This article investigates the effects that living in heterogeneous neighbourhoods may have on well-being, in order to shed light on the potential consequences of promoting residential mix policies. Using propensity score matching models, the study investigates whether 120 disadvantaged young...

QoL studies conceptualise urban well-being as a multidimensional process that is influenced by personal and environmental factors. A much less explored field in QoL has to do with the notion of capabilities and functionings as measurements to evaluate the level of quality of life that people...

Although the analysis of urban poverty has advanced towards the integration of objective and subjective approaches to assessing urban development, evaluation of quality of life in cities remains tied to a commodity framework which conceptualises it as the mere dotation of urban amenities....

This paper discusses some of the main transformations occurring in the labour market in recent years and will try to trace how globalization has influenced these changes. It argues that in the context of work, globalization can be understood as a cause and consequence process. As a consequence,...

Spanish Abstract: A pesar de la rápida adopción de la ingeniería genética y de la consolidación del mercado de las semillas genéticas y su implementación a nivel global, controversias sobre los riesgos y beneficios de los cultivos genéticamente modificados (GM) siguen dando forma al...