Economic Impact Studies in ports are a very widespread tool that began to be developed in the decade of the 60s in the United States. Since then, these studies have been refined, eliminating some of their limitations and restrictions and converging towards a standard methodology that allows...

Mobility as a factor of labour is- especially in this stage of economic globalization - a positive aspect that permits the suitability of human capital with regard to the remaining productive factors and the promotion of competitiveness. However, it is also an element that can determine the...

Successive technical and organizational innovations have modelled the current structure and composition of the fishing industry. The market structure varies considerably between countries and the fish species they catch. There is a generalised global convergence towards an industrial-outsourced...

The particular location of port infrastructure holds characteristics that determine the activity of the port, both with respect to traffic and with respect to implementing competitive strategies; and the efficiency and efficacy of infrastructure depend on the governance systems that regulate the...

Empirically, financialisation analysis can be addressed from either a macroeconomic or micr oeconomic perspective. In aggregate terms, the former implies observing the growing influence exerted by financial transactions, overly dominant financial markets and alterations to industrial economy...

Los efectos de la crisis mundial y la emergencia de nuevas rutas marítimas provocan cambios sustanciales en lo que concierne a la polarización de las zonas económicas y logísticas. Se alteran los tradicionales parámetros de atracción y las perspectivas de los puertos quedan determinadas...

Although the calculation of indicators of sustainable development is increasing on both national and global levels, its implementation to the regional analysis is still very incipient, especially regarding those indicators that are considered as measures of the strong sustainability. Some recent...