Development stakeholders and territorial identity in Portugal [PDF]
The need to reaffirm the diversity of places and regions in order to make them economically and culturally “more competitive” on the globalised market of goods and services has been widely accepted in regional and local development policies in Portugal ...
Zoran Roca
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Fate Control and Human Rights: The Policies and Practices of Local Governance in America's Arctic [PDF]
, 2014 The loss of territoriality over lands conveyed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act had adverse impacts for Alaskan tribal governance. Despite policy frameworks that emphasize the value of local governance at an international, regional, and ...
Kimmel, Mara
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Municipal expected annual loss as an indicator to develop seismic risk maps in Italy [PDF]
, 2019 This work presents a risk-targeted indicator called Municipal Expected Annual Loss (MEAL) for a quantitative estimation of the seismic risk at territorial level.
Faleschini, Flora +4 more
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Universities and territorial development [PDF]
, 2011 This contribution aims at highlighting some key issues of the evolutionary process of universities, underlining in particular their role in promoting economic development and local communities. The recent shift in paradigm from the ivory tower to the entrepreneurial university has been dramatic and raises both consensus and criticism.
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One Hundred Years of National Capital-Making: The Case of Bratislava, Slovakia
Quaestiones GeographicaeAlthough Bratislava is one of the youngest national capital cities in the world, we can observe a much longer process of its capital-making. We document its gradual formation as a centre of national politics and government, as well as the centre of ...
Buček Ján +2 more
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ORIENTATION OF COMMUNICATION ROUTES AND BALANCED REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT [PDF]
Territorial development depends on territorial discontinuities, provided that the region is born of discontinuities, lives through them and is killed by them.
Alexandru-Ionut PETRISOR
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A new emerging rural world : An overview of rural change in Africa [PDF]
, 2013 The atlas is a tool that is both accessible and indispensable for understanding rural change in Africa. This original tool relates data on demographics, urbanization and resource use with spatial and economic dynamics, both on a continental level and ...
Imbernon, Jacques (ed.) +2 more
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Product differentiation and territorial competitiveness. How permanent are development strategies centred on resource specification? [PDF]
Using the example of a French region (Aubrac), we analyse the way in which resource specification contributes to territorial development. We show that specification of the territorial offer is subject to the participation of organizations and ...
Dominique Vollet, Valérie Angeon
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“Criteria for establishing a model for defining Croatian regions lagging in Development” [PDF]
Krešimir Jurlin, Jakša Puljiz, Sanja Malekoviæ Institute for International Relations, Zagreb The purpose of this paper is to introduce economic and demographic development criteria as a basis for Croatia’s regional policy.
Jakša Puljiz +2 more
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Scientific ReportsAs the foundational and core resource for agricultural development, arable land plays a critical role in optimizing regional agricultural resource allocation and ensuring food security. This study employs Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) and
Tianwei Zhang +4 more
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