Aranit Shkurti

• PhD
• Program Coordinator at Metropolitan University

The International Conference on Sustainable Development is organized by the European Center of Sustainable Development in collaboration with CIT University. The 13th ICSD 2025 is inspired from the critical challenge of human, environmental, and economic sustainability concerning the present and future generations in a global-scale context. The Co...

The transition towards renewable energy sources has increased the interest in Hydro Power generation. The socio-environmental externalities produced from big HPPs have a significant impact on the local communities and on the overall economy of the country. There is consensus in the literature that small HPPs cause fewer and less severe environmenta...

This paper investigates the average impact of government debt on long-term GDP growth in four Western Balkan countries of Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, and Bosnia & Herzegovina over a 23-year period from 1997-2019. It examines the use of financing through debt on short- and long-term economic growth for these economies using a dynamic common correlat...

This paper investigates the relationships between energy consumption and GDP growth for 6 Western Balkan countries over 10 years period from 2005 to 2014. The countries under consideration are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia, FYR. The aim of this study is to evaluate the energy demand across time and wit...

The International Conference on Sustainable Development is organized by the European Center of Sustainable Development in collaboration with CIT University. The Conference theme is:”Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: research, practice and education”. Read more: https://ecsdev.org/index.php/conference

Influence of the human beings to the nature initially was inexistent, but it increased continuously until the industria l revolution time where the presence of humans shaped the face of the planet. The progress in science and technology was accompanied by the man's preferences to live a healthy live which brought to the establishing of modern urban...

Dirty water is usually a significant factor for many diseases. In Kosovo, only 9% of freshwater was used for drinking, and the rest was used in agriculture and industry. The waste from industry and agriculture was the biggest polluter of water. In this study, pollution of heavy metals in the White Drin River Basin was evaluated. Some physicochemica...

Book of Abstracts 5th ICSD 2017

European Center of Sustainable Development in collaboration with CIT University will organize the 5th ICSD 2017 Rome, Italy in the days:Wednesday 6 to Thursday 7 September,2017The Conference theme is: ”Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: research, practice and education”. Read more: http://www.ecsdev.org/index.php/confere...

The article is concerned with the analysis of the electric power prices at the European spot exchanges, taking in consideration 27 Countries of the Union (excluding UK). The time series data are considering the half yearly average of the countries, as reported by the Eurostat database. The article examines the way spot prices are influenced by powe...

The 4th ICSD 2016 will be held at the: Gregorian University of Rome - Roma Eventi – Piazza della Pilotta, 4 - 00187 Roma - Italiy Day: Friday 16 to Saturday 17 September, 2016 The International Conference on Sustainable Development is inspired from the critical challenge of human, environmental, and economic sustainability concerning the present a...

The 4th ICSD 2016 will be held at the: Gregorian University of Rome - Roma Eventi – Piazza della Pilotta, 4 - 00187 Roma - Italiy Day: Friday 16 to Saturday 17 September, 2016 The International Conference on Sustainable Development is inspired from the critical challenge of human, environmental, and economic sustainability concerning the present an...

The International Conference on Sustainable Development is inspired from the critical challenge of human, environmental, and economic sustainability concerning the present and future generations in a global-scale context. The 2016 Conference will once again provide a forum for the sharing of ideas, presentation of research findings, and discussion...

3 rd icsd 2015, ROME, ITALY The ICSD 2015 will be held at the Gregorian University of Rome, Piazza della Pilotta, 4 Rome, Italy o Read more: http://www.ecsdev.org/index.php/conference

Conference Objective and Philosophical Framework The International Conference on Sustainable Development is inspired from the critical challenge of human, environmental, and economic sustainability concerning the present and future generations in a global-scale context The 2° ICSD 2014 will be held at the Piazza di Spagna- Roma Eventi, Via Alibe...

The education market is having a period of expansion in Albania, specially the private higher education, performing a very complex and controversial situation. Public and private universities, were enrolling, in the past years, a growing number of students. The propor tion of undergraduate and graduate students to the total population is converging...

Dirty water is usually a significant factor for many diseases. In Kosovo, only 9% of freshwater was used for drinking, and the rest was used in agriculture and industry. The waste from industry and agriculture was the biggest polluter of water. In this study, the pollution of heavy metals in the White Drin River Basin was evaluated. Some physicoche...