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Afforestation of rural land in Greece: A multinomial logistic regression analysis of driving factors
Christopoulou, O.; Minetos, D. (2009)This article deals with the importance of European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development through the implementation of afforestation schemes in rural communities. The main aim of the article is to investigate the spatial ... -
Analysis of agricultural land use transformations in greece: A multinomial logistic regression model at the regional level
Minetos, D.; Polyzos, S. (2009)In the past few decades, numerous structural changes regarding the socio-economic basis of most EU countries have been profound and critical. These processes of economic restructuring have resulted in significant land use ... -
Deforestation processes in Greece: A spatial analysis by using an ordinal regression model
Minetos, D.; Polyzos, S. (2010)Forest land use changes in Greece have been the outcome of combining forces with mostly economic and institutional origin. Interactions between the major land uses have diachronically resulted in spatial patterns of great ... -
Determining the driving factors of Commuting: An empirical analysis from greece
Polyzos, S.; Tsiotas, D.; Minetos, D. (2013)Commuting refers to the act of daily traveling, between two locations, for employment purposes and suggests a multidimensional phenomenon in Regional Science, which is determined by social, economic, geographic and political ... -
Driving factors and empirical analysis of urban sprawl in Greece
Polyzos, S.; Minetos, D.; Niavis, S. (2013)This paper aims at describing urban sprawl driven land use changes during the last decades in Greece as well as analyzing the major regional and economic development implications. Particular attention is given to the ... -
Informal housing in Greece: Amultinomial logistic regression analysis at the regional level
Polyzos, S.; Minetos, D. (2013)This paper deals with the primary causes of informal housing in Greece as well as the observed differentiations in informal housing patterns across space. The spatial level of analysis is the prefectural administrative ... -
MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHODOLOGIES FOR TESTING HYPOTHESIS OF LAND-USE CHANGE AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL. A REVIEW AND EVALUATION
Minetos, D.; Polyzos, S. (2009)Various models of land-use and land-cover change have been developed for better understanding of existing relationships and interactions between human and natural phenomena. Most of these models concentrate on human behaviour ... -
An ordinal regression analysis of tourism enterprises' location decisions in Greece
Polyzos, S.; Minetos, D. (2011)This article investigates recent trends in tourism firms' location decisions in Greece in relation to the state policy on tourism investment incentives as well as specific factors concerning regional inherent and created ... -
An overview of urban-rural land use interactions in Greece
Polyzos, S.; Christopoulou, O.; Minetos, D.; Leal Filho, W. (2008)Purpose: The present paper focuses on investigating the principal land use changes in Greece from 1971-1991 and attempts to uncover possible interactions between urban, rural and forest uses. Findings: The interactions do ... -
Peri-urban and urban forests in Greece: Obstacle or advantage to urban development?
Christopoulou, O.; Polyzos, S.; Minetos, D. (2007)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the importance of peri-urban forests to the process of urban growth. The article aims at providing a brief description of peri-urban forests' contribution to the ... -
Valuing environmental resources in the context of flood and coastal defence project appraisal: A case-study of Poole Borough Council seafront in the UK
Polyzos, S.; Minetos, D. (2007)Purpose - Non-marketable natural coastal resources such as beaches, sand-dune systems and cliff sides have an economic value deriving not least from the various services which they provide as well as the human demand for ...