Este trabalho busca contextualizar o tema do espraiamento na evolução urbana da Região Metropolitana de São Paulo. Definimos espraiamento urbano como o crescimento urbano que é desconcentrado, não denso e que deixa vazios urbanos dentro da mancha urbana. Analisamos os mapas da área...

This paper provides new evidence that, controlling for other effects, the growth of employment in high-technology SMEs depends on the initial horizontal clustering. The paper focuses on employment change over the period 1991-2000 in computing services and research and development (R&D)...

The instrument of extractive reserves has been advertised as a novel approach to reconciling biodiversity conservation and economic development. The empirical literature analyzing extractive reserves, however, delivers an ambiguous assessment of its success. This paper asks whether extractive...

Sao Paulo's metropolitan area is one of the largest urban spaces in the world. As it happens with any other large metropolitan area, understanding its structure, problems and dynamics is not a simple task. The structure of cities has been studied by urban economics ever since von Thunen's land...