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Islands are bounded yet metabolically open socio-ecological systems whose viability is increasingly stressed by tourism pressure, climate variability, and high external dependence for energy and food.
Serafin Corral
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COULD SOCIOECONOMIC METABOLISM BE MOLDED BY TRANSACTION COSTS? [PDF]
Two key issues that shape the economic development and growth of a country are the independence and effectiveness of the judicial system and the level of bureaucracy. The theory of transaction costs, developed, among others, by Douglass C.
RALUCA I. IORGULESCU, JOHN M. POLIMENI
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EVALUATING THE CULTURE-LED REGENERATION [PDF]
The aim of the paper is to propose a new approach to urban planning, evaluating the culture-led regeneration processes. In the last few years, the cultural turn in urban planning played a central role in the urban studies. In this way we try to elaborate
D'Angelo Francesca +3 more
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This Ph.D. thesis analyzes the supply and demand of water in the Yucatan Peninsula, México (YP), from the societal metabolism of water perspective. On one hand, an estimation of water supply is made based on a monthly water balance model using historical data from 1961-2000 (considering that groundwater is the main source of water in the region). Later,
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ارزیابی و تحلیل تعاملات متابولیکی و پیوند آب، غذا و انرژی با استفاده از چارچوب MUSIASEM (مطالعه موردی: حوضه آبریز فرامرزی هریرود) [PDF]
آب، غذا و انرژی بهعنوان سیستمهای در همتنیده و به هم پیوسته، تأثیرات متقابل قابلتوجهی بر یکدیگر دارند وتغییرات کمّی و کیفی در هر یک از این سیستمها میتواند به سایرین آسیب بزند.
انسیه طلایی +1 more
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La gramática del MuSIASEM como herramienta de representación para el análisis de la sostenibilidad del sistema alimentario en el Perú. [PDF]
Los estragos producidos como consecuencia de la actividad humana en el funcionamiento del ecosistema se han convertido en prioridad en los últimos años. Un ámbito clave en el que se ha puesto mayor énfasis es el sistema alimentario.
Morales Capuñay, Miguel Angel
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Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MUSIASEM): An Outline of Rationale and Theory [PDF]
This paper presents an outline of rationale and theory of the MuSIASEM scheme (Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism).
Kozo Mayumi +2 more
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This paper investigates the socio-economic and the energy changes that have taken place in six developing countries characterized by established tourism economies.
Valeria Andreoni, Julia Jeyacheya
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Rural development strategies in the Andes face persistent tensions between income generation, food provision, and the conservation of ecological functions.
Juan José Cadillo-Benalcazar +8 more
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Why Catalonia will see its energy metabolism increase in the near future: an application of MuSIASEM [PDF]
This paper applies the so-called Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) to the economy of the Spanish region of Catalonia. By applying Georgescu-Roegen’s fund-flow model, it arrives at the conclusion that within a
J. Ramos-Martin, S. Cañellas-Bolta
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