Geología ecológica, geodiversidad, geoconservación y Patrimonio Geológico de la Declaración de Girona

This work presents a new way of understanding the geological science: the Ecological Geology. It is based on the clasical vision of the Geology as well as on some new concepts, as Geodiversity and Geoconservation. An aplication of these perspective to the Geological Heritage is also included, in a list of ten points, called Declaración de Girona, because it is concibed in this city

El suïcidi a Catalunya : una mirada teòrica i estadística

Endinsar-se en l’estudi de les tipologies i les estadístiques de suïcidis implica posarsobre la taula una problemàtica que durant els últims anys ha estat tabú fora delsarticles científics, ja que es tenia por que parlar d’aquest tema en mitjans decomunicació podria fomentar l’aparició de més suïcidis.Aquest article pretén realitzar una mirada estadística i comparativa del suïcidi aCatalunya els darrers dos anys i a la província de Girona els darrers 10 anys. Laintenció es desvetllar certs interrogants que, per manca d’informació, no estant al’abast de molta gent, com podrien ser: Quin gènere es suïcida més, homes o dones?A quina edat o franja d’edat hi ha més suïcidis? Aquestes dades són percentualmentiguals a tot arreu?Amb aquesta finalitat, i per intentar donar resposta a aquestes qüestions realitzaremun visió objectiva, comparativa i concreta dels resultats obtinguts, tenint present queés tan sols una fotografia determinada d’una població

Investor protection, risk sharing and inequality

This paper studies the relationship between investor protection, financial risk sharing and income inequality. In the presence of market frictions, better protection makes investors more willing to take on entrepreneurial risk while lending to firms. This implies lower cost of external finance and better risk sharing between financiers and entrepreneurs. Investor protection, by boosting the market for risk sharing plays the twofold role of encouraging agents to undertake risky enterprises and providing them with insurance. By increasing the number of risky projects, it raises income inequality. By extending insurance to more agents, it reduces it. As a result, the relationship between the size of the market for risk sharing and income inequality is hump-shaped. Empirical evidence from a cross-section of sixty-eight countries, and a panel of fifty countries over the period 1976-2000, supports the predictions of the model.

Milk, from medicine to food Mediterranean Europe: Catalonia, 19th-20th centuries

The spread of milk consumption was a significant change in the diet of Europeans, however it is one that has not been greatly studied with regard to the populations of Mediterranean Europe. In this article we shall analyse the ain circumstances that conditioned that process in Catalonia between the middle of the 19th century and 1936. In our study we shall argue that the consumption of milk in this area was only relevant in the 19th century in situations of illness or old age, and that it subsequently increased and acquired a new significance as a result of various factors. In particular, we shall emphasise: (a) the scientific advances in microbiology and nutrition, (b) the activities carried out by doctors and various public institutions to promote the consumption of fresh milk, and (c) the technological innovations in the milk producing sector. In Appendix 1 we show two maps representing the main territorial references that we shall mention.

Full Tècnic. Conreus Extensius. Comarques de Girona, núm. 1 (2006)

- Resultats de les noves varietats de blat tou. - Recomanació de varietats de blat tou. - Característiques agronòmiques de les varietats recomanades.

Full Tècnic. Conreus Extensius. Comarques de Girona, núm. 2 (2006)

- Resultats de les noves varietats d’ordi. - Recomanació de varietats d’ordi. - Característiques agronòmiques de les varietats recomanades.

Full Tècnic. Conreus Extensius. Comarques de Girona, núm. 3 (2006)

- Resultats de les noves varietats de triticale per a gra. - Recomanació de varietats de triticale per a gra. - Característiques agronòmiques de les varietats de triticale. - Aspectes a considerar en l’elecció de les varietats de triticale per a gra.

Full Tècnic. Conreus Extensius. Comarques de Girona, núm. 4 (2006)

- Resultats de les noves varietats de pèsol proteaginós de primavera per a gra. - Característiques agronòmiques de les varietats de pèsol proteaginós de primavera. - Aspectes a considerar en l’elecció de les varietats de pèsol proteaginós.

Full Tècnic. Conreus Extensius. Comarques de Girona, núm. 7 (2007)

- Rovell groc del blat. - Rovell bru del blat. - Fungicides pel control dels rovells del blat.

The Total fiscal cost of indirect taxation: an approximation using Catalonia's recent input-output table

In this note we quantify to what extent indirect taxation influences and distorts prices. To do so we use the networked accounting structure of the most recent input-output table of Catalonia, an autonomous region of Spain, to model price formation. The role of indirect taxation is considered both from a classical value perspective and a more neoclassical flavoured one. We show that they would yield equivalent results under some basic premises. The neoclassical perspective, however, offers a bit more flexibility to distinguish among different tax figures and hence provide a clearer disaggregate picture of how an indirect tax ends up affecting, and by how much, the cost structure.