Scientific publications

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.

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.

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].

Dalia Vidickienė Vidickienė D. 2018. Naujosios ūkininkų kartos poreikiams pritaikytos kaimo politikos teoriniai pagrindai. Viešoji politika ir administravimas = Public Policy and Administration. T. 17, Nr. 1, p. 54-67. ISSN online 2029-2872 / ISSN print 1648-2603. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ppaa.17.1.20607 [Scopus; EBSCO Publishing; Inc.; C.E.E.O.L.; PROQUEST; ULRICH'S].

Pythagorean fuzzy sets are highly appealing in dealing with uncertainty as they allow for greater flexibility in regards to the membership and non-membership degrees by extending the set of possible values. In this paper, we propose a multi-criteria group decision-making approach based on the Pythagorean normal cloud. Some cloud aggregation operators are presented in this paper to facilitate the appraisal of the underlying utilities of the alternatives under consideration.

China’s electricity sector mainly relies on coal-fired thermal generation, thus resulting that nearly 50% of China’s total CO2 emissions coming from the electricity sector. This study focuses on the provincial CO2 emissions from China’s thermal electricity generation. Methodologically, Index Decomposition Analysis (IDA), facilitated by the Shapley Index, is applied to discover the driving factors behind CO2 emission changes at the provincial level.

This study aimed to examine the effect of financial instability, energy prices and trade openness on economic growth for leading African countries (Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa). We employed the second-generation cointegration test and the Dumitrescu and Hurlin (DH) heterogeneous panel Granger causality test over the period from 1970 to 2016. The result of cointegration analysis revealed that, there is the existence of a cointegration relationship between the financial instability, oil prices, and trade openness on economic growth sustainability for leading African countries.

This article examines the Lithuanian family farms profitability and growth throughout the period of 2005-2015. This research relies on the aggregate data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network database for different farming types and regions. The DuPont identity was applied to analyse the profitability (returns on equity) of family farms and its determinants in terms of profit margin, asset turnover, and equity multiplier (leverage).