Regional Competitiveness as an Aspect Promoting Sustainability of Latvia

Promoting mental health as an essential aspect of health promotion.

This paper advocates that mental health promotion receive appropriate attention within health promotion. It is of great concern that, in practice, mental health promotion is frequently overlooked in health promotion programmes although the WHO definitions of health and the Ottawa Charter describe mental health as an integral part of health. It is suggested that more attention be given to addres...

Regional Competitiveness : An Elusive yet Key Concept ?

INTRODUCTION established a European Council of Competitiveness, and it undertook to produce a regular Competitiveness There is now widespread agreement that we are wit-Report on the performance of the economy of the nessing the 'resurgence' of regions as key loci in the European Union (the most recent being the seventh, organization and governance of economic growth and for 2003). In the Europe...

Promoting Competitiveness in Practice An Assessment of Cluster-Based Approaches

Competitiveness vs. Sustainability: An Assessment of Profitability as a Component of an Approach on “Sustainable Competitiveness” in Extensive Farming Systems of Central Spain

The “Europe 2020 Strategy” launched by European Institutions is a commitment to increase growth based on the coexistence of both competitiveness and sustainable development. This paper analyzes the competitiveness of production systems in the cereal steppes of Castile, Spain. An indicator based on each production system’s profitability threshold was built. The diagnostic analysis methodology al...

Construction Competitiveness Evaluation System of Regional BioPharma Industry and Case Study: Taking Shijiazhuang as an Example

Biological pharmaceutical industry not only has the continuous pulling action to region economy, also makes a positive contribution on the human productivity and quality of life. Biological pharmaceutical industry will become the leading industry of the century in quite a long time in the future. Taking Shijiazhuang as an example, according to the regional biopharmaceutical industry planning ne...