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Articles 4 records found  
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24 p, 416.6 KB The politics of educational success : a realist evaluation of early school leaving policies in Catalonia (Spain) / Tarabini-Castellani, Aina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Sociologia) ; Parcerisa, Lluís (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Sociologia) ; Curran, Marta (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Sociologia) ; Montes Ruiz, Alejandro (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Sociologia)
The objective of the article is to examine what is 'taken for granted' in the policies designed to combat Early School Leaving (ESL) in Catalonia, identifying their implicit ontologies, causal assumptions and logics of action. [...]
2018 - 10.1080/17508487.2016.1197842
Critical Studies in Education, Vol. 59 (2018) , p. 364-381  
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30 p, 3.1 MB 'Cosmovillagers' as Sustainable Rural Development Actors in Mountain Hamlets? International Immigrant Entrepreneurs' Perceptions of Sustainability in the Lleida Pyrenees (Catalonia, Spain) / Morén Alegret, Ricard (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; Milazzo, Josepha Jocelyne Odette (University Aix-en-Provence) ; Romagosa Casals, Francesc (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; Kallis, Giorgos (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
In recent decades, small villages in some mountainous regions in Europe have been suffering from ageing and depopulation, yet at the same time, immigrants have been arriving and settling there. This paper sheds light on the perceptions of sustainable rural development among international immigrants living in municipalities with fewer than 500 inhabitants, which are already the home to some 'cosmovillagers'. [...]
De Gruyter Open, 2021 - 10.2478/euco-2021-0018
European Countryside, Vol. 13 Núm. 2 (2021) , p. 267-296  
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32 p, 3.7 MB Challenges in achieving sustainability in Iberian rural areas and small towns : Exploring immigrant stakeholders' perceptions in Alentejo, Portugal, and Empordà, Spain / Morén Alegret, Ricard (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia) ; Fatorić, Sandra (North Carolina State University) ; Wladyka, Dawid (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) ; Mas Palacios, Albert (Unió Excursionista de Catalunya de Mataró) ; Fonseca, Maria Lucinda (Universidade de Lisboa. Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território)
There is growing evidence of international immigration becoming increasingly influential in peripheral areas in some Southern European countries. Particularly in small localities, where the maintenance of a significant number of active populations is crucial for social, economic and environmental sustainability, immigration can be of vital importance for local and regional policy-making. [...]
2018 - 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.05.005
Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 64 (November 2018) , p. 253-266  
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20 p, 388.6 KB (Lifestyle) immigrant entrepreneurs in Spanish small villages : Rethinking international immigration in rural Alt Empordà, Catalonia / Mendoza, Cristóbal (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa (Mèxic)) ; Morén Alegret, Ricard (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; McAreavey, Ruth (University of Newcastle)
The article studies connections between local economics, entrepreneurship and lifestyle immigration in municipalities with fewer than 500 inhabitants in Alt Empordà, Spain. Using a qualitative methodology, it analyses the economic incorporation of immigrant entrepreneurs by considering in which ways they contribute to the local economies. [...]
2020 - 10.4000/belgeo.44107
BELGEO, Vol. 1 (April 2020) , art. 44107  
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Research literature 3 records found  
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53 p, 3.3 MB What do divided cities have in common? An international comparison of income segregation / Veneri, Paolo (Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE)) ; Comandon, Andre (University of California) ; García-López, Miquel-Àngel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ; Daams, Michiel N. (University of Groningen) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
This paper provides a comparative assessment of income segregation within cities in 12 countries. We use spatial entropy indexes based on small-scale gridded income data and consistent definition of city boundaries to ensure international comparability of our segregation measures. [...]
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada, 2020 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 04.20) - 10.1111/jors.12506  
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47 p, 162.9 KB The building blocks of international ecological footprint inequality : a regression-based decomposition / Teixidó-Figueras, Jordi ; Duro, Juan Antonio ; Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
This paper performs an empirical Decomposition of International Inequality in Ecological Footprint in order to quantify to what extent explanatory variables such as a country's affluence, economic structure, demographic characteristics, climate and technology contributed to international differences in terms of natural resource consumption during the period 1993-2007. [...]
Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) 2013 (XREAP ; 2013-03)  
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45 p, 846.5 KB Ecological Footprint Inequality : a methodological review and some results / Teixidó-Figueras, Jordi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) ; Duro, Juan Antonio (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) ; Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
Scarcities of environmental services are no longer merely a remote hypothesis. Consequently, analysis of their inequalities between nations becomes of paramount importance for the achievement of sustainability in terms either of international policy, or of Universalist ethical principles of equity. [...]
Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) 2012 (XREAP ; 2012-15)  
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