Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Tourism Sector Dynamics and the issue of Sustainability -- Chapter 3. Tourism and the environment -- Chapter 4: Tourism and sustainability: some analytical tools -- Chapter 5: Contrasting impacts of tourism expansion -- Chapter 6: Tourism, innovation and...

The paper seeks to evaluate whether and to what extent the recent global financial crisis and its economic aftermaths had any impact on the dynamics of the European countries’ national welfare provisions. Relying on the most recent available data on 16 Western countries, covering the period...

Introduction -- Economic Resilience and Regional Disparities: The Value Added of Spatial Analysis -- Spatial Econometric Models: Theory -- A Tutorial on Modeling Geographic, Economic and Social Interactions Using GIS Methods with R -- Resilience to Climate Change: Spatial Ricardian Analysis --...