Guest editors’ note: In order to gain the necessary political and public support, geoparks have to demonstrate how they contribute to the socioeconomic development of their particular region. In addition to the other important tasks of nature protection, conservation of geologic heritage, and promotion of tourism, education, and research, geoparks have to evaluate the regional economic effects ...

INTRODUCTION To study economic evolution we need a clear answer to the question: 'What evolves?'. If we only want to cover limited aspects of the overall process of economic evolution, adequate answers to the question are 'technologies', 'strategies' or 'routines'. But for researchers who want to cover larger parts of the history of economic evolution it is helpful to try out the more general a...

This paper proposes a theoretical model of evaluation of environmental externalities based on the analysis of real estate prices. This issue is included in regional planning policies which include activities and interventions that produce economic and non-economic effects. The monetary assessment of economic and non-economic effects can be expressed as a forecast (ex ante) and/or following (ex ...

extended abstract 1. introduction within the economic structure of rural areas in developing countries, agriculture is considered the main pillar of people’s livelihood and, similarly, in most development plans, agriculture is the only and the most important aspect of any village’s economy. lack of diversity in economic infrastructure and job opportunities, specifically for the growing workforc...

The Heritage Foundation and the Fraser Institute measure economic freedom in nations using indices with ten and five indicators respectively. Eight of the Heritage indicators and four of the Fraser-indicators are about specific types of institutional quality, like rule of law, the protection of property, and the provision of sound money. More of these is considered to denote more economic freed...

iranian rural women have been working side by side with men in many activities. but in recent years, due to social, economic and cultural changes, the role of women in many rural activities has declined, causing many social and economic problems in rural areas. tourism is one of the activities in which there are too many opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship for women. women are abl...

This paper takes Tianjin for example and analyzes the development tend of scientific and technological progress in Tianjin. From five aspects as ‘environment of scientific and technological progress’, ‘input of scientific and technological activities’, ‘output of scientific and technological activities’, ‘high-tech industrialization’, ‘science and technology for economic and social development’...

For the least developed countries (LDCs) to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, their rural economies will have to undergo structural transformation, given that most of their population lives in rural areas and agriculture is a main contributor to their economy. To this end, UNCTAD proposes that LDCs engage in the poverty-oriented structural transformation, or POST, of rural areas. It shou...