identifying role of extension system in adoption of new technologies have important role to developing favorable extension systems. for supporting sustainable agriculture in iran needs extension systems to be carefully thought and accurately implemented. the purpose of this is analyzing role of extension activities in adoption of sustainable agriculture. based on the results the attending agric...

Sustainable tourism has achieved the status of being the superior goal in Norwegian government tourism policy, and is attaining much attention in the international scientific and political discourse on tourism. However, have policies on sustainable tourism and related concepts actually managed to make tourism more sustainable? This article seeks to address this question by first presenting the ...

Sustainable ecological tourism is the ultimate goal of ecological tourism. To realize the sustainable development of ecological tourism it is a thorny problem. This paper takes the world geological park in Xinwen for evaluation object, according to the sustainable development of ecological tourism evaluation model, using analytic hierarchy process, expert evaluation method, the multi-objective ...

The paper presents the Romanian realities and perspectives from the point of view of reaching the sustainable development model in the context of the recent accession to the European Union, based on the analysis of the indicators listed in the EU Sustainable Development Strategy. The analysis of the economic-social potential for sustainable development and of the environment aspects show that t...

The increasing usage of computer technology in our everyday life and especially in our homes and the increasing demand for sustainable life style concepts raise the question of how to combine these two trends. Can we make smart homes sustainable or sustainable homes smart? This paper discusses current trends and challenges arising with these questions and proposes a sustainable smart home appro...

Sustainable development is contacted with Sustainable Innovation. Innovative culture in enterprise is the core of survival and development, innovative prosecution and innovative management, the fundamentality of maintaining sustainable innovation, the base of developing innovative competitive power. Innovative culture in enterprise helps enterprises achieve sustainable development through influ...

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...

There has been much progress in recent years in the development of sustainable building assessment tools as a means to promote sustainable buildings. However, many assessment tools face issues with assessment methods and system frameworks, which greatly undermine their credibility and applicability. If these problems persist, the role of sustainable building assessment tools as decision making ...

A high-level overview of the discipline of sustainable development is presented, aimed at providing the context and setting for research on and applications of sustainable development, in this lead article to a new journal. The status of sustainable development and its progress are described, as are challenges and needs that may impact its development. Definitions of sustainable development and...