The term sustainable development has been misunderstood and misinterpreted, often parodied, and even derided. Today we face the consequences of our wilful dismissal. Climate change is upon us. Had we taken sustainable development more seriously, we might have done far more to create a healthy society and environment. But unbridled economic development, predicated on unfettered use of resources,...

nowadays, women's participation in rural sustainable development is not considered as an optional issue, but a necessity. the societies downgrading the need for women's participation have faced failures, cuausing delay in sustainable development and the meeting of social security as well as social welfare. this applied research was aimed at clarifying the role of rural women's pa...

The proposed economy is green due to the fact that, according authors, it based on resource and energy conservation efficiency, rational use of natural resources, as well disposal man-made household waste. Thus, with saving potential in Russia 40%, respectively, less land will be used for extraction fossil hydrocarbons, area pollution adjacent areas during transportation reduced, territories al...

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...

Sustainable development is of great significance in rural areas of China, which are under coupled pressures of poverty reduction, environmental protection and economic development. In these areas, agriculture is the primary sector in supporting their economies, where a number of the relevant production and processing practices cause many adverse impacts on environment and ecosystem. This poses ...