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The Low Resource Consumption Buildings and Construction by Use of Life-Cycle Assessment in Design and Decision Making (LoRe-LCA) project aims to coordinate activities regarding the application of life-cycle assessment (LCA) in the European construction sector, focusing on comparing and improving the functional units used for LCA for whole buildings, improving the possibilities to compare results for different alternatives during design stage, and for comparison of results for different buildings. The project focus...

The paper presents a study case concerning the application of the Quality Management in the Danube Environmental Center from the Romanian University of Science and Arts ‘’Gh. Cristea ‘‘, from Bucharest. This center is founded as a target from the Danube Rector Conference to move the attention of the Universities and the Community for the new concept of the Europe versus the sustainable development, the environment education and the geopolitical strategy of the Danube River.

In today’s world, tourism issue has been dealt with in another way, totally different from classic tourism. The countries which are able to constitude variour types of alternative tourism, pioneer the others and multiplying their profit share, they have considerable advantages in payment balances. One of the tourism types thought under the range of variation in tourism is health tourism. In order to have tourism in every season throughout the year. When said health tourism, the first thing to remember is thermal s...

One of the oldest geographical regions in Romania, the subcarpathian zone situated between the Ialomita and Prahova rivers, having important natural resources, has generated a geodemographical evolution of the human settlements different from other areas in the country, especially with the help of economical development. Starting from the 18th century until the second half of the 20th century, accented economical initiatives are observed. These are related to the exploitation and processing of oil resources, the e...

Tourism sector provides employment to the 7\% of workers in the world. It becomes a very important “export” opportunity in the countries where the level of income is low. Besides the benefits of tourism activities in local cultures and eco-systems, it also has irrecoverable negative effects. However, new opportunities provided by “alternative tourism” change this situation. Interests to travels having minimum negative effects on current natural and cultural richness and which are satisfactory in terms of education...

Today, tourism is considered in a different approach, away from classic tourism understanding. The countries which have developed their national aviation and can create alternative tourism types have been ahead and had advantages in payment balances. However, the governments of some countries which guide the world tourism today have had to give financial support to save their aviation campanies under a heavy economical crisis after the 11th. september terror events and afterwards during the economic crisis. Under ...

SME is the most numerous and important business, performing multiple economic technical and social functions. After Romania joins the European Union came into force many acts and a large part of their obligation regulate business (in competition, consumer protection, labor relations, health and safety at work, environmental protection, etc.). It is therefore very important to know the level of information of the Romanian SMEs in relation to regulations introduced after 1 January 2007.

The Earth climate has been changing during recent decades towards increase of global surface average temperatures. The process is known as “global warming”. The causes for this climate phenomenon have been globally disputed but most of world scientists participating in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agreed on the fact that human industrialization has a major impact on this process by emitting additional quantities of greenhouse gasses (GHG) called anthropogenic emissions. The world nations have agre...

Energy demand and consumption is one of the key factors of a country’s level of development. They are not only related with economic development but also the dimension of security and environment should be taken into account. Hence, sustainability and resource diversity have overriding importance for the countries. Turkey has a considerably high level of renewable energy resources that can be a part of the total energy network in the country The optimum use of Turkey’s non-renewable and renewable resources should ...

The metal content of a number of white wines was determinated by inductively coupled plasma optical emission: Cu and Fe. The metal content of white wine samples ranged from 13.6-39.4 $\mu$g/L for copper and 1.6-11.7 $\mu$g/L for iron.