Spain had build more houses in 2006 than France, Germany and the United Kingdom together. Actually, this urban growth is unsustainable and damage the resources the territory. 'People becomes rich, but the territory becomes poor'. The metropolitan area of Barcelona has growth hard but the rural...

Russian President Vladimir Putin placed an emphasis on priority development of the resource regions of Eastern Siberia: this is related to the large-scale development of natural resources and to the development of modern manufacturing industries. In this context, it is necessary to solve the...

This paper assesses the prevalence of stunting and its potential determinants using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in Rwanda and Burundi in 2010. Selected child, mother, and household characteristics are described for rural and urban areas in each country and the...

Social and territorial spaces around the world are undergoing economic restructuring due to globalization process that has led to the removal of restrictions on capital mobility and the factors of production, and therefore, flows of capital, goods, technology, and especially the expansion of...

The paper is devoted to problems of ensuring balanced and sustainable development of a very specific and important metropolitan region of the Russian Federation - the region of St Petersburg and surrounding it Leningrad Oblast. St.Petersburg (City) and Leningrad Oblast (Region) are both...