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This article provides a critical appraisal of the concept of sustainable development in light of climate change. As the latest climate change science indicates strong effects of anthropogenic activity on global warming, we review the pros and the cons of prioritizing development over...
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This article illustrates the impact of changes related to market reforms and environmental policies on the economic structure in rural China by providing a comparative analysis of several villages in a poor township in Beijing municipality. Two main concomitant phenomena are affecting...
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This paper examines the effects of tourism on labor employment, capital accumulation and resident welfare for a small … open economy with unemployment. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital … capital intensive, the fall in capital would not be so severe and the expansion of tourism improves welfare. However, when the …
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Esta ponencia tiene como objetivo presentar y debatir algunos de los resultados alcanzados como parte de mi Trabajo Final de Master en Desarrollo y Cooperación Internacional (Universitat de Lleida). El trabajo tiene como punto de partida el caso particular del Archipiélago de Las Perlas...
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related to the tourism industry. Two arguments support this choice. On the one hand, as stated by Maskell et al. (2005 … the tourism industry. Indeed, the tourism industry is structured by dispersed activities in nature, time and space that … need to be combined and assembled dynamically. On the other hand, the tourism industry has been one of the most innovative …
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There is currently an increase in the media attention given to yachting harbour management. Some of these harbours have existed since the 1960s and yet, it is only recently that problems have arisen between public and private partners. This paper presents the case of leisure harbours and designs...
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This paper analyses the impact of internet on the organization of industry and the marketdynamics in the tourism … activities, focusing in the European scene. Tourism incorporates many features ofthe contemporaneous information and … communication economy. Even if e-tourism still stands for a smallshare of the whole tourism activity, the paper establishes that the …
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Las experiencias en cooperación en el ámbito del turismo y el desarrollo, fruto de la dilatada colaboración entre investigadores españoles y latinoamericanos, ha sido importante. Así lo constatan el número de proyectos financiados por el Programa de Cooperación Interuniversitario de la...
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Las ciudades históricas, en especial las Ciudades Patrimonio de la Humanidad, constituyen uno de los principales referentes culturales de España y Latinoamérica. En este texto se abordan los resultados de una investigación comparada sobre este tipo de ciudades a nivel de España y México,...
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tourism. Based on the analysis of Russian and foreign experience of industrial development, the author reveals a system of …
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