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Diversities in Diversity: Exploring Moroccan Migrants' Livelihood in Genoa

Alzetta, Roberto - 2006

It is a largely accepted idea that complexity and recent global phenomena have generated a multi-layered diversification process in Western societies. Migration phenomena are largely responsible for this process both in receiving European societies as well as in original sending countries....

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Desertification and land degradation in Mediterranean Areas: From science to integrated policy making

Engelen, Guy - 2001

obtained from the many projects carried out in the EU-DG12 Environment and Climate programme. However, so far little effort has … climatological, physical, economic and social aspects of land degradation and desertification in the Northern Mediterranean. The …

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A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Land Use Efficiency in Large and Small Municipalities

Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano; Sckokai, Paolo - 2017

We estimate the relationship between urban spatial expansion and its socio-economic determinants in Lombardy, the most urbanised region of Italy (and one of the most urbanized of the European Union), at the municipality level. Test results suggest that this relationship varies significantly...

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Analysing regional sustainability through a systematic approach: The Lombardy case study

Caratti, Pietro; Ferraguto, Ludovico - 2008

The intrinsic complexity of the sustainability concept challenges research towards more sophisticated ways to model and assess the dimensions underlying it. However, currently adopted modelling techniques and indicators frameworks are not able to give an integrated assessment through the...

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Spatial development

Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2010

We present a theory of spatial development. A continuum of locations in a geographic area choose each period how much to innovate (if at all) in manufacturing and services. Locations can trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is an...

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Path dependence, institutions and the density of economic activities: evidence from Italian cities

Percoco, Marco - 2010

In recent years a growing body of literature has begun to consider the possible presence of path dependence in the development processes of countries. This phenomenon has always been recognized in regional and urban studies because the path of development almost naturally follows a...

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Trade and geography in the economic origins of Islam: theory and evidence

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2010

across regions, fostering predatory behavior from the poorly endowed ones. In such an environment it was mutually beneficial …

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Pollution and the efficiency of urban growth

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2008

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of … equilibrium, compared to the efficient urbanization path, if economic growth implies increasing aggregate emissions. If, on the … other hand, production becomes cleaner over time (`quality growth') the urbanization path approximates the efficient outcome …

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Mapping the evolution of clusters: A meta-analysis

Maggioni, Mario A.; Gambarotto, Francesca; Uberti, … - 2009

This paper presents a meta-analysis of the cluster literature contained in scientific journals from 1969 to 2007. Thanks to an original database we study the evolution of a stream of literature which focuses on a research object which is both a theoretical puzzle and an empirical widespread...

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Regional and sector environmental efficiency empirical evidence from structural shift-share analysis of NAMEA data

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna - 2009

This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional-national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case studies of Italy and the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome. Shift-share analyses provide evidence on the drivers of environmental efficiency and on sector...

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