Theoretical and practical researches are considered for the ecologization of economic mechanism. Much of attention is paid to the nature protection activity. The main directions of natural resources reproduction are defined.
The conflict component of the system of socio-natural relations in the economic sphere is analyzed in the given article. The features of environmental damage caused by the action of natural resource conflicts are explored. On the basis of generalization of views on specific socio-natural and ecological-economic contradictions, prompted authors' definition of natural-resource conflicts, and focus on their classification.
The paper addresses to the issue of natural resources export (oil and gas) from Rus-sian Federation. Due to the fact that Russia possesses great energy resources, it seems important to explore the characteristics its export from the point of view of geographical structure as well as of sectoral one. The main aim of the paper is an analysis of oil and gas export to European Union.
This paper discusses the Yasuní ITT Initiative through which a sovereign state (Ecuador) proposed it would forgo oil extraction in an area overlapping with a global biodiversity reserve and indigenous territory in exchange for financial compensation from the global community. This paper argues that the ITT Initiative provides an excellent opportunity for a much needed discussion about limits on sovereign rights to natural resources. First, the article looks into problematic features of sovereignty with respect to natural resources and argues that it fails to facilitate a use of natural resources compatible with demands of domestic and international justice. Three issues are identified: the extractivist bias, the problem of territorial monism, and the justice deficit. In the second part of the paper I show how the ITT Initiative innovatively attempted to transcend these structural weaknesses in the current system thus providing a valuable model of self-limiting sovereignty over natural resources. Three aspects are highlighted: a fiduciary model of resource sovereignty, the recognition of extraterritorial rights of others to sovereign resources, and a model of international cooperation for the non-exploitation of resources and the effective mitigation of climate change.
The publication The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report encompasses the latest data on the travel and tourism competitiveness. Given that this report is a leading product of the World Economic Forum platform, it serves as a strategic benchmark for future policy implementation. Natural and cultural resources are significant in explaining tourism competitiveness. The empirical study in this paper is based on the two-step process of measuring convergence of tourism competitiveness. The first step illustrates the values of competitiveness of natural and cultural resources for two groups of European countries: the Balkans and Eastern Europe and five high-ranking European countries in the field of cultural tourism. The second part applies the entropy method for measuring convergence of competitiveness of this group of countries. For analysing tourism competitiveness in these two groups of countries, ten indicators were used: five for natural resources and five for cultural resources. The results show that natural and cultural resources are the critical drivers of competitiveness and represent the determinants of tourism performance in the future.
Gradual shift away from the principles of sustainable development in environmental, caused by the economic recession, the important issue of the settlement of economic and ecological contradictions that arise in the social and economic systems. In the article the feasibility of integrating environmental considerations into economic decisions in order to avoid environmental conflicts. The main risk factors, based on the nature and character of the influence on the effectiveness of procedures for the resolution of environmental conflicts, are distributed to the factors of the global and national levels with the appropriate characteristics.
Te article outlines the notion of natural capital and its usefulness in a sociological analysis. It presents the perspectives on the environment, including the social constructionist approach. Te work emphasizes the meaning of natural capital (and associated interests) within ecological consciousness research. It also explores the problem of evaluating the social value of natural capital. Te author attempts to present the possible linkages between natural capital research and sociology of borderlands.
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