scholarly journals Tourism development in Serbia: On the way to sustainability and European integration

Spatium ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 47-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Violeta Orlovic-Lovren ◽  
Tijana Crncevic ◽  
Sasa Milijic
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
Tourism Policy ◽  
Sustainability Principles

The aim of the paper is to contribute to improvement of tourism policy and practice in Serbia towards defining and implementing sustainability principles and meeting European integration requirements. It encompasses short review of international implications on Serbian tourism policy and legislation. Current policy and its sustainability are analyzed using two indicators: application of integrated (cross sector) and local community approach, with particular focus on tourism, environmental and planning documents. There is general orientation towards sustainability and involvement of local community into the planning and implementation of projects in the field. Precisely defined mechanisms for public participation and integrated approach, first of all mainstreaming of environmental issues into tourism strategic document, are preconditions for reaching country?s sustainability goals and EU integration orientation. Points that should be improved are suggested and the need for mutual cooperation and capacity development of stakeholders at all levels, including further international support, strongly advocated.

scholarly journals STRATEGI PEMERINTAH REPUBLIK INDONESIA DALAM PENANGANAN MASALAH PELINTAS BATAS INDONESIA-TIMOR LESTE

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Remigius Seran
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Community Resistance ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
Border Crossers

ABSTRACTThe urgency to set up the Border Between Indonesia and Timor-Leste and the border crossers is based on much more complex historical reasons than the arrangement of Indonesia's borders with other countries. Border governance policies between Indonesia and Timor-Leste are characterized by: border governance policies indicate a desire to adopt an integrated approach, governance practices tend to be fragmented where two very dominant approaches are the security approach and the socio-economic welfare approach. A border governance policy that ignores cultural identity variables leads to a reverse response, namely the use of cultural identity to challenge the country's dominant conception and policy in border governance. The phenomenon of "rat road" and other cross-border interaction networks called illegal by the state can be read as a form of local community resistance to the claim of state sovereignty over the border. In an integrated border governance policy, a cultural approach should be one of the main components that characterize other approaches. Jailly puts the four dimensions of the policy parallel, the cultural approach in border governance policy to the principles that fuel security policy, local politics and economic policy in border governance. The practical consequence of this study is the policy that border governance must move beyond the dominance of the economic security approach to an integrated approach. This study proposes the concept of trans-border social and cultural space as an important element in integrated border governance.Key Words: Border governance, Indonesia – Timor-Leste, Cultural crosser borders.

Integrated Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional Student (Distance Learning) Education in Thermal Systems Design

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srinivas Garimella
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Thermal Systems ◽  
Sustainable Technologies ◽  
K 12

Abstract This paper describes an educational program in practical thermal systems design that encompasses design project-oriented teaching of undergraduate, graduate and off-campus professional students, industry-university collaboration, and community outreach. The program uses an integrated approach that treats thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer as parts of one interconnected area, in which solutions to real-life design problems can be obtained only when all these aspects are considered simultaneously. Cooperation between students at various stages of their educational and professional careers is fostered to maximize the synergy that results from combining insights gained in industry and those developed in structured classroom instruction. The program consists of a comprehensive portfolio of Thermal Systems Design Instruction Initiatives. An interactive design laboratory format is used for cooperative execution of open-ended mini-projects spanning two-to-three weeks, and a semester-long project. The use of virtual project groups through the web removes geographical barriers. Computer programs for the solution of projects are placed on-line to create a design library for use by students in future semesters as case studies. An Energy-Efficient Environmentally-Safe Design Studio is planned where projects on environmental responsibility, and energy efficiency can be conducted for the local community. Annual design studio conferences will be held to foster K-12 and community involvement, and to demonstrate sustainable technologies. Collaboration with local thermal systems related organizations such as the Iowa Energy Center is also being pursued, which will provide inherent mechanisms for technology transfer from course-related projects to industry and the community.

scholarly journals New insights from female bird song: towards an integrated approach to studying male and female communication roles

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 20190059 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Riebel ◽  
Karan J. Odom ◽  
Naomi E. Langmore ◽  
Michelle L. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Bird Song ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Song ◽  
Female Bird ◽  
Subsequent Loss ◽  
And Function

Historically, bird song has been regarded as a sex-specific signalling trait; males sing to attract females and females drive the evolution of signal exaggeration by preferring males with ever more complex songs. This view provides no functional role for female song. Historic geographical research biases generalized pronounced sex differences of phylogenetically derived northern temperate zone songbirds to all songbirds. However, we now know that female song is common and that both sexes probably sang in the ancestor of modern songbirds. This calls for research on adaptive explanations and mechanisms regulating female song, and a reassessment of questions and approaches to identify selection pressures driving song elaboration in both sexes and subsequent loss of female song in some clades. In this short review and perspective we highlight newly emerging questions and propose a research framework to investigate female song and song sex differences across species. We encourage experimental tests of mechanism, ontogeny, and function integrated with comparative evolutionary analyses. Moreover, we discuss the wider implications of female bird song research for our understanding of male and female communication roles.

scholarly journals Tourism Policy of Nepal and Sustainable Mountain Tourism Development in Retrospect

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prakash Upadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Retrospective Assessment ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
History Of ◽  
Tourism Policy

The modern history of tourism in Nepal began with mountain tourism embodying the diversity of nature and culture, diversity, marginality, access difficulty, fragility, niche and aesthetics. Despite huge scope, Nepal has been unable to take full benefits of mountains, due to inadequate policies and fragile implementation. Pedestaled on secondary data, the key objective of this paper is to make a retrospective assessment of tourism policy and sustainable mountain tourism development efforts in Nepal. The sustainable development of mountain tourism relies on the government’s plans and policies and the efficient coordination between stakeholders. But the tourism policies have not been able to adequately address mountain tourism, and this has led to unbalanced growth of tourism sector. Despite the implementation of new Tourism Policy in 2008, adequate focus on mountain tourism is still missing. There is a lacuna of adequate driving force in tourism policy and it has failed to address vital areas of mountain tourism. Hence, there is an instant need of specific and separate mountain tourism policy encompassing integrated approach (abiding federal structure and local participation in planning and management) hence making mountain tourism sustainable, responsible and sensitive--ecologically and culturally.

scholarly journals Prevalence of sustainability reporting practices of listed companies on established and emerging stock exchanges

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan K. Turk ◽  
Charlie Shackleton ◽  
Kevin Whittington-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Reporting ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Stock Exchanges ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Emerging Stock Markets ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Developing Markets ◽  
Sustainability Principles ◽  
Sustainability Report

The business sector has a substantial role in addressing current environmental issues and concerns. Consequently, there is a growing adoption of corporate sustainability principles and practices across all market sectors. This study examined four developed and four emerging stock markets and the sustainability reporting practices of the top 20 and bottom 20 companies in each. The results illustrate that the developed market sector was more advanced in its corporate sustainability reporting, both in the proportion of companies issuing a sustainability report (approximately 60 per cent) and the proportion of company webpages dedicated to sustainability reporting. This difference was largely due to the effect of the top 20 companies. There was little difference between developed and developing markets when only the bottom 20 companies were considered, of which less than one-third provided sustainability reports.  These results show that sustainability reporting is prevalent in both developed and developing markets, especially among market leading companies, but that overall, most developing markets have some catching up to do. 

INFORMATION IN AN EIA PROCESS AND THE INFLUENCE THEREOF ON PUBLIC OPINION

2006 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 183-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
MONIKA PETERLIN ◽  
BURTON C. KROSS ◽  
BRANKO KONTIC
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Exchange Process ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The Media ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Level Of Understanding

Environmental issues can only be solved by coherent action at local, national and international levels, therefore understanding of the factors that influence the information exchange process is very important. The subject of investigation in this research is the influence of environmental information provided in the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process on the level of knowledge concerning environmental issues in the local community. A survey of public opinion of the environmental impacts of the Port of Koper in Slovenia was performed. Results show that respondents did not find the EIA presentations effective and received more information from TV, newspapers and radio. The EIA process did not fulfil its' potential, since respondents express the highest trust in expert information, but the effectiveness of the expert part of the presentation is considered to be low, not reaching the media. By improving the presentations effectiveness in the EIA process, further efforts in informing public and employees could theoretically bring the opinions of both groups to a similar level of understanding.

scholarly journals CONCEPT OF COMPETENCE IN THE INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana Sysoieva ◽  
Natalia Mospan ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
European Council ◽  
Educational Standards ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
The Usa ◽  
European Higher Education ◽  
The Eu

This paper explores the problem of harmonization of educational thesaurus which requires urgent attention in the process of creating European Higher Education Area and developing of common educational standards. All policy documents, the reports of the European Council and guidliances contain key educational terms that require proper understanding and interpretation in both the member states and in countries that are at the stage of European integration. The paper also reviews the issue of the coordination of international educational thesaurus with the national one, what raises the question if it is possible to unify educational terminology in Europe and beyond? Besides, the authors make an overview of the genesis of the competence movement in the EU, the USA, Australia and Ukraine to evaluate this question. It has become evident that there is still considerable misunderstanding of the integrated approach to concepts of competence and competency. These definitions are found to be too broad, abstract and general and not unified for higher education both on international and national levels.

scholarly journals Comparative Study In The Bibiani, Bolgatanga, Dunkwa And Tarkwa Mining Districts Of The Minerals Commission Of Ghana

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
George Lord Opoku-Antwi ◽  
Kwaku Amofah ◽  
Kofi Nyamaah-Koffuor
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Mining Districts

This paper aims to provide a comparative study on the Ghanaian small-scale gold mining industry in the Bibiani, Bolgatanga, Dunkwa and Tarkwa Districts of the Minerals Commission of Ghana. Variations in production, employment, number of licensed operators/concessions were the main focus of the paper. A two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to 1) test for the means of equality for the period 2005 to 2008 in order to find the column effect and 2) test for the means of equality between the mining districts (distance) to help find the column effect. It then looks at the structure-conduct-performance to explain the differences in the mining districts. The paper concludes that even though the small-scale mining sector in Ghana is beset with a number of challenges, it should be recognised as a significant generator of rural livelihoods that has the potential to alleviate poverty and be a tool for sustainable development. Assistance based on an integrated approach that considers operational, financial, organisational, social, economic, legal, technical and environmental issues should be offered to enhance small-scale gold mining operations in Ghana.

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