Scientific publications

Measurement of environmental and energy economics presents an analytical foundation for environmental decision making and policy analysis. Applications of data envelopment analysis (DEA) models in the assessment of environmental and energy economics are increasing notably.

Due to the construction and operation of China's South-North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP), it is necessary to conduct broader research on the underlying trends and factors of the water-use performance in the SNWTP's cities from the perspective of “resource-economy-environment” system. This paper attempts to identify the optimal paths and measures for improving the water-use performance as measured by the Luenberger productivity indicator and its decomposition.

The agrarian discourse of social responsibility as a scientific paradigm is rarely addressed in research. Thus the problem arise how to apply the paradigm of social responsibility to the agrarian discourse so that it could help disclose farmers’ social responsibility to local community and it’s affecting factors.

In developing the measures of agriculture policy and purposeful usage of EU funds, also for financial organisations, farmers, advisors and scientists it is important to predict farm bankruptcy. This makes it possible to formulate the scientific problem: what is the likelihood of bankruptcy of different kinds of family farms? The aim of the investigation is to present the likelihood of the Lithuanian family farms bankruptcy based on the economic size and type of farming by analysing financial indicators of farms.

Climate change policy confronts with many challenges and opportunities. Thus the aim of this study was to analyse the impact of gross domestic product (hereinafter GDP), trade, foreign direct investment (hereinafter FDI), energy efficiency (hereinafter EF) and renewable energy (hereinafter RE) consumption on greenhouse gas (hereinafter GHG) emissions in 1990-2013 and reveal the main challenges and opportunities of climate policy for which policy makers should take the most attention under different stages of economic development.

The paper is an attempt of presenting selection of social sustainability indicators impacted by EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) direct payments (DP) system. The concept of sustainability has spread worldwide to many policy instruments, including the CAP. Since 2003 reform (Fischler reform) the integration of the sustainability into the CAP led a move towards new goals for economic, social and environmental sustainability in all CAP measures, including direct payment (DP) system.

That renewable energy technologies, particularly in the production phase, are currently those that generate a lower environmental impact compared to traditional fossil fuel systems is now well-established. Despite this, many studies fail to include an evaluation of the impacts generated by systems designed and built for energy production over their entire life cycle. The aim of this paper is to provide, with the aid of LCA, a preliminary environmental assessment of a solar power tower.

Based on data from 2000-2015, this study estimated the carbon emissions of China’s tourism-related traffic, ac-commodation, and tourism activities. To quantify the factors governing tourism carbon emissions, this study em-ployed the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI). Furthermore, simultaneous equations models were applied to determine the impact of tourism volume, economic growth, and technological progress on tourism-related carbon emissions. The results showed that carbon emissions are continuously increasing, with tourism-related traffic being the main contributor to total carbon emissions in the tourism sector and private cars being the major source of traffic-related carbon emissions.

To evaluate market-oriented strategic decision-making by farmers in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) farm development paths of dairy farmers in Slovenia, Poland and Lithuania were analysed. The influence of internal strengths and weaknesses, external opportunities and threats, and farmer goals on strategic choices and performance were explored. Principal component, hierarchical cluster and regression analyses were performed to test the conceptual framework. Seven strategic groups emerged with specific development paths, that is, Wait and see, Movers, Chain integrators, Specializers and Diversifiers.

Weihua Su, Mengling Liu, Shouzhen Zeng, Dalia Štreimikienė, Tomas Baležentis, Ilona Ališauskaitė-Šeškienė Su, W.; Liu, M.; Zeng, Sh.; Štreimikienė, D.; Baležentis, T.; Ališauskaitė-Šeškienė, I. 2018. Valuating renewable microgeneration technologies in Lithuanian households: A study on willingness to pay. Journal of Cleaner Production. Vol. 191 (2018) 318-329, ISSN: 0959-6526, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.04.199 [Geographical Abstracts; Engineering Village - GEOBASE; Fluid Abstracts; FLUIDEX; Scopus; Science Citation Index Expanded].