With the recognition of the impact of the transport sector on climate change and human health, decision-makers are under the pressure to shape the transport sector in a more sustainable way, considering more sustainable options and technologies. Besides that, it is also important to ensure such aspects as affordability, security, reliability and convenience of transport services and the effective functioning of the whole system.
Authors:dr. Indrė Šikšnelytė-ButkienėIERDdr. Dalia ŠtreimikienėIERDdr. Tomas BaležentisIERDLeonardo Agnusdei
The European market for organic products has been expanding, with a persistent difference between the growth rates of organic retail trade (actual demand for organic products) and the growth rates of organic agricultural land areas (potential supply of organic products). This makes the European Union (EU) dependent on global imports.
Authors:dr. Tomas BaležentisIERDdr. Dalia ŠtreimikienėIERDOlena Nifatova Yuriy Danko Svitlana Petrychuk
Green finance, by adding environmental considerations into financial products, guides industries toward lowcarbon
transformation and quickens the decline of carbon emissions across society. However, existing studies
fail to identify the spatial correlation effects and the driving mechanisms of their impact, so in order to further
clarify the causal pathways of the impact of green finance on carbon emissions,
Low-carbon transition is a shift from an economy that depends heavily on fossil fuels to a sustainable, low-carbon energy economy. This book analyzes the role of renewables in driving the low-carbon transition in agriculture, explores the circular bio-based economy, and examines policies and strategies designed to facilitate low-carbon transition in agriculture, greenhouse gas mitigation, and adaptation trends in the European Union agriculture sector. It provides new knowledge and understanding about the impact of low-carbon energy transition, emphasizes the key role of renewable energy in a wide range of agricultural activities, and offers alternative sustainable solutions to current practices.
he book aims to contribute to the scarce literature on the role of servitization in farming and rural development. It offers a conceptual and empirical understanding of the ways of servitization in agriculture and rural development, examined through the prism of an evolutionary approach based on the theory of qualitative structure. The method of qualitative structure explains why and how a switch from product-oriented business logic to service-oriented business logic happens and helps to find many new insights useful for improving farm management and socio-economic development of rural regions. It combines a systematic and evolutionary analysis of literature on servitization and agricultural production strategies with case studies of farming and territorial servitization projects implemented in Lithuania. It will be of great interest to researchers and students in the field of rural development studies, servitization and business model innovation.
This paper explores the incorporation of experiential marketing strategies into the business models of tourism and hospitality firms, arguing that such an approach can enhance consumer experience and differentiate firms in a competitive market. Building on previous research that investigates experiential marketing in broader contexts, this study reviews existing research and practices to identify key issues and proposes a typology of experiential strategies specifically tailored to tourism and hospitality.
Coordinating the intermediate goods imports considering industrial energy-environmental efficiency, within a green, low-carbon, and circular development system, is a key strategic measure for China to achieve its carbon peak, carbon neutrality goals, and promote high-quality development. This paper examines the impact and mechanisms of intermediate goods imports on China’s industrial energy-environmental efficiency, using data from China’s industrial sectors between 2000 and 2020.
This article examines the significance of Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) within the Iranian automotive sector, emphasizing the assessment of suppliers’ sustainability performance in light of increasing global environmental concerns and regulatory demands. This study
employs the TOPSIS (Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method to evaluate five principal suppliers—SAPCO, MEGA Motor, Crouse Company, Sazehgostar, and ITMCO—based on twelve criteria: green initiatives, quality, waste reduction, eco-design, reverse logistics, sustainable investments, financial costs, management commitment, strategic capabilities, customer satisfaction, innovation, and trust.
This paper discusses how integrating renewable energy, AI, and IoT becomes important in promoting climate-smart agriculture. Due to the changing climate, rise in energy costs, and ensuring food security, agriculture faces unprecedented challenges; therefore, development toward
innovative technologies is emerging for its sustainability and efficiency.
This article presents the newly introduced model for EU policy-making, based on combined ‘bottom-up’ and ‘place-based’ approaches by establishing rural science-society-policy interfaces – Multi-Actor Platforms (MAPs). MAPs are open forums for exchanging relevant ideas in solving region’s most urgent place-based challenges, performing co-learning, and acting as knowledge co-creation platforms for the contribution of creating reflective research and policy agendas for the future of Europe’s rural areas. The main aim of this paper is to explore the challenges and prospects for the determinants of socioeconomic development (i.e., entrepreneurship, social economy, and sustainable and resilient value chains) in rural areas, based on SHERPA science-society-policy interface co-learning and co-creation results in Lithuanian MAP. Research results show that the combined bottom-up and place-based approaches with the help of regional MAPs as science-society-policy rural interfaces hold high potential to be applied to develop reflective research and policy agendas for the regions in the EU.
Research in agricultural science has deeply evolved during the past decades, shifting attention from local to global issues, from production functions to market dynamics and equilibrium models, from orthodox economic theories to multidisciplinary frameworks. While evolving, agricultural science has constantly targeted solutions to feed the world.
Authors:dr. Fabio Gaetano SanteramoIERD
While economic growth in a country can be spurred by the expansion of the transportation sector,
traffic accidents resulting from an increase in vehicle numbers negatively impact social wellbeing.
To integrate both the benefits and costs in evaluating the transportation sector, this study incorporates traffic accidents as a risk factor (undesirable output) in analyzing the performance of
road transportation across Chinese provinces.