In terms of the socio-economic crisis, the ravages of a pandemic shock indicate that people from developing countries are likely to be more vulnerable. The same direction of impact could be expected in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic; however, both scale and speed of this pandemic differ from...

Indonesia’s target is to reduce GHG emissions to between 26-41% (0.767-1.244) Gton CO2e from base year 2010 to target year 2020. Kupang is one of the cities targeted to achieve this. This research begins by introducing current solid waste management, the development of a Kupang input output...

This article investigates current age cohort effects on regional migration in Turkey and compares the results with the pattern for the period 1985-1990. The vast amount of migration from the economically backward east and southeast regions to the more developed regions in the west of the country...

Algeria has a large immigrant population. It is the third largest African community in the world after that of Egypt and Morocco. Its role in the international trade of Algeria has never been object of evaluation study. In line with the recent literature developed since the 1990s, through the...

Regional disparities are one of the main problems in developing countries and Iranian provinces suffer from such disparities. Balanced growth of all provinces of the country has been considered essential for sustainable development. By constructing Human Development Index (HDI) over the period...

Setting targets in a foresight exercise is of crucial importance for both orienting future policy directions as well as assessing the achievement of policy concerns. The focus of the present paper is on the development of a methodological framework for setting objectives and targets in a...

The paper attempts to empirically explain the vote shares received by political parties across municipalities in Greece during the national elections of 2000, in terms of demographic, educational, occupational and other factors under two territorial specifications: one based on the conventional...

The paper focuses on the human mobility in Mediterranean cities. This stream of immigrants change to the space of urban life for the historical, geographical and cultural factors leaded to themselves. The paper‘ll analyse two cities, Naples and Valencia, because both are very interested of...

This paper begins with a conceptual approach to the third sector, followed by a review of the relationship between investment and growth. The empirical component focuses on Portuguese NUT III Douro and Alto Tras-os-Montes regions, which are said to be less developed, and have been the recipients...

The aim of this contribution is to apply methods from optimal control theory to the mathematical modeling of biological pest control. We formulate a pest control strategy for nonlinear Kolmogorov system of n interacting populations by introducing natural enemies as a control function. The...