On the European continent, urban population, representing a significant segment of the market, with features specific to a particular model of purchase, consumption, lifestyle, etc. , has the potential for growth. The possible effects of this increase (strengths or risks), include: increasing...

Uno de los fines básicos de la economía de la cultura es la creación de los presupuestos adecuados para la consolidación del patrimonio cultural, siendo que una de sus tareas más valiosas es la información al público, de forma sistemática, sobre la creación artística e intelectual. El...

Hasta la fecha, muchas investigaciones se han realizado indicando que cada vez más vivimos en un mundo complejo y más propenso al desastre (Burton et al. 1978; Richardson 1994; Faulkner 2001). Los cambios que ocurren en nuestro alrededor en la mayoría de los casos no son bruscos e imprevistos, sino...

En 1988, al ser electo como presidente de la República Mexicana como término de elecciones debatidas en las que, por primera vez en la historia de esta nación, los electores opositores hicieron correr el riesgo al candidato del partido hegemónico de perder la carrera a la jefatura del...

News is often interspersed with reports from small islands. Reference is often made to them due to their small size, or due to their administrative autonomy or financial regime; usually attracting the common interest. Actually, what are the so-called microstates, virtual lands, unrecognized state...

The analysis of spatial mismatches in access to employment remains a very important area of labour market literature. A particular case is that of the mismatches in urban labour markets, which can result in substantial differences in the employment opportunities available in city centres and...

Over the last decades tourism has grown enormously and travel distances have increased. Land occupied by tourism related activities is growing significantly, in certain areas, and this trend is expected to continue, at the expense of land previously used in other activities. According to the...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the specialization of Indian productive structures in 2006, using specialization indicators, namely localization quotient estimation, in order to assess both the relative degree of concentration of a given activity in a certain area and the specialization...

The development and support of clusters is an issue that became quite popular by players dealing with regional economic policy. But before a regional development agency can start to implement a cluster-oriented strategy there a two question that have to be answered: 1. What are the regional...

Dieser Artikel zielt darauf, Friedrich Ratzels politisch-geographische Wahrnehmung des Staates hinzuweisen. Zunächst wird gezeigt, dass Ratzels Sichtpunkt frei von organistischen oder metaphysischen Elementen ist. Endlich wird es untersucht werden, wie Ratzel den Staat als Ausdruck des neuen...