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La innovación empresarial y la difusión como nuevos factores de desarrollo territorial. Una comparación entre dos áreas geográficas de diferente acce…
2003
Javier.Esparcia@uv.es Joan.Noguera@uv.es Vicente.Ferrer@uv.es El proyecto AsPIRE (Perifericidad No Espacial, Innovación y la Economía Rural) intenta dar respuesta a algunas de las dudas que están surgiendo en ciertos modelos geo-económicos tradicionales. El desarrollo de otros factores parece que puede suplir parcialmente las deficiencias ligadas a la localización geográfica. La comunicación que presentamos se centra en el papel de la innovación y las redes empresariales como uno de los factores emergentes de desarrollo territorial. The AsPIRE Project (Aspatial Peripherality, Innovation and the Rural Economy intends to provide a scientifically valid answer to some of the problems arising in…
La explicación del riesgo de sequía en la Geografía escolar. Una exploración desde los manuales escolares de Ciencias Sociales (Educación Primaria)
2021
espanolEn la region mediterranea uno de los principales riesgos naturales son las sequias. Este fenomeno se ha agravado en las ultimas decadas debido al incremento de la vulnerabilidad asociadas a actividades humanas y, segun los escenarios futuros de cambio climatico, se preve que aumente la peligrosidad (mayor intensidad y frecuencia de los periodos secos). El objetivo de este trabajo es llevar a cabo un analisis de como se explica el riesgo de sequia en los manuales escolares de Ciencias Sociales (3er ciclo de Educacion Primaria) en la Comunidad Valenciana (Espana). A partir de la consulta de estos recursos (las 5 editoriales mas utilizadas), los resultados obtenidos indican que esta tem…
Conceptualizing Core Aspects on Circular Economy in Cities
2021
Currently, there are many different interpretations in the literature of what a circular economy is and how it functions. As cities are still facing challenges to become fully sustainable, the need for a comprehensive analysis of how the circular economy can be implemented in urban areas is increasing. This article aims at outlining circular cities by their key characteristics and to further explore and provide a framework for fostering circularity at the city level. In order to achieve this goal, we performed a systematic review and analyzed key papers published in the field of circular economy to determine how circular economy practices form circular cities. We discovered that cities play…
Sustainable Infrastructure Projects: Systemic versus Traditional Delivery Models
2021
Sustainability involves multiple environmental, technical, social and economic factors, and such complex analysis requires systemic solutions. Delivery models are key to achieving system benefits and enhancing sustainable development in infrastructure investments. They define the phases of a project, incentive structures, risk sharing and the relationships among the actors in it. They are usually developed early in the project and determine the project dynamics and outcomes. We compared traditional delivery models with systemic ones. We identified and illustrated elements that differ between them through two cases. The contribution is an increased understanding of how systemic infrastructur…
Ecosystem Services at the Archipelago Sea Biosphere Reserve in Finland: A Visitor Perspective
2019
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Development of environmental health competencies through compulsory education. A polyhedral approach based on the SDGs
2020
This paper focuses on the competencies in environmental health acquired by students during compulsory education. Questionnaires addressing environmental health problems were completed by 923 students of primary and secondary schools from five different Spanish regions. The results for five challenging situations related to hunger, consumerism, climate change, pollution in the cities and allergies are analysed according to the internal coherence of each sub-competency, i.e., addressing knowledge, skills and attitudes towards these topics. Our results show that problems related to air and water pollution were the most commonly described by the students. Focusing on competency achievement, the…
German Marathon Runners' Opinions on and Willingness to Pay for Environmental Sustainability
2021
Research on sustainability and/in sport and, specifically, on the ecological aspects of participatory sporting events is still very scarce despite the recognition these topics have received by actors like, for instance, the European Commission and the United Nations. Against this backdrop, this paper sheds light on a field that is virtually uncharted in academic research, which is the environmental attitudes and willingness to pay for environmental sustainability of participants in participatory sporting events in Europe. In collaboration with the organizer of the Frankfurt Marathon, a study was conducted with a specific focus on German (speaking) marathon runners. In total 1764 data sets w…
Model to Assess the Quality of Magmatic Rocks for Reliable and Sustainable Constructions
2017
Geomechanical assessment of rocks requires knowledge of phenomena that occur under the influence of internal and external factors at a macroscopic or microscopic scale, when rocks are submitted to different actions. To elucidate the quantitative and qualitative geomechanical behavior of rocks, knowing their geological and physical–mechanical characteristics becomes an imperative. Mineralogical, petrographical and chemical analyses provided an opportunity to identify 15 types of igneous rocks (gabbro, diabases, granites, diorites, rhyolites, andesites, and basalts), divided into plutonic and volcanic rocks. In turn, these have been grouped into acidic, neutral (intermediate) and basic magmat…
Measuring Sustainability with Unweighted TOPSIS: An Application to Sustainable Tourism in Spain
2021
The measurement of sustainability is complex due to its multiple dimensions of different relative importance and different natures. From the perspective of sustainability, three types of tourism can be established: traditional tourism, sustainable tourism, and sustainable impact tourism. In the context of multiple-criteria decision analysis, this paper presents a flexible method for assess and rank decision alternatives based on their sustainability. The proposal does not require the relative importance of each criterion to be precisely assigned beforehand, which reduces the subjectivity of the decision making and yields results that can be of interest for decision makers. To show the diffe…
In-between sprawl and neo-rurality. Sparse settlements and the evolution of socio-demographic local context in a Mediterranean region
2018
Dispersed urbanization during the last half century has transformed metropolitan regions into well-connected, low-density residential areas. However, this kind of urbanization has changed irreversibly the traditional rural landscape around cities, leading to a new definition of &lsquo