REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

Author: MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA EMILIO.
Year: 2004.
University: EXTREMADURA.
Place of defense: BIBLIOTECA CENTRAL DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE CÁCERES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.

Summary: It was part of the concept of dehesa and its etymology and studied its origins and evolution within the historical context, from the judge jurisdiction of the Visigoths in the seventh century to the present, analyzing the nearly six centuries of permanence of the plateau (1273 - 1836), the abolition of tithes and firsts, the abolition of the manors and the mayorazgos, and the liberal revolution and the whole process desamortizador at different stages: Godoy, and Mendizábal Madoz. The current situation of dehesa with the limiting factors that determine, as are the soil and climate and its productions shrubs, trees and livestock and its economy. We analyze the management and sustainable development of the Dehesa in a model of environmental quality, so that the economic model of the Dehesa corresponds to maintain a stock resource base intact enabling the enjoyment of future generations in a context of solidarity generational. It explores the social interest of ownership in a management model of economic exploitation that allows an adequate level of income from employment and that in turn conservative actions involving sustainable development in the social interest involving any property such as Paperback rangeland Boyales of Extremadura. The legal regime for the operation of the Dehesa in the context of both the European Union and national and in the autonomous region of Extremadura. It explores the legal concepts of ownership and property as well as their components and their legal status to enter the property divided by exploitation, which in legal terms is consistent with the juxtaposition of domains or shared ownership in the dehesa. It describes and discusses in detail the proceedings of the board of Extremadura in different pastures boyales of the autonomous region in order to unify domains, giving full domain to the owner of land that is generally the municipality, as well as the administrative procedure second in the various cases that have been made.

Author: TEJADA TEJADA ESPERANZA MACARENA.
Year: 2004.
University: PABLO DE OLAVIDE.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES (DEPARTAMENTO DE GEOGRAFÍA, HISTORIA Y FILOSOFÍA).

Summary: The coastal environment is among the most fragile ecosystems and management of large complex environmental systems on the planet. Many factors have lead to the achievement of a balanced and sustained development potential in the coastal environment in general both from the perspective of the physical environment and the socio-economic aspects in the narrow and fragile coastal strip takes place. This issue has been at the center of a long-living discussion in all major conferences in which they have raised environmental issues and sustainable development have been identified as one of the priority areas to develop integrated management programs that combine efforts institutions and governments to ensure the maintenance of allowable conditions for the development of economic activities that do not sacrifice its own resources of the natural environment and man-made. In this change, the areas in Europe are subject to greater pressure antrópica are in the middle Atlantic orla Mediterranean, where the fragile natural environment joined the extraordinary conditions of exploitation and pressure from coastal environment due to a change in the land uses that have resulted in half hardly manageable from a proactive position and where management measures have traditionally assimilated to the protection and defense of the coastline. It is in this environment that this work has identified three places of study enough variety to be representative of various stages of development. In the Doctoral Thesis have objectives they were intended to provide the manager and planner of the coastal territory of powerful tools to better understand the environment and the socio-economic implications of possible policies. In this context, the thesis begins by conducting a thorough step with the theme through an introduction of the concept of resilience in the context of the analysis of physical capacity, vulnerability and sensitivity physical and socio-economic continue with a description in the context of socio-economic development of representative areas of study. In central and greater contribution to the thesis arises methodological development in which prepares an evaluation tool of the coastal resilience that is introduced according to the following phases: * Identifying indicators for the state and trend characterization of the coastal environment of the three areas studied. * Calculation of indicators and construction of a GIS in spatial data. * Evaluation of the indicators in terms of their resilience factor. * Combination in the GIS indicators and construction of cartographic database. Finally, after a meticulous and productive description of the results obtained and mapped, it gives way to a final chapter where the main ideas are discussed from both the conceptual issues as methodologies addressed at Work.

Author: BOYRA AMPOSTA JOSEP.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: The dissertation TOURISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE REGION OF ATTICA. AN ANALYSIS TO DIFFERENT SCALES SPACE aims to promote the study of the relations of interdependence between development and dynamism of tourism and the characteristics of the environment in which it develops. This thesis deals in the first part and the conceptual framework of phenomenological research namely the evolution of tourism, development and the environment in contemporary society. This part contains the main assumptions of the investigation and also explores some of the most important methodological efforts implemented in the context of tourism development and responsible stewardship of the environment, from the emergence and emergency the principles that define the new paradigm of sustainability that signifícala conception of a new model for development. The second part deals with dela thesis within territorial election, the region of Attica in Greece, the study of the relations of interdependence between tourism and environment over the past few decades. In this case, the analysis at the regional level to establish the different characteristics, such as environmental tourism, which have been marking the recent developments in the region as a tourist destination. The third part of the investigation, which expose and interpret the results obtained from field work done by choosing turn in the coastal city of Glyfada, for which he identifies and proposes, in a specific manner, a series of measures minimizadoras impact. Finally, it presents a series of findings at the global, regional and local levels that capture and highlight the most significant aspects of the investigation which concludes with its bibliography and appendices.

Author: ANDRADE SPINOLA CAROLINA DE.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA, UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: This paper presents the results of an investigation that examines the practice of ecotourism in the National Park of the Chapada Diamantina-Bahia. In its content, doctoranda addresses and analyzes the feasibility of exploration activity in these conservation units comprehensive protection, studying issues related to the administrative structure available at the federal level for gerenciamento, tools used for planning and management the code of conduct for visitors and tourism businesses that require those spaces and the very concept of category management National Park, because of the Brazilian reality and its validity in the context of the discussion of sustainable tourism. Utilizándose of existing theoretical triangle on ecotourism, nature conservation and local development and their inter-relationships, escenários separate geographic, this thesis demonstra the difficulty of coordinating all the variables are originals of this debate and alert to the need to be change both the exploration model of ecotourism in the country as the system of management of the conservation units used for this purpose.

Author: NAVARRETE LÓPEZ GUILLERMO.
Year: 2005.
University: CASTILLA-LA MANCHA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES, ALBACETE.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE LETRAS - CIUDAD REAL.

Summary: The Doctoral thesis presents a spatial analysis, economic and social reconstruction of the Gulf of Fonseca, treated as a geographical unit interstate (shared by El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua). There are three national units that share the Gulf of Fonseca, a situation which explains the processes of integration that, increasingly, are gaining greater importance in the Central American region. Since it is shown phenomena at the global level, the territorial analysis has been raised from different scales. Research carried out in this work has focused on such entities and the relationships between them. One could speak of the Gulf of Fonseca as an area of international multiple interactions in which borders are being felt on a permanent cultural identities, activities, projects and expectations of the majority population. Therefore, the methodology applied in the course of work has been designed to analyze the phenomena geographical features to discover and explain the relationship between these elements. It has been obtained as a result diagnosis of the region as integrated system. The work is divided into four parts which are subdivided into eleven chapters: PART ONE is the corresponding chapter 1. It has an introductory character. This paper describes the theoretical methodological justification. It includes sections devoted to the description of the research, with references to theoretical and methodological framework. It gives a brief description of the object of study. SECOND PART The conceptual framework and territorial was framed in this part, in the theories of globalization and the various regional integration initiatives undertaken in Latin America. It has focused on the measures are aimed at achieving sustained development and greater integration competitive internationally. In chapter 2, identifies the topics that explain the context of simultaneous levels between the national, regional, sub-regional and global. It also identify patterns of integration in the face of social phenomena, economic and political problems that originate on a global level, within each country and within their own spaces and various integrated. In chapter 3, combining analysis and development of the political process and economic integration in Central America. Ultimately, this is the renewal of the Central American integration from the top of Antigua (Guatemala) June 1990. In chapter 4, there is a proper analysis of issues that are relevant in the political characterization of the Central American region, a region boundaries, justifying part of the crisis at the regional level, and that the real conflict is not the amount of borders, but unresolved border disputes. In Chapter 5, he examines a review of some actions stemming from Agenda 21 in relation to the Gulf of Fonseca. In chapter 6, identifies the characteristics of the Mesoamerican region as a system in which the territory is in the midst of the Gulf of Fonseca: natural and cultural. It analyzes and describes the region and its people. THE THIRD PART It focuses on the analysis of the region of the Gulf of Fonseca from different areas: physical, social, economic, political and environmental. This part is divided into four chapters. In chapters 7 and 8 summarizes the characteristics and peculiarities of the physical configuration of the territory in the Gulf of Fonseca. It contextualiza territory and presents characteristics of local societies. In Chapters 9 and 10 describe the socio-economic situation in the region of the Gulf of Fonseca, in addition to the description of the unsatisfied basic needs, special processing and distribution. It shows the social problems of the region. We reviewed initiatives that involve the interest of enhancing the physical integration and regional development in the Gulf of Fonseca. IN PART The investigation ends in chapter 11. The findings reflect the most feature 8 s re 3aa adjournment of the integration process. In a specific section identifies the major sources bibliographic used. In addition, it includes a section of annexes which includes important documents used in the development of the investigation.

Author: BOYRA AMPOSTA JOSEP.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: The dissertation TOURISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE REGION OF ATTICA. AN ANALYSIS TO DIFFERENT SCALES SPACE aims to promote the study of the relations of interdependence between development and dynamism of tourism and the characteristics of the environment in which it develops. This thesis deals in the first part and the conceptual framework of phenomenological research namely the evolution of tourism, development and the environment in contemporary society. This part contains the main assumptions of the investigation and also explores some of the most important methodological efforts implemented in the context of tourism development and responsible stewardship of the environment, from the emergence and emergency the principles that define the new paradigm of sustainability that signifícala conception of a new model for development. The second part deals with dela thesis within territorial election, the region of Attica in Greece, the study of the relations of interdependence between tourism and environment over the past few decades. In this case, the analysis at the regional level to establish the different characteristics, such as environmental tourism, which have been marking the recent developments in the region as a tourist destination. The third part of the investigation, which expose and interpret the results obtained from field work done by choosing turn in the coastal city of Glyfada, for which he identifies and proposes, in a specific manner, a series of measures minimizadoras impact. Finally, it presents a series of findings at the global, regional and local levels that capture and highlight the most significant aspects of the investigation which concludes with its bibliography and appendices.

Author: NAVARRO MONTESDEOCA GUILLERMO RAÚL.
Year: 2005.
University: LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.

Summary: Tourism is a complex phenomenon whose overall understanding can only be from a transdisciplinarity. The tourist image is part of the phenomenon public holidays, and he influenced is influenced by him. Therefore, knowing what is the image promotional, how is built and what the implications helps to understand and control the phenomenon of global tourism. In the Canaries, tourism, in connection with the Canary own identity by its huge impact on the socio-economy of the archipelago, has a public image determined by the history and the administrative structure (autonomous community, town council, town hall), among other factors. For one thing, history has given an image that naturally follows exploited, and on the other, administrations, without sacrificing the natural look, segment the image of the destination, increasing the supply of services, influenced by the globalization process. In any case, in a general way, the local population or resident is excluded from the promotional image of the archipelago. The exclusion of the local population of the Canary image is related to the system itself canary tourism, introducing structural imbalances. The image, communication, translation, semiotics are a tool that identifies these imbalances and allow affect more sustainable development

Author: GIMÉNEZ FERRER JOSÉ MANUEL.
Year: 2005.
University: ALICANTE.
Place of defense: UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE.
Place of preparation: INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE GEOGRAFÍA.

Summary: The method of work handled in the investigation Likelihood of flooding and land-use planning in the coastal Alicante focuses on dialectical basic geographical science. The always current confrontation between supporters of investigating a physical geography, those who advocate human knowledge of patterns and territorial, including those who seek to integrate what they systematically within the regional analysis, permeates much of the geographic research taking place in the Spanish university. Without ever losing sight of the necessary multidisciplinarity inherent in the study of the processes of risk, it is true that the prospect of a comprehensive and integrated geography shapes a method of work of great potential analytical and disciplines that few possess the ability to synthesize territorialemnte all the social and environmental aspects which, by definition, are decisive in any situation of natural hazard. Knowledge of the territories at risk involves the analysis of issues geographical, ecological, biological, geological, social, legal, economic, sociological, historical, mathematical, physical, chemical, engineering, architectural, medical, and even civil defense and military which are very diverse branches of knowledge that can provide information for effective diagnosis of the process at risk. But it has to delve into the idea that, within the discipline itself geographic analysis of the natural hazard and the vulnerability that determines the degree of risk of a territory to a particular phenomenon, is a point of inescapable meeting of the different areas of geographical knowledge. Only from a very comprehensive and thorough knowledge of the environment and society that inhabits a territory, it is possible to get to know, operationally, areas of riesgo.Ésta is filosfía behind this doctoral research. The study of the risk of flooding and coastal avenue in Alicante addresses from a perspective that bet, decidedly, not only because of the integration of the branches of geographical knowledge in a geography of risks overall, comprehensive and applied, but such integration tambíen it has to be done by the management of the doctrine of different geographical paradigms that make geography discipline necessary in the world today. And this is not a position nor ecléptica nor conciliatory, but part of the premises of any applied research: the operational capability and usefulness social.Los goals that guide this research can be summarized in response to the series of key issues which aim to clarify the of course the same. First, Do you is the risk of flooding avenue and a geographic specific to the dynamics of Alicante coast?. Proceeding from the fact that this is a reality constrastada, Â Is the integration of human and physical analysis of the territory on the basis of achieving a "Región-Riesgo flood and avenue" in the coastal alciantino, consituye working method useful in the analysis of that risk?. Determined these questions, through the analysis of the hazardous weather and hidromorfolígica coastal alicanitno is facing slope applied more: an analysis of the causal mechanisms in the genesis of flood risk areas and avendia in the coastal municipalities of the province of Alicante . And this on the assumption that fundamental work by advocates to urban planning, and the legislative framework within which it is based and has evolved historically, as a principal in the genesis of flood risk areas and in the street coast Alicante. This is one of the pillars on which this research is based. It is not enough to determining the existence of a genuine región-riesgo ....

Author: ROWE DONALD F..
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.

Author: Aran Guiu Domenec.
Year: 2006.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of defense: Departament de Geografia.
Place of preparation: Departamento Geografia.