Articles publicats Departament de Geografia: Recent submissions
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Identificació i cartografia dels valors paisatgístics del Camp de Tarragona
Identificar, descriure i cartografiar els valors paisatgístics d’un determinat àmbit territorial, atenent a la riquesa i diversitat de paisatges que el conformen, respon a la necessitat imperant ...
AI Authoritarianism: Towards an Analytical Framework
This intervention offers a call for investigating the deepening alignment of artificial intelligence and authoritarian politics. The paper highlights three key features of AI that inflect the workings and logics of ...
Innovation and creativity in the restaurant sector: a systematic review of artifacts
Purpose The restaurant sector faces increasing pressure to innovate in response to competitive, technological, and cultural shifts. Despite a growing body of research, theoretical fragmentation persists. This study aims ...
Estímuls i barreres per adaptar-se als efectes del canvi climàtic a la Costa Brava
This article aims to analyse the barriers to and stimuli for the implementation of strategies and adaptation measures to climate risks affecting a Mediterranean tourist destination such as the Costa Brava. To do so, seven ...
Floating offshore wind farms in Mediterranean marine protected areas: a cautionary tale
As offshore wind energy expands in Europe, maritime planners increasingly need to consider the potential effects of these activities on the different types of marine protected areas (MPAs), including Natura 2000 sites. The ...
Energies renovables, implicacions ambientals
Canvi climàtic i Protecció de la Biodiversitat, dues cares de la mateixa moneda i el futur de l'eòlica marina flotant a Europa, a la Mediterrània i a la costa catalana
Percepções sobre fatores restritivos ao turismo: o caso de Paraty, RJ = Perceptions about tourism restrictive factors: the case of Paraty, RJ = Percepciones sobre los factores que restringen el turismo: el caso de Paraty, RJ
Paraty, located in Costa Verde in Rio de Janeiro, is known for its unique tourist attractions, which include natural resources and a rich historical-cultural heritage. The city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, recognized ...
The nature of AI: Metabolism, energy, water, labour and justice in the urban political ecology of artificial intelligence
The integration of vast volumes of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology into the built environment is chan- ging the metabolism of urban spaces. Due to the presence of various AIs in urban systems, there are now more ...
Deurbanizing for conservation and adapting: framing ecological restoration as a nature-based solution in La Pletera salt marsh, Catalonia (Spain)
Tackling climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the great global challenges of the 21st century. The nature-based solutions (NbS) approach creates an opportunity to meet efforts on the two agendas while producing ...
Is climate change the problem? A feminist analysis of climate change discourses in Spain and Cataloni
The way climate change is framed and represented matters because it influences the type of actions and strategies promoted by climate-related policies. To understand how policies address climate change in the Spanish ...
More exposed but also more vulnerable? Climate change, high intensity precipitation events and flooding in Mediterranean Spain
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of high intensity precipitation events in increasing the vulnerability to floods in Mediterranean Spain. Precipitation intensity in this area appears to have ...
Crisis global y ruralidad impacto en emprendedoras jóvenes muy cualificadas
The article analyzes the impact of the pandemic on the rural entrepreneurship of highly qualified young women, outstanding in the current socioeconomic transformation of their territories. Their experience is significant ...
Tracking visitors in crowded spaces using zenith images: drones and time-lapse
The aim of this article is to analyse the extent to which zenith images can be used to study visitor behaviour in crowded spaces. The paper presents two studies of zenith image capture in two micro-spaces (both monumental ...
Tourism-philia versus Tourism-phobia: residents and DMO's publicly expressed tourism perceptions in Barcelona
The current research on hosts' perceptions of tourism has focused on survey-based studies, proving their heterogeneity at the moment of the study, but lacking to present any evolution over time. This paper aims to show if, ...
Evaluating tourism scenarios within the Limit of Acceptable Change Framework in Barcelona
This article introduces an expanded Limit of Acceptable Change model, enhancing the traditional approach by incorporating various tourism scenarios and a broader range of indicators. This approach allows to gain a more ...
How guest profile and tourist segment explain acceptance of economic-based water-saving measures. A mediterranean destination case study
Saving water in tourist destinations is most effective when guests staying in rental accommodation actively participate and collaborate in it, especially in regions where water is scarce, such as the Mediterranean. There ...
A cultural approach to wetlands restoration to assess its public acceptance
Ecological restoration of coastal wetlands is extremely important because they provide a huge variety of ecosystem services but they are the most degraded ecosystems in the world. However, coastal wetlands are usually ...
Addressing ocean planning challenges in a highly crowded sea space: a case study for the regional sea of Catalonia (Western Mediterranean)
Background This study performs an exploratory analysis of current-future sustainability challenges for ocean planning for the regional seas of Catalonia located in the Western Mediterranean (Spain). Methods To address the ...
From overtourism to overall mobility
Drawing from the New Mobility Paradigm, tourist cities embody more complexity than mere dichotomies of 'hosts' versus 'guests.' They are the result of multiple users of urban space overlapping in a highly mobile and ...
