Purpose: In the conventional international health and safety policy design, the decision makers rarely think in terms of business models. As an example, the yellow paper-based vaccination certificates, initiated and implemented by the WHO in 1969, have not changed very much since then. In 2020,...

The infrastructure constitutes a support element, with particular importance for supporting all economic and socio- cultural activities. The infrastructure covers both structural field, giving unity to the system unit and the spatial field, thus achieving a viable or not territorial...

Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, while proper identification of the causal effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing poverty is...

Political, economic, social changes that take place nowarday and refflected in the dinamiks of territirial organization of the sociaty. The Republic of Karelia has a profitable economic and geographical position in one of the federal regions, Northwest federal region of Russia . The big amount...

It is widely believed that foreign aid may help conflict-affected countries to recover after the settlement of conflicts. However, the available empirical evidence supporting this view largely neglects the heterogeneous nature of aid. Drawing on the conflict database of the Uppsala Conflict Data...

Der Beitrag arbeitet für das Forschungsfeld der Daseinsvorsorge und der Bereitstellung von Infrastruktureinrichtungen an der These, dass es in erster Linie eine bestimmte Perspektive auf Raum - nämlich eine materielle bzw. quantifizierende - ist, die sich innerhalb der aktuellen empirischen...

Ongoing financial, environmental and political adjustments have shifted the role of large international airports. Many airports are expanding from a narrow concentration on operating as transportation centres to becoming economic hubs. By working together, airports and other industry sectors can...