Using Quality of Life Criteria to Define Urban Areas in Catalonia

Royuela, Vicente; Romaní, Javier; Artı́s, Manuel

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“…Algunas mediciones procuran reflejar las formas más naturales en que las personas interactúan en el espacio, incorporando múltiples dimensiones socioeconómicas asociadas a los viajes diarios de las personas (Royuela et al 2009), modos de vida y consumo en centros comerciales (Nielsen y Hovgesen 2004) e incluso en base a las comunicaciones telefó-nicas (Ratti et al 2010).…”

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Desigualdades sociales y tipos de territorios en Chile

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2013

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Resumen: Las desigualdades sociales en Chile incluyen desigualdades territoriales que permanecen no observadas cuando se enfoca exclusivamente las regiones administrativas. Un conjunto entrelazado de tipos de territorios representativos del proceso de urbanización en un nivel subregional, es propuesto para el estudio de las desigualdades sociales desde una perspectiva territorial. Un territorio es delimitado por un mercado de trabajo común, lo que es medido por la conmutación o movilidad territorial.Palabras claves: desigualdad, urbanización , mercado de trabajo, territorios, conmutación. Social inequalities and types of territories in ChileAbstract: Social inequalities in Chile include territorial inequalities that remain unobserved when focusing exclusively on administrative regions. A grid of types of territories representing the urbanization process at a sub-regional level is proposed for the study of social inequalities from a territorial perspective. A territory is delineated by a common labor market, which is measured by commutation or territorial mobility.Key words: inequality, urbanization, labor market, territories, commutation. Desigualdades sociais e tipos de territórios no ChileResumo: As desigualdades sociais no Chile incluem as desigualdades territoriais que permanecem despercebidos quando o foco exclusivamente regiões administrativas. Um conjunto interligado de tipos representativos de territórios de urbanização em um nível sub-regional, é proposto para o estudo das desigualdades sociais a partir de uma perspectiva regional. Um território é definido por um mercado de trabalho comum, o que é medido pela comutação ou mobilidade territorial.Palavras-chave: desigualdade, urbanização, mercado de trabalho, territórios, comutação.

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Desigualdades sociales y tipos de territorios en Chile

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“…These consumption issues are central in SIP, where quality of life goals are wedded to ecologically sustainable development goals. We can conceptualise quality of life (QoL) and resource consumption (RC) can be expressed as a Sustainability Index of SI= QoL/RC (Royuela et al 2009, Plass and Kaltenegger 2007, Lebel and Lorek 2008. The SI of different planning scenarios can then be quantified and compared as a core SIP tool.…”

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“…The science of human impact quantification is well evolved, e.g. www.footprintnetwork.org, The SI combines this with the 'carbon footprint and matured social indicator measures (ie Schwirian 1995, Royuela et al 2009.…”

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Internalising Survival Values into Science: Sustainability Implementation Science

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2009

The International Journal of Science in Society

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Human Geography theory allows for preferred human societal futures. This means the boundaries of science include valuing mitigation of global warming through Sustainability Implementation Planning. Science discerns, processes, tests and incorporates changing reality. Human Geography theory acknowledges, as part of science theory evolution, that humans do care, that humans are agents of changing reality and that we have value and knowledge-based preferences of how our collective future may be influenced by our choices and resultant actions and impacts. Climate change, disaster mitigation and sustainability implementation planning are linked aspects of an emerging value system in science: Sustainability Implementation Research (SIR). SIR starts with the value systems of Ecologically Sustainable Development, embraces the rigours of science replication and extends Action Research to take a whole-systems approach using the David Suzuki model. This defines long-term values, principles and processes to achieve sustainability. This paper draws on extensive disaster risk communication and community engagement research and consultancies by the author at Australian national, state and local government levels, with focus on Sustainability Implementation Planning (SIP) in North Queensland and James Cook University, described in this paper. Understanding the degradation of 'the linear industrial model', of humanenhanced global warming; given a surveyed consensus that people want 'sustainable settlements', we can join values with emergent technologies to foster long-term local needs-meetings. Also, there are elements within organisations' authority chains which may resist complex change. Quantifying planning choices with science rigor via Sustainability Implementation Research (SIR) may help fearful decision-makers, although critical elements within 'the old way' of settlement planning do not want to lose power to 'the new way'. There is resistance to hierarchical command and control giving way to engaged participation in implementing sustainable structures and behaviour (Goudie 2005). This paper details rigorous and replicable values, principles and

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“…In regional studies, the increasing interest on this dimension of urban life basically depends on the fact that QOL may significantly affect local competitiveness, social cohesion, and environmental sustainability, shaping urban growth and settlement expansion [1,26,27]. According to Royuela et al [28], quality of life can play an important role in location decisions taken by households and businesses.…”

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“…However they are measured, QOL outcomes may have less to do with public spending and more to do with demographic, socioeconomic and environmental factors" (Luger,[20], p. 751). For this reason, investigating QOUL implies a comparative and integrated analysis of citizens' perceptions and the places where they live [41], considering the specific socioeconomic characteristics of cities and metropolitan regions [6,21,28,[42][43][44].…”

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Factors Underlying Life Quality in Urban Contexts: Evidence from an Industrial City (Arak, Iran)

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Cities play a vital role in local development providing a high education level, specialized jobs and advanced services. When assessing living conditions and wellbeing in cities, economic indicators alone are generally unable to evaluate the inherent complexity of the ‘quality of life’ issue in urban environments. With rapid urbanization, shortage of infrastructures and services emerged in metropolitan regions of developing countries, leading to disadvantaged settlements, urban poverty, lower citizens’ satisfaction, and an overall decline in life quality. Based on these premises, the present study illustrates a subjective investigation of life quality in an emerging economy such as Iran, focusing on Arak, the fourth largest industrial pole of the country. Based on a literature review on quality of life in industrial cities of emerging economies, subjective indicators of citizens’ satisfaction on living quality in Arak were identified and quantified using empirical results from a field survey. Results of our study show that the overall satisfaction for living quality in Arak is rather low, reaching the lowest rank in the issues of environmental sanitation and public transportation. Lack of investments in urban infrastructure justifies the low citizens’ perception of life quality in Arak city. The paper concludes outlining the urgent need of homogeneous and comparable macro- and micro-data on multiple aspects of quality of life at both city-level and metropolitan-level in emerging economies.

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Using Quality of Life Criteria to Define Urban Areas in Catalonia

Abstract: Quality of life, Urban economics, Urban areas, Commuting algorithms, Gravitation models,

Cited by 12 publications

References 25 publications

Desigualdades sociales y tipos de territorios en Chile

Desigualdades sociales y tipos de territorios en Chile

Internalising Survival Values into Science: Sustainability Implementation Science

Factors Underlying Life Quality in Urban Contexts: Evidence from an Industrial City (Arak, Iran)

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