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SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT –
POLICY AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT –
TOURISM, LIFE SCIENCE,
MANAGEMENT AND
ENVIRONMENT

Edited by Chaouki Ghenai









Sustainable Development – Policy and Urban Development –
Tourism, Life Science, Management and Environment
Edited by Chaouki Ghenai


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Contents

Preface IX
Part 1 Policy and Sustainable Urban Development 1
Chapter 1 Sustainable System Modelling
for Urban Development Using Distributed Agencies 3
Bogart Yail Marquez, Ivan Espinoza-Hernandez
and Jose Sergio Magdaleno-Palencia
Chapter 2 European Policy for the Promotion
of Inland Waterway Transport –
A Case Study of the Danube River 23
Svetlana Dj. Mihic and Aleksandar Andrejevic
Chapter 3 Sustainable Urban Development Through
the Empowering of Local Communities 41
Radu Radoslav, Marius Stelian Găman, Tudor Morar,
Ştefana Bădescu and Ana-Maria Branea
Chapter 4 Sustainable Urban Design and Walkable Neighborhoods 67
Theresa Glanz, Yunwoo Nam and Zhenghong Tang
Part 2 Sustainable Tourism 83
Chapter 5 Sustainable Tourism of Destination, Imperative
Triangle Among: Competitiveness, Effective
Management and Proper Financing 85

Mirela Mazilu
Chapter 6 Croatian Tourism Development Model
– Anatomy of an Un/Sustainability 119
Lidija Petrić
Chapter 7 Built Heritage and Sustainable Tourism:
Conceptual, Economic and Social Variables 147
Beatriz Amarilla and Alfredo Conti
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Part 3 Social Sustainability and Life Science 175
Chapter 8 Sustainability Challenges: Changing Attitudes
and a Demand for Better Management
of the Tourism Industry in Malaysia 177
Janie Liew-Tsonis and Sharon Cheuk
Chapter 9 Sustainable Development Global Simulation:
Analysis of Quality and Security of Human Life 201
Michael Zgurovsky
Chapter 10 People, Places and History – Towards the Sustainability
of Social Life in Traditional Environments 237
Oscar Fernández
Chapter 11 Raise It, Feed It, Keep It – Building a Sustainable
Knowledge Pool Within Your R&D Organization 253
Wiebke Schone, Cornelia Kellermann and Ulrike Busolt
Chapter 12 Social Accounting Matrix – Methodological Basis
for Sustainable Development Analysis 269
Sasho Kjosev
Chapter 13 Broadening Sustainable Development in Praxis
Through Accountability and Collaboration 285
Mago William Maila
Chapter 14 An Approach to Sustainable Development

by Applying Control Science 299
Kazutoshi Fujihira
Part 4 Sustainable Business and Management 319
Chapter 15 Embedding Sustainable Development in Organizations
Through

an

Integrated

Management

Systems

Approach 321
Miguel Rocha and Cory Searcy
Chapter 16 Sustainable Development as an Aspect
of Improving Economic Performance of a Company 341
Tereza Kadlecová and Lilia Dvořáková
Chapter 17 Innovative Sustainable Companies Management:
The Wide Symbiosis Strategy 367
Francesco Fusco Girard
Part 5 Sustainable Environment 387
Chapter 18 Innovation Ecosystem for Sustainable Development 389
Kayano Fukuda and Chihiro Watanabe
Contents VII

Chapter 19 Unraveling Stakeholders’ Discourses Regarding Sustainable
Development and Biodiversity Conservation in Greece 405
Evangelia Apostolopoulou, Evangelia G. Drakou

and John D. Pantis
Chapter 20 The Environment as a Factor of Spatial Injustice:
A New Challenge for the Sustainable Development
of European Regions? 431
Guillaume Faburel








Preface

The technological advancement of our civilization has created a consumer society
expanding faster than the planet's resources allow, with our resource and energy
needs rising exponentially in the past century. Securing the future of the human race
will require an improved understanding of the environment as well as of technological
solutions, mindsets and behaviors in line with modes of development that the
ecosphere of our planet can support.
Some experts see the only solution in a global deflation of the currently unsustainable
exploitation of resources. However, sustainable development offers an approach that
would be practical to fuse with the managerial strategies and assessment tools for
policy and decision makers at the regional planning level. Environmentalists,
architects, engineers, policy makers and economists will have to work together in
order to ensure that planning and development can meet our society's present needs
without compromising the security of future generations. Better planning methods for
urban and rural expansion could prevent environmental destruction and imminent

crises. Energy, transport, water, environment and food production systems should aim
for self-sufficiency and not the rapid depletion of natural resources. Planning for
sustainable development must overcome many complex technical and social issues.
This sustainable development book is organized into the following five sections:
1. Policy and Sustainable Urban Development
2. Sustainable Tourism
3. Social Sustainability and Life Science
4. Sustainable Business and Management
5. Sustainable Environment
The first section of this book starts with policy and sustainable urban development:
policy for the promotion of sustainable development, and sustainable planning and
management to promote green space and multi-modal transportation and construction
techniques that reduce pollution. The goal is to create sustainable and livable
communities that protect the historical, cultural and environmental resources. Papers
presented in Section 2 of this book are about sustainable tourism: the papers analyze
the methods and models used to promote responsible travel and ecotourism and
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support sustainable development. Section 3 collects articles on life science or social
sustainability: programs that promote social interaction and cultural enrichment.
Section 4 are collections of articles related to the sustainable business and
management: the articles analyze methods to balance business considerations with
environmental resources issues. The goal is to provide tools for leaders to improve
both the environmental performance and overall competiveness by reducing
materials, energy and water utilization. Section 5 are papers related to sustainable
environment: all aspects of ecosystem for sustainable development, ecological
assessment and sustainability for the environment.

Dr. Chaouki Ghenai
PhD, Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department,

College of Engineering and Computer Science,
Florida Atlantic University,
USA



Part 1
Policy and Sustainable Urban Development