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Innovation and multi-level knowledge transfer using a multi-criteria decision making method for the planning of protected areas
(Disability and Rehabilitation-Assistive Technology, 2019-09)
MCDM methods are useful to obtain information and generate knowledge useful for decision-making processes in multidisciplinary contexts. Particularly, when conflicts occur, knowledge is the key to start negotiation processes ...
Planning for democracy in protected rural areas: application of a voting method in a Spanish-Portuguese reserve
(Land, 2019)
The planning of protected rural areas is usually defined by institutional decision-makers without considering the preferences of the local communities that live on the land, which frequently leads to conflicts in land ...
Comprehensive evaluation of the tourism seasonality using a synthetic DP2 indicator
(Tourism Geographies, 2019-03-15)
Tourism plays an important role in the economic development of several regions over the world. Imbalances in the activity levels throughout the year will condition the positive effects generated by the sector given that ...
An Analysis of the Tourist Mobility in the Island of Lanzarote: Car Rental Versus More Sustainable Transportation Alternatives
(Sustainability, 2019-01-31)
Studies have shown that certain modes of tourist development jeopardize the environment, as in the case of mass tourism, especially in areas that require special protection. The goal of this study is to apply a proposal ...
Modelling stakeholders’ preferences to pinpoint conflicts in the planning of transboundary protected areas
(Land Use Police, 2019-12)
In this paper, we propose a sequentially participative model for planning in transboundary protected areas based on the Analytical Hierarchy Process, Goal Programming and Monte Carlo simulation. The model was developed ...
Solidarity economy, social enterprise, and innovation discourses: Understanding hybrid forms in postcolonial Colombia
(Social Sciences, 2019)
Dominant conceptions of solidarity economy, social enterprise, and innovation (SSEI) remain poorly positioned for understanding the diverse models emerging across the global South. The purpose of this paper is to examine ...
A critical analysis of the advantages brought by blockchain technology to the global economy
(International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, 2019)
The blockchain distributed ledger technology offers a secure, transparent, verifiable, democratic, decentralised, efficient, and tamper-resistant way to record and transfer data. Now much of the discussion revolves around ...
An analysis of the stability of rural tourism as a desired condition for sustainable tourism
(Journal of Business Research, 2019-07)
Tourism is a key sector in the sustainable development of rural environments. Its ability to create stable employment and an acceptable level of profits is conditioned by the stability of tourist activity throughout the ...
A spatial analysis of the achievements, in terms of regional development, accomplished by the initial EU-member cohesion fund beneficiaries using a synthetic indicator
(Sustainability, 2019-04-02)
This study proposes construction of a synthetic indicator to measure progress toward the objective of economic and social cohesion among the regions of Spain, Greece, Ireland and Portugal within the framework of European ...
Why Regulation Is Needed in Emerging Markets in the Tourism Sector
(American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2019-06-23)
he neoclassical ideal has defended the idea that markets, in a context of limited regulation, reach an optimal equilibrium automatically. We analyze this assertion in an applied manner with a case study of the emerging ...