This article investigates the evolution of the gap between Italian regions and Italy as a whole during the period of 1980 to 2007. We tested for the presence of the stochastic and β-convergence hypotheses using different time series approaches. The former was studied, first, for the entire...

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 --...

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...