Drastic reductions in Earth's biodiversity, old growth forests, top soil, clean water and air, and truly wild areas are occurring during a period when discussions of sustainable growth and sustainable production are becoming common. Using such terms as sustainable growth and sustainable production rather than the more accurate sustainable use of the planet leaves the impression that, with a lit...

The tourism sector accounts nowadays for about 10% of world GDP (source: World Travel & Tourism Council – WTTC) and it is widely acknowledged that tourism activities depend highly on the quality of natural resources (see, among others, Inskeep, 1991). Thus, the aim of sustainable tourism development plans, in order to reach sustainable development goals, should be the decoupling of economic gro...

The potential of microalgae as a source of renewable energy has received considerable interest now a days, but if microalgae biofuel production is to be economically viable and sustainable to mitigate the energy crises. As microalgae has group of advantages. So further optimization of growth conditions are needed to make a different sources which provide cost-effective and sustainable means of ...

A Relationship Marketing (RM) model has been developed through the analysis of web-enhanced RM focused promotional strategies of five grown sporting cases. Based on the encouragement and consequent approval of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), the potential implementation of the model on BCB has been justified to enable their sustainable growth. A focus group study has been undertaken to justify ...

In an open economy, can unilateral environmental policies undertaken by a group of committed countries ensure sustainable growth? This paper addresses this question in a dynamic model with directed technical change. There are two countries and two tradeable goods. One of the two goods (the polluting good) is produced with a clean input and a dirty input, which causes a global externality. Innov...

pond aquaculture is the most significant fish production method in central europe, approximately 70% of the total fish production is originated from traditional fish ponds in this region, which is a resource-saving, ecologically sustainable production method. however, the growth of this sector is not expected because of the low production capacity of valuable fish species and the relatively hig...

The rhizosphere is the narrow region of soil that is directly influenced by root secretions and associated with soil microorganisms. Such bacteria which can grow in the rhizosphere region as well as plant roots and enhance the plant growth are referred as plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria promotes growth of plants through direct and indirect mecha...

There has been worldwide concern for sustainable development especially after the 1992’s Rio’s UN Conference on Environment and Development. Rapid encroachment of urban development on valuable agricultural land will have great in ̄ uence on whether sustainable development can be achieved. A sustainable land development model is developed using GIS in an attempt to control urban sprawl under rapi...

Whether China continues its business-as-usual investment-driven, environment-polluting growth pattern or adopts an investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and global environmental governance. Building on a Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans growth model that features endogenous technological change induced by R&D and knowledge s...