Rapid Analysis of Risk of Sustainable Agriculture Development: Socio-Ecological-Economic Approach

Operattonaiizing Sustainable Development : Dynamic Economic - Ecological Models . '

Since the mid-eighties, a vast literature has evolved around the concept of sustainable development. It shows a wide support for changes in policy-making and decision-making, for instance, to integrate environmental interests in national and international political processes. Remarkably, recommendations of contours and new elements of research methods and policy analysis for sustainable develop...

Socio-economic context and role of agriculture

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa and is one of the most biologically and culturally diverse countries on the continent. With a population of about 92 million, Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite being one of the poorest countries, with a per capita income of US$454 (substantially lower than the regi...

Ecological and Socio-ecological Economic Models

Ecological Network Analysis for Economic Systems: Growth and Development and Implications for Sustainable Development

The quantification of growth and development is an important issue in economics, because these phenomena are closely related to sustainability. We address growth and development from a network perspective in which economic systems are represented as flow networks and analyzed using ecological network analysis (ENA). The Beijing economic system is used as a case study and 11 input-output (I-O) t...

Memoranda Aggregate Dynamic Economic - Ecological Models for Sustainable Development

The aim of the present paper is to formulate a general integrated aggregate dynamic model for sustainable development, that will be both simple in structure and able to deal with the main objectives, processes and constraints applying to sustainable development in closed economic-ecological systems. General characteristics of models to be used for sustainable development are discussed. It turns...