Sfoglia per Soggetto "Environmental Studies"
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Adolescents' Beliefs about the Wolf: Investigating the Potential of Human-Wolf Coexistence in the European South
(2012)Previous research revealed a rural-urban divide in the acceptance of the wolf. We investigated adolescents' beliefs about the wolf in rural and urban areas of Greece and Italy. By using a multiple-choice questionnaire, we ... -
Assessing the efficiency of switchgrass different cultural practices for pellet production
(2014)Switchgrass is a perennial crop producing high amounts of biomass for good quality pellet production. The objective of this study is to examine the efficiency of different cultural practices of switchgrass for pellet ... -
Beyond the manual: Practicing deliberative visioning in a Greek island
(2009)Deliberative visioning refers to processes of inclusive, multi-stakeholder deliberation over a desirable future. Methodologies include scenario workshops, future searches and community visioning. This paper looks critically ... -
The Cognitive and Attitudinal Effects of a Conservation Educational Module on Elementary School Students
(2008)The ability of the National Marine Park of Zakynthos (NMPZ) in Greece to protect an important sea turtle rookery will ultimately depend on the level of local support and involvement that it receives. Therefore, it is ... -
CSR in metallurgy sector in Greece: A content analysis
(2013)Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become one of the most widespread business topics among the academic community. Various issues like environmental pollution, economic crisis, corruption, poverty are of major ... -
Does land property structure affect local development patterns? Evidence from a Greek tourist area
(2008)This paper attempts to clarify the institutional context and local framework of landed property relations in the local development patterns of a rural space converted into an urban tourist resort on the island of Rhodes, ... -
Duality theory and cost function analysis in a regional context: the impact of public infrastructure capital in the Greek regions
(2002)The resurgent interest in the role of infrastructure on development, spurred by the work on Aschauer in the late eighties, has produced a voluminous research activity, both at national and regional levels. Even though the ... -
The effect of government expenditure on the environment: An empirical investigation
(2013)This paper examines the impact of government spending on the environment using a panel of 77 countries for the time period 1980-2000. We estimate both the direct and indirect effects of government spending on pollution. ... -
Effects of an Environmental Education Course on Consensus Estimates for Proenvironmental Intentions
(2012)An environmental education intervention in a university conservation-related course was designed to decrease students' errors in consensus estimates for proenvironmental intentions, that is, their errors in guessing their ... -
Environmental Kuznets Curve for sulfur: evidence using GMM estimation and random coefficient panel data models
(2003)The purpose of this study is to test empirically the hypothesis of the inverted U-shaped relationship between environmental damage from sulfur emissions and economic growth as expressed by GDP. Using a large database of ... -
The ESDP relevance to a distant partner: Greece
(2005)Greece is an untypical case from a territorial planning perspective at a European level as it faces constraints and limitations arising by its peripheral position and the limited accessibility to major economic agglomerations ... -
Exploring the economy - environment relationship in the case of sulphur emissions
(2013)This paper explores the relationship between economic development and environmental pollution by using panel data for 97 countries for the period 19502003. Various econometric techniques are applied to a sample of European ... -
Exploring the existence of Kuznets curve in countries' environmental efficiency using DEA window analysis
(2009)This paper, using data envelopment (DEA) window analysis and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimators, examines the existence of a Kuznets type relationship between countries' environmental efficiency and national ... -
Firm and household mobility in the presence of variations in regional characteristics
(2002)This paper examines the behavior of households and firms in the presence of variations in regional characteristics that affect their location decisions. It then determines relevant equilibrium conditions. Based on the ... -
Fragmented Integration and Business Cycle Synchronization in the Greek Regions
(2014)This paper examines the degree of business cycle synchronicity among Greek regions and investigates the determinants of the business cycle co-movements of output associated with specific functional and spatial aspects of ... -
The Granger-causality between income and educational inequality: a spatial cross-regressive VAR framework
(2014)This paper tests the causal processes between income and educational inequality within regions of the European Union, using a spatial cross-regressive VAR framework. The results show that there is a heterogeneous causality ... -
Growth, integration, and regional disparities in the European Union
(2005)In this paper we challenge the ability of the conventional methods initiated by Barro and Sala-i-Martin in the early 1990s to detect actual convergence or divergence trends across countries or regions and suggest an ... -
Industrial growth, economic integration and structural change: evidence from the EU new member-states regions
(2010)The article evaluates the pre-accession experience of new European Union member-states, coming from the former Eastern bloc, estimating an empirical model used to account for regional-industrial employment growth in the ... -
Innovation strategies and technology for experience-based tourism
(2003)Tourism is undergoing significant change and facing new challenges-that call for new perspectives. At least two dimensions of the change can be identified: -new forms of tourism, characterized by the tendency to depart ...