Search results for: SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL

• What drives sustainable investing? Adoption determinants of sustainable investing exchange-traded funds in Europe

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  • A. Marszk
  • E. Lechman

  - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics - Year 2024

  Despite the growing interest in various topics related to sustainable (ESG) investing, some issues remain understudied, such as the determinants of their utilization at the macro level. This paper contributes to the state of knowledge two-directionally. First, it shows the development of sustainable investing exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in European countries. Second, it traces the significant determinants of adopting sustainable...

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• Sustainable investing exchange-traded funds: US and European market

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  • A. Marszk

  - Journal of Economics and Management - Year 2019

  The key aim of the paper is to examine the diffusion of the sustainable investing exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the European and US ETFs markets, with the special focus on the market shares of sustainable investing and conventional funds. The model of diffusion of innovation (logistic growth model) is applied. Monthly data on the assets of ETFs in the time period of 2006-2017 are used. Increasing assets of sustainable investing...

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• Sustainable Investing. Socio-Economic Impacts of Exchange-Traded Funds

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  • E. Lechman
  • A. Marszk

  - Year 2023

  Sustainable Investing: Socio-Economic Impacts of Exchange-Traded Funds examines the social and economic effects of sustainable investing ETFs and their impacts on the global financial system. The book presents the key issues with regard to sustainable investing, discussing exchange-traded funds mechanisms and categories in comparison to competing investment funds. The book outlines the theoretical determinants of ETF markets development...

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• Travel agents and destination management organizations: eLearning as a strategy to train tourism trade partners.

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  • N. Sabatini

  - Information Technology and Tourism - Year 2011

  This article offers an overview of the existing online courses run by national destination management organizations (DMOs) in order to better equip travel agents and tour operators in the sales activities of the tourism destinations. These online courses represent one of the B2B offers by DMOs and an interesting opportunity for travel agents, who are trying to find their identity and competitive advantage within the context of...

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• Studies in Risk and Sustainable Development

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  ISSN: 2083-8611

• ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

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  ISSN: 2168-0485

• Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing

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  ISSN: 1465-2609 , eISSN: 1752-2358

• Studies in Travel Writing

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  ISSN: 1364-5145

• Travel Behaviour and Society

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  ISSN: 2214-367X , eISSN: 2214-3688

• Journal of Travel Research

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  ISSN: 0047-2875 , eISSN: 1552-6763

• JOURNAL OF TRAVEL MEDICINE

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  ISSN: 1195-1982 , eISSN: 1708-8305

• Medical transport of ambulances. Analysis of travel time

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  • R. Pniewski
  • D. Pietruszczak
  • M. Ciupak

  - Autobusy. Technika, Eksploatacja, Systemy Transportowe - Year 2018

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• Travel Time of Public Transport Vehicles Estimation

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  • K. Jamroz
  • K. Birr
  • W. Kustra

  - Transportation Research Procedia - Year 2014

  Effective prediction of speed is central to advanced traveler information and transportation management systems. The speed of public transport vehicles is affected by many external factors including traffic volume, organization and infrastructure. The literature presents methods for estimating travel time on sections of a transport network and vehicle arrival at stops, often making use of the AVL (automatic vehicle location). The...

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• eVisa’s impacts on travel and tourism: the case of Turkey.

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  • K. Çakar
  • N. Sabatini
  • A. I. Inanir
  • T. Oren Sahin

  - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology - Year 2018

  he purpose of this study was to investigate eVisa applications. eVisa is a service that falls under eTourism, whose growing use can be attributed to its ability to simplify the process of obtaining a visa. The objectives of this study were twofold: to explore the eVisa experience of tourists who have previously visited Turkey by using the service and to analyse the perceptions of stakeholders who have contributed to eVisa.

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• RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

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  ISSN: 1364-0321

• Sustainable Energy & Fuels

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  ISSN: 2398-4902

• Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments

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  ISSN: 2213-1388 , eISSN: 2213-1396

• Sustainable Materials and Technologies

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  ISSN: 2214-9937

• Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

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  ISSN: 1477-8939 , eISSN: 1873-0442

• Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing

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  ISSN: 1054-8408 , eISSN: 1540-7306

• Sustainable Futures

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  ISSN: 2666-1888

• Sustainable Multilingualism

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  ISSN: 2335-2019 , eISSN: 2335-2027

• Sustainable Environment

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  ISSN: 2765-8511

• Strategies for the identity of sustainable suburbs

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  • R. Barelkowski

  - Year 2014

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• Polyisocyanates from Sustainable Resources

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  • E. Głowińska
  • P. Parcheta-Szwindowska
  • P. Kasprzyk
  • J. Datta

  - Year 2021

  Isocyanates, next to polyols, constitute the major components essential for polyurethane (PU) production. They have a significant impact on physicochemical, mechanical, and thermal properties of PU materials. They also have an impact on those materials’ purposes, forms, textures, and other features. The available and used isocyanates are of a petrochemical origin. With the development of a trend toward green chemistry in the science...

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• Green and Sustainable Membranes: A review

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  • N. Rabiee
  • R. Sharma
  • S. Foorginezhad
  • M. Jouyandeh
  • M. Asadnia
  • M. Rabiee
  • O. Akhavan
  • E. C. Lima
  • K. Formela
  • M. Ashrafizadeh... and 4 others

  - ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH - Year 2023

  Membranes are ubiquitous tools for modern water treatment technology that critically eliminate hazardous materials such as organic, inorganic, heavy metals, and biomedical pollutants. Nowadays, nano-membranes are of particular interest for myriad applications such as water treatment, desalination, ion exchange, ion concentration control, and several kinds of biomedical applications. However, this state-of-the-art technology suffers...

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• Trowel

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  ISSN: 0791-1017

• Editorial: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 11: sustainable cities and communities. A sociological perspective

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  • A. Klimczuk
  • D. Dovie
  • A. Cieśla
  • R. Kanozia
  • G. Gawron
  • P. Toczyski

  - Frontiers in Sociology - Year 2024

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• Assessing Highway Travel Time Reliability using Probe Vehicle Data

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  • P. Olszewski
  • T. Dybicz
  • K. Jamroz
  • W. Kustra
  • A. Romanowska

  - TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH RECORD - Year 2018

  Probe vehicle data (also known as “floating car data”) can be used to analyze travel time reliability of an existing road corridor in order to determine where, when, and how often traffic congestion occurs at particular road segments. The aim of the study is to find the best reliability performance measures for assessing congestion frequency and severity based on probe data. Pilot surveys conducted on A2 motorway in Poland confirm...

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• Exchange-traded products in Germany: development and substitution of exchange-traded funds, exchange-traded commodities and exchange-traded notes.

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  • A. Marszk

  - EQUILIBRIUM Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy - Year 2018

  Research background: Exchange-traded products (ETPs) are one of the most rapidly growing categories of financial products. Their fast development has been boosted by innovative features. Three main categories of ETPs are exchange-traded funds (ETFs), exchange-traded commodities (ETCs) and exchange-traded notes (ETNs). ETCs and ETNs remain least known, even though their number on some stock exchanges is high. In Europe, Germany...

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• Towards a Smart Sustainable City Roadmap

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  • G. V. Pereira
  • E. Estevez
  • R. Krimmer
  • M. Janssen
  • T. Janowski

  - Year 2019

  This workshop of the CAP4CITY (Erasmus+ Strengthening Governance Capacity for Smart Sustainable Cities) project is to promote and stimulate the discussion and networking in the area of Digital Government. Smart Sustainable Cities and related concepts of Digital, Intelligent and Smart Cities represent a progression of how cities around the world apply digital technology to serve their populations, pursue sustainable socio-economic...

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• T-House in Shaping Sustainable Housing

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  • A. Maciejko
  • B. Wojtyszyn

  - Year 2020

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• Sustainable Cultural Management in the 21st Century

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  • Ł. Wróblewski
  • A. Gaio
  • E. Rosewall

  - Sustainability - Year 2019

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• Landscape protection - the challenge for sustainable planning

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  • A. Sas-Bojarska

  - Year 2010

  Growing spatial chaos reminds us of the need for systematic, complex approaches related to environmental and landscape issues within different planning, organizational, operational, legal and political activities. It has been proved, that LVIA within EIA plays an important role in the enhancement of the spatial planning system, and that there is a need to use the potential of EIA/LVIA in spatial development and management. But...

• A place of school in the idea of the sustainable development

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  • M. Dymnicka
  • K. Rozmarynowska

  - Year 2009

  Well designed school space enables social contacts, increases activity of pupils and improves the condition of their health. However, the best design would not bring the expected benefits if it is not integrated with the surroundings in terms of transportation, security and local needs. In the sustainable development, the social goals are in harmony with ecological aims according to the rule of "3 r" (reduce, reuse, recycle).

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• Locality in a sustainable urban housing development

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  • A. Baranowski

  - Year 2007

  Ewolucja koncepcji zrównoważonego rozwoju miasta charakteryzuje się odejściem od uniwersalnego modelu na rzecz wielu modeli rownoważenia ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem ich społecznych aspektów. W modelach tych kluczowego znaczenia nabiera skala lokalna. Idea miasta zwartego oznacza w skali lokalnej dążenie do intensyfikacji zabudowy i wielofunkcyjności środowiska mieszkaniowego oraz do realizacji wspólnotowego modelu życia.

• Education for sustainable development in a systemic perspective

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  • E. Duda

  - PROBLEMY OPIEKUŃCZO WYCHOWAWCZE - Year 2022

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• Sustainable monument preservation in architectural education

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  • J. Szczepański

  - World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education - Year 2019

  The aim of this article is both to present the need for changes in architectural and conservation education in a modern, rapidly changing world, as well as to outline solutions to this problem. In the modern world, the field of objects that one intends to protect is expanding. It is necessary to adapt the architectural education to these changes. Due to the current pace of social, political...

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• Smart sustainable cities : Reconnaissance Study

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  • E. Estevez
  • N. Lopes
  • T. Janowski

  - Year 2016

  The global urban population is expected to grow by 63 percent between 2014 and 2050 – compared to an overall global population growth of 32 percent during the same period. Megacities with over 20-million inhabitants will see the fastest increase in population – and at least 13 new megacities are expected by 2030, in addition to the 28 existing today. The fastest growing urban centres contain around one-million inhabitants, and...

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• The Sustainable Link - the Haze of the Past in the Future

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  • M. Landgren
  • M. Kwasek

  - Year 2018

  The aim of the topic is to explore the site by focusing on historical elements and life cycle thinking. The history and sustainability will thereby be the core approach and method during the ongoing design process. These themes will encourage the interdisciplinary and iterative design process.

• How to teach sustainable structural engineering.

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  • Z. Cywiński

  - Year 2004

  Na podstawie analizy toretycznej i doświadczeń praktycznych - autora jako profesora politechniki, badacza i praktykującego inżyniera - uzyskanych w niniejszym pięćdziesięcioleciu, przedstawiono ogólny stan obecny zrównoważonej inżynierii i jej akcentowanie w Politechnice Gdańskiej.

• Building materials in context for sustainable development

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  • W. Affelt

  - Year 2003

  Interpretacja pojęcia ''budownictwo zrównoważone''. Zadania, cele i przykłady interpretacji realizacji budownictwa w kontekście zasad zrównoważonego rozwoju. Wskaźniki zrównoważenia stosowane w budownictwie.

• Ethical aspects of the sustainable architectural design

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  • R. Idem

  - Architectus - Year 2011

  Wobec wyzwań rozwoju zrównoważonego praktyka architektoniczna ulega przeobrażeniu. Coraz wyraźniej akcentowane są kwestie społeczne i ekologiczne. Etyka środowiskowa, której przedmiotem refleksji jest człowiek i środowisko, stanowi podstawę filozoficzną koncepcji zrównoważonego projektowania architektonicznego. W kształtowaniu przestrzeni pojawia się podstawowe pytanie - co jest dobre dla środowiska? Problemem projektowania rodzącym...

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• Interrelations between Travel Patterns and Urban Spatial Structure of the Largest Russian Cities

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  • E. Saveleva

  - Year 2020

  The study presented within this dissertation involves the analysis of the relationship between urban spatial structure and travel patterns in the largest Russian cities. It is an empirical investigation of how the spatial structure, formed during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, affects the travel patterns in the largest cities of contemporary Russia. It aims to determine what measures, both urban structure and transportation...

• DETERMINANTS OF THE PROVISION OF MARITIME TRAVEL IN THE CONTEXT OF A SENSE OF SECURITY OF GENERATION Y REPRESENTATIVES

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  • M. Mazurkiewicz
  • M. Chojnacka
  • E. Gutowska
  • P. Gutowski
  • A. Wilczyńska-Strawa

  - Rocznik Bezpieczeństwa Morskiego - Year 2022

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• Numerical Analysis of Recharge Rates and Contaminant Travel Time in Layered Unsaturated Soils

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  • A. Szymkiewicz
  • J. Savard
  • B. Jaworska-Szulc

  - Water - Year 2019

  This study focused on the estimation of groundwater recharge rates and travel time of conservative contaminants between ground surface and aquifer. Numerical simulations of transient water flow and solute transport were performed using the SWAP computer program for 10 layered soil profiles, composed of materials ranging from gravel to clay. In particular, sensitivity of the results to the thickness and position of weakly permeable...

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• Facilitating free travel in the Schengen area—A position paper by the European Association for Biometrics

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  • C. Busch
  • F. Deravi
  • D. Frings
  • E. Kindt
  • R. Lessmann
  • A. Nouak
  • J. Salomon
  • M. Achcar
  • F. Alonso-Fernandez
  • D. Bachenheimer... and 38 others

  - IET Biometrics - Year 2023

  Due to migration, terror-threats and the viral pandemic, various EU member states have re-established internal border control or even closed their borders. European Association for Biometrics (EAB), a non-profit organisation, solicited the views of its members on ways which biometric technologies and services may be used to help with re-establishing open borders within the Schengen area while at the same time mitigating any adverse...

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• UK travel agents’ evaluation of eLearning courses offered by destinations: an exploratory study.

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  • N. Sabatini
  • H. A. Lee
  • L. Cantoni
  • R. Law

  - Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education - Year 2013

  This study aims to develop an understanding of the use of e-learning courses created for travel agents by Destination Management Organizations (DMOs). It explores agents’ perceptions of such courses. The research examines the views of 304 UK-based travel agents using online survey and investigates whether age, sex, type of agency, work experience, and educational level have influence on e-learning uptake. The satisfaction of travel...

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• state aid for sustainable urban development

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  • A. Dobaczewska

  The dataset encompassed a choice of important legal acts with respect on the usage of EFRD for urban projects, a list of selected bibliography as well as a list of selected individual notifications of state aid measures being part of the Sustainable Urban Development Programme in the period  2014- 2020. As a comparison, an example of individual EC decision...

• SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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  ISSN: 0968-0802 , eISSN: 1099-1719