Any incentive program directed to the productive sector should include a very important factor represented by all actors that drive the national economy: small and medium agricultural and industrial enterprise. One weakness of this important segment is related to the lack of criteria for...

John W. Bruce.

Small and medium companies (SMC) are key for the process of local and endogenous development and have specific requirements in terms of localization and environmental management. In this research, criteria for localization and environmental requirements of SMC are developed for the metropolitan...

Municipal solid waste (msw) includes predominantly household waste (domestic waste) with sometimes the addition of commercial wastes collected in a given area; they are in either solid or semisolid state. The term residual waste relates to waste left from household sources containing materials...

The purpose of this paper is to carry out a methodological and theoretical reflection on the role of economics in the study of urban environmental issues. Particularly, it approaches the analysis of risk as a category that allow discussing the coherence of traditional economic research tools in...