Boletin De La Asociacion De Geografos Espanoles 

About: Boletin De La Asociacion De Geografos Espanoles is an academic journal published by Asociación Española de Geografía. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Humanities & Population. It has an ISSN identifier of 0212-9426. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 1356 publications have been published receiving 8021 citations. The journal is also known as: BAGE.

What lies behind domestic water use?: a review essay on the drivers of domestic water consumption

Abstract: Water constitutes and essential flow for the reproduction of urban environments. However and differently than other essential flows such as energy, money or materials, water is essentially bounded to local or regional environments for direct uses. Water stressed urban environments (such those in Mediterranean areas) are prone to suffer water scarcity both due to physical variables but also to human and social factors. Thus, understanding which factors lay behind urban water consumption is critical both in theory terms and also in technical and policy related matters. While the economic and technical literature has paid a great deal of attention to the role of price and other socio-economic drivers, the present work reviews other types of research carried out in the field of domestic water consumption drivers, and highlights the potential contributions of studying territorial, demographic and cultural factors, all of them of great interest for Geography.

Territorial governance in the making. approaches, methodologies, practices

Abstract: I. INTRODUCTIONIn the last two decades or so, the concept of governance has found a central place in social science debate, focusing in particular on the shift from government to governance. Here, government refers to the dominance of State power organised through formal and hie-rarchical public sector agencies and bureaucratic procedures, while governance refers to the emergence of overlapping and complex relationships, involving “new actors” external to the political arena (Painter and Goodwin, 1995).Various theoretical perspectives have tried to conceptualise this transformation and its outcome (Pierre, 1999 & 2000a; Peters, 2000). For example, regulation theorists argue that the shift from government to governance is part of and a response to wider processes of socio-economic change manifested in a move away from a Fordist mass production system and an established Keynesian welfare State towards ‘post-Fordist’ flexible specialisation (Piore and Sabel, 1984). Fiscal crisis in western democracies, with the definition of new strategies for services production and distribution, the need for public-private coordination, economic globalisation and the growing importance of trans-national political institutions are elements of these processes, as underlined by Pierre (2000b). Jessop (1997) adds that central to these developments is the profound restructuring of the State and its changing role in governing the relationships between society and the economy. The so-called ‘hollowing out’ process of the State leads to a continuing loss of national level functions, while the local

Renovación y reestructuración de los destinos turísticos consolidados del litoral: las prácticas recreativas en la evolución del espacio turístico

Abstract: Este trabajo se enmarca en el proyecto de investigacion CSO-00613 MICINN, Plan Nacional de I+D+I, sobre Renovacion de los destinos turisticos consolidados del litoral, que se lleva a cabo en este Instituto y en el que tambien participan investigadores de las universidades de Valencia (Dpto de Geografia) y Jaume I de Castellon (Laboratorio de Planificacion Turistica)

Gobernanza territorial para el desarrollo sostenible: estado de la cuestión y agenda

Abstract: Territorial governance has become the decisive instrument for a more effective management and government of territorial development policies. Across the paper following headings analyze its strengths and limitations, the strategic dialectic relationships –in incremental synergy– between territorial governance, Lisbon objectives and territorial

Políticas públicas, turismo rural y sostenibilidad: difícil equilibrio

Abstract: Las politicas de desarrollo rural en Espana han sido escasas y se han desarrollado en base a los programas Europeos LEADER y PRODER. El turismo rural ha sido uno de los grandes beneficiados y a traves de el se ha ayudado al desarrollo local de los espacios rurales. El articulo plantea la conexion entre los recientes cambios acaecidos en el medio rural, la desigual utilizacion de los recursos de estos espacios, la ausencia de politicas publicas para el desarrollo rural integrado, la sostenibilidad del turismo y en concreto del turismo rural y los pros y contras desde los aspectos socioeconomicos, culturales y mediambientales del turismo rural.