Sostenibilitat, energia i clima

Tourism in the Mediterranean: Safeguarding Heritage or Destroying the Environment?

Tourism and heritage have merged together in the Mediterranean to provide an exceptional environment that supports the blossoming of holidays, leisure and play.

The Agro-Food Sector in the Mediterranean: a Bridge Between the Two Shores

In recent months the media has rediscovered the agro-food sector as an economic sector of the first order, occupying a strategic place in its two aspects of food and energy.

Getting it Right: Policies for Urban Transformation

The urban transition in developing countries is telescoping time, needing just a few decades to do what took a century or more in the industrialized countries.

2007 Summer Fires in the European Mediterranean – The Cases of Greece, Italy and Spain

In addition to the substantial acreages devastated by fire, the summer of 2007 was equally noted for the very heavy human death toll.

Resources and Water Demand. Forecasts for the Future of Water in the Mediterranean

Water is at the core of the problem of sustainable development. Its management in the Mediterranean area is characterised by non-sustainable forms of production and consumption.

Water Management in the Mediterranean Countries of the European Union

Impacts of Climate Change on the Mediterranean Area: its Relevance to the Water Issue

In the light of observational evidence of mean air and ocean temperature rises and the disappearance of glaciers and perennial snows, as well as average sea-level rises, planetary warming is indisputable.

Green Water and Effective Legislation for Transboundary Water Management

The potential for water conflicts over transboundary, shared, or international waters (as some countries prefer to call them) is increasing as population, development, and the demand for water increase.

The Economic Value of Water and its Implications in the Mediterranean Basin

The application of economic concepts to the management and use of water (a non-substitutable good in general terms) leads us to the dilemma of determining the market price.

The Hydropolitics of the Mediterranean

For some years now the question of water in the world and around the Mediterranean has been emerging as one of the most urgent.

Groundwater Resources in the Mediterranean Region: Importance, Uses and Sharing

The complex and very compartmentalised geological structure of the Mediterranean Basin has not allowed the formation of very extensive aquifer systems, with the exception of the South-East African Platform.

Towards an Euro-Mediterranean Water Strategy?

Political leaders have always been aware, and increasingly so, of the importance of water in the Euro-Mediterranean context and the need to tackle it at the regional level, albeit with ups and downs.