The settlement of people in the territory responds to their personal and contextual preferences and it is based on the close relationships offered by the environment beyond the residential area. The study here presented has analyzed this issue through a...
What is the relationship between urbanization and economic development? Historically, both processes have gone hand in hand; developed countries are today also the most urbanized. However, during the last decades, many developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, have undergone accelerated...
The reproductive biology of collared peccary, a wild species widely dispersed from tropical America to subtropical, is little known and its understanding is essential to optimize the species. The present study shows a...
Most "developing" or "underdeveloped" countries show high levels of inequality. Likewise, both in developing and developed countries, increases in inequality are often accompanied by declines in the levels of development. To what extent is this fact a simple
Dr Jason Hickel (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Prof Giorgos Kallis (ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona) have published a paper titled “Is Green Growth Possible?” in the journal New Political Economy. The paper examines green growth theory as articulated in major reports by the World...
Even though wild meat represents an important source of protein and income for local people in tropical forests, it is considered the main cause of population declines of many animal species. In this article, with the aim of improving the understanding of this type of trade and thus...
Were women working in the 18th century Spain, before censuses of the population existed? Thanks to this research, it has been discovered that a large percentage of women worked in manufacturing (especially in...
The lawyer and journalist Caddy Adzuba has stood out as an international speaker of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), especially with regard to the situation of women, victims of gender violence related to DRC war. She is a founding member of the network "A loudspeaker for silence" and is...
Sergio Manrique, doctoral student of the Ph.D. in Economics, Management and Organization at the Business Department of UAB, and Dr. Carmen Pilar Martí-Ballester, associate professor of the same Department, have...
Researchers from the UAB have analysed over one thousand public primary education schools in Catalonia to study what motivates parents to choose a particular school. They have also studied how this election influences the quality...
