Although sustainable development and desertification risk are hegemonic concepts in environmental economics, their intimate relationship was occasionally studied and made spatially explicit. The present study contributes to fill this knowledge gap by delineating a statistical procedure that...

Regional economic disparities are often regarded as signs of a country's uneven or backward development. After analyzing China's regional economic performances from 2003 to 2007, this paper concludes that the emergence of interior regions provides new momentum for China's economic growth, and...

Ever since it was adopted in 2015 by the United Nations, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has acted as the main guideline for European Union Member States in regard to achieving economic prosperity, environmental sustainability and peaceful, inclusive and innovative societies....