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Agrarian development and state building in Spain: the contest for irrigation in the Valencian Region, 1770–1860
2022
AbstractA determined expansion in the productive capacity of Spanish agriculture was a fundamental and contentious objective during the crisis of the country’s ancien régime and the formation of the liberal state, in the years of transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. In this study we examine a fundamental reorientation that occurred in an ambitious project for the expansion of irrigation in the region of Valencia. In this region, characterised by a well-rooted commercial agriculture, the original scheme, initiated by an enlightened aristocrat well connected with the royal court, would be profoundly altered in the transition from one political regime to another. The irr…
Difusión de innovaciones en la agricultura ecológica y análisis de redes sociales : un ensayo de aplicación
2021
La manera en la que las innovaciones se difunden sobre el territorio tiene una estrecha relación con la configuración de las redes del productor agrario en torno a las organizaciones. En esta investigación se estudia la relación entre los flujos de información y las redes personales en la agricultura ecológica que directa o indirectamente promueven las innovaciones en el sector. A partir de un listado de 28 innovaciones, agrupadas en cuatro categorías (Producto, Proceso, Organización y Marketing) se realizan entrevistas en profundidad a 11 actores relacionados con la agricultura ecológica las provincias de Castellón y Valencia para analizar las redes de difusión de innovaciones. Con los dat…
Las grandes exposiciones del siglo XXI frente a la fragilidad del territorio
2019
Las exposiciones no son eventos autónomos ni homogéneos, al contrario, su desarrollo constituye la trama de una historia discontinua, el espejo de una sociedad en evolución que experimenta sus reglas y sus paradigmas, mostrándolos a la sociedad. A través de cartografía y bibliografía específica, además de las experiencias personales de los autores, se analizan los eventos de Hannover (2000) que marca el comienzo de las exposiciones del presente siglo, Shanghái (2010), y Milán (2015) para comprender los efectos que los eventos expositivos tienen sobre la transformación de la ciudad y del territorio, en un momento en el cual existe una renovada preocupación sobre el devenir de las ciudades, s…
Corrigendum to ‘Pathway using WUDAPT's Digital Synthetic City tool towards generating urban canopy parameters for multi-scale urban atmospheric model…
2019
Some Reflections on the Economic and Political Organisation of Private Neighbourhoods
2005
The spreading of privately organised and often gated neighbourhoods in many regions of the world has triggered a widespread discussion about the relations between social and urban development. This paper presents some reflections on the economic and political organisation of this type of housing. First, the club goods theory is used to explain the potential attractiveness of this form of housing for developers, local governments as well as residents. However, the club goods theory alone does not enable one to understand the global but regionally differentiated development. Therefore, second, this paper proposes to view the analysis of private neighbourhoods as club economies against the bac…
Increasing the attractiveness of a cruise port for cargo business: The contribution of stakeholders
2021
Abstract Cruise and cargo operations, though distinct seaport activities, have sufficiently similar functions that by accommodating cargo business in a largely cruise domain, a port may achieve increased attractiveness and better resource utilization. We sought to conceptualize a framework by which an existing cruise port can integrate divergent stakeholder interests to achieve port attractiveness under this duality. We adopted a qualitative approach involving in-depth interviews with experts representing the port authority and key stakeholders at Port Canaveral, the second busiest multi-day cruise embarkation port in the world. We identified a supply chain integration model as a pathway to…
Cities and regional disparities in the European Union: evolving geographies and challenges for Cohesion Policy
2021
Since the nineties, urban areas have assumed a growing importance in EU Cohesion Policy. This process, which is being implemented through various political steps and policy instruments, has led cities to be recognised as key elements in the promotion of balanced development. After decades of planning experiments at different territorial scales, however, the extent to which EU urban policy has contributed to regional development is currently under debate. This paper seeks to describe the evolution of the urban dimension within EU Cohesion Policy, with a focus on the role of cities in those countries and regions experiencing development problems.
Award Winning Teaching Practice - Part I
2009
La dimensione etica dei compiti disciplinari nella contrapposizione tra valori non conciliabili
2013
Le recenti forme di conflitto (non solo sociale), hanno una natura prevalentemente – se non esclusivamente – urbana, permanente e non-congiunturale. Esse coesistono con i tradizionali raggruppamenti ed espressioni sociali, peraltro sempre meno definiti (classi, gruppi di interesse, associazioni) e, sebbene le loro caratteristiche siano in costante variazione, costituiscono una componente stabile ed irreversibile della condizione urbana (e sociale) contemporanea. Questi conflitti, che rappresentano forme di azione, e di azione politica nello specifico, non si adattano facilmente né sono facilmente assimilabili ai già esistenti canali di rappresentanza ed alle tradizionali forme di organizzaz…
Comparative Analysis of the Social, Demographic and Economic Factors that Influenced Housing Choices in Spain in 1990 and 2000
2008
The housing market is an important sector in the economy of any country. Residential demand (also referred to as `housing consumption') depends on many demographic and social characteristics of the country's population and is also related to economic factors. The aim of the present paper was to evaluate the joint effects of economic, demographic and social factors on household behaviour with respect to housing choices. In addition, an attempt was made to determine the impact of recent economic and structural changes in Spanish society (in 1990 and 2000) on residential demand. It was found that the consequences of these structural changes will have medium- and long-term effects on housing d…