In the face of the growing clout of finance easily converted into Real Estate, and of urban regeneration plans which wipe out historical space and its subtle texture of relationships, it is more and more difficult for ordinary people and the residents of a city who desire to live in spaces which...

In the last few years, the recent regulations of the Energy and Environment Policy of the European Union (EU) Energy Policy, together with the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have been aiming to increase the integration of renewable resources, and in particular of biogas, into the EU energy...

Contrary to its highest R&D intensity, Japan has dramatically decreased its productivity in the 1990s. This can be attributed to a low marginal productivity of technology. Such a productivity decrease compels a delay in R&D, which results in reduced R&D productivity leading to a vicious cycle...