This paper aims at contributing to the decision-making regarding the allocation of public resources under the Federal Legislative Power. The focus of the paper was to construct criteria that could help elect the municipal legislative council in each micro-region that has the greatest power of...

This paper aims at contributing to the decision-making regarding the allocation of public resources under the Federal Legislative Power. The focus of the paper was to construct criteria that could help elect the municipal legislative council in each micro-region that has the greatest power of...

Population growth and migration represent an important underlying cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Models designed to simulate deforestation should therefore incorporate a demographic dynamics system to help project the influence of these variables on the location and rates of...

Este working paper analisa o caso de Montalegre, um concelho que soube criar atempadamente marcas com autenticidade e especializar-se na sua divulgação, o que lhe permitiu levar a cabo diversos certames com potencial para gerarem procura turística durante todo o ano. A Feira de Fumeiro de...

Analysis of the service sector from the standpoint of clusters is not common in the literature. Such an analysis is a challenge in and of itself, since the service sector covers a broad range of activities, with different market dynamics and trajectories, making generalization difficult. This...

Nenhuma região é uma ilha. As regiões contêm realidades que dependem de relacionamentos estabelecidos entre actores localizados em diversos espaços geográficos. Por isso, o sucesso de uma região não surge instantaneamente mas resulta de um longo processo de interacções entre diferentes...

The aim of this text is to present the advantages of adopting an alternative spatial aggregate for the municipal grid and for others currently available for diagnostic and social policy ends. Though it is usual to generate indicators on a municipal level, this level of spatial disaggregation...

This paper aims to offer demographic inputs to improve criteria of economic regionalization based on the polarization approach, which takes into account the urban network and its hierarchy. From a methodological perspective of an integrated analysis of economic and demographic factors of...

Agricultural insurance is of great importance to agriculture of a country in terms of its role for farmers rent. Moreover, the fact that the crop insurance represent only 0.4% of the amount of the insurance market in Brazil indicates a large space to grow. Such markets, including...

This paper focuses on the changes in income and activity sectors on the economically active rural population (EAP) between 1996 and 2006. Besides a brief introduction, its divide into more tree parts. The first part analyzes the changes in income and activity sectors based on the National...