The variety of successful and unsuccessful eco-industrial parks (EIPs) have evoked a discussion on “how to intervene in the process of transforming an industrial park to an eco-industrial park”. This study presents a process analysis approach that enables analysts to trace and structure the key activities that influence changes in an EIP system. This approach rests on five key activities that a...

In this article, we consider houses belonging to an eco-neighborhood in which inhabitants have the capacity to optimize dynamically the energy demand and the energy storage level so as to maximize their utility. The inhabitants’ preferences are characterized by their sensitivity toward comfort versus price, the optimal expected temperature in the house, thermal loss and heating efficiency of th...

The article provides a brief analysis of the history development and current state Russian-Turkish partnership within framework Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization, which can be considered functional area cooperation that uses convergence countries region by creating on various issues, such as production energy from underground resources strategic importance for region, agricultural tou...

When one thinks of international organizations whose administrative processes legal scholars should understand, the European Union and the World Trade Organization come to mind without a moment’s hesitation. A bit later, perhaps, one might also come up with the Montreal Protocol secretariat, Codex Alimentarius, or the International Organization for Standardization. It will probably take a good ...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Working Group for the Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight (Working Group) has taken the opportunity over the last several years to identify the challenges to environmental risk assessment of transgenic organisms, particularly plants. These initiatives have included most importantly, a report to the G8, the Rapporteur's Report ...

Literature on eco-parks and eco-clusters has emphasized the opportunities for the coupling of local economic development and sustainability, going beyond firms’ green strategies to include also supply chains and local networks of firms. Studies have described the conditions and policies for the development of new sustainable economic activities in specific areas based on the industrial ecology ...

Due to the growing worries of communities and governments about depletion natural resources environmental contamination, green innovation (GI) is currently receiving much attention on a global scale. This study intends investigate how Green Innovation Adoption (GIA) influences Sustainable Performance (SNP) in Saudi Arabia’s small- medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based primary research. A concep...

The project of a new, common currency in Europe has raised a tremendous wave of emotions. This can mainly be explained by the uncertain socio-economic consequences of this institutional innovation. The European Monetary Union (EMU) should be regarded more as a political project and not so much as an economic project. That is, the idea of EMU was not derived straightforwardly from an approach ba...

in the modern world today where the margin of error is minimal for the growth and at the same time there is a very competitive and challenging economic environment, it is very significant and crucial that efficiency is being prevailed in the organization through the help of international standards through which the respective organization should maximize their profits and should meet their resp...

We have now enough background in the teaching of eco-design to make some conclusions on practices and evolutions in this area; in France these teachings are very supported by studies of APEDEC (Association of Experts for the Development of Eco-Design) that published in 2006 and 2010 the results of enquiries concerning this subject. Curricula concerning eco-design exist since 1987 but a signific...