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Social Innovation and Civic Engagement (ITSSOIN)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

Research has made seminal contributions to describing the size and scope of the Third Sector, including volunteering as an essential component. However, most of the research has focused on economic benefits (revenues, employment etc.). We highly value these efforts, but posit that the core contribution and main impact of the sector on socio-economic development lies in the creation of social innov ...
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FORest conservation and EcoSysTem Accounting. Towards the integration of private and public values into land use decisions modeling at farm scale. An application to Andalusia montes (FORESTA)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

This research aims to develop a methodology of economic analysis applicable at a microeconomic scale (farm), as the relevant private land use decision unit, to evaluate and predict the potential interactions between land-use, governmental (eg. forestry measures accompanying of the Common Agricultural Policy) and market based (eg. Payments for Environmental Services) incentives to enhance forest re ...
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Economic Cycles, Employment and Health: Disentangling Causal Pathways in a Cross-National Study (HEALTHCYCLE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Research in economics suggests that business cycles are associated with population health: Physical health deteriorates during economic expansions and improves during recessions. At odds with these findings, research in epidemiology and sociology suggests that individual unemployment and job insecurity are associated with poor health and higher mortality. While studies on the impact of economic cy ...
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