This paper studies the dynamics of land-use in the Brazilian Amazon using a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model. The heterogeneity in the data is controlled by mean of fixed effect panel specification. Meanwhile, spatial autocorrelation is also diagnosed by a statistical methodology...

A un moment où l’économie mondiale se trouve confrontée à de graves préoccupations, l’équilibre économique, politique et social du bassin méditerranéen est un enjeu majeur qui concerne le monde entier. Dans cet équilibre, le secteur énergétique, marqué par des inégalités et...

Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and exogenous shocks to household income in rural India: the dramatic reduction in import tariffs in the early 1990s and rainfall variations. We find that trade shocks, previously shown to raise relative poverty,...

Los proyectos mineros debido a su potencial riesgo de contaminación, en concreto a lo que se refiere a los recursos hídricos, deben ser sometidos a un estricto control medioambiental. En esta investigación realizamos el estudio del metabolismo hídrico (MH) de la actividad minera Las Cruces...

Though the sustainability research community as well as international decision makers seem to share the conviction that, akin to the challenges of climate policy, a great transition will also be needed in order to decouple human wellbeing from resource use over the next decades, there exist only...

China's emerging standing in the world demands a major rethinking of its diplomatic strategies. Given its population size, geographical scale, economic power and military presence, China is poised to play a larger political role in the twenty-first century, and is thus perceived by the...

The book reveals an analysis of the sources of deforestation in tropical countries. In the first part, the authors provide data on the forest resources that have been depleted as a result of activities of different industries or their supply chain partners. In the second part of the book, there...