronomy has become one of the most dynamic segments on the international tourism scene. Gastronomic tourism begins to be viewed as a phenomenon as a new tourist product itself, due to the fact that more than one third of the expenses in the tourist offer of the destination are made food. This shows the importance of gastronomy in the quality of leisure experience. Gastronomic tourism gains more and more importance as motivating the future in choosing the holiday destination. Proof of this…

Composite Material Recycling Technology – State-of-the-Art and Sustainable Development for the 2020s.

2020

Recently, significant events took place that added immensely to the sociotechnical pressure for developing sustainable composite recycling solutions, namely (1) a ban on composite landfilling in Germany in 2009, (2) the first major wave of composite wind turbines reaching their End-of-Life (EoL) and being decommissioned in 2019–2020, (3) the acceleration of aircraft decommissioning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and (4) the increase of composites in mass production cars, thanks to the development of high volume technologies based on thermoplastic composites. Such sociotechnical pressure will only grow in the upcoming decade of 2020s as other countries are to follow Germany by limiting and ba…

On sustainable management in the local governance of water: a prospective localised study

2006

In the face of the changes in the planet's natural resources and of their unequal distribution, it is becoming more urgent that contemporary societies oversee environmental assets in a global manner. Although international directives, when they are transposed into national laws, may set specific objectives, meeting them at the local level is as yet an uneven enterprise. Nevertheless we hope to demonstrate, using a case-study involving local tensions over water resources, that public management of the crisis may be developed that effectively involves the civic society, by using the incentives and enforcement tools of central government and of local institutions.

Opportunities and Challenges in Overcoming the Economic Crisis

2013

Abstract This paper presents the main fundamental concepts concerning the methods of economic analysis: necessity of economic analysis, information system, types of economic analysis, methodologies used for the economic analysis of company, study of the factor which explain the results of the economic analysis of company, stage of the practical analysis. However in relation to conditions of economic crisis. In the same context is presented and analyzed the dictum of Nouriel Roubini, who said: “Stop austerity in the crisis!”. So, this paper analyzes “austerity vs crisis”,“insolvency - good or bad?” and “Sustainable Development” too.

REALIZATION OF ASSUMPTIONS OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LOW EMISSION ECONOMY ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE OPOLSKIE VOIVODESHIP

2017

Investment Policy Development and Problems in Latvia

2020

A promising investment compiling into a national economy is one of the main conditions that might influence positive changes of the state economical situation as well as local sustainable development and modern technologies advancement. Thus, financing private and public segments will boost the national economy and create possibilities to expand competitiveness of the whole country or its separate region.

NEITHER AUTHORIZED NOR PROHIBITED? SECESSION AND INTERNATIONAL LAW AFTER KOSOVO, SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA

2008

The flexibility mechanisms introduced by the Kyoto Protocol on climate change promote the realization of climate change related investment projects which aim to contribute both to the fight against climate change as well as to foster sustainable development patterns in host countries. At first glance, the flexibility mechanisms seem to represent paradigmatic examples of green economy instruments which have numerous potential benefits. However, the implementation of such mechanisms may give rise to some negative environmental externalities which have the consequence of creating a new type of investment versus environment conflict, characterized by a new form of conflict with an internal envi…