Antoni Pons

• Phd
• Professor (Associate) at University of the Balearic Islands

This study is the first stage of a research project that examines the geographic knowledge of third-year ESO students. The article is aimed at designing and validating a questionnaire to assess the geographic knowledge of third-year ESO students. For this purpose, an ad-hoc questionnaire consisting of two sections was designed. The first section is...

The growing interest in geography over the last decades, thanks to the introduction of GIT, contrasts with the poor level of geographic literacy of the population that academic literature reports. The purpose of this study is to analyze the spatial skills of secondary education students in the Balearic Islands by examining two parameters: place loc...

p>La isleidad es un concepto que puede ser entendido tanto por sus connotaciones positivas de apertura al exterior como por las negativas de cierre respecto a los territorios de allende mar. En los estudios sobre islas se ha trabajado a partir de ambos enfoques, mientras algunos autores hacen hincapié en la capacidad de atracción de las islas como...

La comercialización de viviendas para fines turísticos a través de plataformas de economía colaborativa constituye uno de los principales problemas en ciudades y regiones turísticas de todo el mundo y las Islas Baleares son un ejemplo de ello. El presente trabajo difunde los resultados y reflexiona sobre la Delimitación provisional de zonas aptas p...

Dos factors clau han condicionat l’artificialització del sòl a les Illes Balears: la illeïtat, funció lligada al fet insular, i el turisme. La illeïtat, entesa en termes de desconnexió respecte al continent i de mida reduïda a les illes, ha condicionat un grau més baix d’urbanització de la costa balear respecte a la de les regions continentals de l...

Abstract. Since the mid-twentieth century, the Balearic Islands have experienced significant changes as a result of their incorporation into the global economy as a mass tourism destination. The urban expansion has been one of the major changes of the Balearics since the mid-fifties, whereas the archipelago’s urban cover in 2006 was five times larg...

Since the mid-20th century the Balearic Islands have experienced significant changes as a result of their incorporation into the global economy as a mass tourism destination. The expansion of urbanisation has become a main change, given that the archipelago’s urbanised surface has increased fivefold since 1956. The territory of the islands has been...

The Balearic Islands are one of the main tourism regions in Europe, and tourism has been the structural capitalist activity of urban growth there since the 1950s. Mapping tourist accommodation in the Balearics might help spatially explain the important socio-spatial transformation of a small archipelago in the Western Mediterranean. This paper anal...

The Balearic Islands are one of the main tourism regions in Europe, and tourism has been the structural capitalist activity of urban growth there since the 1950s. Mapping tourist accommodation in the Balearics might help spatially explain the important socio-spatial transformation of a small archipelago in the Western Mediterranean. This paper anal...

This article analyses recent trends in coastal urban growth, mainly prompted by tourism in its various forms, experienced along the Spanish Mediterranean coasts and the Canary Islands, with a special focus on the Balearic Islands. The article seeks to measure and compare the differential rates of urban growth between island and continental coasts d...

The paper analyzes recent trends in coastal urban growth, mainly prompted by tourism in its various forms, experienced along western Mediterranean Europe coasts and the Canary Islands, with special focus on the Balearic Islands. The aim is to measure and compare the differential rates of urban growth between island and continental coasts during the...