GREEN SPACES AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN URBAN AREAS

Quality of life in cities depends largely on the availability of attractive and accessible green spaces. It is generally agreed that urban green spaces are essential for the health and well-being of citizens. This paper aims to broach the issue of urban green spaces, emphasizing their importance (embodied in at least three categories of benefits: environmental, economic and social) and focusing on the idea that the existence of green spaces may contribute to obtaining savings or income in a city’s treasury. Therefore, it takes shape the belief that the effects gained from investing in planning and protecting urban green infrastructure, could turn into economic effects. Last decade, researchers have shown a real interest in finding ways to quantify what is called today the economic value brought by the existence of green areas in cities.green spaces, human health, social benefits, hedonic value.

Considerations regarding investments efficiency in agriculture

In the present days, we consider that it will be very interesting and useful to do some research on the agricultural sector (distinct from the industrial and other sectors of economic activity), although the process of globalization in modern economies determine trends converged approach and integrated development of rural and urban areas. In this paper we will try do some considerations regarding the problems of agricultural production and some characteristic ways of addressing the economic efficiency of investments held within it.agriculture, efficiency, investments, effectiveness.

Components of public health system, decisive vectors in its efficiency

The present work tries to indicate the role of the most important institutions, components of the public health system in Romania: Ministry of Public Health, National House of Health Insurance, College of Physicians, College of Pharmaceutical chemists, Association of patients and The National Medicines Agency. These ones, functioning as power centers, are influencing the structure and the efficiency of the sanitary system.Ministry of Public Health, National House of Health Insurance, physicians, pharmaceutical chemists, Association of patients, National Medicines Agency

Factors of access to public health services in Romania

In this paper, the authors have proposed to analyze the degree to which population has access to public health services in Romania, through presenting some factors that influence it. The equitable access to a package of basic health services is one of the objectives that the Romanian health system is following, reform which began in 2005 with the adoption of regulatory laws in the sanitary field. One of these laws aims the national health programs, whose progress is contributing to the efficiency of the health field services.public health, poverty level, medical services, medical-sanitary staff, social insurance, national health programs

Drivers of far-right extremism

This chapter is a comprehensive literature review of the 'drivers' of far-right extremism. It offers a brief historical analysis, explores 'micro', 'meso' and 'macro' dimensions of far-right radicalisation, as well as the role of gender and youth. The chapter focuses on the current reconfiguration of far right extremism in Europe, in particular its relationship with broader social, cultural and political processes

Indicators for sustainable energy development: A multivariate cointegration and causality analysis from Tunisian road transport sector

International audienceThis paper studies causal mechanism between indicators for sustainable energy development related to energy consumption from Tunisian road transport sector. The investigation is made using the Johansen cointegration technique and the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) approach. It examines the nexus between transport value added, road transport-related energy consumption, road infrastructure, fuel price and CO 2 emissions from Tunisian transport sector during the period of 1980-2010. Empirical results show that road transport-related energy consumption, transport value added, transport CO 2 emissions and road infrastructure are mutually causal in the long-run. These results do not support the hypothesis of neutrality between energy and income for the Tunisian road transport sector. Also, there is a unidirectional causality running from fuel price to road transport-related energy consumption with no feedback in both the short and long runs. The fuel price and the road infrastructure are significant in the causal chain. Though the estimated long-run cointegrated equation, we conclude that there is an inverse N-shaped relation between transport value added and transport CO 2 emissions, with income turning point respectively equal to 75 and 579 (constant 2000 TND prices). Therefore, our empirical findings refute the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped EKC for transport CO 2 emissions in Tunisia. The findings of this study have a number of policy implications. Economic growth, environmental degradation, energy and transportation policies should be recognized in order to improve the energy efficiency in transport sector. All measures that should reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions without affecting economic growth may be undertaken. The policymakers in Tunisia should plan urban transport, relocate production units, improve fuel-efficient vehicles and reinforce legislation on controlling emissions in order to copying with policies based on low-carbon development and climate-resilient strategies