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Bioeconomy is an important element of European Union (EU) political agenda. Promotion of bioenergy is one of the main aspects of bioeconomy strategy. The aim of this paper is to show how the development of bioenergy can contribute to climate change (and the associated policy). Specifically, we look into the possible reduction of GHG emissions within the framework of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC).

Potato sector is one of the competitive areas of the European Union (EU) agriculture. Although Eurostat declared that in 2015 Lithuanian share in the EU-28 harvested production was modest and composed only 0.7%, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAOSTAT), this crop remained on the list of top 10 commodities by net production value in Lithuanian agriculture.

During last decades the essential shift occurred in the structure of the economy from industrial product-driven to the post-industrial service-driven economic system. A growing number of manufacturing firms throughout the world are shifting from selling goods in anonymous market to offering more and more services alongside their products. This movement is termed “servitization”. The movement is pervading almost all industries but still is weak in agriculture.

he broad society had already issued the question about the EU support distribution principles for agriculture of ongoing period with regard to chief beneficiaries from direct payments and other support measures. The changing understanding of responsibilities, which arise alongside the farming activities, keep shaping the industrial meaning of agriculture as public goods’ provider.

Mohammad Dalvi-Esfahani, Hamed Shahbazi, Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Sarminah Samad, Abbas Mardani, Dalia Streimikiene Dalvi-Esfahani M., Shahbazi H., Nilashi M., Samad S., Mardani A., Streimikiene D. 2018. Factors Influencing Beliefs Formation towards the Adoption of Social Commerce in SME Travel Agencies. In Economics and Sociology, Vol.11, No.3, p.207-225, ISSN 2071-789X; DOI: 10.14254/2071- 789X.2018/11-3/13; [Indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index].

This paper aims to explain a conceptual background for an emerging agrarian discourse in corporate social responsibility (CSR) research. Socially responsible provision of public goods is examined by encompassing a shift in paradigms and approaches from the industrial phase of development with economic/profit dimension, emphasized by the theory of public goods, to the post-industrial phase of development with moral dimension, empowered by knowledge-based economy, sustainability and further development of the theory of CSR.

The planning of sustainable energy systems has been acknowledged as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. However, most of the earlier literature has considered public and private impacts of the energy generation technologies in a stand-alone way. In this paper, it is argued that the sustainable planning of the energy systems and components thereof should involve both types of impacts simultaneously in the MCDM.

The changing economic and social situation in the regions leads to the changing understanding of the potential which exists in the countryside. This research is based on the idea that farmers operate in close neighbourhood with the local communities and therefore they may hold a potential to start innovation processes in rural regions as agents of change. This may happen individually or together with the local community.

The preservation and nurturance of national heritage products, which are inherent to particular localities, are very significant for the economic, social vitality and sustainable development of a country. National handicrafts are a means of maintaining national identity, originality, and distinction in a constantly changing world. For a long time Lithuania was an agrarian country, so its cultural heritage and handicrafts are closely related to the rural environment, culture, traditions, and materials.

This article has received the considerable critical attention that seeking to enhance sustainability disclosure may essentially make progress firms’ market valuation. It aims to provide the corporate sustainability disclosure level organized according to the ‘7 + 1’, seven core subjects of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 26000 and the energy disclosure items, then set out to assess the effectiveness of sustainability reporting on the listed firms’ market valuation during the period 2010-2015.