El análisis de los flujos de materiales que circulan a través de un sistema económico es una forma de medir la dimensión física del consumo y la apropiación de recursos por parte de una sociedad y, en consecuencia, es una manera indirecta de medir su impacto ambiental. De esta manera, los...

En Guatemala coexisten muchos y variados sistemas de gestión del agua basados en tradiciones comunitarias, los cuales han nacido mayoritariamente debido a la ausencia de servicios públicos estatales. Sin embargo, una gran proporción de la población aún tiene problemas de acceso al agua, y...

Nowadays, goods sea transport involves a penetration of port hinterlands towards inland, which leads to the need for the confluence of the different means of transport in the neighbourhoods of ports and, therefore, new available areas. In the same way, what happened in New York on Septmeber 11th...

Rural environment makes important contributions to the society. These contributions will depend, to a great extent, on the role which will be assigned to it in the future. In Galicia (Spain), serious problems of rural population drift and impoverishment of its rural areas have been revealed. So,...

Transport and communication infrastructures constitute one of the mainstays of regional development. The practice of this service attributed to transport and communication networks results in the genesis of a free flux of goods, capital, work and information throughout those regions which are...