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Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
One of the cleavages within sustainable development is division between grassroots environmental action, often deemed good on participation terms, and green innovation, usually centred on technologies in firms and deemed good for ecological modernisation.
Seyfang, Gill, Smith, Adrian
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Resilience of Sweet Chestnut and Truffle Holm-Oak Rural Forests in Languedoc-Roussillon, France: Roles of Social-Ecological Legacies, Domestication, and Innovations

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2012
The Cévennes sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) forest-orchards and the holm-oak (Quercus ilex L.) black truffle (Tuber melanosporum Vittad.) associations of the garrigue in Languedoc-Roussillon have suffered a century of decline because of great ...
Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas   +4 more
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Innovations in the Agricultural Sector [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The aim of this paper is to show the impact and significance of innovation in agriculture. Its economic development takes place when innovation solutions based on knowledge and modern technologies are implemented and intensified.
Zrobek, Janusz
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The Perception of Respondents of Packaging Innovations in Slovakia

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Arad, Seria Stiinte Economice, 2016
The paper deals with the evaluation of the perception of packaging innovations in terms of their functions through the Kano model. It focuses on the evaluation of the perception of innovation of all main seven functions of packaging, in particular on ...
Loucanova Erika   +2 more
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CARTOGRAPHIC MODELING AND GIS-ANALYSIS OF THE GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALY OF SOILS URBAN AREA

open access: yesInterCarto. InterGIS, 2013
The study of the spatial distribution of heavy metals in urban soils is very important in order to identify the areas of pollution and assess the ecological state of the urban environment.
A. N. Ogurtsov   +2 more
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Роль и значение эко-инноваций в современных трендах глобализации мирового пространства [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
: the concept of the value, role, group classification and benefits of ecological innovations. The brief analysis of the costs of ecological innovations on the basis of statistical data on the UFD.Исследование выполнено при финансовой поддержке РФФИ в ...
Гурьева, М. А.
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ECO-INNOVATIONS IN JAPAN: THE MAIN DIRECTIONS

open access: yesVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2013
The paper presents the main aspects of the environmental technologies sector nowadays in Japan. Basing on the governmental definition of «ecological innovations», eco-innovations are developed according to the traditional Japanese concept of value ...
A. I. Bancheva
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Methodic foundations of the ecologically oriented consumer`s readiness analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The article deals with methodic approach to analyze the consumer`s readiness of the target audience concerning ecological production, and to produce actions to stimulate demand and to promote ecological production in the market.
Illiashenko, Sergii
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The Bio-Economy Concept and Knowledge Base in a Public Goods and Farmer Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Currently an industrial perspective dominates the EU policy framework for a European bio-economy. The Commission’s proposal on the bio-economy emphasises greater resource-efficiency, largely within an industrial perspective on global economic ...
Levidov, Les   +2 more
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Transforming innovation for sustainability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The urgency of charting pathways to sustainability that keep human societies within a "safe operating space" has now been clarified. Crises in climate, food, biodiversity, and energy are already playing out across local and global scales and are set to ...
Arond, Elisa   +11 more
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