Showing papers in "Boletin De La Asociacion De Geografos Espanoles in 2014"
TL;DR: Andalusian rural areas generally concentrate their production in economic activities directly related to the primary sector as discussed by the authors, and as the inhabitants of these areas have low levels of income, additional revenues are needed to raise their standard of living.
Abstract: Andalusian rural areas generally concentrate their production in economic activities directly related to the primary sector. As the inhabitants of these areas have low levels of income, additional revenues are needed to raise their standard of living. Rural tourism, and especially the gastronomic tourism, may be the engine of economic development and of job creation.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the change experienced in Spain in terms of production and capitalization of urban land rent from the Fordist regime of accumulation to the neoliberal regime, focusing on the evolution of urban and financial legislation since the mid-nineties.
Abstract: The paper analyses the change experienced in Spain in terms of production and capitalization of urban land rent from the Fordist regime of accumulation to the neoliberal regime. This analyses focus on the evolution of urban and financial legislation since the mid-nineties. During the neoliberal period, financial institutions have increased their hegemony and the owners have been displaced in favor of the developers by the planning policies of the liberalization of land.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the level of relationship that holds this type of tourism to sustainable development through a number of components and indicators easy to measure, and highlight the importance of heritage tourism in sustainable development.
Abstract: Indicators of touristic sustainability applied to the industrial and mining heritage: evaluation of results in some case studies. Industrial heritage tourism is a form with a high cultural potential target in areas with consolidated experiences, innovative ideas and practical plans for enhancement of local resources. But not yet its sustainability has been deeply investigated. This article aims to highlight the level of relationship that holds this type of tourism to sustainable development through a number of components and indicators easy to measure.
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TL;DR: The Spanish municipal map is characterized by the high degree of fragmentation (8,117 municipalities) and heterogeneity of both its territory and population as mentioned in this paper, and the autonomous communities have not used the powers vested in them to either reform the municipal map or to redraw borders that are better adapted to the country's new geographical realities.
Abstract: The municipal map of Spain is a cultural element that is perfect for geographical analysis. The Spanish municipal map is characterized by the high degree of fragmentation (8,117 municipalities) and heterogeneity of both its territory and population. The autonomous communities have not used the powers vested in them to either reform the municipal map or to redraw borders that are better adapted to the country’s new geographical realities. Instead, they have had to deal with a number of requests for separation, which resulted in the creation of 106 new municipalities between 1982 and 2012.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the most characteristic weather types and their trends, and how they associate with teleconnection patterns were studied, and the presence of the Southeastern Pacific High was identified.
Abstract: The goal is to know the most characteristic weather types and their trends, and how they associate with teleconnection patterns. The presence of the Southeastern Pacific High is
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TL;DR: The Segura River Basin has a structural deficit in the resources/demands of more than 317 hm3/year for the 2015 scenario as discussed by the authors, which requires some initiatives and investments, public and private, in order to improve the quality and sustainability of water use.
Abstract: In the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, the Segura River Basin has a structural deficit in the resources/demands of more than 317 hm3/year for the 2015 scenario. This chronic water shortage and the commitments implementing the Water Framework Directive, require some initiatives and investments, public and private, in order to improve the quality and sustainability of water use. The sewerage plans, water technologies, and measures to reuse, have recovered more than 131 hm3/ano wastewater which is treated and then applied to irrigation and ensure other uses such as the environmental in the Segura Basin.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose the concept of mobility environment as an instrument for mobility planning and evaluation, jointly with a method for its identification, and propose a method to identify the most suitable mobility environment.
Abstract: Over the last years there is a growing interest to insight on the relationships between urban structure and travel patterns. Nevertheless, it is notably the lack of concepts and methods for application in urban transportation planning which try to incorporate this knowledge into the practice. To address this problem, the article aims to propose the concept of «mobility environment» as an instrument for mobility planning and evaluation, jointly with a method for its identification.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified and analyzed the factors setting up the visitors' psychological comfort in natural protected areas and the satisfaction about the tourist experience, and analyzed these factors in four Valencian Natural Protected Areas (Font Roja, Albufera, Turia and Islas Columbretes).
Abstract: This paper identifies and analyses the factors setting up the visitors’ psychological comfort in natural protected areas and the satisfaction about the tourist experience.These factors have been analyzed in four Valencian Natural Protected Areas (Font Roja, Albufera, Turia and Islas Columbretes) from direct and participant observation, in-depth interviews to key stakeholders, as well as an amount of 2,749 visitors’ surveys.
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TL;DR: In this article, the role of age as an important axis of analysis in the framework of social and cultural geography is presented, where focus groups, interviews and walking tours around the neighborhood are used to identify the more used places, the preferred places and the places young people don't like.
Abstract: This article presents the role of age as an important axis of analysis in the framework of social and cultural geography. The fieldwork includes focus groups, interviews and walking tours around the neighborhood, to identify the more used places, the preferred places and the places young people don’t like. We want to know how they build their lives in the neighborhood, how they spend their time and how they use public spaces. Analyzing the neighborhood life is essential to understand the different needs and interests of boys and girls in relation to their experiences and perceptions of lived spaces.
TL;DR: The valencian traditional irrigation systems are spatial units of contrasted heritage and landscape value as mentioned in this paper, from the geographical discipline and specifically from the perspective of landscape value, and the valencians traditional irrigation system is a spatial unit of contrast between heritage and heritage.
Abstract: The valencian traditional irrigation systems are spatial units of contrasted heritage and landscape value. From the geographical discipline and, specifically from the perspective
TL;DR: Este trabajo se ha realizado dentro del Plan Nacional de I+D+i 2008-2011 con el Proyecto CSO2009-14116-C03-02 (subprograma GEOG) and del Programa Consolider de Investigacion en Tecnologias para la valoracion y conservacion del Patrimonio Cultural -TCP-CSD2007-00058.
Abstract: Este trabajo se ha realizado dentro del Plan Nacional de I+D+i 2008-2011 con el Proyecto CSO2009-14116-C03-02 (subprograma GEOG) y del Programa Consolider de Investigacion en Tecnologias para la valoracion y conservacion del Patrimonio Cultural -TCP-CSD2007-00058.
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of territorial conflicts in two districts in two different cities: Valencia in Spain and Montreal in Canada is made, and some interesting conclusions about the relationship between the emergence
Abstract: This paper makes a comparative analysis of territorial conflicts in two districts in two different cities: Valencia in Spain and Montreal in Canada. These two industrial districts are experiencing a deep physical transformation, which has led numerous protests and locational conflicts To do that, a systematic database of conflicts appeared in the last 15 years in each district (Poblats Maritims district in Valencia and Sud-Ouest in Montreal) was set up. We establish finally some interesting conclusions about the relationship between the emergence
TL;DR: In Spain abound territories that offer a generic model of rural tourism as mentioned in this paper, and the supply growth, its expansion to all rural areas and global changes in a post-Fordist market generate increased increased
Abstract: In Spain abound territories that offer a generic model of rural tourism. The supply growth, its expansion to all rural areas and global changes in a post-Fordist market generate increased
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on local state politics and the return to the urban core by the local government action in the last decade, and present a case study of the effects of gentrification in Spain.
Abstract: The interest about gentrification in Spain is increasing although most theories and case studies have been developed in English speaking countries. Thereby, this paper focuses in local state politics and the return to the urban core by the local government action in the last
TL;DR: In this article, the authors claim that the conceptions of a naturalist who worked and lived between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the last wise man of the Renaissance as some have qualified him for his universal
Abstract: Alexander von Humboldt is today claimed as the first to understand the geographic landscape in the modern sense and also as an important benchmark of ecological thinking. That the conceptions of a naturalist who worked and lived between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the last wise man of the Renaissance as some have qualified him for his universal
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a state-of-the-art analysis of the provision and access to Services of General Interest (SGI) in rural areas of the European Union.
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present a state-of-the-art analysis of the provision and access to Services of General Interest (SGI) in rural areas of the European Union. This analysis aims at identifying SGI-related drivers of change, opportunities and constraints that either promote or hinder rural development. The paper reviews various theoretical approaches and carries out empirical analyses that help to understand the dynamics and state of SGI in rural areas. On this basis, policy recommendations regarding the future of SGI are formulated.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a method for assessing the suitability of a path network in a protected natural park for hiking, using a geographic information system, is presented, based on multi-criteria methods including the weighted linear sum and the distance to the ideal point.
Abstract: This paper presents a method for assessing the suitability of a paths network in a protected natural park for hiking, using a geographic information system. The evaluation is based on multi-criteria methods including the weighted linear sum and the distance to the ideal point. The results show that hiking activities can be developed in other sectors of the study area, which are as suitable as those currently established. This would decongest saturated areas and add value to other sectors of the natural park. Thus, development associated with this form of tourism can be extended to all the population centres in the area of influence of the natural area.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the impact of the Spanish high-speed line on Andalusia and Portugal and showed that the recent decision of the European Commission to enhance the Mediterranean Corridor off the Central Corridor and the decision of Portugal to drop the Madrid-Lisbon can be a turning point in the development of the LAV.
Abstract: Marks 20 years of the Spanish high-speed line (LAV) and many authors have questioned its profitability and its supposed advantages in terms of territorial and social cohesion, environmental benefit and its economic multiplier effect. The recent decision of the European Commission to enhance the Mediterranean Corridor off the Central Corridor and the decision of the government of Portugal to drop the Madrid-Lisbon can be a turning point in the development of the LAV. This paper analyzes the impact of the LAV in Andalusia and
TL;DR: There is growing interest in the territory as a strategic factor of local development as discussed by the authors, particularly evident in the field of tourism, whose development depends largely Fecha de recepción: noviembre 2012.
Abstract: There is growing interest in the territory as a strategic factor of local development. This interest is particularly evident in the field of tourism, whose development depends largely Fecha de recepción: noviembre 2012. Fecha de aceptación: noviembre 2013.
TL;DR: In this article, a progressive increase in salinity and marine influence related to local subsidence characterize the evolution of the lagoon of Cabanes Torreblanca, and relative sea level rise, caused saltwater intrusion and landward migration of the barrier.
Abstract: A progressive increase in salinity and marine influence, related to local subsidence characterize the evolution of the lagoon of Cabanes Torreblanca. Relative sea level rise, caused saltwater intrusion and landward migration of the barrier. This barrier is recessive (60-20 m in the last 50 years) and its current processes show a sedimentary deficit that can lead to rapid and irreversible changes. The information shown by this research can help to achieve a sustainable management.
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TL;DR: Pena et al. as mentioned in this paper determined the variability of large floods in Switzerland for the period 1800-2008 from an index of high summer flood damage (INU) that considers severe and catastrophic summer floods in Swiss.
Abstract: Climate forcings and their influence on atmospheric circulation changes may have a decisive role in the generation of large floods. Nevertheless, there is no a general consensus of how these forcings influence on extreme floods (Glaser et al., 2010) and there is no a clear link between solar forcing and the physical processes that are involved in climate (Wanner et al., 2008). The variability of large floods in Switzerland for the period 1800-2008, has been determined from an index of high summer flood damage (INU) that considers severe and catastrophic summer floods in Switzerland (Pena et al., submitted 01/03/2013). According to our prior results, the flood damage index provides evidences that the 1830-1851, 1881-1927 and 1977 to present flood clusters occur largely in phase with paleoclimate proxies and North Atlantic dynamics. Broadly, these episodes coincide with those reported from Switzerland (Schmocker-Fackel y Naef, 2010) and from some areas of the European continent such as the Czech Republic (Brazdil et al., 2006), Italy (Camuffo and Enzi, 1996) and the eastern half of the Iberian Peninsula (Barriendos and Rodrigo, 2006). However, the relationship is not so close when compared with the flood occurrences in Germany (Glaser et al., 2010). Power spectrum analysis of INU revealed periodicities of 2, 11 and 110 years (Pena et al., submitted 01/03/2013). The periodicities of so-called «100-year events» could be explained by centennial-scale solar cycles, which have also been identified in other flood records, including those in eastern France, Switzerland, Netherlands, the UK, Spain and California (see, for example, Magny et al., 2003; Versteegh, 2005; Schulte et al., 2008; 2009). Boletin de la Asociacion de Geografos Espanoles N.o 65 2014, pags. 469-475
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the profile of the assistants to the festival of music that is celebrated in summer in the Costa Brava, with the aim to verify which is his degree of interest to come there and for the social relations that there are in the habit of establishing.
Abstract: In this workpaper is studied the profile of the assistants to the festival of music that is celebrated in summer in the Costa Brava, with the aim to verify which is his degree of interest to come there and for the social relations that there are in the habit of establishing. For it, there has been realized a personal survey among the assistants, being confirmed that the main motivation is the consumption of this music product, although a significant percentage of them also value very positively that before or after they could contact his friends and acquaintances, strengthening this way his social personal networks.
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TL;DR: Serpentine ecosystems are considered as topics of great interest in Conservation Biology and in Conservation Biogeography as discussed by the authors, and they are experiencing a period of changes as a result of human activity.
Abstract: Serpentine ecosystems are considered as topics of great interest in Conservation Biology and in Conservation Biogeography. These original ecosystems are spread by the terrestrial surface and they are experiencing a period of changes as a result of human activity. Part of the exclusive habitats that live in serpentine have been disrupted or destroyed because of mining and building or they have been divided into little fragments of land while others have been transformed by agriculture, livestock or forestry management. Populations of endemic plants and animals have also a high rate of extinction and climate change, boosted by fires, threats these barely studied «biogeographical islands». In Spain, the serpentine ecosystems are located mainly in Andalusia (Serrania de Ronda) and Galicia (Sierras Capelada and Careón) and show a scarce surface area and irregular and fragmented distribution. These outcrops have unequal degrees of protection and insufficient scientific knowledge. Sierra Bermeja stands out among the most valuable, unknown and threatened peridotite outcrops. This mountain acts as the scenery for the Costa del Sol touristic resort. The massif is the main habitat for taxa and biological-biogeographical processes that deserve conservation measures, especially when adaptation to ultramafic soils is involved. Currently, there is a lack of functional studies that demonstrate the existence of such processes, despite the anthropogenic threats that they face. Boletín e la Asociación d Geógrafos Españoles N.o 65 2014, págs. 451-456
TL;DR: In el proyecto de investigación financiado por el Plan Nacional de I+D del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (PMI+D) as discussed by the authors, Sostenibilidad ambiental y social en espacios metropolitanos.
Abstract: Este trabajo se inserta en el proyecto de investigacion financiado por el Plan Nacional de I+D del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion titulado: Sostenibilidad ambiental y social en espacios metropolitanos. El caso del Area Metropolitana de Valencia (CSO2010-20481).