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Esta compilación surgió como resultado del proyecto de investigación IN304813 \"La participación política de las mujeres en el Legislativo Federal 1953-2013\", llevado a cabo en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM con el financiamiento del Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica (PAPIIT), de la Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico (DGAPA). Uno de sus objetivos fue dar a conocer a la geografía feminista como una rama de la ciencia geográfica, por lo que se convocó a geógrafas y geógrafos de distintas nacionalidades a presentar sus investigaciones para que se conozca el desarrollo de esta línea de investigación en México y algunos otros países, en voz de las propias autoras. En el mismo sentido, este libro responde a una nueva forma de relacionarse en los diferentes campos disciplinarios, a escala nacional e internacional, ya que, en un mismo volumen, se da igual validez a diferentes enfoques de la geografía feminista, cada uno respondiendo a su desarrollo, sus temáticas y sus tradiciones

There are concerns that recent climate change is altering the frequency and magnitude of river floods in an unprecedented way 1 . Historical studies have identified flood-rich periods in the past half millennium in various regions of Europe 2 . However, because of the low temporal resolution of existing datasets and the relatively low number of series, it has remained unclear whether Europe is currently in a flood-rich period from a long-term perspective. Here we analyse how recent decades compare with the flood history of Europe, using a new database composed of more than 100 high-resolution (sub-annual) historical flood series based on documentary evidence covering all major regions of Europe. We show that the past three decades were among the most flood-rich periods in Europe in the past 500 years, and that this period differs from other flood-rich periods in terms of its extent, air temperatures and flood seasonality. We identified nine flood-rich periods and associated regions. Among the periods richest in floods are 1560–1580 (western and central Europe), 1760–1800 (most of Europe), 1840–1870 (western and southern Europe) and 1990–2016 (western and central Europe). In most parts of Europe, previous flood-rich periods occurred during cooler-than-usual phases, but the current flood-rich period has been much warmer. Flood seasonality is also more pronounced in the recent period. For example, during previous flood and interflood periods, 41 per cent and 42 per cent of central European floods occurred in summer, respectively, compared with 55 per cent of floods in the recent period. The exceptional nature of the present-day flood-rich period calls for process-based tools for flood-risk assessment that capture the physical mechanisms involved, and management strategies that can incorporate the recent changes in risk. Analysis of thousands of historical documents recording floods in Europe shows that flooding characteristics in recent decades are unlike those of previous centuries.

The global changes including social, environment and economic transformation constitute a major handicap to the sustainable development of the Moroccan Central Rif mountains area. The accelerated degradation of the forest resources in this area demonstrates that there is a dynamic interaction between the biosphere and community groups. These ever-changing interactions between the need to live and the limited of natural environment skills, give rise to environments that have been developed, built or, in general, altered or degraded. The available statistical data, cartography, field surveys and visits have shown a regression of forest superficies in the profits of the new types of illegal farming, despite the national and international development programs had established since the 1960s.

In this paper we present a pedagogical experience developed in the academic year 2018/2019 within the Curriculum Unit \"Cities and Environmental Sustainability\" of the Master in Hazards, Cities and Spatial Planning, which took place in an intensive workshop dedicated to solving factual problems with the active involvement of the local community. It describes and discusses the workshop development process, starting with its conception and preparation by the teachers, going through the intensive workshop itself and ending with a discussion of the main results achieved.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive collection of essays that cover essential features of geographical mobility, from internal migration, to international migration, to urbanization, to the adaptation of migrants in their destinations.

Urban agriculture has been awakening a growing interest from scholars, policy makers and society in general, and it is expanding through the world. It is a result of spontaneous practices in cities but also of public policies, which need to be informed about its socioterritorial context. In this work, we identify and classify the urban agriculture areas in the central area of the city of Porto and we analyses its territorial patterns. In addition, we explore and discuss some criteria for the selection of urban agriculture expansion areas.

Since the 1990s, Italy has undertaken the most intense and prolonged transformation of its intermediation system in Europe. What has proved to be a real upheaval in ownership structures has led to the 'disappearance' of the banking system in the southern regions and the transfer of the 'thinking head' to the central north. This did not happen as a result of market dynamics but thanks to a plan conceived and guided by the Bank of Italy, with the aim of 'saving' the southern banks, increasing their allocation efficiency, management performance and profitability. Thirty years after the beginning of the restructuring process, the data used in this work show that the performance gaps between macro-areas have remained substantially unchanged, to the detriment of households and the productive fabric of the southern regions, which - in fact - continue to suffer from lower credit, with higher costs than those of the central and northern regions, which interface with banks that have their local headquarters in the same areas, enjoying the relative benefits.

This work advances geopolitical economy as a new approach to understanding the evolution of the capitalist world order and its 21st century form of multipolarity. Neither can be explained by recently dominant approaches such as 'U.S. hegemony' or 'globalization': they treat the world economy as a seamless whole in which either no state matters or only one does. Today's 'BRICs' and 'emerging economies' are only the latest instances of state-led or combined development. Such development has a long history of repeatedly challenging the unevenness of capitalism and the international division of labour it created. It is this dialectic of uneven and combined development, not markets or imperialism, which has spread productive capacity around the world. It also ensured that the 'hegemony' of the UK would end and attempts to create that of the US would peter out into multipolarity. This two part volume paves the way, advancing Geopolitical Economy as a new approach to the study of international relations and international political economy. They expose the theoretical limitations of the latter in Part I and the analytical limitations in Part II.