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Abolitionist, or not?
Fruit of the latest news of the newspaper “El Mundo” which recounts how José Blanco and Mariano Rajoy coincided in the last bullfight in Pontevedra and others in various media of a different nature, I have decided to dedicate a few lines to this matter since it seems that the debate continues to feed. The…
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De-growth patterns – Innovations in urban mobility
The economic crisis made ourselves reflect on how we could go so far in the excesses in the economy. Almost all economies have not escaped recession, and almost all have questioned with more or less severity their models of economic governance: the Anglo-Saxon system characterized by its liberalism, the more interventionist continental European, the Nordics…
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Euskadi 2020-2030: Towards a low carbon economy
The International Energy Agency forecasts that by 2020 the OPEC countries will reach the ceiling of their oil production . Non-cartel members have already done so. It was the journalist for the British newspaper The Guardian, George Monbiot, who managed, in an incisive interview conducted in December 2008, that IEA Chief Economist Fatih Birol ,…
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It was fun until the money ran out
The title is borrowed from a late 2008 article in the architecture section of the New York Times ,It Was Fun Till the Money Ran Out, which in a few words and with great precision clearly marked how many urban projects have been dealt with in recent years and how only the crisis has been…
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Towards a new pattern of growth – Urban transport as an example
The great economic crisis makes us reflect on how we have been able to reach such excesses in the economy. Hardly any economy in the world has escaped recession, and almost all of them have questioned their models in a more or less severe way: the Anglo-Saxon system, the more interventionist European system, the state…
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The collective dream
It is very difficult for a single person, a single project or a single idea can change a society, a region, a country. But when the whole of society shares the same dream, this dream becomes a collective challenge and joint efforts can make it achievable. In Spain we have managed to make our collective…
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Effective and symbolic inequalities in Latin America
Last week the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) presented the First Development Report on Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean with an interesting media campaign. They have chosen the most widely read generalist newspaper in Spain, El País, as the public launch platform. In a special supplement called “On the march towards equality” you…
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Highways, pants for obese. archeology of a sentence
A post before the start of August can only be light and easy, we are not for many more things…. Building more roads to solve congestion is like is like buying bigger trousers to cure obesity. Adding capacity to roads to solve congestion is like buying bigger pants to solve weight problems. The photo includes…
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Adeuropa’s GESTIDI R+D+i Managers Program, a young red with the ability not to oxidize?
Taking advantage of the excellentarticle published by David Arias in his analysis of the program GESTIDI by Adeuropa, I venture to contribute my opinion on this program, which although formally it seems an attractive program, hides a series of weaknesses typical of its youth. Let us hope that the wrinkles of time will help improve…
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mr market
I continue with mine… writing some notes on economic analysis applied to environmental protection; in this case, the use of market instruments for the conservation of biodiversity. 60% of the world’s ecosystems are used unsustainably or are degraded. 30% of the species of mammals, birds and amphibians are threatened with extinction. The degradation and disappearance…