BACKGROUND The tourism industry which is one of the most dynamic economic activities in today's world plays a significant role in the sustainable development. Therefore, in addition to paying attention to tourism, sustainable tourism must be taken into huge account; otherwise, the environment and its health will be damaged irreparably. METHODS To determine the level of sustainability in this ...

This paper presents insights and action proposals to better harness technological innovation for sustainable development. We begin with three key insights from scholarship and practice. First, technological innovation processes do not follow a set sequence but rather emerge from complex adaptive systems involving many actors and institutions operating simultaneously from local to global scales....

Developing countries are increasingly decentralizing forest governance by granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to land. However, the effects of titling on forest cover are unclear. Rigorous analyses of titling campaigns are rare, and related theoretical and empirical research suggests that they could either stem or spur forest damage. We analyze such a campa...

in recent decades, extensive studies in order to achieve sustainable patterns of cities and settlements have done in the global arena. that two of the most important theory is urban village in the 80’s and timeless patterns of christopher alexander in the late 70s. jane jacobs and christopher alexander’s ideas, in many aspects provide the context for the idea of an urban village. urban village ...

This paper deals with an application allowing the automatic titling of texts. This one consists of four stages: Corpus acquisition, candidate sentence determination for the titling, extraction of noun phrases among the candidate sentences, and finally the choice of the title.

The survival of any organization depends upon its competitive edge. Even though Lean is one of the most powerful quality improvement methodologies, nearly two-thirds of the Lean implementations results in failures and less than one-fifth of those implemented have sustained results. One of the most significant tasks of top management is to identify, understand and deploy the significant Lean pra...

the 21st century nanotechnology has the potential to make a huge impact on sustainability; but to achieve this potential, nanotechnology is all about getting more function on less space. in other hand, nanotechnology is one of the most extremely important components in sustainable development. it has the potential to reduce the environmental impact and energy intensity of structures, as well as...