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...

This paper identifies and analyses the geopolitical impact that the Syrian crisis has on Lebanon. This impact is manifested in two forms: a subsystemic one (within the Syria-Lebanon subsystem) and a systemic one (exerted from the system of the wider Middle East). The first refers to the direct...

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...

The smart specialisation strategy (S3) requires the identification in each region of one or more thematic areas where R&D and innovation policy should be focused on to create and sustain a competitive advantage. Not necessarily the chosen areas will belong to the core, general purpose technology...

The industrial Midwest went through wrenching economic restructuring during the 1970s and 1980s and yet rebounded to outperform the U.S. economy during much of the 1990s. Key to this resurgence was restructuring in core industries (including manufacturing) that increased the productivity and...

Στην παρούσα εργασία γίνεται προσπάθεια να προσδιοριστεί ο ρόλος της Τριτοβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης στην Περιφερειακή Οικονομική Ανάπτυξη, σύμφωνα με τη διεθνή...

Η παρούσα εργασία έχει ως στόχο τη χάραξη στρατηγικής για τη μελλοντική ανάπτυξη του αγροτικού τομέα στη χώρα μας. Για το σκοπό αυτό, στο πρώτο μέρος εξετάζει το...

Η εδαφική συνοχή έχει αποτελέσει την αφορμή για αυξημένες προσδοκίες ως προς την ενασχόληση της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης (ΕΕ) με τη χωροταξία, προσδοκίες που δεν...