**Meet the editor**

Dr. Chaouki Ghenai is a Professor at the Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Ghenai received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Orleans University (France) in 1995. After his Ph.D., He worked as a visiting research professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and University of Cali-

fornia Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. In 2001, He joined the Applied Research Center (ARC) at Florida International University in Miami as a Combustion Manager. In 2006, He joined the Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department at FAU, Boca Raton, Florida. Dr. Ghenai is leading the combustion, alternative fuels, and renewable energy research programs at FAU. He has published more than 100 papers in professional journals and proceedings. Dr. Ghenai is an honorary fellow of the Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials and FAU faculty honor fellow. He is a member of the Combustion Institute and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a reviewer for the ASME Journal, Combustion and Flame, Combustion Theory and Modeling, Combustion Science and Technology and Experiments in Fluids Journals. His research interests are combustion, energy efficiency, biofuels, alternative fuels, clean combustion technologies, renewable energy, sustainability, sustainable development, thermal-fluids, air pollution, and waste to energy process.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Sustainable System Modelling** 

Chapter 2 **European Policy for the Promotion** 

**Part 2 Sustainable Tourism 83** 

Mirela Mazilu

Lidija Petrić

**Part 1 Policy and Sustainable Urban Development 1** 

and Jose Sergio Magdaleno-Palencia

**of Inland Waterway Transport – A Case Study of the Danube River 23**  Svetlana Dj. Mihic and Aleksandar Andrejevic

Chapter 3 **Sustainable Urban Development Through** 

Ştefana Bădescu and Ana-Maria Branea

Chapter 5 **Sustainable Tourism of Destination, Imperative** 

Chapter 6 **Croatian Tourism Development Model** 

Chapter 7 **Built Heritage and Sustainable Tourism:** 

Beatriz Amarilla and Alfredo Conti

**Triangle Among: Competitiveness, Effective Management and Proper Financing 85** 

**– Anatomy of an Un/Sustainability 119** 

**Conceptual, Economic and Social Variables 147** 

Bogart Yail Marquez, Ivan Espinoza-Hernandez

**the Empowering of Local Communities 41**  Radu Radoslav, Marius Stelian Găman, Tudor Morar,

Chapter 4 **Sustainable Urban Design and Walkable Neighborhoods 67**  Theresa Glanz, Yunwoo Nam and Zhenghong Tang

**for Urban Development Using Distributed Agencies 3** 

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	- **Part 2 Sustainable Tourism 83**

Contents VII

Chapter 19 **Unraveling Stakeholders' Discourses Regarding Sustainable** 

**A New Challenge for the Sustainable Development** 

Evangelia Apostolopoulou, Evangelia G. Drakou

Chapter 20 **The Environment as a Factor of Spatial Injustice:**

**of European Regions? 431** 

and John D. Pantis

Guillaume Faburel

**Development and Biodiversity Conservation in Greece 405** 

	- **Part 4 Sustainable Business and Management 319**
	- **Part 5 Sustainable Environment 387**

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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:** 

Chapter 11 **Raise It, Feed It, Keep It – Building a Sustainable** 

Chapter 12 **Social Accounting Matrix – Methodological Basis**

Chapter 13 **Broadening Sustainable Development in Praxis**

**Part 4 Sustainable Business and Management 319** 

Chapter 15 **Embedding Sustainable Development in Organizations** 

**Through an Integrated Management Systems Approach 321** 

**of Improving Economic Performance of a Company 341** 

Chapter 14 **An Approach to Sustainable Development by Applying Control Science 299**

Miguel Rocha and Cory Searcy

Tereza Kadlecová and Lilia Dvořáková

Chapter 17 **Innovative Sustainable Companies Management: The** *Wide Symbiosis* **Strategy 367**

Kayano Fukuda and Chihiro Watanabe

Chapter 18 **Innovation Ecosystem for Sustainable Development 389**

Chapter 16 **Sustainable Development as an Aspect**

Francesco Fusco Girard

**Part 5 Sustainable Environment 387**

**for Sustainable Development Analysis 269** 

**Through Accountability and Collaboration 285** 

Michael Zgurovsky

Oscar Fernández

Sasho Kjosev

Mago William Maila

Kazutoshi Fujihira

**Analysis of Quality and Security of Human Life 201**

**Knowledge Pool Within Your R&D Organization 253**  Wiebke Schone, Cornelia Kellermann and Ulrike Busolt

Chapter 10 **People, Places and History – Towards the Sustainability of Social Life in Traditional Environments 237**

Preface

ecosphere of our planet can support.

1. Policy and Sustainable Urban Development

3. Social Sustainability and Life Science 4. Sustainable Business and Management

2. Sustainable Tourism

5. Sustainable Environment

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

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:

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

### 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:


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
