Aim: This paper aims to attract attention to the "green airport" term that is basically related with environmental legislations.Design / Research methods: A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model is introduced to assess the efficiency of 22 airports in Turkey with the definition of undesirable...

This paper discusses the transportation challenges that urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean face and reviews the causal evidence on the impact brought by different urban transport system interventions implemented around the world. The objective is to highlight the main lessons learned...

Given its unpredictable nature, urban sprawl in the Mediterranean region is considered an intriguing (and intricate) socioeconomic issue. Since the 1970s, urban dispersion advanced rapidly in southern Europe-irrespective of a city's size and morphology-with urbanization rates growing faster than...

Household air pollution from biomass cooking is the most significant environmental health risk in the Global South. Interventions to address this risk mostly promote less-polluting stoves and clean fuels, but their diffusion has proven difficult. This paper assesses the potentially complementary...

This paper investigates the impact urbanization, industrialization, corruption, human development, energy consumption, and foreign direct investment (FDI) on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of 61 developing economies of the global south region of Asia, Africa, and Latin America during the period...

Der Ausbau des Breitbandinternets wird gegenwärtig intensiv diskutiert. Doch noch hinkt Deutschland den gesteckten Zielen hinterher. Zwar sind inzwischen fast 100 Prozent der Haushalte mit Breitbandanschlüssen bis sechs Megabit pro Sekunde versorgt, doch bei gigabitfähigen Anschlüssen hat...