Identification and analysis of farmers’ vulnerability associated with their risk aversion degree is one of the necessary requirements for planning and reducing impacts of drought in Iran. So, this study was investigated three risk vulnerability parameters (economic, social and technical) among wheat farmers categorized in accordance with their risk aversion degree in the Mashhad County (Iran) b...

introduction environmental fans believe that sustainable development depends on future needs to balance the objectives of social, economic and environmental development. although these goals are contradictory in the short term, but will strengthen each other in the long term. sustainable economic growth depends on a specific amount of resources, such as pollution absorption and resource regener...

OBJECTIVE To verify if there is an analogy between the indicators of the Global Reporting Initiative adopted by hospitals in the private healthcare system. METHODS Documentary research supported by reports that are electronically available on the website of the companies surveyed. RESULTS The organizations surveyed had a significant adherence of their economic, social and environmental indi...

Currency exchanges rates – updated monthly. Economic indicators of industrial production. Countries included: France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, States, Canada, Japan (Total G‐7), Eurozone and Total EU‐28 OECD). Updated car registration in Poland, Spain, Turkey, Japan, Republic Korea Other OECD OECD‐30). Monthly averages crude steel production thousand metric tons for Brazil, Mexico, A...

In this article we adopt a Bourdieu-based approach to study social inequalities in perceptions of mental and physical health. Most research takes into account the impact of economic or social capital on health inequalities. Bourdieu, however, distinguishes between three forms of capital that can determine peoples' social position: economic, social and cultural capital. Health research examining...

Socio-economic related properties of a city grow faster than a linear relationship with the population, in a log-log plot, the so-called superlinear scaling. Conversely, the larger a city, the more efficient it is in the use of its infrastructure, leading to a sublinear scaling on these variables. In this work, we addressed a simple explanation for those scaling laws in cities based on the inte...

This study provides a multidimensional analysis of sustainable socio-economic development and its challenges in the rural areas of Ukraine. The methodology of realization of sustainable development’s conceptual provisions was created. The advantages of using indicative assessment at the regional level were justified. The methodical approach how to define the indicators of sustainable developmen...