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In last decades, many localities in the Czech Republic were encountered by intensive flooding, as well as their frequency increased considerably. With these natural disasters are directly linked the increasing number of lo ss events that affect the pricing methods of real estate and, ultimatel y, affect the prices of prop erty. Valuation of property in flood areas has its own specifics, among which ranks the register of high-risk localities in the Czech Republic and the completion of the Flood Maps, which specify ...

The theme that will be considered in this paper derives from the cultural debates in many areas of the South Italy because it is necessary and urgent to establish new protected areas. The context of the analysis is expanded compared to the issues of the parks’ planning, structured on a prelimin ary economic analysis about the nature’s protection that without the financial support and activism of the involved people risk to transform parks into natural containers not in line with the current standards and with ...

In this paper we describe the analysis of costs associated with disposal of hazardous and common waste, in the construction company. Furthermore, we show how to implement Six Sigma methodology to reduce costs of waste disposal. On the specific example from practice there is shown the effectiveness of this approach in the management of waste in the practical conditions of a construction company.

The paper objective is to assess the social responsibility issues among the SMEs in Romania. We seek to find the main charac teristics of responsible citizenship among the SME sector and its internal and external drivers.

A crisis is referred to an unplanned event emerging from the internal or external environment of an organization, region, or country which can disrupt operations, threaten people physically and mentally, Crises often have negative consequences including a decrease in demand and revenues, rising costs, the deterioration of normal conditions. Meanwhile, some of them may also offe r some opportunities for companies. It had both negative and positive impacts although its benefits were often overlooked. But it becomes ...

The environmental protection expenditures have started to play a significant role in the Romanian economic development policy only since the 1990s, both in enterprises and public authorities. The objective of EU accession has led Romanian policymakers and managers to give up the idea that investme nt in environmental protection should be postponed until the economic growth can provide financial resources needed to solve the environmental problems. In ternational studies have also shown that the economic growth exp...

The local rural communities of Romania have been strongly affected by the historian evolution in former decades by social- economic system evolution. To these ones, there have been added a period of almost fifty years of a social system based on centralized economy and, afterwards, Romanian economy was and is marked by the period of transition towards the market economy. All of these periods determined a peculiar social - economic relationship and, in fact, be haviors of the rural inhabitants, as ones between the ...

Gold is a precious metal extracted and used since ancient times. The present paper analyzes the properties and characteristics of gold in terms of physical-mechanical properties and the process of its extraction from ore. After extraction of tons of low grade gol d ore using sodium cyanide (NaCN) are obtained two grams of gold and there are left mining waste dumps containing 25-50% gold. The technological process of cyanide not only shows a low efficiency of extraction, but it also brings great risks in terms of e...

Through benchmarking one can get informati on about the performing practices in the field of environmental policies, thus being able to try to reach its level of performance. But the national context requires the finding of self means of achieving the performance and performing practices. The environmen tal policies benchmarking has long term effects and stimulates the learning in concerned entities. The aim is to create sustainable prosperity. It requires common goals and use of all actors involved in the change ...

The increase of the demands for quality in th e EU is caused by the fact that customer’s satisfaction is no longer enough; the expectations must be overcome by promoting the concept “Beyond Customer Satisfaction”, which determined the orientation of the Romanian companies toward s implementing the Quality Management System. This paper aims at analysing the impact that th is implementation system has on the analysed company's financial and economic results involv ed in such a process. This diagnosis, during 2...

The competitiveness of economy both at the na tional and regional levels needs to be perceived in close context with the principle of sustainable development because competitiveness an d sustainability are not mutually exclusive. The concept of sustainable development encompasses three pillars: economic, social and environmental. If we are to analyse these th ree dimensions of sustainable development, there shall be suitable indicator s available that would be capable of expressing mutual relationships between eco...

In this article we tried to emphasize the impor tance of labor within the tourism, because the workforce occupation is among the most serious problems with which is facing the world today, regardless of the degree of development of the country, because, on one hand, the level, structures and efficien cy of workforce occupation reflects the macroeconomic performances, as well as and the capacity of economic system to capitalize the available resources, and on the other hand, the labor is the only measure of individ...