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View article: Sustainable development of the Esil River Basin: an intersectoral approach and scenario analysis
Sustainable development of the Esil River Basin: an intersectoral approach and scenario analysis Open
The Esil River Basin, located in northern and central Kazakhstan is a key industrial-agricultural region where agriculture dominates. The basin is characterized by high variability in annual runoff and uneven intra-annual water distributio…
View article: Generalized Q analysis as a new tool in social science research - a pedagogical introduction
Generalized Q analysis as a new tool in social science research - a pedagogical introduction Open
Q analysis is a frequently used, multivariate exploratory technique in the social sciences which seeks to identify and analyse commonalities and differences in the respondents' rankings of a set of relevant individual qualitative statement…
View article: The impact of COVID-19 on tourism, employment, and population of the Azores islands
The impact of COVID-19 on tourism, employment, and population of the Azores islands Open
Tourism is a very important economic sector and, for many regions, the main economic activity. Tourism was one of the main sectors affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on tourism, employment…
View article: Relating Sustainable Development Goals in a Conceptual Integrated Model of Growth and Welfare
Relating Sustainable Development Goals in a Conceptual Integrated Model of Growth and Welfare Open
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is one of the most relevant efforts aiming at the promotion of sustainable development around the world. Many indicators serve as a guide to evaluate the actual level of development an…
View article: Assessment of Public Services Distribution in African Urban Areas: a Cost-Benefit Analysis Based on Bid Rents from Spatial Interaction Models
Assessment of Public Services Distribution in African Urban Areas: a Cost-Benefit Analysis Based on Bid Rents from Spatial Interaction Models Open
The paper proposes a cost-benefit analysis of alternative school networks that are otimized to cover the territory of the central part of Huambo Municipality in Angola. Benefits comes from increases in housing prices associated with change…
View article: A robust approach for the infrastructural classification of railway stations in Tripura, India
A robust approach for the infrastructural classification of railway stations in Tripura, India Open
Infrastructural classification is a Decision-Making Unit (DMU) for the service providers to deliver better infrastructure. This paper intends to classify the infrastructural facilities of the railway stations offer to the passengers in Tri…
View article: Maximizing city sizes or maximizing spatial interaction between cities.A look into the relative evolution of Romanian city regions from 1948 to 2021
Maximizing city sizes or maximizing spatial interaction between cities.A look into the relative evolution of Romanian city regions from 1948 to 2021 Open
This paper aims to analyse the spatial interaction of Romanian Cities from 1948 to 2021 trying to perceive if, along seven decades of quite different political regimes – from Central Planning to Market Interaction–, there have been changes…
View article: Evaluation of environmental actions by local citizens – a choice modeling application
Evaluation of environmental actions by local citizens – a choice modeling application Open
Little is known about citizens’ judgment of nature conservation actions financed by public funds. The present work contributes to this topic with empirical evidence coming from a Choice Modeling (CM) study designed in an innovative mode. U…
View article: Effects and policies of COVID‐19
Effects and policies of COVID‐19 Open
Regional Science Policy & PracticeVolume 13, Issue S1 p. 2-3 INTRODUCTION Effects and policies of COVID-19 Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, Corresponding Author Tomaz Ponce Dentinho [email protected] University of Azores, Azores, Angra do Heroísmo, P…
View article: Covid-19 in South Asia: Space Matters
Covid-19 in South Asia: Space Matters Open
Covid-19 undoubtedly poses challenges to our world. The first, being the protection of human lives, a pursuit which will influence and take a toll on economic recovery and trust. Through the implementation of a policy of ‘social distancing…
View article: Regional drivers’ effects and policies of COVID‐19
Regional drivers’ effects and policies of COVID‐19 Open
Regional Science Policy & PracticeVolume 12, Issue 6 p. 979-980 INTRODUCTION Regional drivers' effects and policies of COVID-19 Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, Corresponding Author Tomaz Ponce Dentinho [email protected] Centre of Applied Economics S…
View article: Editorial: Cross border cooperation and peripheral areas in Europe
Editorial: Cross border cooperation and peripheral areas in Europe Open
Borders and links are common to any system and the interaction occurring through them is essential to the existence of those systems (Chadwick, 1970). Territorial systems like countries, regions, towns and communities depend strongly on th…
View article: Space justice, demographic resilience and sustainability. Revelations of the evolution of the population hierarchy of the regions of Romania from 1948 to 2011
Space justice, demographic resilience and sustainability. Revelations of the evolution of the population hierarchy of the regions of Romania from 1948 to 2011 Open
The article studies the evolution of the population hierarchy of the NUTS3 regions of Romania from 1948 until 2011, to understand how this hierarchy, and related resilience and sustainability proposed indicators, changes due to the influen…
View article: Uneven Integration: The Case of Angola
Uneven Integration: The Case of Angola Open
Angola’s prospects for reconstruction and development of its poor connectivity infrastructure are heavily dependent upon the export performance of its oil sector. Using an interregional input-output table for Angola, we estimate comprehens…
View article: Urban Concentration and Spatial Allocation of Rents from natural resources. A Zipf's Curve Approach
Urban Concentration and Spatial Allocation of Rents from natural resources. A Zipf's Curve Approach Open
This paper aims at demonstrating how countries' dependency on natural resources plays a crucial role in urban concentration. The Zipf's Curve Elasticity is estimated for a group of countries and related to a set of indicators of unilateral…
View article: Electrical Energy Storage Systems Feasibility; the Case of Terceira Island
Electrical Energy Storage Systems Feasibility; the Case of Terceira Island Open
The Azores Regional Government, through the Sustainable Energy Action Plan for the Azorean Islands, assumed that by the year 2018, 60% of electricity would be generated from renewable energy sources. Nevertheless, by increasing renewable e…
View article: Cost Benefit Analysis to select clean energy solutions in dairy farm milk collection posts in Azores.
Cost Benefit Analysis to select clean energy solutions in dairy farm milk collection posts in Azores. Open
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the possibility of implementation of alternative renewable energy micro-generation installations in dairy farm milk collection posts, from the technical, economical and environmental perspectives. This …
View article: Bid rents of spatial interaction model with land use in the Munich Region
Bid rents of spatial interaction model with land use in the Munich Region Open
The calibrated of bid rents of spatial interaction models can be very useful spatial economic indicators. The paper shows that the bid rents of the spatial interaction model calibrated for the Munich Region are strongly related to the pric…
View article: Envisioning Experiments on Regional Science Frontiers
Envisioning Experiments on Regional Science Frontiers Open
Science dynamics has become an established part of scientific research. Over the past years, a broad variety of experimental approaches has been developed to explore the frontiers of the current state of the art —and their shifts— in eithe…
View article: Accessibility, equity and efficiency
Accessibility, equity and efficiency Open
Accessibility models not only help to explain spatial and transport developments in developed and developing countries but also are powerful tools to explain the equity and efficiency impacts of urban and transport policies and projects. I…
View article: Accessibility, Equity and Efficiency
Accessibility, Equity and Efficiency Open
Accessibility models not only help to explain spatial and transport developments in developed and developing countries but also are powerful tools to explain the equity and efficiency impacts of urban and transport policies and projects. I…
View article: Accessibility, equity and efficiency. Part 1: Introduction
Accessibility, equity and efficiency. Part 1: Introduction Open
The tension between efficiency and equity has been the focus of major debate since equity aspects started to be considered as part of project evaluation procedures (Thomopoulos et al. 2009). In this book, we contribute to the debate by foc…
View article: Global Amenity Migration: Transforming Rural Culture Economy and Landscape, edited by LaurenceA.G. Moss and RomellaS. Glorioso. 2014. Kaslo, British Columbia: The New Ecology Press. 435. ISBN: 9780993635106. $76.00
Global Amenity Migration: Transforming Rural Culture Economy and Landscape, edited by LaurenceA.G. Moss and RomellaS. Glorioso. 2014. Kaslo, British Columbia: The New Ecology Press. 435. ISBN: 9780993635106. $76.00 Open
Lawrence Moss and Romella Gloriosa assemble 24 chapters and 42 authors from all the continents and from a large variety of disciplines to make available utopian emotions, shared intuitions, careful witnesses, and prospective reflections on…
View article: A multi-criteria decision aid methodology to design electric vehicles public charging networks
A multi-criteria decision aid methodology to design electric vehicles public charging networks Open
This article presents a new multi-criteria decision aid methodology, dynamic-PROMETHEE, here used to design electric vehicle charging networks. In applying this methodology to a Portuguese city, results suggest that it is effective in desi…