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In the context of current global debates about assuring sustainability of human society renewable energy resources have started to find a main role regarding assuring needed energy supply on different levels. In the last time it has been noticed that Artificial Intelligence, AI is transforming the renewable energy sector by optimizing the usage of energy resources like wind, solar, and hydro, which are per-se not constantly available. By applying AI in connection to using renewable energy resources, improving odds...

Development of renewable energy systems can certainly contribute to climate change mitigation. In many regions initiatives can be noticed to succeed in increasing the efficient usage of renewable energy resources such as hydro power, solar and wind energy as well as bioenergy. From these resources the bioenergy and the hydro power by their storage possibilities have the potential to counterbalance the temporal variability of solar and wind energy. Anyway, by applying such renewable energy resources it is possible ...

In the last century human society has registered huge development in all human-related fields, fact that has been possible without doubt by designing technological applications with the usage of diverse natural resources, especially energy ones. Anyway, recorded progress, especially in technological fields, was feasible because of using fossil fuels for electric and thermal energy supply, which resulted besides positive impacts in undesired environmental pollution. Currently most debated effect by CO2 emissions is...

Connected to the vision of bringing space closer to human beings, space tourism starts to become a new exciting free-time spending possibility allowing experiencing new unknown courageous activities linked to the possibility of viewing Earth from space. There are various types of space tourism such as orbital, suborbital and lunar ones. At the same time a big provocation for space tourists is to feel weightlessness and floating in space as the unique chance to contribute in a personal manner to advance science. As...

Designing the multitude of technological applications in various activity fields of human society has without question had the direct result of increasing humanity-s quality of life. Nevertheless, besides the positive intended impact of technological advance several negative effects have emerged, especially regarding environmental pollution on different levels. In this regard a lot of debates have primarily started on a scientific level with the goal of finding the best strategies for trying to solve complex creat...

Sustainable tourism at the regional level is an approach to tourism development that aims to maximize economic, social, and cultural benefits for local communities while protecting and conserving the surrounding environment and cultural heritage of the region. This concept emphasizes responsible resource management, reducing environmental impact, and promoting social and economic inclusion. By adopting principles of sustainable tourism, the tourism industry can contribute to the conservation and protection of natu...

Technological advance has assured humanity-s desire to increase its quality of life, anyway humanity is currently confronted with several global challenges, their complexity bases on their interconnectedness, and on fast changes in technological field. Present space activities are directed to explore the potential of diverse celestial bodies to have hosted life. In this context the Moon Village Association, MVA has as its main objective creating a global informal forum for governments, industry, academia for debat...

By steady scientific research carried out in the last decades was possible to register wanted technological advance oriented also to succeed in shaping sustainable smart cities. Nowadays several cities on European level and not only are starting the implementation of smart city design strategies, which are foremostly developed by access to needed databases as well as by specific approaches related to location intelligence supporting by this shaping appropriate policies on local level. Smart cities imply effective ...

The vision of succeeding in shaping sustainable cities is representing a fascinating matter, but a challenging one. This provoking issue is including several tasks, among others connected to available possibilities for assuring needed energy supply with minimum environmental impacts. Humanity innovative thinking way has always been driving the field of shaping more efficient energy supply systems with less environmental impacts, being always a debate regarding available energy resources. Conventional energy supply...

Humanity vision regarding available odds to design and exploit different technological applications by using for this goal diverse energy resources has been and continues to be directed to steadily increasing its quality of life. Made experiences have emphasized that industrial activities can have beside positive desired impacts on humanity quality of life also negative undesired ones. Conventional energy technologies have been since long applied, their impacts being especially perceivable on environment. Chances ...

In the last time there is an open dialog among scientists, economists, engineers, politicians, as well as city councils and municipalities, about future plans for urban development by considering green real estate for shaping sustainable cities. Applying the concept of sustainable development concretely means to develop and apply local strategies, not only in technology, and economy, but also in environmental and social fields, by considering sustainability requirements. In this regard it is obvious that mindset c...

Current space activities are especially directed to explore the potential of Mars to have hosted life as well as directed to find future exploration odds of Mars by human beings. In this context scientific advance and newest technology infrastructure, NEXT GEN TECH, is nowadays used and applied on Mars. Current NASA mission can be mentioned, which represents a newly planned exploration of Mars having the goal to succeed in providing scientific information with the support of several rovers. Sent rovers to Mars mus...

advance has provided humanity request to raise its quality of life, registered trends anyhow pointing out that technical advances could bring not only desired impacts but also objectionable ones. For finding appropriate answers to recognized challenges the concept of sustainable development has been defined. By considering made progress in mobility field, the current vision is to succeed shaping human mobility not only on a global level, but also on a cosmic one. This seems to be possible by enlarging the idea of ...

Humanity vision about steadily increasing its quality of life has had as a consequence the maintained search for available odds in order to design various energy supply systems based on different energy resources. The innovative thinking way of human beings has always been also driving the field of shaping more efficient energy supply systems with less unwanted environmental impacts. Conventional energy supply systems, especially based on fossil fuels, have been since long applied, their impacts being especially p...

In the last time developments in technological field have happened in a pretty rapid tempo, humanity having actually over the years the conviction that these developments will have only positive desired effects. Without any doubt this progress has assured in the past the increase of humanity quality of life by using technologies for different specific human activities. Anyway 1972 after publishing the first report to the Club of Rome ?The Limits to Growth? it was finally understood that besides wanted effects of t...

Related to assuring the sustainability of our human society the technical field is playing an important role, beside the environmental and socio-economic field. Taking into account the technical field in connection with the social one, special attention has to be paid to the field of cartography. This is becoming more relevant than ever regarding assuring the sustainable development on a regional level because of the need of land property clarifications. A lot of progress has been made in the last years in the fie...

Related to geodetic systems to take decisions in such a complex environment is not at all an easy task. To handle such a complex interdisciplinary approach several methods have been developed, using knowledge from different disciplines by considering several aspects and criteria. These can be very different one from another, some of them being of qualitative type, indeed hardly quantifiable. In this situation the question is which instruments could be used in order to support such a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysi...

The technological progress did assure in the past the desire of the humanity to increase the quality of life. The developments did however emphasize that beside wanted effects of technological progress, undesired effects can appear. In order to find solutions for this dilemma, global debates on scientific and political levels started some time ago. In the Brundtland Report 1987 the concept of sustainable development has been defined and accepted as a possible solution for the global complex problems. When consider...

In the context of operationalising sustainable development some progress has been lately achieved in several countries on global level. Recently it seems to be an open dialog among scientists, economists, politicians, as well as city councils representatives about future local plans regarding a sustainable urban development. This concretely means to develop and apply local strategies by considering sustainability requirements. In this regard it is obvious that mindset changes and behaviour modifications, beside te...