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Housing Affordability in Metropolitan Areas. The Application of a Combination of the Ratio Income and Residual Income Approaches to Two Case Studies …

2017

Housing affordability problems have become more serious over the course of the last few decades and are now also affecting the middle-class, despite the fall in prices on the housing market. This study proposes a methodology to assess threshold-income as an index for measuring housing affordability by applying a combination of the ratio income and residual income approaches. The methodology is applied to two particular areas of Sicily in Italy as case studies consisting of medium-size metropolitan areas located in a less developed European region. The areas have been chosen on the basis of their different territorial structure: a polarized area that comprises a high-density city centre and …

The impractical supremacy of the local identity on the worthless soils of Mappano

2016

Introduction Soil is under pressure worldwide. In Italy, in the last two decades, land consumption has reached an average rate of 8 m2, demonstrating the failure of urban planning in controlling these phenomena. Despite the renewed recognition of the central role of soil resources, which has triggered numerous initiatives and actions, soil resources are still seen as a second-tier priority. No governance body exists to coordinate initiatives to ensure that soils are appropriately represented in decision-making processes. Global Soil Partnership draws our attention to the need for coordination to avoid fragmentation of efforts and wastage of resources. Both at a global and at a local level, …

Analysis of the impact on tourism of the megaproject-based urban development strategy. The case of the city of Valencia

2017

Desde finales de los años 80 del pasado siglo, las ciudades europeas están desarrollando políticas de gestión urbana en la línea de lo que se ha venido en denominar city-marketing, urban-branding, o urbanismo neoliberal. El objetivo de estas políticas es posicionar a la ciudad en el contexto internacional potenciando su singularidad, para lo cual la principal estrategia ha sido la construcción de mega-edificios y la organización de eventos con impacto en los medios de comunicación globales. El aumento de la atractividad turística en las ciudades es utilizado como un indicador de éxito de dichas políticas. La ciudad de Valencia no ha sido ajena a este tipo de estrategias. El presente artícul…

Cities, hinterlands and agglomeration shadows: spatial developments in Finland over 1880-2004

2011

This paper analyzes long-term spatial developments in Finland by focusing on two predictions of the new economic geography (NEG) models, the increasing persistence of locational patterns and the emerging agglomeration shadow, i.e. the rising dominance of growth centers. Pre- and post-war periods are distinguished to roughly express the shift from an agriculture-based economy to a post-industrial country. The analyses base on the assumption that each of the 19 Finnish regions has a center of its own and the rest of the region forms its local hinterland. The empirical analysis is based on regional population data from 1880 to 2004 at decade intervals. First, to analyze the persistence of loca…

Sørlandsporten Teknologinettverk som næringsklynge : hvilke styrker og svakheter har Sørlandsporten Teknologinettverk som regional klynge?

2014

Masteroppgave Innovasjon og kunnskapsutvikling ME513 - Universitetet i Agder 2014 Tema for denne oppgaven har vært hvilke styrker og svakheter Sørlandsporten Teknologinettverk (STN) har som en regional næringsklynge. STN er en næringsklynge innenfor mekanisk industri som er lokalisert i øst-regionen av Aust- Agder. Det er for tiden 16 ulike bedrifter tilknyttet nettverket, som samlet sysselsetter rundt 700 personer og omsetter for over en milliard NOK i året. En næringsklynge kan defineres som en kritisk masse av bedrifter i ulike deler av verdikjeden lokalisert i samme region, og har i ulike grad noen oppgraderingsmekanismer som gjør at klyngedeltakerne oppnår synergieffekter ved å delta f…

Can small regions construct regional advantages? The case of four Norwegian regions

2012

Accepted version of an article in the journal: European Urban and Regional Studies. Also availble from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969776412439200 The conceptual framework of constructing regional advantage (CRA) is implicitly relevant for large, well-off regions that have strong regional innovation systems, a diversity of industrial sectors and resourceful firms that can partake in global knowledge networks. This paper discusses the extent to which small regions, with less developed regional innovation systems, may also constitute the basis for developing regional advantage. Four cases of regional industries dominated by different innovation modes make up the empirical tes…

Regional climate model simulations for Europe at 6 and 0.2 k BP: sensitivity to changes in anthropogenic deforestation

2014

International audience; This study aims to evaluate the direct effects of anthropogenic deforestation on simulated climate at two contrasting periods in the Holocene, ∼ 6 and ∼ 0.2 k BP in Eu-rope. We apply the Rossby Centre regional climate model RCA3, a regional climate model with 50 km spatial resolution, for both time periods, considering three alternative descriptions of the past vegetation: (i) potential natural vegetation (V) simulated by the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS, (ii) potential vegetation with anthro-pogenic land use (deforestation) from the HYDE3.1 (History Database of the Global Environment) scenario (V + H3.1), and (iii) potential vegetation with anthropogenic land …

Starpreģionu integrācija saistībā ar Dienvidāzijas ekonomiskajiem koridoriem un to ietekmi uz Pakistānas eksporta konkurētspēju.

2016

Šajā maģistra darbā ir pētīta starpreģionālā integrācija saistībā ar ekonomiskajiem koridoriem īpašu uzsvaru liekot uz Dienvidāzijas reģionu, kur valstis kā Pakistāna, Indija, Bangladeša un Šrilanka ir vienlīdz konkurētspējīgas darbaspēka radīšanā un kaut kādā ziņā preču ražošanā. Ņemot vērā eksportspējas līdzību, šie potenciālie partneri starptautiskajā tirgū konkurē viens ar otru. Maģistra darba mērķis ir izpētīt starpreģionu integrācijas konkrētāk ekonomisko koridoru ietekmi uz Pakistānas eksporta konkurētspēju tekstilizstrādājumu un apģērbu rūpniecību. Darbā apskatītas dažādas pieejas konkurētspējas noteikšanai kā arī Pakistānas tekstilrūpniecības industrijas analīze un ekspertu viedokļ…

New Challenges in Economic and Business Development – 2019: Incentives for Sustainable Economic Growth: Abstracts of Reports (11th international scie…

2019

Uz vietu balstītas pieejas izmantošana reģionālās attīstības plānošanas pilnveidošanai Latvijā

2014

Promocijas darba „Uz vietu balstītas pieejas izmantošana reģionālās attīstības plānošanas pilnveidošanai Latvijā” ANOTĀCIJA Eiropas Savienības reģionālajā attīstībā pakāpeniski notiek virzība no reģionālo atšķirību mazināšanas uz reģionālās attīstības izaugsmi, kā arī pieaug reģionu un vietējās pārvaldes iesaiste un loma reģionālās attīstības plānošanā. Līdz ar izmaiņām apkārtējā vidē pieaug nepieciešamība rast efektīvākus reģionālās attīstības plānošanas instrumentus, lai sekmētu teritoriju izaugsmi un dzīves kvalitātes paaugstināšanu. Uz vietu balstīta pieeja ir reģionālās attīstības plānošanā izmantojama metode, kuras pamatā ir noteiktā vietā pieejamo teritoriālo resursu un izaugsmi sekm…