The “Alma” Publishing House has recently issued a new edition of documents: the fifth volume of records belonging to the municipality of Turnu Severin, put together by Nicolae Chipurici and Tudor Ratoi, who have been working on this bountiful compendium since 2005. The collection brings...

This article explores the situation in the rural environment in terms of the phenomenon of globalisation, taking as a model an outlying area of the province of León. Although a priori it might not appear to be the case, globalisation is actually stimulating rural areas into seeking new means of...

Starting with the 1st of January 2007, when Romania adhered to the European Union, the national competences of elaboration and application of the external commercial politics of Romania have been transferred to the level of the European Union, who exercises jointly with the other states of the...

Optimization methods may be applied to the services operations management. A comprehensive objective function (a cost-function to be minimized) leads to a multidisciplinary optimization, considering all aspects of a services business unit. However, this introduces a very large number of...

European economies are undergoing dramatic changes, determined by the rise in knowledge-intensity of economic activities, as an effect of the escalating pace of technological change, on one hand, and by the increasing globalization of economic affairs, driven by markets liberalization, on the...

Questo articolo affronta il tema della dimensione ottima della città, abbandonando le ipotesi di unicità di una dimensione urbana ottima universalmente valida, e che ciascuna città operi in base a funzioni di costo e beneficio proprie. Viene presentato un nuovo modello per la dimensione...

This article analyzes the main existing theories on income and population city growth: the existence of increasing returns to scale, the importance of locational fundamentals, and random growth. To do this we develop a nonlinearity test that is implemented to a dataset on urban, climatological...

This paper contributes to the Evolutionary Economic Geography literature by employing the conceptualization of Ôrelated varietyÕ to compare the emerging internet industry in ChinaÕs two largest city-regions: Beijing and Shanghai. Official website registration records, Alexa internet traffic...

The paper examines the per capita waste generation rates from from rural areas of Neamț County (Romania) using thematic cartography. Geographical approach of this issue is difficult because the lack of a geostatistic database at commune scale. Spatial analysis of waste indicators reveals...

The paper aims to mapping the potential vulnerable areas to illegal dumping of household waste from rural areas in the extra- Carpathian region of Neamț County. These areas are ordinary in the proximity of built-up areas and buffers areas of 1km were delimited for every locality. Based on...