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en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The proliferation of Illegal landfills (IL) has negative impacts on the environment and the economy, especially in both, ecological sensitive and touristic areas. This work focuses on the characterization of illegal landfills located in La Palma Island. 153 IL were obtained through field work and the visual interpretation of digital ortho-images at a spatial resolution 0.5 m for 2012 and 2015. This information was included within a geospatial database together with a set of 150 potential explanatory features of different typology: type of waste, surveillance and control, socioeconomics, accessibility, distance to elements of interest, visibility and terrain features. Multivariate analyses such as exploratory analysis (EA), factor analysis (FA) and discriminant analysis (DA) were applied to assess the degree of association between the explanatory features and the IL occurrence. AF explained a cumulative variance of 82.34% considering 7 factors (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test: 0.71). AD showed a canonical correlation of 0.78. AD leaded to discriminating between affected areas and non-affected areas using features such as: population density, slope, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) or distance to agricultural areas or distance to urban centers. Additionally, AF identified the former features as the main drivers of IV occurrence.

This study analyzes undeclared work as a key portion of the shadow economy in the EU-28, with special focus on its incidence, dynamics, structure, differences across countries and underlying determinants. To this end, linear regression and binary discrete choice models are applied to microdata drawn from 2 special Eurobarometers which are designed to explore undeclared work phenomenon in the years 2007 and 2013. Our results stress the importance of (i) the individual assessment of irregular and individualistic behaviours; (ii) the perceived risk of being detected undertaking paid undeclared work; (iii) the occupation; and (iv) the aggregated conditions, as determinants of undeclared work. The implications of these results for the existing policy options for dealing with the shadow economy are also discussed.

This work analyzes the importance of landscape and patrimonial resources as a strategy for local development in interior spaces with little tourism activity, deepens the image of the landscape as a tourism product and proposes actions that will promote new sources of wealth and employment as well as paralysis Of the threats that could contribute to the disappearance of these inherited cultural landscapes with a significant identity character. Through the SWOT methodology, the importance of actions and policies that address sustainability as a guarantee for a territorial balance that contemplates environmental preservation, economic viability and social equity in the development of benefits for the entire municipality and its area of influence.

The aim of this paper is to analyse the evolution of Andalusian economy’s external competitiveness. For that purpose, two main research dimensions are examined: first, the relationship between unit labour costs and Andalusia’s export performance at an aggregate level; second, indicators of both business, and public sector behaviour in the determinant areas of the regional competitive position at a microeconomic level. The analysis of the evolution of the variables in the economy will be carried out in comparison with several surrounding economies and regions. The results suggest that despite the strong downward trend followed by labour costs, at the moment, the crisis has not become an opportunity to substantially improve the positioning of the regional economy.

The municipality of Jabugo is one of the most important in the transformation of the Iberian pork. In the last decades, the industry has undergone a transformation, with processes of concentration, relocation and positioning among the companies in the industry. As a result, large companies have been strengthened, and the Protected Designation of Origin “Jabugo" emerges as an opportunity for the sector.

Since the middle of the last century the river areas of Andalusia have undergone a process of degradation. This paper presents a historical and multiscale approach of the spatial distribution of river areas by using the land cover maps. At regional level, evidence of that Andalusia has lost a tenth of river areas over the last six decades. Secondly, analyzed of two local paradigmatic cases (Guadalmina river and Guadalquivir river) that can be extended to the rest of territory. The effort for the management of river areas has not been reflected in the results, being the interrelationships between water and land management (regional, sub regional and municipal) still an unresolved issue.

The territory of Bardenas de Navarrais one of the most original and uncommon inEurope. The structural tabular topography of the Tertiary age has been sculpted mostly into badlands in climatic conditions of low and concentrated rainfall, severe temperatures both in winter as in summer and persistent winds. This environmental context configures a steppe-type vegetal landscape reminiscent of arid or semi-arid areas. It is that interest that leads us to characterize and to assess its vegetal landscape using the LANBIOEVA methodology. This method is applied, in a systematic manner, to those vegetal landscapes in order to obtain the data about each assessment criterion and these to be compared with other data obtained for over twenty years in other formations and areas at a global level. The Aleppo pine forest (Pinus halepensis) stands out for its high values and also does, especially, oak woods (Quercus rotundifolia). The lowest scores are recorded for the Kermes (Quercus coccifera).

The aim of this paper is to analyse the evolution of Andalusian economy’s external competitiveness. For that purpose, two main research dimensions are examined: first, the relationship between unit labour costs and Andalusia’s export performance at an aggregate level; second, indicators of both business, and public sector behaviour in the determinant areas of the regional competitive position at a microeconomic level. The analysis of the evolution of the variables in the economy will be carried out in comparison with several surrounding economies and regions. The results suggest that despite the strong downward trend followed by labour costs, at the moment, the crisis has not become an opportunity to substantially improve the positioning of the regional economy.

This article is based on understanding public space as territorial linkage, establishes a method for its diagnosis and for the development of a territorial strategy that identifies intervention projects geared towards urban renewal in the urban community of Santa Margarita, in the city of Guadalajara, México. This research concludes that this method can be applied to understand the territorial and social condition of public spaces and propose them as centralities and axis of urban development planning.

The Itinerant University of the Sea was created in 2006 by the universities of Oviedo, Porto and the Naval School of Lisbon, to provide a training experience that has as its horizon to awake the mind of the young people and not sleep it, using the sea as a way and a ship of instruction as a tool in order to extend the personal skills of the participants, by applying the phrase "knowledge and adventure" as a basic descriptor of the teaching of geography. Here we explain why, how and what it does.