Montserrat Pallares‐barbera
Biographic Data
| ID | 1473676 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Montserrat Pallares‐barbera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Montserrat |
| FAMILY NAME | Pallares‐barbera |
| SIGNATURE | BARBERA M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1595-3248 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Unravelling Decline: Institutional Effects on the Evolution of Urban Garment Clusters
This paper examines the decline of Barcelona's Trafalgar Garment District (TGD) from the 1950s to 2016, by combining the institutional context model with an agency‐centred perspective. Drawing on secondary sources and in‐depth interviews with firms, associations and policy‐makers, we investigate how regulations, organisations and institutions interacted across the national, regional and local spatial levels. The findings indicate that the TGD dec…
Discovering implicit role of tourists’ perceived distance and emotions in decision-making: Combining grounded theory and sentiment analysis
Analysing the attitudes and emotions behind tourists’ perceptions of distance provides powerful assistance for destination marketers and scholars. However, there is yet to be a universally adopted scale of tourists’ perceived distance. It is hard to effectively extract tourists’ attitudes from the distance scale toward a destination. This paper identifies the critical dimensions of perceived distance voiced by 19 Chinese tourists with grounded an…
Express: Unpacking Overtourism in Barcelona (1986–2025): A Longitudinal Process-Tracing Analysis and the Cascade Amplification Framework
This study employs longitudinal process tracing to examine overtourism in Barcelona (1986–2025), tracing its trajectory from an industrial port to global tourism hub. Drawing on 45 evidentiary units, Bayesian updating, and Collier’s (2011) diagnostic tests, we validate seven causal mechanisms: infrastructure lock-in, regulatory gaps, digital amplification, cultural commodification, resident resistance, governance fragmentation, and biopolitical e…
Tourists’ perception of distance: A thematic review and conceptual framework
Modelling the perceived distance in tourists’ decision-making remains a problem that requires a rigorous and structurally-sound approach in conceptualisation. This paper aims to review past research concerning how distance might influence tourists’ decision-making by presenting a qualitative thematic review and conceptual framework. We analysed indexed academic articles (n = 66) in peer-reviewed journals to organise and critically assess the grow…
Greening to shield: The impacts of extreme rainfall on economic activity in Latin American cities
Green Infrastructures for flood protection are examined through Earth Observations. • Extreme rainfalls negatively impact nighttime lights in Latin American cities. • A greener city land cover can significantly reduce these adverse impacts. • The benefits of a greener land cover in terms of avoided losses are quantified. Latin American cities are increasingly impacted by floods and this trend is likely to be further exacerbated under the combined…
Can a long-term economic subsidy counteract rural depopulation? An empirical analysis from two spanish regions
How urban spatial expansion influences CO2 emissions in Latin American countries
Grid orientation and natural ventilation in Cerdà’s 1860 urban plan for Barcelona
The increasing concern about climate change has produced growing interest in natural ventilation and urban planning. There seems to be a gap in the study of introducing urban climate into urban planning, even though doing so would increase population comfort and decrease energy spending. Natural ventilation provided by wind flowing through the streets of a city might be considered as a first priority for passive cooling. It is intuitive that if t…
Social networks as the backbone of women’s work in the Catalan Pyrenees
This paper discusses how historically the accumulation of symbolic power by men produced a glass ceiling for women in the Catalan Pyrenees and how women have overcome this constraint by engaging in male-led networks, founding gender balanced networks and developing women-nurtured networks. Through semi-structured qualitative interviews and ethnographic research, the paper investigates the strategies women employed to maintain their involvement in…
Creación de imagen, visibilidad y turismo como estrategias de crecimiento económico de la ciudad
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar como el crecimiento econó-mico de Barcelona desde mediados de los años noventa se ha basado en la producción de una economía de servicios avanzados, en el que las estrategias de creación de imagen y el turismo han jugado un papel primordial. En este proceso destaca el papel promotor de macro-eventos como los Juegos Olímpicos de 1992, los cuales han sido herramientas de cambio del modelo económico de Barcel…
Globalising Economic Spaces, Uneven Development and Regional Challenges: Introduction to the Special Issue
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Artists, Cultural Gentrification and Public Policy
Since the 1980s, artists have been studied as agents of urban gentrification. Well established theories and case studies have provided numerous evidences of the role of artists as initiators of the gentrification process in working-class neighborhoods. From a productive-side perspective, placing an emphasis on the rent-gap and land development, as well as consumption-side perspective, analyzing the features of individuals, art production and arti…
Relational Dimensions of Regional Growth: Introduction to the Special Issue
The study of the distribution of economic activities across space has always been the essence of economic geography, regional economics, and related disciplines. Empirical analyses have provided significant evidence, for example, that especially urbanized regions are very successful in developing innovation and employment (e.g., Wedemeier 2009). A prerequisite for the generation of economic growth is, however, the capability of economic agents to…
Cerdà and Barcelona: The need for a new city and service provision
This paper examines Ildefons Cerdà's 1860 Plan for the Urban Expansion of Barcelona; specifically, how and why it was conceived in a unique way, in which the provision of services to the population was an important part. Cerdà based his expansion proposal on an in‐depth socio-statistical study of old Barcelona's population conditions. The high mortality rates of the working‐class population and poor health and education conditions pushed Cerdà to…
Cerdà in Barcelona: Potreba po novem mestu in zagotavljanju storitev
Incorporating annoyance in airport environmental policy: Noise, societal response and community participation
Public-sector Intervention in Embodying the New Economy in Inner Urban Areas: The Barcelona Experience
This article investigates the urban and economic revitalisation of a traditional industrial working-class neighbourhood into a knowledge-based economic district. It explores why and how this new district is the result of an assertive public policy led by Barcelona's city council and implemented by a quasi-public agency. The project represents the most important urban-growth strategy in the city at the turn of the century and also exemplifies the …
The Rise of Spanish Multinationals: European Business in the Global Economy
Spatial loyalty and territorial embeddedness in the multi-sector clustering of the Berguedà region in Catalonia (Spain)
Changing Production Systems: The Automobile Industry in Spain
This paper examines the forces underlying the dramatic changes experienced by the Spanish automobile industry in the 1970s and 1980s. Over this period, Spanish automobile production expanded substantially and the industry became more export oriented. The main findings are the following: first, the takeoff of the industry was due to a combination of domestic factors (cheap labor, industrial policies, and increased demand) and international factors…
Public-sector Intervention in Embodying the New Economy in Inner Urban Areas: The Barcelona Experience
This article investigates the urban and economic revitalisation of a traditional industrial working-class neighbourhood into a knowledge-based economic district. It explores why and how this new district is the result of an assertive public policy led by Barcelona's city council and implemented by a quasi-public agency. The project represents the most important urban-growth strategy in the city at the turn of the century and also exemplifies the …
Spatial loyalty and territorial embeddedness in the multi-sector clustering of the Berguedà region in Catalonia (Spain)
Incorporating annoyance in airport environmental policy: Noise, societal response and community participation
How urban spatial expansion influences CO2 emissions in Latin American countries
Social networks as the backbone of women’s work in the Catalan Pyrenees
This paper discusses how historically the accumulation of symbolic power by men produced a glass ceiling for women in the Catalan Pyrenees and how women have overcome this constraint by engaging in male-led networks, founding gender balanced networks and developing women-nurtured networks. Through semi-structured qualitative interviews and ethnographic research, the paper investigates the strategies women employed to maintain their involvement in…
Changing Production Systems: The Automobile Industry in Spain
This paper examines the forces underlying the dramatic changes experienced by the Spanish automobile industry in the 1970s and 1980s. Over this period, Spanish automobile production expanded substantially and the industry became more export oriented. The main findings are the following: first, the takeoff of the industry was due to a combination of domestic factors (cheap labor, industrial policies, and increased demand) and international factors…
Spatial loyalty and territorial embeddedness in the multi-sector clustering of the Berguedà region in Catalonia (Spain)
The Rise of Spanish Multinationals: European Business in the Global Economy
Public-sector Intervention in Embodying the New Economy in Inner Urban Areas: The Barcelona Experience
This article investigates the urban and economic revitalisation of a traditional industrial working-class neighbourhood into a knowledge-based economic district. It explores why and how this new district is the result of an assertive public policy led by Barcelona's city council and implemented by a quasi-public agency. The project represents the most important urban-growth strategy in the city at the turn of the century and also exemplifies the …
Incorporating annoyance in airport environmental policy: Noise, societal response and community participation
Cerdà and Barcelona: The need for a new city and service provision
This paper examines Ildefons Cerdà's 1860 Plan for the Urban Expansion of Barcelona; specifically, how and why it was conceived in a unique way, in which the provision of services to the population was an important part. Cerdà based his expansion proposal on an in‐depth socio-statistical study of old Barcelona's population conditions. The high mortality rates of the working‐class population and poor health and education conditions pushed Cerdà to…
Cerdà in Barcelona: Potreba po novem mestu in zagotavljanju storitev
Creación de imagen, visibilidad y turismo como estrategias de crecimiento económico de la ciudad
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar como el crecimiento econó-mico de Barcelona desde mediados de los años noventa se ha basado en la producción de una economía de servicios avanzados, en el que las estrategias de creación de imagen y el turismo han jugado un papel primordial. En este proceso destaca el papel promotor de macro-eventos como los Juegos Olímpicos de 1992, los cuales han sido herramientas de cambio del modelo económico de Barcel…
Globalising Economic Spaces, Uneven Development and Regional Challenges: Introduction to the Special Issue
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Artists, Cultural Gentrification and Public Policy
Since the 1980s, artists have been studied as agents of urban gentrification. Well established theories and case studies have provided numerous evidences of the role of artists as initiators of the gentrification process in working-class neighborhoods. From a productive-side perspective, placing an emphasis on the rent-gap and land development, as well as consumption-side perspective, analyzing the features of individuals, art production and arti…
Relational Dimensions of Regional Growth: Introduction to the Special Issue
The study of the distribution of economic activities across space has always been the essence of economic geography, regional economics, and related disciplines. Empirical analyses have provided significant evidence, for example, that especially urbanized regions are very successful in developing innovation and employment (e.g., Wedemeier 2009). A prerequisite for the generation of economic growth is, however, the capability of economic agents to…
Social networks as the backbone of women’s work in the Catalan Pyrenees
This paper discusses how historically the accumulation of symbolic power by men produced a glass ceiling for women in the Catalan Pyrenees and how women have overcome this constraint by engaging in male-led networks, founding gender balanced networks and developing women-nurtured networks. Through semi-structured qualitative interviews and ethnographic research, the paper investigates the strategies women employed to maintain their involvement in…
Grid orientation and natural ventilation in Cerdà’s 1860 urban plan for Barcelona
The increasing concern about climate change has produced growing interest in natural ventilation and urban planning. There seems to be a gap in the study of introducing urban climate into urban planning, even though doing so would increase population comfort and decrease energy spending. Natural ventilation provided by wind flowing through the streets of a city might be considered as a first priority for passive cooling. It is intuitive that if t…
Can a long-term economic subsidy counteract rural depopulation? An empirical analysis from two spanish regions
How urban spatial expansion influences CO2 emissions in Latin American countries
Greening to shield: The impacts of extreme rainfall on economic activity in Latin American cities
Green Infrastructures for flood protection are examined through Earth Observations. • Extreme rainfalls negatively impact nighttime lights in Latin American cities. • A greener city land cover can significantly reduce these adverse impacts. • The benefits of a greener land cover in terms of avoided losses are quantified. Latin American cities are increasingly impacted by floods and this trend is likely to be further exacerbated under the combined…
Tourists’ perception of distance: A thematic review and conceptual framework
Modelling the perceived distance in tourists’ decision-making remains a problem that requires a rigorous and structurally-sound approach in conceptualisation. This paper aims to review past research concerning how distance might influence tourists’ decision-making by presenting a qualitative thematic review and conceptual framework. We analysed indexed academic articles (n = 66) in peer-reviewed journals to organise and critically assess the grow…
Unravelling Decline: Institutional Effects on the Evolution of Urban Garment Clusters
This paper examines the decline of Barcelona's Trafalgar Garment District (TGD) from the 1950s to 2016, by combining the institutional context model with an agency‐centred perspective. Drawing on secondary sources and in‐depth interviews with firms, associations and policy‐makers, we investigate how regulations, organisations and institutions interacted across the national, regional and local spatial levels. The findings indicate that the TGD dec…
Discovering implicit role of tourists’ perceived distance and emotions in decision-making: Combining grounded theory and sentiment analysis
Analysing the attitudes and emotions behind tourists’ perceptions of distance provides powerful assistance for destination marketers and scholars. However, there is yet to be a universally adopted scale of tourists’ perceived distance. It is hard to effectively extract tourists’ attitudes from the distance scale toward a destination. This paper identifies the critical dimensions of perceived distance voiced by 19 Chinese tourists with grounded an…
Express: Unpacking Overtourism in Barcelona (1986–2025): A Longitudinal Process-Tracing Analysis and the Cascade Amplification Framework
This study employs longitudinal process tracing to examine overtourism in Barcelona (1986–2025), tracing its trajectory from an industrial port to global tourism hub. Drawing on 45 evidentiary units, Bayesian updating, and Collier’s (2011) diagnostic tests, we validate seven causal mechanisms: infrastructure lock-in, regulatory gaps, digital amplification, cultural commodification, resident resistance, governance fragmentation, and biopolitical e…
Economics (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (4 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (4 works)