Presentations

Social well being, urban planning and spatial justice, at Seattle. AAG Meeting, Monday, April 11, 2011:

Citation: Pallares-Barbera, M.; Casellas, A. (2011). Social well being, urban planning and spatial justice. Presentation. Association of American Geographers (AAG) Meeting. Seatle, WA.

Concerns regarding population's well-being in terms of day-to-day quality of life are focal points for social enquiry, policy makers and institutions. This paper focuses on the manner in which the urban settings can be transformed and adjusted to fulfill population needs through urban planning. Specifically, it addresses how the needs for urban services are embedded and planned into the urbanism of a...

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OLIVE OIL TRACEABILITY, MARKETS AND SMALL FIRMS, at AAG Meeting Las Vegas, NE, Thursday, March 26, 2009:

Citation: Vera, A. & Pallares-Barbera, M. (2009). OLIVE OIL TRACEABILITY, MARKETS AND SMALL FIRMS. Presentation. Association of American Geographers (AAG) Meeting. Las Vegas, NE.

Social responsible agro-industry companies are concerned about the quality of their product traceability. Their competitive advantage, their increasing returns of scale, and market share are direct proportional to firm’s capacity to prove social responsible production. In addition, final product has to be not only the maximum quality but superb. The only way to have correct returns to...

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Public Sector Intervention in Embodying New Economy in Inner Urban Areas: The Barcelona Experience , at AAG Las Vegas, Sunday, March 22, 2009:

Citation: Pallares-Barbera, M.; Casellas, A. (2009). Presentation. Public Sector Intervention in Embodying New Economy in Inner Urban Areas: The Barcelona Experience. (54) 2009 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV  March 22-27, 2009.

This article investigates the process of urban and economic revitalization of a traditional industrial working-class neighborhood into a knowledge-based economic district. It explores why and how this new district is the result of an assertive public policy led by Barcelona's city council...

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Well-being, Biodiversity and Urban Planning in Barcelona, at Los Angeles, CA, Thursday, April 11, 2013:

ABSTRACT

 

Well-being, biodiversity and urban planning in Barcelona

 

Montserrat Pallares-Barbera[1], Antònia Casellas, Sònia Sànchez-Mateo, Martí Boada, Jaume Marlès-Magre

 

The aim of this paper is to study well-being of urban population, based on two pillars: the proximity to services...

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TEMPORARY USES OF ECONOMIC SPACES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FIRM’S VALUE ADDED CHAIN, at Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday, April 9, 2013:

ABSTRACT

Temporary uses of economic spaces in the construction of firm’s value added chain. The case of Grifone S. A.

Ana Vera and Montserrat Pallares-Barbera

Over the past half-century, the development of Internet and information technologies in production has driven a revolution in economic spaces. Since information technologies are broadly available, implicated partners with almost full knowledge of the...

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Multiple-Criteria Evaluation for tourism activity location in the Catalan Pyrenees, at Seattle, Washington, Saturday, April 16, 2011:

Citation: Vera-Martin, A., Pallares-Barbera, M. Badia, A.(2011). Presentation. Multiple-Criteria Evaluation for tourism activity location in the Catalan Pyrenees. (56) 2011 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, April 12-16, 2011.

Abstract:
Tourist enterprises and natural landscapes are sometimes intrinsically linked for economic purposes. Natural parks, beautiful coastlines are places visited for temporal stays. Location of tourist resorts increase their value if well...

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