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This paper aims at reexamining the construction of indicators of standards of living, by focussing on the challenges …
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This communication makes a state of the coordination activities carried out by the 6th work package "Tools for actors" of the CAENTI, Coordination Action of the European Network of Territorial Intelligence. The WP6 is linked to the design and dissemination of methods and tools of territorial...
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concerned data and to facilitate its confrontation with the available indicators at the European level. A series of …
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This paper studies a set of indicators for evaluating how the quality of a freight distribution service with time … service quality setting, expressed as the width of the time windows, has been assessed using five indicators, which are a … generator. The results confirm the ability of the selected indicators to predict with a good approximation the transportation …
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Among recent high-profile propositions to revise national accounts and to provide new indicators of sustainability and … indicators for sustainable and prosperous societies. …
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Climate change, demographic concentration, new needs, sustainable development etc. are many examples of uncontrolled mutations in space and time, which impact on the degree of satisfaction of water needs in the world, and which call for a new analysis of the water issue. This new perspective, in...
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assessment. At the stand-level, such assessment must be based on objective and quantifiable indicators measurable in the field …
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Biodiversity refers to the dynamics of interactions between organisms in changing environments. Within the context of accelerating biodiversity loss worldwide, firms are under increasing pressures from stakeholders to develop appropriate tools to account for the nature and consequences of their...
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The literature on the impact of an abundance of natural resources on economic performance remains inconclusive. In this paper we consider the possibility that countries may follow different growth regimes, and test the hypothesis that whether natural resources are a curse or a blessing depends...
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We develop a dynamic game to provide with a theory of Arab spring-type events. We consider two interacting groups, the elite vs the citizens, two political regimes, dictatorship vs a freer regime, the possibility to switch from the first to the second regime as a consequence of a revolution, and...
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