Contents
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Progress in Economic Thought: Neoclassical Economics
Versus Sustainable Economics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Michael von Hauff
2
Mining Environmental Disasters in North and South America:
The Current Practices and the Way Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Odile Schwarz-Herion and Abdelnaser Omran
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Rural Development in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities . . . . . 33
Abdullahi Nafiu Zadawa and Abdelnaser Omran
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Regenerating the Pearl of the Pacific: A Destination Capitals
Approach to Acapulco’s Tourism Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Mark Speakman and Alejandro Díaz Garay
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Relationship Between Women and Environment Toward
Sustainable Development: A Case Study from Palestine . . . . . . . . . 63
Abdelnaser Omran and Fulla Ismail Sharaf
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Water Contamination and Health Hazards in Pakistan:
An Overview of the Current Scenario and Contemporary
Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Hafiz Waqas Kamran and Abdelnaser Omran
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Water Security: Challenges to the Irrigation Water-Energy
Nexus in Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Stefanie Schulte, Georgina Davis, and Jennifer Brown
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Sustaining Queensland’s Agricultural Sector: Challenges
and Opportunities from the Bioeconomy and
the Circular Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Georgina Davis
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