This doctoral thesis analyses internal migration in Colombia during the period 1964-2005, together with residential mobility, individual sociodemographic and contextual factors associated with this phenomenon, and spatial components...
Water resources in coastal cities support many tensions due to phenomena such as the acceleration of urbanisation, population growth and tourism. This thesis presents new lines of research and strategies to improve urban water policies linked to the tourism sector, with frames to analyse...
Alain Musset is director of École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and honorary member of Institut universitaire de France. With a PhD in Geography from EHESS, Dr Musset is also the director of the school's master programme in Comparative Studies on Development and a PhD programme in...
In 1995, the General Spatial Planning of Catalonia (PGTC) was passed in order to obtain a more balanced distribution of the territory’s population. Two decades later, the evaluation of the territorial and socio-environmental consequences of PGTC shows...
The study of the relationship between family situations and events and an individuals’ health status is of particular interest given the enormous research conducted around the socioeconomic determinants of health inequalities against the much less...
Two of the most prominent traits of the Spanish residential system in recent decades have been the high proportion of owners and the absence of effective policies to promote rental housing. This article argues that the system is undergoing a transformation due to structural demographic...
Demographic ageing has social, economic and political challenges. There has been a proliferation of papers addressing the phenomenon from the quantitative aspect, focusing on changes in the demographic structure of the population and the implications it may have on basic pillars of the...
This thesis is basically a study of the search for automatisms in different algorithms applied to Geographical Information Science. The works that form the thesis have an important common goal: to obtain the highest possible quality in results when...
