Coastal areas have known from recent decades an increasing attractiveness that puts an important pressure on these specific territories and their resources, and that generates important land uses conflicts (Goetz et al 2007). Such conflicts may appear because of the different services that land...

If the technological revolution which has taken place over the past decades has lowered information costs and if information costs increase in distance, distance should - ceteris paribus - become less important in determining international bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and...

Since Florida (2002b) revealed the importance of creative skills on economic growth, the notion of "creative class" has been deepened to analyze factors that shape the geography of talent of creative people. In spite of some strong correlations between artistic or cultural vibrancy, Third...