Mihai Costica

• Professor
• Professor at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Considering diverse national contexts, there are differences in the capacity of countries in terms of their ability to attain sustainability in its three main dimensions. The present study puts the economic, social, and environmental indicators face-to-face from 19 post-communist economies across the 2006–2020 period. It emphasizes the main vulnera...

The actual development challenges impose new criteria of national performance evaluation, the concept of wellbeing tending to be measured not just in terms of economic and social dimensions, but also vs. the environment. Accordingly, considering the national environmental performance among the EU countries in 2006–2019 period, we grouped them and c...

Sustainable development aims at balancing the performances of economic, social, and environmental sectors, a key question in this regard remaining whether progress has been made. Accordingly, our attention was directed on the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) and on their wellbeing particularities, with focus on the environmental dimen...

Water and forests play a major role in the functioning of biosphere, their interactions being able to provide an extensive range of vital goods and services for the society, and, thus, significantly contributing to human wellbeing. With the aim of offering a better perspective of the national context, in this paper we analyzed (1) the level of reco...

The literature formed around the concept of sustainable development emphasizes that its achievement depends on how its dimensions evolve. Considering that the economic dimension is not an end in itself, but a means for achieving the other two dimensions, we concentrated on the relation between environment and society. Using the framework of Sustain...

The relationship between institutional quality and sustainable development?; in all its three connected dimensions - economic, social, environmental - is widely discussed at the decision making level and in the specialized literature, with some contradictory opinions among researchers. This paper aims at investigating the relationship between insti...

In the process of development, the rural areas meet a wide range of economic, environmental and social challenges. This study theoretically discusses the concept of rural development and attempts to evaluate the development status among the people living in rural areas. In this scope, we propose the personal rural development index (PRDI), which is...

In the process of development, the rural areas meet a wide range of economic, environmental and social challenges. This study theoretically discusses the concept of rural development and attempts to evaluate the development status among the people living in rural areas. In this scope, we propose the personal rural development index (PRDI), which is...

The paper offers a perspective on poverty related to basic, but also consumption deprivation of two rural communities in the North-East Region of Romania, while attempting at emphasizing the signals of extreme deprivation that may be representative for disadvantaged rural areas at regional level. In this respect, we conducted a questionnaire survey...

The paper aims to discuss about the rural material deprivation and available means for achieving a certain standard of living as evidences revealing the capacity of responding to the sustainable development goal related to poverty. Starting from the theoretical discussions of this concept, we attempt to understand and to evaluate it using both dire...

The EU Water Framework Directive aims to ensure restoration of Europe’s water bodies to “good ecological status” by 2027. Many Member States will struggle to meet this target, with around half of EU river catchments currently reporting below standard water quality. Diffuse pollution from agriculture represents a major pressure, affecting over 90% o...

The reduction of the development gap of South and East European economy compared with the rest of the developed countries represent an important condition to achieve the goal of „healthy development“ of European Union. High level of competitiveness in West European industries as well as new policy of sustainable development causes a rethinking of s...

Our paper aims to analyse the labour market in the field manufacture of chemicals and chemical products in UE28, over the period 2005-2014. We attempted to identify evolutions throughout the phases of the economic cycle, by isolating a series of determining variables. We noticed that the number of employees in this sector was influenced by macroeco...

Energy poverty, or the inability of households to afford adequate access to energy services, is an issue that can have a significant effect on the quality of life and even the state of health of individuals and even the overall development of a nation. Since it was first brought into focus more than two decades ago in the UK, this topic has gradual...

The article assesses how the chemical sector responds to oscillations in the economic cycle, given thatindustries do not react in the same way under the influence of macroeconomic frictions. The basic hypothesisis that the chemical industry, which is part of the sector of medium-high technology industries, was affectedby the 2008-2011 crisis differ...

The article assesses how the chemical sector responds to oscillations in the economic cycle, given that industries do not react in the same way under the influence of macroeconomic frictions. The basic hypothesis is that the chemical industry, which is part of the sector of medium-high technology industries, was affected by the 2008-2011 crisis dif...

The reduction of the development gap of South and East European economy compared with the rest of the developed countries represent an important condition to achieve the goal of "healthy development" of European Union. High level of competitiveness in West European industries as well as new policy of sustainable development causes a rethinking of s...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the relation between the development level and values, the common features or behaviours of eleven European countries. Baltic or Mediterranean lifestyle, Catholic or Protestant religion, strong or relaxed family relations, as well as the individuals' position at work or social relations are just some of the aspec...

Most of the countries of Eastern Europe have had a very turbulent trend in the last twenty years. These countries have experienced complex processes of transition from the centralized economic systems, characterized by limited relations, often only with the countries of the former Communist bloc, to the market economy and to the advantages and risk...

Starting from the economic effects of investments in green energy, the authors search to answer of the questions: What is the global energy balance determined by the investments in renewable energy? What are the economic, social and environmental effects? The answer to these questions is based on a case study which includes 10 investment projects i...

Increased environmental matters bring about the reconsideration of the development policies. In many countries, by adopting the principles of sustainable development, severe restrictions were imposed on the economic activities. A change in the investment behaviour of companies is therefore necessary with a view to adapting their strategies to the r...

La concurrence accrue manifestée dans le marché détermine les entreprises de chercher des solutions pour améliorer leur compétitivité. Une solution viable est d'adopter une stratégie de la qualité, qui permet de former une perception favorable pour ses produits a ses clients. L'objectif du cet article este de mettre en évidence les avantages qu'on...

La concurrence accrue manifestée dans le marché détermine les entreprises de chercher des solutions pour améliorer leur compétitivité. Une solution viable est d’adopter une stratégie de la qualité, qui permet de former une perception favorable pour ses produits a ses clients. L’objectif du cet article este de mettre en évidence les avantages qu’on...

The economic integration of Romania into European Union structures and continued globalization has determined significant changes in the economies of different countries. The involvement of foreign firms in the Romanian economy is undoubtedly a strong economic motivation arising from the competitive advantages they have compared with Romanian compa...

Natural resources are the most important agricultural activity inputs. Often, their use and exploit determine the performance of farms. Market acts as a mobilizing factor in determining the structure of production. Farmer's decision must take into account both market demand and capacity of natural resources to sustain quality production. Pursuit of...