Rodrigo-Comino, Jesús; Salvia, Rosanna; Egidi, Gianluca; Salvati, Luca; Giménez Morera, Antonio; Quaranta, Giovanni(Universidad de la Rioja, 2022)
[EN] Land degradation and, subsequently, desertification processes are conditioned by biophysical factors and human impacts. Nowadays, there is an increasing interest by social scientists to assess its implications. ...
[EN] Diachronic variations in demographic rates have frequently reflected social transformations and a (more or less evident) impact of sequential economic downturns. By assessing changes over time in Total Fertility Rate ...
[EN] Between the 1970s and the 1990s, cities in Southern Europe experienced a progressive delocalisation of population, settlements and activities over larger regions. Economic downturns have increasingly influenced more ...
[EN] The linkage between land-use change and demographic transitions in advanced countries
has becoming increasingly complex because of the mutual interplay of environmental and socioeconomic spheres influencing the degree ...
[EN] Fertility is a spatially non-stationary property of regional demographic systems. Despite the wealth of quantitative (micro-macro) information delineating short-term population dynamics in advanced economies, the ...
[EN] Being largely diversified along the urban-rural gradient, fertility gaps have demonstrated to fuel metropolitan expansion, contributing to natural population growth and social change. In this direction, population ...
[EN] Urban growth is a largely debated issue in social science. Specific forms of metropolitan expansion-including sprawl-involve multiple and fascinating research dimensions, making mixed (quali-quantitative) analysis of ...
[EN] Following an operational framework derived from earlier research, our study research estimates the specific contribution of biophysical and socioeconomic factors to soil sensitivity to degradation at two-time points ...