A more systemic design of regional processes of development and learning has gradually gained importance in institutions for national as well as European promotion of research and innovation in the course of the nineties (Ash, Thrift 1994). An essential difference as against earlier promotion programmes, however, lies in an enlarged understanding of innovative development of enterprises and reg...

AIM The aim of this study was to describe, explore and explain the concept of sustainability in nursing. BACKGROUND Although researchers in nursing and medicine have emphasised the issue of sustainability and health, the concept of sustainability in nursing is undefined and poorly researched. A need exists for theoretical and empirical studies of sustainability in nursing. DESIGN Concept an...

Nowadays methods of measurement and assessment of the level of sustained development at the international, national and regional level are a current research problem, which requires multi-dimensional analysis. The relative assessment of the sustainability level of the European Union member states and the comparative analysis of the position of Poland relative to other countries was the aim of t...

The history of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) is given in brief. A summary is provided of the plans for the Fourth Meeting of the CSD and of international conferences and activities related to sustainable development. Specific conference topics were consumption patterns, financial resources, the integration of environmental and development issues into decision making, informa...

This paper describes what the Wellcome Trust has done and aims to do through its population initiative. The Trust is required to spend its funds to improve the physical welfare of mankind, and in this context there can be no more important issue than the rapid changes that are occurring in the human population. The Trust's first involvement was to help fund the New Delhi population summit cover...

Recently, sustainability has become a very important research area in transportation because of the dependencies between transportation, economic, and environmental systems. A great deal of research is being conducted regarding various aspects in order to try to understand these interdependencies. However, still there is a need to capture the behavior of such systems over time. This study attem...

16 This paper describes the results of research designed to explore reporting of three indices 17 (Corruption Perception Index, CPI, Human Development Index, HDI and the Ecological 18 Footprint, EF) in the UK national press between January 1990 and December 2009. 19 Reporting of the indices was assessed by: 20 (a) the number of articles published each year mentioning the index at least once 21 ...