Urban water demand is rapidly growing in India due to high growth in urban population and rapid industrialization. Meeting this growing demand is a big challenge for the urban planners in India. Incidentally, urban areas in arid and semi arid regions of India are experiencing rapid growth. As a...

O recente interesse pelo estudo do desenvolvimento regional e mais concretamente das assimetrias decorrentes dos processos de integração económica, que ameaçam levar ao esvaziamento progressivo de territórios competitivos ao nível comunitário, é de particular interesse para Angola. Os...

The paper covers the significance of Lingua franca not only as a language of intercultural communications, but also as a necessary component of the adequate satisfaction of fundamental human needs and of the prevention of socio-economic pathologies. It is stressed in the paper that the...

The paper discusses the possibility of behavioural change in accordance with the objectives of sustainable development considering the human behaviour through the needs. Using the concepts of fundamental human needs and satisfiers of Manfred Max-Neef, the attempt was made to determine the...

La coyuntura económica hace referencia al conjunto de elementos económicos que como consecuencia de su dinámica conforman la situación de una región o país. En la actualidad, el principal instrumento para realizar un análisis de coyuntura económica son las encuestas de opinión. Mediante...

The contribution of this paper to the social capital literature is threefold. It first develops an innovative framework for measuring social capital, which allows for quantification of five different components of the multidimensional concept of social capital. Secondly, it provides a single,...