Month: June 2012

THE IMPACTS OF NEW TOURIST FLOWS AT GLOBAL SCALE

Carmen BIZZARRI

European University of  Rome – Via degli Aldobrandeschi,190 – Rome –

carmen.bizzarri@uniroma1.it

Abstract

The present globalization tends to assume in a lot of areas of our world – in particular in Mediterranean countries – some common geographical, social and cultural  features.

While it assists in this homologation, there is a rediscovery of the different local value through the enforcement of the “subsidiarity principle” for determining a stronger cohesion in the local community.

Mass tourism, in a lot of traditional destinations, comes up against the limits that reduce the wellness of costumers, that lead to require new types of tourist services and aim to discover local resources and value.

In this direction, the tourists become a vehicle or tool of multicultural dialogue with residents and both communities absorb the cultural feature.

On account of this, new forms of personal relationships between tourist and resident are being established with economic, environmental and social consequences of utmost importance for the support of tourist development.

This behaviour of  tourists tends to follow the innovative structures  “horizontal networks”, which, in this paper, are analyzed  by original  instruments  characterized by a high level of multidisciplinary.

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The Flexible Accelerator Model and the ‘Regionalization’ of Capital Stock Estimates

Stilianos Alexiadis

Ministry of Rural Development & Foods, Department of Agricultural Policy & Documentation, Division of Agricultural Statistics,

Room 501, 5 Acharnon Street, 101 76, Athens, Greece, Tel: ++30 210 2125517,

Email: ax5u010@minagric.gr

and

Daniel Felsenstein

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel, Tel: 972-2-5883343

Email: msdfels@mscc.huji.ac.il

Abstract

This paper suggests a model of obtaining estimates of capital stock based on the theory of ‘flexible accelerator’. However, this represents a rather ‘indirect’ method independently for each year and each region. Clearly this is an unrealistic condition, especially for regional economies characterized by mutual spatial dependence. To add an extra injection of realism, we illustrate how a national model of capital stock (the stock –flow model) can effectively be ‘regionalized’.

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AN URBAN ECONOMIC MODEL OF ILEGAL SETTLEMENTS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS IN PALANGKARAYA CITY, INDONESIA -A PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS-

Indrawan PERMANA

Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science Engineering Toyohashi University of Technology

1-1 Hibarigaoka, Tempaku-Cho, Toyohashi, Aichi, 441-8580, Japan

TEL/ +81-532-44-6955  FAX/+81-532-44-6947

E-mail: permana@hse.tut.ac.jp or indrakamis@yahoo.com

and

Yuzuru MIYATA

Graduate School of Architecture and Civil Engineering Toyohashi University of Technology                                                                                      1-1 Hibarigaoka, Tempaku-Cho Toyohashi, Aichi, 441-8580, Japan, TEL/ +81-532-44-6955                                                                      FAX/+81-532-44-6947,  E-mail: miyata@hse.tut.ac.jp

Abstract

This paper presents a theoretical study regarding occupations of flood prone areas by illegal settlements in urban area of Palangkaraya city, Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia. Such unusual urban land use pattern has been observed in many urbanized cities particularly in developing countries. However, scientific explanations about the urban phenomena were not formulated yet as well as literatures on that topic are quite rare. We developed a partial equilibrium model employing bid rent approach to analyze such unusual urban land use pattern. The model incorporated flood damage rate corresponding to household`s assets introducing variants of bid rent function and bid max lot size function. Differently from other traditional urban economics models, our model depicts a reverse conclusion of land allocation particularly in flood prone areas. In the flood prone areas, the bid rent of representative low income households gets higher than that by the representative high income households hence as a result the flood prone areas are settled by low income households emerging colonies of illegal settlements within city areas.

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