Researchers Alaitz Zabala and Xavier Pons, from UAB Geography Department, and Joan Masó, from CREAF, participate in Next Generation GEOSS for Innovation Business (NextGEOSS) Horizon 2020 project, to develop a...
The links between climate change, economic development, and poverty reduction have gained increasing attention over recent years. However, most of the existing literature tends to focus on direct, short-run...
This thesis analyses the factors affecting transport and mobility in the metropolitan area of...
The UAB Laboratory of Geographic Information and Remote Sensing and ESRI España have jointly organised a seminar on 4 May at the Faculty of Science and Biosciences to present the new 10.4 version of ArcGIS.
Migration is not a recent phenomenon but has existed since ancient times. This thesis studies the population of Olesa de Montserrat between 1581 and 1930. The data on the hundred thousand people who lived there in that period has made it possible to reconstruct the...
Chinese tourism, which is noted for its sustained growth and spending power, is discovering Spain. These tourists are not interested in the sun and sand product, and their culture, customs and language are very different from Spain’s. The...
This doctoral thesis describes socio-residential patterns in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona and studies residential mobility flows in order to determine the migrant spaces within the metropolitan area. The sources are the Census of Population and...
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...
