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Strategies for Business Sustainability in a Collaborative Economy
Material goods and services provided by nature without altering the part of the human being and contributing to the welfare and development of society directly (raw materials, minerals, food) or indirect.
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the 2030 Agenda in the Framework of New Trends in Tourism and Hotel Companies' Performance
Raquel García Revila (Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain) and Olga Martinez Moure (Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4543-0.ch008
Abstract
Sustainable tourism refers to those tourism activities that respect the natural, cultural, and social environment and the values of a community, which allows it to enjoy a positive exchange of experiences between residents and visitors, where the relationship between the tourist and the community is fair and the benefits of the activity are evenly distributed, and where visitors have a truly participatory attitude in their travel experience. One of the main keys to sustainable tourism is the involvement of the visitors and the host and local community.
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Socioeconomic Development in Balochistan: A Dilemma
Resources that exist in the world without the input of humans.
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Natural Resources Management
Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind. This includes all valued characteristics such as magnetic, gravitational, and electrical properties and forces. On earth it includes: sunlight, atmosphere, water, land (includes all minerals) along with all vegetation and animal life that naturally subsists upon or within the heretofore identified characteristics and substances.
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COVID-19 Data and Environmental Perspectives: A Case From Georgia
Water, soil, air, minerals, forest, animals, etc.
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Recommendations for Natural Resources Conservation in the Influence Areas of Cities: A Case Study of Bucharest, Romania
All goods and services supplied by the environment which contribute to assuring human welfare. Natural resources can be divided according to their usage in two main categories: renewable resources (abiotic resources flows: solar energy, wind, geothermal energy etc. and the main cycles of elements, vegetation, fauna, ecosystems, soils) and non-renewable resources (metallic and non-metallic minerals and fossil fuels).
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Economic and Environmental Costs of Meat Waste in the US
Naturally occurring materials or substances that can be used for various purposes to gain specific benefits.
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Technology-Intensive Suppliers as a Key Element for Structural Change in Latin America
Extraction, exploitation and commercialization of resources which are in the environment.
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Mathematics of the Circular Economics: A Case Study for the MENA Region
Natural resources are resources that exist without any actions of humankind. This includes the sources of valued characteristics such as commercial and industrial use, aesthetic value, scientific interest, and cultural value. It includes sunlight, atmosphere, water, land, all minerals, and all vegetation and animal life on earth. Natural resources can be part of our natural heritage or protected in nature reserves.
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Urban Governance, Democratic Decentralization, and Natural Resources
they are those goods that can be obtained from nature without mediating the intervention of the hand of man. These have a positive influence on the economy by helping their development and meeting the needs of the population.
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All Our Relations: Stories From the Classroom and the Land
Term to describe the earth, fire, air, and water elements
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