GEOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

Author: LUCENDO MONEDERO ÁNGEL LUIS.
Year: 2004.
University: SEVILLA [www.us.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.

Summary: It exposes the nature and context of territorial Andalusian subsystem business innovation from the analysis of the structure, organization and localization of production chains that form. The concept of the production chain (networking or fabric) is based on the idea of value chain Porter, and is defined as the combined companies / industrial establishments interrelated, any or all of which carry out innovative activities, participating in a common production process, articulate, progressive and comprehensive. The production lines are the context in which industrial enterprises Andalusian exchange innovative products manufactured according to their endogenous capacities (structural features, productive skills and innovative activities) with other firms on the basis of their market relations (links proveedor-cliente). It surveyed 162 industries Andalusia chosen by stratified sampling. The training was treated by means of multivariate statistical techniques and geographic information systems (ff) for the identification, classification and localization of different types of industrial enterprises innovative Andalusia. Since they defined a taxonomy of productive chains for their morphostructure, organization and operation. These types of productive linkages that make up the subsystem business innovation Andalusian are of three types: global production chains and complex business units: the productive chains and networks of regional disarticulated local firms, and the mixed models. The final conclusion of the thesis is that the subsystem business innovation Andalusian is divided into two different levels: A One-called global complex in which virtual or chains are global and complex formed by large industrial companies with innovative capabilities that are located in major territorial and functional centers in the region. B-regional or territorial simple and disrupted production chains formed by local or regional simpler than the previous ones formed by industries Andalusian less innovative capacity located in the territories of both functionality high, average or low.

Author: CASTRO ROMERO MARISOL.
Year: 2004.
University: ZARAGOZA [www.unizar.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.

Author: HIDALGO MORÁN SARA.
Year: 2005.
University: GRANADA [www.ugr.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: INSTITUTO DE DESARROLLO REGIONAL.

Summary: The public has experienced a boom in recent years, motivated, among other reasons, by demand from visitors to leisure spaces in nature where to spend their free time. It is intended as a general objective, analyze the current situation of public use, with special emphasis on the regions of Andalucia and Castilla y Leon. This has been followed, as a first step, a kind of deductive method, as it starts from a theoretical approach generally to go down to more specific and concrete. And in a second time, it has followed a methodology inductive because, since these aspects and specific individuals we wanted to draw general conclusions for the whole. The work is structured in three parts. It has been a general conceptualization of natural parks as a framework that encompasses protected nature reserves, giving an overview of the planning, public use and the limitations or controls that can be set up as sustainability criteria. Then, it was analyzed using public natural parks, the first of Andalusia and after Castile and Leon, and concludes with a comparative analysis, seeing their facilities, visitors and management tools. Finally, there was a case study, whose election process reflects a twofold: firstly natural parks castellano-leoneses elect are the only ones who have counts of visitors and, some similarities were needed in the topological choice of natural parks Andalusians. For his study has followed the same pattern to allow for further comparison, both in terms of attractiveness as a potential, or the assessment of its public use. The study is concluded with some general conclusions, which can include: * The need to establish a definition relating to public use, I owe to its complexity and ambigà ¼ age. * The existence of a big difference in planning in Andalucia and Castilla y Leon, as well as equipment and the treatment of visitors. * We need a detailed study of the influx of visitors to the various parks to hear their real impact and identify capabilities that allow cargo. * The tour is characterized by its seasonality in both regions, but differ in their origin, because while the majority are in Madrid Castilla y Leon, in Andalusia dominated Andalusians.