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Interrogating available indexes from a discourse-theoretical point of view, this paper utilizes a reformulated populism index in order to identify populist parties. In particular, the index is applied in a candidate survey carried out in Greece in 2015. Findings indicate that this index allows for a clear differentiation between populist and non-populist parties. Based on candidate attitudes, SYRIZA and ANEL belong to the first group whereas New Democracy, PASOK and River to the second. The examination of additional survey items reveals a clear ideological division within the populist camp: right-wing populism is exclusionary, while left-wing populism more inclusive and pluralist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ongoing crisis in Greece constitutes an emblematic case of repressive capitalist restructuring. In this first part of a two-paper series, we argue that public debt is used as a vehicle for furthering the neoliberal transformation of Greek society with serious implications for the appropriation of nature. We present theoretical considerations about nature in capitalism, the rationale of neoliberal capitalist restructuring, as well as the relation between nature and neoliberalism. We finally present the timeline of the Greek crisis, as well as how the three structural adjustment programs wrought a severe capitalist restructuring upon Greece. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper explores the notion of environmentally induced spatial stigma through an analysis of data from interviews across public attitudes to pollution within the Asopos river basin in central Greece. The area has a 40 year plus history of legal and illicit industrial waste disposal and public debate on the associated environmental degradation. The study focuses on the perceptions and beliefs of a sector of the community likely to be directly and negatively affected by stigma, that is small business owners in the tourism and hospitality sector. The qualitative analysis explores awareness and viewpoints on environmental degradation and water quality within the local context, implications for the local economy and the individual's own enterprise, views on industrial environmental management as well as corporate responsibility and future prospects for the environmental problems of Asopos. Findings reveal a noticeable variation in views on industrial pollution and ecosystem deterioration among the respondents, but overall a strong environmentally induced stigmatization of the area. They also uncover an information asymmetry and lack of credible commitment by government bodies and industry members in disclosing accurate information, a situation likely to increase speculation and uncertainty within the community. The paper concludes by addressing implications of the findings to policy-making and managerial considerations, along with future research perspectives which aim to increase considerations of sustainability aspects for local development. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Strategic spatial planning, in its widely accepted theoretical conceptualisation, has become the terrain for making balanced decisions about the consolidation of both a city’s international competitiveness and its role in a wider international context. Thus, it has emphasized shared responsibilities between the public and the private sector in economies where the roles of the public and the private sphere are clearly complementary. In countries with weaker institutional settings such distinctions are purposely obscure, as both spheres are enmeshed in statist and rent-seeking structures. Based on an investigation of the strategic spatial plans prepared over the past 15 years for the city of Thessaloniki the present paper attempts to explain the specificities and failures of strategic spatial planning in the Greek institutional environment, within the context of four defining features of the Greek local state, namely: (i) the centralization of the Greek government; (ii) the funding arrangements of local government; (iii) the nature of the local institutional intermediaries and stakeholders; and (iv) a political economy which favours consumption over the production of internationally competitive goods and services – this production being enabled by the local state’s marshalling of location specific assets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The European Union is often conceptualised as an entity that is profoundly different from that of the modern state. Through a reading of the recent humanitarian crisis precipitated by large-scale migration into Greece, the paper challenges the understanding that the crafting of the European Union (‘Euro-crafting’) is qualitatively different from the crafting of the modern state. Conceptually, the paper proposes that Euro-crafting should be thought through in relation to practices of statecraft, instead of a priori postulated as qualitatively different from such practices. Putting such an understanding of Euro-crafting to work, the paper explores the recent humanitarian crisis precipitated by large-scale migration into Greece and demonstrates how practices of Euro-crafting mirror the major desire-driven practices of modern statecraft; practices of ordering, bordering, and identification. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper examines the degree of business cycle synchronicity among Greek regions and investigates the determinants of the business cycle co-movements of output associated with specific functional and spatial aspects of the integration process among the Greek regions. We analyse nearly 30 years (1980–2008) of data at the NUTSIII level (prefectures). We conclude that the business cycles of prefectures are more synchronized with the NUTSII regional cycle than with the national business cycle revealing a regional (NUTSII) border effect. Moreover, the intensification of the integration process seems to diachronically affect the structural characteristics of the Greek regions and the geography of cyclical synchronization. Our study reveals a two-stage integration process where in the first stage we detect the existence of urbanization economies, while in the second one the existence of localization economies. Furthermore, our study reveals that the metropolitan regions have a low level of business cycle synchronicity with the other regions, stressing Greece's pattern of economic and structural dualism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to investigate landslide susceptibility mapping in regional scale, considering the spatial stationarity of the relationship between landslide susceptibility and its influencing factors. Landslides are among the most severe natural hazards and their management has a key role to human safety. During the last decades, a significant number of GIS-based methods for landslide susceptibility assessment and mapping have been proposed in the literature. In this paper, contemporary methods for landslide susceptibility analysis have been applied. The latter include global and local regression analysis aiming to study the relationship between landslide occurrence and its determinants. This paper also examines if this relationship is spatial non-stationary via the application of the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR). The proposed methodology has been applied in the Peloponnese peninsula, in South Greece. To examine the factors responsible for the occurrence of a landslide event; topographic (slope angle, elevation), geological and other environmental variables (land cover, rainfalls) were considered. The results suggest that GWR provides a potential improvement in landslide susceptibility assessment compared to traditional global regression analysis methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to understand an emergent social practice of solidarity, that of voluntary shadow education ('social frontistiria'), in its socio-economic context. Perceiving the welfare state as the institutionalized form of solidarity, this paper attempts to analyze its specific nature and the process of political legitimisation stemming from enduring features of the Greek political culture. It is argued that the traditionally established practices are deconstructed in the face of the economic crisis. In the context of recession, new forms of solidarity emerge which transcend the enduring individualistic element of Greek society, based on social activism and volunteerism. While institutional solidarity is insufficient and traditional solidarity faints, civil society apparently emerges, introducing new social practices of solidarity. This paper shows, that the crisis, alongside its dismantling effects, may have some creative effect towards the development of new solidarities, new spaces of hybrid social practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The scope of this paper is to investigate the impact of market deregulation on the level of farm-gate prices and the competitiveness of raw milk producers in Greece along the suggested lines of OECD. For this purpose, we use a dynamic panel data approach. We argue that the full openness of the relevant milk market segment had significant implications for the level of farmgate prices in the industry. On the one hand, market deregulation causes the increase of farmgate prices and, on the other hand, a fiercer market competition proxied by the increase in the number of firms in the industry results in a decrease in farmgate milk prices. Lastly, our empirical findings remain robust under different methodologies and sample splitting, providing a focal point to policymakers and government officials for the ex-post evaluation of the proposed OECD deregulation strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses alienation from the more-than-human world and the need for nature pedagogies through the experience of nature journaling in an environmental education course in higher education. Students at a University Department of Early Childhood Education in Greece engaged in nature journaling through an assignment that encouraged them to explore their connection with the more-than-human world and reflect on their experience. The research results revealed different ways that the students experienced and connected with the more-than-human world. Nature journaling appeared to be a multilayered pedagogical tool of experience, collaboration, participation, reflection and enjoyment in environmental teaching and learning in higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses aspects of cooking pottery technology and operation through observations made in a series of experiments, utilizing the results of archaeological ceramic analysis in Neolithic northern Greece. The first stage of experiments focused on the experimental manufacture of three types of cooking pots, following the Neolithic techniques, from raw material processing to firing. In the second stage the pots were used in cooking performances, using structures, fuel and contents identified in the archaeological record. The qualitative data generated allow for testing a series of archaeological assumptions on ceramic technology, particularly vessel building and firing, along with the effects of cooking on pots. Moreover, experimental cooking provided insight to the relations between the different participant parts, highlighting the pivotal relation of cooking pots to fuel and different cooking modes. This pilot study aspires to endorse ceramicists to refine protocols for future experiments and analyses on cooking technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the testimonies for the diurnal solar movement in various early Greek texts, focusing especially on its nocturnal segment. Alongside the instantiations of myths containing references to the daily course of the sun in poetic and mythographical texts, the pertinent opinions of selected natural philosophers are also studied. Several speculative models were constructed by the early Greeks in order to account for this natural phenomenon. Two of the most widespread models involve the northerly or southerly horizontal course of the sun(-god) after setting, with the non-personalistic accounts preferring the former and the personalistic accounts favouring the latter. The southerly course during night as a rule involved the sun-god travelling in a boat over the circumambient Ocean. Another model utilized the concept of cosmic nadir, located deep in Tartarus at the underside of the earth, as a key feature in the phenomenon of the daylight/night exchange. Sometimes these models interacted, but more often were used separately by different authors. In the wake of the development of spherical geometry they were supplanted by the model derived from this scientific discipline, although their resonances can be observed in the Antiochene exegetical school of late antiquity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the author shares her experience of the use of telecommunication during the Covid-19 pandemic in teaching infant observation in Greece. She offers an account of the changes, difficulties, reservations and concerns regarding the use of telecommunication in infant observation. During the ten months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the seminars on infant observation had to adapt twice to complete lockdowns. As a result, the observations in the natural setting of the baby's home changed and became tele-observations. The difficulties of teaching infant observation during this period, as well as the anxieties they induced in both the seminar leader and the observers, are described. Feelings about concepts such as loss, absence, separation, distance and closeness were felt in a much stronger way in the countertransference during this period. It was seen as important that prior to online infant observation, observations in the home had preceded. On the other hand, it seemed that both types of observations could act together, in a supplementary mode with each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The integrated approach to urban development consists is an EU policy direction, which was incorporated into the institutional framework by many Member States. This paper aspires to explore, through a critical presentation, the principles and aspects of spatial governance practices of the main tools of Integrated Urban Intervention in Greece. The research concerns governance synergies, both horizontally and vertically, and more specifically, the schemes, mechanisms and tools through which the coordination of the implementation and funding of actions may be achieved. The critical presentation of the governance of a relevant program applied in Germany for nearly two decades is expected to contribute to this effort. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Following the signing of the Prespa Agreement in June 2018, the Macedonian name issue became the most prominent topic on the Greek political agenda, catalysing an exceptional political confrontation and contributing to the realignment of political parties and eventually to government change. Analysing the political discourse and public debate on the issue from January 2018 until the July 2019 national elections, as well as opinion polls and electoral results, the paper explores the conditions leading to the escalation of political polarisation on the left/right axis, at the expense of smaller centrist parties. It is argued that political antagonism was built on the previous political cleavage (although the populist/anti-populism axis was now reversed). By mobilising public emotions around an alleged 'national threat', the polarisation around the Macedonian name issue proved far more successful for the Greek right than for the left. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unregulated built-up area expansion is a typical practice in Greece mostly on the islands, it is driven by the mass tourism development and the demand for second houses. Significant social, economic and environmental issues are linked to this practice. Santorini, a Greek island – which is characterized by important natural and cultural heritage properties and intense tourist development – is chosen here for the empirical part of the study. This paper attempts to study and quantify both the unregulated built-up area expansion and its impact on the natural and cultural environment. The intense ex-urban built-up area expansion that takes place on Santorini is interpreted on the basis of the Greek spatial planning framework so that its weaknesses that emerge will address the issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper argues that Syriza has remained faithful to its distinct form of left Europeanism in the post-crisis era. It aims at testing the relative importance of four factors: the party’s Eurocommunist heritage, its ideological pillars, its internal balance and party factionalism, and its transnational affiliations. In order to assess their importance, the present paper draws from on-going research applying a theoretical framework that combines the work of Johansson and Raunio (2001) with Charalambous’ (2013) communist dilemma. While the former framework provides us with the required areas of investigation, the latter focuses on the party’s mechanisms of altering salience levels in respect to its transnational affiliations. It thus pinpoints an additional level of analysis that highlights the importance of the Party of the European Left for Syriza’s unaltered stance towards the European edifice, at least for the party’s Unitary Platform that witnessed the Left Platform’s withdrawal from Syriza following Syriza’s ‘capitulation’ in July 2015. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The multi-faceted crisis that has hit Greece and other (southern) European countries has had severe consequences on people’s everyday lives. In an attempt to cope with, but also resist, dramatic changes in lifestyles, incomes and welfare, several initiatives have sprung up all over the country at many different scales, with diverse targets, varying actors and outcomes. Many people have abandoned their privacy to participate in public actions of solidarity, in initiatives that often involve new or alternative uses of urban space. It seems that practices of solidarity and claims around material spaces are becoming an important ‘laboratory’ for shaping a different public sphere. Drawing from relevant examples in Athens, the paper aims to reflect on the ways in which such practices and claims arise and develop; how different types of rights and forms of doing politics are enacted in situations of crisis and deprivation; and finally how such practices reconfigure public space and shape notions of belonging, which ultimately (re)define urban citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The economic crisis signifies a turning point for Greek national self-image. The present paper explores the ideological function of interpretative repertoires in relation to the reproduction and contestation of national identity. We focus on two basic repertoires: a victimizing and a self-blaming one. Even though connotations of victimhood are not homogenous, its association with an external enemy is very popular. This paper demonstrates that discourses of victimization are not unambiguous and solidified; they interact with self-blaming discursive patterns, thus leading to hybrid perceptions of the national self-image that are adjusted to particular political actors’ strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper presents results of a study of the impact of future climate change scenarios as developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and implemented in weather files for specific future time slices (2020, 2050 and 2080) for the three climatic regions of Greece on the design of the external envelope of a hotel building in Greece. The impact of climate change on the hotel is assessed via hourly simulations of a calibrated model developed using the software TRNSYS. Additionally, the paper aims to identify optimal refurbishment strategies, given the constraints of the existing case-study building when transposed to the three different climatic zones in Greece. Two modes of the hotel building were studied: ‘all year’ and ‘seasonally’ operated. It was found that different external envelope energy-efficient strategies can be applied depending on the climatic zone and whether the hotel is all-year or seasonally operated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to analyse the issues and challenges related to university graduates' entrepreneurship and self-employment. An extensive literature review analyses the relevant situation in European Union and Greece. Additionally, an institutional survey has been carried out concerning the career paths of a large number of graduates from Greek higher technological education. A detailed structured questionnaire was designed to collect rigorous data and to obtain deeper understanding of student choices. The randomly selected unbiased sample represented nearly 30% of the total population of recent graduates of five consecutive years. The method of telephone interviews was selected as the most efficient tool for collecting the required information. This paper reports on the analysis of the responses of 197 self-employed graduates regarding the motivation to start a business, the process through which they started their business, and financial issues concerning the start-up. The detection of significant effects towards graduates' entrepreneurship through multivariate statistical analysis revealed that the most important factors are gender, degree grade, acquisition of a postgraduate degree, as well as the faculty and the specialty of the bachelor studies. The original results of the survey provide important insight into graduates' self-employment. The paper also demonstrates the need for a systematic national strategy that will take advantage of innovative potentials, increase competitiveness and enhance the collaboration between government, educational and research institutions, as well as the industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resistant performances in Athens have gathered momentum over the last year, transforming the fixed landscape of a city into a platform for negotiation and dialogue. The singular compelling imagery of ‘occupying’ as a form of resistance is its multiplicity of voices—the collective mobilisation of the ‘multitude’. Yet, the force and urgency of a collective resistance lies in the individual untold stories of its proponents. Rather than glorify the movement as a faceless entity, this paper embraces the daily stories, struggles and wounds of occupation, by using photographs. Resistant performances are connected with existing social conditions: austerity measures, mass immigration and ‘crisis’. Such narratives of globalisation and empire building are transforming central areas and traditional notions of Athenian identity, giving birth to a new street-level language that has twisted, innovated and filled in the gaps of a culture's hegemonic discourse. The paper analyses both protests and specific examples of street art as visual markers of the shifting, complex discourses of power struggles, marginality and counter-cultures that establish a new reality that must be seen and heard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper aims to analyse the issues and challenges related to university graduates' entrepreneurship and self-employment. An extensive literature review analyses the relevant situation in European Union and Greece. Additionally, an institutional survey has been carried out concerning the career paths of a large number of graduates from Greek higher technological education. A detailed structured questionnaire was designed to collect rigorous data and to obtain deeper understanding of student choices. The randomly selected unbiased sample represented nearly 30% of the total population of recent graduates of five consecutive years. The method of telephone interviews was selected as the most efficient tool for collecting the required information. This paper reports on the analysis of the responses of 197 self-employed graduates regarding the motivation to start a business, the process through which they started their business, and financial issues concerning the start-up. The detection of significant effects towards graduates' entrepreneurship through multivariate statistical analysis revealed that the most important factors are gender, degree grade, acquisition of a postgraduate degree, as well as the faculty and the specialty of the bachelor studies. The original results of the survey provide important insight into graduates' self-employment. The paper also demonstrates the need for a systematic national strategy that will take advantage of innovative potentials, increase competitiveness and enhance the collaboration between government, educational and research institutions, as well as the industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Classical Greece is famous for its athletic art, particularly the image of the nude male athlete. But how did the Greeks understand athletic beauty? Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, and others discuss athletes’ beauty, while the educational ideal of kalokagathia conceptually connects athletic beauty with the good. More questions need to be answered, however, if we are to understand ancient athletic beauty. We need to ask ourselves what the Greeks appreciated when they looked at athletic bodies. What did those qualities mean to them? In what way was it erotic? How did it differ for females and males? In this paper I argue that the beautiful athletic body is framed in ancient Greek thought, not just as an aesthetically pleasing image, but as an ideal expression of a certain kind of soul. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses a methodology to collect building inventory data by combining image processing techniques, field work or tools such as Google Street View and applying statistical inferences. Following the methodology outlined in Marinescu (2002), a family of Gabor filters are first constructed, which are then applied to an optical high-resolution image. The output from the processed image is segmented using Self-Organising Maps. This paper examines the relationship between the segmented areas in the image and the building type distribution within each segmented area, by deriving the distribution from field data. The relationship between the average number of buildings in these cells against the number of grid cells allocated to each segmentation cluster is also investigated. Finally, using these results, the overall building inventory distribution for the whole of the case study site of Pylos is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence of a new economic and political system in post-socialist Albania strongly affected the neighbouring regions of Greece, particularly by successive waves of migration. This paper explores three key aspects of Albanian migration to Greece. First, it investigates the basic factors that determine Albanian migrants' decision to settle in middle-sized Greek cities close to the border with Albania. Second, it examines the main patterns of trans-border mobility between Albania and Greece. And third, it looks at the possible interconnections between integration into Greek society and trans-border mobility. The role of geographical proximity and other factors that define migrants' integration are also discussed. The paper concludes that frequent mobility produces important trans-national activity and discusses whether this mobility corresponds to an emerging type of 'trans-migrant'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the 'maturing' process of the large-scale Albanian migration to Greece. Various typologies of migration and settlement are derived from the general migration literature, including the three-fold typology of labour migration: permanent settlement, temporary emigration, and seasonal cross-border moves. Greece has a particular migratory profile - moving from mass emigration to mass immigration - like other Southern European countries, but also different from the others in the dominance of one nationality, Albanians. The empirical part of the paper compares two surveys, taken in 2005 and 2008, to demonstrate evidence of a maturing process, with migrants staying longer, improving their income and employment conditions, and becoming increasingly oriented to permanent settlement rather than return. Policy implications of this transition are discussed in the conclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kalantaridis C., Vassilev I. and Fallon G. Enterprise strategies, governance structure and performance: a comparative study of global integration, Regional Studies. This paper is positioned within a voluminous body of literature exploring the processes of global integration. The research presented here broadens the scope of scholarly inquiry through a process of constructive and critical engagement with the Global Commodity and Value Chain approaches. This is achieved by focusing on the enterprise as a purposive agent that is contextualized in chains and localities; and exploring the broad spectrum of strategies that can result to robust performance. This argument is supported with the findings of a survey of 755 firms in the United Kingdom, Greece, Poland, Estonia, and Bulgaria. [image omitted] Kalantaridis C., Vassilev I. et Fallon G. Les strategies d'entreprise, la structure de gouvernance et la performance: une etude comparative de l'integration mondialisee, Regional Studies. Cet article est partie integrante d'un corpus de documentation important qui examine le processus d'integration mondialisee. La recherche ci-presentee elargit la portee des etudes academiques par moyen d'un processus d'engagement constructif et critique avec les approches qui portent sur les produits mondialises et les chaines de valeur. On le realise en se concentrant sur l'entreprise comme agent empirique qui est relativise en termes de chaines et d'emplacements, et en examinant la gamme large de strategies qui pourrait en resulter pour consolider la performance. Les resultats d'une enquete aupres de 755 entreprises situees au R-U, en Grece, en Pologne, en Estonie et en Bulgarie soutiennent cet argument. Mondialisation Strategie d'entreprise Developpement economique Kalantaridis C., Vassilev I. und Fallon G. Unternehmensstrategien, Regierungsstruktur und Leistung: eine vergleichende Studie der globalen Integration, Regional Studies. Dieser Aufsatz versteht sich als Beitrag zur umfassenden Literatur uber die Prozesse der globalen Integration. Die hier vorgestellte Studie erweitert das Feld der akademischen Forschung durch einen Prozess des konstruktiven und kritischen Engagements mit den Ansatzen der globalen Waren- und Wertschopfungsketten. Hierfur konzentrieren wir uns auf das Unternehmen als zielgerichteten Akteur, der in Ketten und Lokalitaten kontextualisiert wird, und untersuchen das breite Spektrum der Strategien, die zu robuster Leistung fuhren konnen. Unterstutzt wird dieses Argument durch die Ergebnisse einer Umfrage unter 755 Firmen in Grossbritannien, Griechenland, Polen, Estland und Bulgarien. Globalisierung Unternehmensstrategie Wirtschaftsentwicklung Kalantaridis C., Vassilev I. y Fallon G. Estrategias empresariales, estructura gubernamental y rendimiento: un estudio comparativo de la integracion global, Regional Studies. Este articulo se concibe como una aportacion a la extensa literatura sobre los procesos de la integracion global. El estudio que aqui presentamos amplia el campo de la investigacion academica mediante un proceso de participacion constructiva y critica en cuanto a los planteamientos sobre la cadena global de valores y mercancias. Para ello prestamos atencion a la empresa como agente intencionado que se contextualiza en cadenas y localidades y exploramos el amplio espectro de estrategias que pueden llevar a un rendimiento solido. Este argumento esta respaldado por los resultados de un estudio de 755 empresas en el Reino Unido, Grecia, Polonia, Estonia y Bulgaria. Globalizacion Estrategia empresarial Desarrollo economico [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the policy implemented when it comes to establishing regional universities in a developed, yet semi-peripheral, EU country (i.e. Greece) and focuses on two central issues: whether regional universities contribute to local development and whether their location in the periphery harnessed their academic performance. The establishment of regional universities has become a widely used practice for facilitating regional development throughout the developed world, and the university's third role is quite widely accepted. The paper does not intend to question the policy of establishing regional universities itself, but rather the way these universities were established in Greece (as a case of a semi-peripheral regime) and possibly in other countries that are not in the forefront of international research. Regional universities in Greece were often established for clientelistic reasons; however, they do contribute in advancing local economic growth. These positive effects on the locality are often accompanied by a high cost for the Greek university and society itself, in the sense that regional universities have often been forced to operate under difficult conditions, thus undermining their fundamental mission (educational but primarily research). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks at the spatial inequalities of income and post-graduate educational attainment for Local Authorities in Greece. It also introduces a composite variable that is defined as the average of the standardized values of mean household income and high level of educational attainment (post-graduate degree holders). The explanatory analysis of these variables contributes to the literature of applied spatial analysis of socio-economic indicators at the local authority level in Greece. The latter has so far attracted little attention in the literature even though it is important for informed policy making decisions related to the local economic development in Greece. Another aim for creating the suggested composite variable, is for it to be used as an indicator for explaining spatial phenomena such as internal migration. Maps, and the corresponding exploratory analysis of the composite variable and its components, are shown in different sections of the main map. It is apparent that the Local Authorities in Greece, especially the affluent suburbs of the two metropolitan areas located within the prefectures of Attiki and Thessaloniki, exhibit the highest values of the composite variable. There is a strong North/South, Urban/Rural and Attica/Rest-of-the-country divide. However, smaller peripheral cities and some rural areas seem to perform relatively well compared with the country's average not fully following this divide, an unexpected finding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most container terminals in the world today are operating up to their capacities. In this paper, we have developed a decision support system to optimise yard operations by considering all container flows (import, export and transshipment) through the yard with the view to improving terminal performance and efficiency. In another paper, we proposed an optimization model that determines optimal container locations and straddle carrier (SC) movements with the objective of minimizing the overall storage and handling cost of containers. In this paper, a discrete event simulation tool for container terminal operations has been developed with three objectives: (i) to validate the operational plan resulting from the optimization model; (ii) to test the robustness of possible deployment policies for straddle carriers; and (iii) to analyse yard resource requirements for future terminal expansion. The model has been applied to the largest container terminal in Greece—the Port of Piraeus—and computational results are reported for the case study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper revisits the Greek-Turkish rapprochement, taking as its point of departure the two states' economic relations, and explores possible linkages to political cooperation. The paper finds growing collaboration in a context characterized by the proliferation of non-state actors in economic decision-making, and underlines the role played by FDI flows and trade decisions in stimulating cooperation. At the same time, it rejects an uncritical acceptance of economic functionalism and stresses the salience of politics, above and beyond Turkey's EU candidacy, to consolidate the gains from the rapprochement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Evros deltaic plain (North Aegean Sea, Greece) covers an area of 188 km2 and is shared by Greece and Turkey by its current main channel. This paper investigates deltaic plain evolution during the last seven decades (1945–2017), taking into consideration human interventions and their impacts on deltaic processes. Outcomes indicate that the construction of more than 25 major dams in the Evros River catchment resulted in >80% reduction in fluvial suspended load. Moreover, the alignment and relocation of the main distributary channel to the southeast was accompanied by the transformation of >40% of the deltaic plain to agricultural land. The combination of human interventions supports the coastline advance of the active main mouth (current rate of 3.9 *10−3 km2/yr), retreat of the old (abandoned) Evros mouth (current rate 7.7 *10−3 km2/yr), and signs of remarkable vulnerability in the middle mouth area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues for a line of inquiry in the intersection between migration studies and STS work around the notion of material politics in alternative spaces. Drawing on multisited ethnographic inputs, I describe arrangements of cooperation coexisting with post-conflict reparation in Colombia and governmental humanitarianism in Greece. I follow material practices transforming objects into arrangements of remembrance and collective support and address the orders enacted by these practices as alternative infrastructures challenging infrastructures of migration control. The notion of alternative infrastructures offers the possibility to epistemically explore an overlooked angle by citizenship studies and STS; it engages with the objects and relations embedded in the materiality of everyday life and its politics beyond the boundaries of instituted forms of citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cross-linguistic studies on time reference in highly inflected languages have shown that tense inflection is particularly vulnerable in agrammatic speakers. According to the PAstDIscourseLInking Hypothesis (PADILIH), an asymmetry is predicted between past and non-past forms, due to the extra discourse linkage the former type imposes. The present paper investigates whether Greek agrammatic speakers are able to correctly use tense markers with respect to the relevant reference point, analyzing data from three different production tasks to understand how performance is modulated by different methodologies. seven agrammatic speakers and a control group participated in three experimental tasks (a) an elicited picture description, (b) a semi-standardized interview and (c) a sentence production priming task. Different outcomes were elicited across different tasks. Agrammatic speakers tended to accurately use past tense forms when they could freely select the content of their narration, as in the case of the two narrative tasks (the elicited picture description, and the semi-standardized interview). However, the same participants experienced significant difficulties referring to past and future events when using a sentence production priming task. Consequently, the predictions of PADILIH are not fully supported by the Greek data, given that, in addition to past tense deficits, the future tense was also severely compromised. Our data clearly suggest that language performance is affected by the processing demands placed on the patient's linguistic system by the experimental task used. Moreover, future tense deficits in Greek are interpreted as difficulties in the processing of conversational implicatures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Water Framework Directive (WFD) explicitly acknowledges the role of economics in the process of achieving the water quality targets it sets. At the same time, stakeholder participation in water resources management is emphasized in the Directive. In this paper, we examine farmers' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for ecological status improvement at a river basin scale. Based on a Contingent Valuation survey aims first to estimate the value farmers place on water quality improvement as it is envisaged by the WFD. Then through the use of different econometric models it was attempted to address zero responses and to find a robust estimate for the mean WTP. In a sample of more than 300 respondents, we found that 64.57% of them expressed zero responses. Further findings indicate that the mean values irrigators are willing to pay, for reaching the water quality targets set by the Directive, range between 11.5€/ha and 22.0€/ha (on an annual basis). Through the present research, farmers' willingness-to-pay for improvements in water quality directly investigated for the first time in Greece. Therefore, the results are provided can be useful for central decision makers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The National Archaeological Museum of Athens, the Byzantine and Christian Museum, the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture and the Museum of Cycladic Art are among the finest museums in Greece. Their permanent collections include splendid, important works of art and rare everyday objects that, arranged chronologically, represent the evolution of life and history in the Greek peninsula from prehistory to the 20th century. While these museums display artefacts from different eras and communities, they fail to shed light on gender issues and to tell inclusive stories. Even though many of the objects within their permanent collections belonged to women, were made by or for women, and depict women, very little is said of their lives and social roles within their respective societies. This paper examines how and whether the four aforementioned museums tell stories of women by examining different elements within their exhibitions (objects, thematic sections, texts, images, etc.), then suggesting new, feminist perspectives and approaches for considering them. By drawing attention to history's overlooked women and celebrating their lives, we suggest how treasuries of Greek civilisation might also become sites of social inclusion, diversity, and equity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The industry sector in Greece is responsible for one-quarter of the overall total final energy consumption accounting for 3.8 Mtoe in 2015. Since 2007, a 29% decrease is noted due to the financial crisis. The goal of this paper is to provide information on the current industrial energy profile of Greece, with particular reference to the steam industry. It presents the outcomes of 10 energy audits in industries that use steam followed by a list of possible measures: insulation, installation of a deaerator unit, heat recovery, automatic blowdown system and regulation of excessive air. The proposed measures result in energy savings of 5.8 GWh/year and show that the potential of energy savings in the Greek steam industry is quite considerable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The administrative reform launched in 2010 ("Kallikratis" programme) in Greece stands out as a major decentralization initiative. Notably, amalgamations at the local level were set at the forefront of the reform. This paper aims at shedding light on the issue of decentralizing governance by examining the implications of the "Kallikratis" reform programme on local authorities in terms of their domestic financial mobilization. Drawing empirical evidence from their implementation in European structural programmes, it is argued that the decentralization effort had an asymmetrical impact on local institutions, favouring principally the small-sized local authorities vis-à-vis the bigger in population local bodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to survey, analyse and evaluate the rôle of Greece and Cyprus vis-à-vis the security and geo-economic dimension of the Eastern Mediterranean through the lens of integration and regional strategic interests in the region. Despite the enlargement of NATO and the European Union, which have striven to integrate new countries into the Western community, the regional balance of interests has proven to be more unstable than predicted by the proponents of a Westernized and peaceful Eastern Mediterranean. Influenced by the strengthening rôle of Russia and Turkey, as well as by internal structural problems in the social, political and economic spheres, the Hellenic Republic and the Republic of Cyprus find themselves in a maelstrom of different and often conflicting regional interests, over which they have only minimal control. Developments are likely to have an impact on not only European integration, but on regional stability as a whole, since it can be argued that the old power structures of NATO and the EU are now having to contend with new regional factors. The article concludes with the observation that the situation in the region is confusing and volatile in diplomatic terms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper adopts a geohistorical approach in explaining the interactions of the past between Greece, Cyprus and Russia/USSR, within the context of the Eastern Mediterranean, and demonstrates that basic human and political characteristics have barely altered when it comes to today; rather, new colours are being painted to reflect allegedly 'new' circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the domestic and transnational social structures of accumulation (SSA) of Greece's development process over the period 1980–2014. Our historical analysis suggests that the Greek growth model was based on three social accords: (1) the Terms of International Trade and Finance accord, i.e., the liberalisation of international trade, capital mobility and finance within the EU; (2) the State-Capital accord, which included the liberalised labour and industrial relations, and the tolerance to elite tax evasion; and (3) the State-Citizen accord, which involved the relative expansion of the welfare state. The latter aspect suggests that the Greek growth model of the last three decades has been hybrid, rather than typical neoliberal. Our econometric findings provide robust evidence that trade openness, the liberalisation of international financial institutions, and the wage share have been increasing the rate of net capital accumulation in Greece since 1980, while public social spending has been decreasing it. Therefore, the Greek crisis was initially triggered by the breakdown of international trade and finance flows within the EU after the 2008 financial crisis. The subsequent collapse of the State-Citizen accord, due to the EU-imposed austerity programmes further induced the demise of the post-1980 Greek SSA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Against the background of the so-called "new immigration" to Greece starting at the beginning of the 1990s, this paper explores the housing experience of immigrants in the city of Athens and reveals housing pathways that have been overlooked or deliberately concealed. Through the processing of data from the Athens Mortgage Office and through interviews with migrant homeowners, it is shown that despite serious difficulties raised against their spatial and social integration, immigrants managed to escape homelessness, gradually upgrade both their housing conditions and occupancy status, and gain access even to homeownership. Special emphasis is given to key factors that allowed immigrants to achieve upward residential mobility and that relate to specific aspects of the local context and to immigrants' individual strategies. Urban space emerges as an "opportunity framework" and immigrants as "active agents" who set up successful housing strategies and reverse the supposedly vicious circle of poverty, delinquency and marginality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a qualitative research (2012–15) this paper is concerned with the identification of concepts and constructs of knowledge in RE. It is based on participative enquiry and educational action-research methodology. Over a three-year period, the researcher, teachers and the students of a High School in one of the most difficult social, economic and pedagogic environments in Greece collaborated and the resulting data were analysed by a team of independent researchers using quantitative and qualitative techniques. Findings point to the consideration of knowledge in education as an experience in which the content (what) of education is as important as the process (how). RE teaches an additional invaluable language with different religious meanings of concepts, which facilitates students' communication with self and others, and offers an interpretation of the world. Such religious literacy is essentially provided at school in the framework of multi-literacies and is a result of an intersubjective process of the interconnection between thinking, reflection and action on what the curriculum positions on the top of the didactic triangle (content, teacher, student). In that process, to 'know what I know' and to provide 'events with meaning' based on experiential learning and its principles, is of inestimable value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper tests whether inequality of opportunity (IO) in Europe has increased between 2004 and 2010. IO is understood as unfair inequality due to circumstances beyond individual control (such as family background, race or sex). We show that over 2004–2010 IO increased significantly in Austria, Greece and Spain, while it decreased in Poland and Portugal. Relative IO (ratio of IO to overall income inequality) has grown in Austria, Belgium, Greece and Norway. In Greece, several social groups with an immigrant background have experienced sizable declines an opportunity for income acquisition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditional settlements constitute part of the cultural heritage and their preservation is an important priority, acknowledged in the present study as a multidisciplinary, multi-scale and complex issue. This study quantifies the visual impact of traditional settlements in Cyclades that arise from structures which are considered to create pressure on the island landscape and negative visual impact. These structures disrupt the landscape continuity; they are both incongruous with the dominant local scale and incompatible with the forms and shapes that are appropriate on the Cyclades islands. This paper examines these issues in the context of the management of insular traditional settlements within the Greek spatial planning framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]