This article presents an original spatial methodology based on a network analysis approach in order to identify and to track spatial similarities among economic activities as well as to analyse their interdependence. Traditionally, such interdependence is analysed using input-output matrices...

Location is a key concept in tourism sector analysis, given the dependence of this activity on the natural, built, cultural and social characteristics of a certain territory. As a result, the tourist zoning is an important instrument for delimiting tourist areas in accordance with multiple...

Die Erreichbarkeit von Infrastrukturen der Daseinsvorsorge spielt sowohl für Standortentscheidungen als auch für die individuelle Lebenssituation der Bürger eine wichtige Rolle, denn Erreichbarkeitsverhältnisse bestimmen neben der Qualität des Infrastrukturangebots den regionalen...

El impacto de la intensidad del conflicto armado colombiano sobre el desarrollo social no ha sido cuantificado rigurosamente. Este documento busca avanzar en el análisis de los efectos sociales de la actividad armada ilegal en los últimos años, a través del examen de la evolución de...

This paper is the final report of a research project whose aim was to analyse the methodology of calculating the costs and benefits for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia of the envisaged accession to the European Union. The research focused particularly on the impact of the...

Economic convergence at the sub-national level could have spatially explicit manifestations reflecting convergence clubs and other forms of geographical clustering that are not captured by an overall inequality measure. By decomposing the Theil index of per capita income inequality into between...

Die wohnortnahe Verfügbarkeit ambulanter Pflegedienste und von Tagespflegeeinrichtungen in Deutschland, die Pflegeleistungen gemäß des Elften Buch Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB XI) anbieten, ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Daseinsvorsorge in ländlichen Räumen und zugleich Voraussetzung dafür,...

This document analyzes the existing relationship between the armed conflict and the different manifestations of violence and criminal activity. For this purpose, a historical review on the internal conflicts and civil wars in Colombia since the XIX Century is presented, with emphasis on the...

We compare the spatial agglomeration of banks’ branches in Italy across local areas (as identified by local labor market areas) to that of other services. Banks branches appear to be only weakly spatially agglomerated, their spatial distribution being similar to that of other services and to...

Rural areas in Central and Eastern Europe are very often associated with a backwardness in terms of income and employment opportunities, a high dependency on agriculture, the outmigration of young, skilled people, a low population density and an insufficient infrastructure. In this paper 3...