Portugal is a not a homogenous territory even though it is a small country. Each region has different characteristics … regional disparities. This paper presents a preliminary version of the input-output table for Alentejo, a Portuguese region … fragile region of Alentejo, while the largest one, where such instruments are scarce. Furthermore, the second quadrant, from …

established. The framework is applied to a set of parishes and counties of the Central Alentejo region in southern Portugal …

different levels of spatial analysis. The Coastal Alentejo (Portugal) was used as case study to identify these territorial … institutional dimensions. Moreover the institutional frame, given the integration of Portugal in the European Union since the middle … eighties, is in part the reflection of the problems and needs, which are perceived also at the international level. In Portugal …