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In literature, environment is mentioned as “the whole natu re and examples of human- made structures in the nature together with human beings and all other living beings”. Environment is the atmosphere or conditions in which an organism exists and it is an atmosphere that existed with the first living being on earth. Environment is the physical, biological, social, economic a nd cultural atmosphere where people and other living beings lead their lives and interact with one another. Human life is built on vario...

The authors are aiming to review the work related to monitoring of environmental factors from Braila in Romania. To maintain a balance between the natural environment, its resources and the man, it is necessary to develop a strategic planning, so there can be always a stable relationship between natural habitat and the human population. This planned strategy elaborated to address the environmental issues was established at the Ministerial Conference "E nvironment for Europe" held in Lucerne, Switzerland, and is wa...

The Romanian tourism aims to develop, togeth er with the integration in the EU, several criteria of recognition which might be essen tial on the internationa l market, regarding the quality of the services and the natural or cultural objectives available nowadays. One of its indubitable advantages, which attract constantly the vis itors attention, is represented by the eco-touristic potential. This domain is a fo rm of alternative tourism having a permanent development. In order to perceive it adequately, it is ne...

The importance of understanding the protection of the environment has become an exceedingly important issue for the life of human beings. Interdependent economic relations and government regulations may s upport each other or may create conflicts. On the other hand, competition policy, indus trial hazards and products/services across national borders may foster the conflict about the environmental regulations. In this research, the funds organized by IMF and the policies created by IMF may help the regulation abou...

The development of the market economy and th e increase in its degree of complexity requires complete operative economic informa tion. The balance sheet stands for the accounting method procedure through which ther e can be controlled the way of using material and human resources in view of making necessary decisions. The balance sheet-based analysis - i.e. the diagnosis an alysis - is oriented towards revealing the financial position of the company, its capaci ty to generate monetary surplus values guaranteeing i...

During the last two decades has been in the Ostrava city registered a higher number of floods; some of them were extreme ones - such as the flood in 1997 and 2010. The consequence of increasing frequency of floods during this period was also the increase of property damage and real estate losses. Increased risk of flooding in the affected areas was reflected in the prices of real estates and lands’ prices immediately after the catastrophic floods in 1997 and then in 2010. Property prices are now affected, among ...

This research indicates a methodology fo r branding and brand positioning in Pharmaceutical Sector. Branding and brand positioning have become an important topic for practitioners in recent years. Brandi ng and brand positioning becomes an important key of how to manage markets effectively. A key component of many initiatives is th e implementation of branding and brand positioning methods. As a result it is seen that branding and brand positioning applications can be an effective and successful tool for pharmaceu...

The favorable geographic conditions, in direct relation with the variety of the natural resources have contributed to the development of the rura l settlements and of a certain specific type of economy, in the Subcarpathian area of Dambovita Valley. The agricultural activity now holds an important role in the economy of these human settlements, a fact demonstrated both by th e proportion of the population employed in agriculture and by the land use changes. During the last decennia, the wood exploita tion and proc...

The aim of this paper is to identify the environmental fiscal burden’s volume and the structure and also to assess its impact upon th e enterprises performance. Beside that we are interested to evaluate th e main environmental taxes and fees efficiency in terms of environmental protection and remediation. It is our strong believe that following the sustainable development principles the economic performance and environmental protection can and must coexis t in the benefit of communitie s and at a larger scale of...

Exchange in nature named by the people barter, in a haggling, an unwritten contract between two parties who give each other one thing for another thing. As a human manifestation, the barter is the ancestor of commerce today that is mediated by money and the most modern techniques. Ethnographic questionnaires completed in 1970 for developing the Romanian Ethnographic Atlas r ecorded it in all the counties. In most localities Carpathian and Subarpathian investigated in the early twentieth century echanged was, wood,...

The article discusses the new methodological approaches for the direct valuation of their own economic services of biodiversity. Approaches are illustrated by economic services valuation of intraspecific diversity of Paci fic salmon. The resulting estimates can form the basis of effective economic instruments for biodiversity conservation.

Ecological problems are a lot in numbers, ther efore and their resolving are looking in many ways. Certain the own contribute should give and economics sector because in one or another way they can contribute to protect or to destroy the environment. Sensibility and awareness of publics and ins titutions for protecting the environmental and survival for all of lives forms are very important, all of this can contribute for now and future generations. In this paper work ecological awareness is analyzed in some of ec...

Slovakia, as well as other member states of the EU is obligated to achieve till 2020 rate of energy from renewable energy sources at the level of national goal of the country that is in our case 14%. In every state given duty is going about individually according condition of the country. In this sense there has been accepted at the Slovakia law n.309/2009 about support of the renewable energy sources and combined electric energy and heat production. Further frame for support of renewable energy sources is annual ...

The policies for social responsibility in th e frame of environment protection is not exclusively related to XXI century state, on the contrary, the need to benefit from a healthy environment is a sine qua non demand of all participants involved in current social activities. Although at the individual level, the possi bilities for expression in this respect are not absolute, the representation through the agency of non-governmental organizations can fulfil these targets. The management difficulties, implicitly soc...

In the business environment the principl es of sustainable business are being progressively more respected. These are activ ities that contribute to minimizing costs, reduction of the load on the environment and take into account social aspects in the company. The main result of this pape r is Quality index of regional business environment, which helped to create the rank of the different regions of Slovakia in the examined area.

The European economy of the XXI century ap proaches new directions of orientation towards sustainability and competitiveness. The achievem ent of these goals is possible on condition that the joint efforts of the Member states’ economies are concentrated, through interdisciplinary and inter-state cooperation. The aim of this paper is to identify the common points of interest of environmental and economic approaches, based on: identifying the latest trends in European research concerning the modern concepts desig...

The authors point out in this paper that current environmental changes (changes in climatic parameters, air quality, method of land use, cons umption patterns, increased exposure to pollutants, etc.) had complicated the relation between residential and rural external environmenta l adding costs to maintain an acceptable quality of life for residents. The main factors that change the natural attributes of the environment in Galati are: industrial activities (Steel mill, shipyard construction, food and beverage indu...

The issue deals with a interf erences/ relations be tween protected areas and comunities and administrative system, and levels of interference caused by their specific relationships. So it appears as different studies upon the Carpathian region (Popa, Kern, 2008, Stoica, 2008, Pu ЕџcaЕџu, 2010, Naum, Butnaru, 1983, Chiri ЕЈДѓ, 2009 ). Those relations generated different types of environmental landscapes and dynamic changes in Carpathians area, different spatial sequenc es (Chirita, 2003). not only in the mountain ...

In the new context of European urban and environmental politics, Romania’s small towns must go directly toward sustainability in order to ensure high life quality for their communities on the long term. The smallest urban settlements of Romania are confronted with diverse issues due to the former communist regime, the adaptation to the market economy, the planning policy of the sate and historical environment state. As many urban sustainability assessment methods were developed in lite rature, the present study ...

We intend with this work to establish the evolution of some indicators which are significant for the development of the economies of Romania and Bulgaria – two neighbour countries with the same options for the economic and politic development. We shall discover that usually the analysed indicators developed in the same way, but with different rhythms. In order to fi nd out the disparities betw een the indicators of the two countries, we will use the method of the extrapolating by analogy, thus allows us the meas...

Globalization was the solution for achieving high rates of economic growth to wind underdevelopment. Throughout history, agri culture has grown in momentum of population growth and market expansion. Ov er the past 25 years, performance in agriculture has contributed to overall agri cultural GDP by 2% per year, faster than population growth, which was only 1.6% per year . Agriculture is the very heart of trade negotiations promised the development cycle, to the extent that about 75% of the world's poor live in rura...

One of the tourism types thought under the range of variation in tourism is health tourism. In order to have tourism in every season throughout the year, health tourism started to have a great importance nowadays. When you say health tourism, the first thing that comes to mind is thermal sources. In addition to this, some well-developed and well-equipped hospitals have been making big organizations to get patients to treat and earning money on dollar basis in medical tourism. The rise of medical tourism has happen...

The process of the development of a proper environmental strategy and its successful implementation into everyday life has become one of the most important ideas of the 21 st century. Typically, the major issue related to this strate gy is its financial aspect; however certain regional disparities or local specifics may also represent a significant problem. In addition to the state environmen tal policy, the government of the SR has also developed basic concepts of environmental programmes. The main objective of t...

Goal of the contribution is to explai n evaluation of economical and marketing environment that mining firms must resp ect during their business activity. External environment of mining firm includes exce pt others technological development, economical situation, and legislative by the way of regulation, but in last time also stimulations from the government, competitio n behavior and other. Contribution is dealing also with economical effectiveness of investment in the frame of economical and marketing evaluation...

In recent years there has been globally detected the provable increase of natural disasters and extreme weather events. The climatologists explain this weather swings by global climate change. This trend is evident not only globally but also in Europe and in the Czech Republic (CR). Evidenced by data of insurance companies, the insurance companies have paid off for disaster damage in CR the amount of over 90 billion CZK (3.6 billion EUR) during past fifteen years. The Czech Insurance Association (CIA), which is th...

The economic development includes the macro approach to all economic fields. The important economic tools are those wh ich lead economic subjects through the internationalization of th e living environment and costs of natural resources exploitation. Since the economic development is only one part of the overall economic development, the future economic growth cannot be imagined without the ecological protection and environmental reproduction.

Lignite is one of the minerals which have impacted largely the development and technological revolution of human society. Du ring the coal use, there are mineralogical remains in the form of ashes, which have different physical, chemical, mineralogical and morphological properties, which largel y depend on the type of coal used, and technology in its combustion. This type of ashe s is presented in thermal power plants in the form of dust or fly ash and inorganic remains, which are separated from the process by dif...

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...