Emilio Galdeano-Gómez

Universidad de Almería | UAL · Department of Economics and Business

The main objective of this study is to contribute to the existing debate on the link between export activity and eco-innovation, using Spanish agrofood auxiliary companies. For that purpose, a cluster analysis has been carried out and two groups of companies have been identified, that is low and high export performance. The languages spoken in the...

Degrowth, understood as the planned organization of the reduction of production and consumption within ecological limits has been consolidating as a field of research in recent years. However, the literature on degrowth needs to be more cohesive and connected due to its variety and the increased number of works published in recent years in domains...

La creciente preocupación por los efectos negativos del crecimiento económico sobre el medio ambiente, la equidad social y la calidad de vida ha impulsado la investigación de alternativas de desarrollo para la economía mundial. Entre las diversas corrientes de pensamiento, el decrecimiento surge como un llamamiento a una reducción voluntaria y equi...

Research background: The heterogeneity in the factors that affect demand for environmental quality implicates a diverse set of policies and actions aimed at achieving cleaner production to address the challenges posed by pollution and damage to the natural environment. Even though this topic has been widely addressed, mainly from the traditional pe...

The interrelationships between economic development and initiatives aimed at reducing environmental impact have been widely addressed in the recent decades. In this context, the heterogeneity and organisation of the different production activities tend to heavily influence the implementation of the said initiatives, yet this aspect has hardly been...

In recent years, a great deal of research has analyzed the impact of trade openness on the environment, with the aim of determining whether internationalization contributes to the improvement of environmental performance (EP) or, on the contrary, hinders the achievement of sustainable development. The objective of the present work is to conduct a s...

El artículo tiene como objetivo equilibrar los desbalances o desequilibrios sectoriales en la producción de bienes y servicios, identificados en la estructura productiva de Cuba, siguiendo una metodología que incluye la modelización matemática. Se diseñan y aplican modelos econométricos y de programación por metas (GP) para evaluar la importancia r...

Natural resources are becoming scarcer and, together with the growth of the population, a widespread situation of overexploitation is inevitable that has become the biggest challenge for today's world. In this context, the agri-food sector has a considerable environmental impact in terms of water and energy consumption. For about two decades, the W...

For Cuba to achieve the prosperous and sustainable economic development to which it aspires, the country needs to update its productive structure at macro and meso economic scales, adapting it to the current dynamics and requirements of international economic development. The present study aims to assess the development of the productive structure...

Growing environmental awareness in recent years has led to greater efforts by companies and governments to promote eco-innovation, which is becoming an increasingly competitive factor in international supply chains. However, the interrelationships between exports and eco-innovation have not yet been studied in sufficient depth. As such, the purpose...

The present article proposes a complete framework for supply chain strategy (SCS) analysis that is adapted to the specific characteristics of the agrifood chain, thereby facilitating the management of the former. As a specific case of analysis, the horticultural supply chain, originating in Spain and ending with the European consumer, was analyzed,...

The present article proposes a complete framework for Supply Chain Strategy (SCS) analysis that is adapted to the specific characteristics of the agrifood chain, thereby facilitating management of the former. As a specific case of analysis, the horticultural supply chain, originating in Spain and ending with the European consumer, is analyzed, taki...

Today, natural resources are becoming increasingly scarce and, along with population growth on our planet, widespread overexploitation of natural resources is inevitable. For about two decades, the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus has been trying to address this problem. To begin to investigate it, this paper applies a bibliometric analysis of the lit...

Buen Vivir (Living Well in English) is a concept that breaks traditional paradigms. The central idea which underpins this philosophy is the balanced relationship between people and their community and natural surroundings. In other terms, it is based on enjoying human rights responsibly while respecting common goods within the context of a harmonio...

Eco-innovation (EI) is a complex process that involves product, process, organizational and marketing dimensions, each with its own determinants, characteristics and contributions to environmental business performance. Thus, analyzing EI activity is essential to obtaining a holistic view in order to achieve sustainable development. This study offer...

This paper aims to understand the social-psychological dimension of the Normative Power Europe discourse using ingroup projection as a discursive/cognitive practice of othering. It takes issue with most poststructuralist studies that conduct analyses of Normative Power Europe based on the dependence of identity on difference through the discursive...

CETSCALE (Consumer Ethnocentrism Tendencies Scale), the scale developed by Shimp and Sharma in 1987 to study consumer ethnocentric behavior, has received preferential use in the literature, with numerous replications carried out in countries on all continents. Although it was proposed as a 17-item scale along with a smaller version of only ten item...

Understanding eco-innovation is an essential endeavor to achieve global sustainable development. In this sense, further research on implementation is needed to expand knowledge beyond current boundaries. The aim of this paper is to contribute to this debate by conducting an original multidimensional analysis using Spanish agri-food sector data. The...

Around 20 per cent of the cultivable area throughout the Mediterranean Basin is devoted to traditional permanent crops such as olive, almond, citrus and other fruit trees. A growing part of the agricultural surface in the Mediterranean Basin is threatened by land degradation and erosion. The excessive use of fertilizers and the intensive cultivatio...

This work conducts a comparative analysis of the main international tourism indicators on a sub-continental level from 2000 to 2016. The aim is to analyze the recent evolution of tourism growth in different areas and determine to what extent it has been affected by the economic crisis. The study simultaneously identifies which large regions and sub...

The location of the main Spanish fruit and vegetable production areas in the southern Mediterranean region and their dependence on road transport hinder the exporting activity in this area. The growth of transport costs and future scenarios with constrictions, for example green taxes and land transit limitations, oblige exporters to seek out altern...

Certified products are a possible way to obtain and improve sustainability. Nevertheless, their effectiveness in enhancing agri-system sustainability is strongly questioned in the academic arena. This study aims to examine in depth the effect of certification on sustainability achievement. For this purpose, organic and Fairtrade Ecuadorian banana i...

Food safety management in short supply chains of fruit and vegetables, controlled by large retailers, has been widely studied in the literature. However, when it comes to traditional long supply chains, which include a greater number of intermediaries and wholesalers who, in some cases, play a dual role as resellers and producers, the mechanisms wh...

This paper focuses on small holding, family farming in Southeast Spain where agricultural economic activity is predominantly organized around cooperative business models. A variety of diverse studies on the Almería agricultural and credit cooperative sector and the exploration of social-economic and eco-social indicators, in addition to economic-ma...

As sustainability is a philosophical concept, the evaluation of sustainability of an agri-system is underpinned by a philosophical understanding. Deconstruction is the qualitative methodology derived from philosophical science that allows to show what is hidden, to reveal the implicit meaning of a sustainability assessment tool. • Qualitative metho...

Increased awareness on sustainability has influenced business organizations to improve their environmental performance and efficiency. In this context, eco-innovation implementation is positioned as a target for organizations to be more sustainable in order to reduce negative externalities and reach governments’ green requirements and consumers’ de...

In the review of academic literature, numerous papers present either a list of indicator criteria or partially revised sustainability assessment tools of agri-food systems. However, neither a complete analysis and discussion about the criteria utilised by evaluators nor a compared examination and subsequent frameworks categorisation have been fully...

Measuring sustainability is a multi-attribute issue consisting of numerous variables that tend to be interrelated. The holistic perspective and the determination of said relationships, synergies and/or trade-offs, are aspects that have been receiving close attention in the literature on the subject. This paper aims to develop an analysis that consi...

Eco-efficiency is currently receiving ever increasing interest as an indicator of sustainability, as it links environmental and economic performances in productive activities. In agriculture these indicators and their determinants prove relevant due to the close ties in this activity between the use of often limited natural resources and the provis...

Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have grown in popularity in the farming sector, primarily because land area and farm structures themselves, such as greenhouses, can be exploited for this purpose, and, moreover, because farms tend to be located in rural areas far from energy production plants. In Spain, despite being a country with enormous potentia...

Family farming multifunctionality is increasingly recognized as an element for promoting sustainable development in rural areas. Although environmental issues traditionally receive more attention, this paper focuses on the implications of farm features in relation to the socio-economic dimension. Taking the farming system in southeast Spain as refe...

The present work examines the relationships between SMEs’ marketing internationalisation and the combination of cooperation and competition strategies, i.e. co-opetition. Recent analyses have shown that the SMEs’ exports capabilities are highly dependent on co-opetition, while others suggest that the challenges of international supply chain constit...

This paper aims to determine the influence of family farming features on efficient use of water. The analysis focusses on a random sample of family farms in the province of Almería, southeast Spain. A hierarchical regression model was conducted to determine how the water efficiency is related to environmental awareness and certain characteristics o...

Sustainability is a social concern and a new strategic factor for productive and economic viability. Nevertheless, research on this subject in a holistic approach is limited, and even to a lesser extent when dealing with family farms. This paper analyzes the impact of different aspects of sustainability (socio-economic characteristics, environmenta...

La provincia de Almería ha venido marcada particularmente por el desarrollo de su agricultura intensiva durante las últimas cinco décadas. En concreto, la actividad hortofrutícola constituye un referente internacional, dado que aquí se encuentra localizada la mayor concentración de cultivos bajo invernaderos del mundo, generada por la aglomeración...

Supply-chain management in tourism requires the collaboration and coordination of all companies involved in the production and marketing of tourist products. In order to study the direct and indirect relationships among members of the supply chain, this paper presents an input–output model whose results show the need for balance between direct and...

The social pillar has often been treated as an ‘add on’ in sustainable development studies, and analyses of its ‘proactivity’ in economic, environmental, and social transformations to sustainability outcomes are scant. The present paper looks at the social dimension as a key driver of sustainable development. Social factors in the farming system in...

Con el presente documento se pretende ofrecer una amplia descripción del sector de las hortalizas en España, analizando algunas de las variables más relevantes y empleando para ello los datos estadísticos referidos a las últimas campañas para estos productos. El estudio se ha dividido en diversos apartados. En primer lugar, se muestra una panorámic...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the influence of co-opetition on food exporting in different distribution channels, taking as reference the vegetable farming-marketing sector in southeast Spain. Design/methodology/approach – The study analyses the data collected from vegetable exporters’ associations and the...

Con el presente documento se pretende ofrecer una amplia descripción del sector de los cítricos en España, analizando algunas de las variables más relevantes y empleando para ello los datos estadísticos referidos a las últimas campañas para estos productos. El estudio se ha dividido en diversos apartados. En primer lugar, se muestra una panorámica...

En la horticultura desarrollada en invernaderos en Almería se cifran actualmente unas 13.500 explotaciones familiares, con una superficie media de entre 2 y 2,4 hectáreas. La contribución de esta estructura familiar en el reparto equitativo de rentas, en la gestión eficiente de los recursos naturales, así como en la dinamización y la adaptabilidad...

Purpose – This purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence of how cooperation is related to suppliers’ performance, a relationship that is thought to be affected by the type of customer and the extent to which the market is diversified. It analyzes horticultural exporting firms in southeastern Spain, which are the main suppliers of Europ...

Con el presente informe se pretende ofrecer una amplia descripción del sector de las frutas de hueso en España, analizando algunas de las variables más relevantes y empleando para ello los datos estadísticos referidos a las últimas campañas para estos productos. En concreto, se han considerado albaricoques, melocotones, nectarinas y ciruelas. El es...

Innovation has become a key element in the growth and consolidation of the in- tensive agriculture in Almería (Southern Spain). This sector has been able to improve its competitive position thanks to its determination to develop technology. This paper describes the generated innovations and technology improvements in the last years, the created inn...

In the context of the current agri-food market, several factors have made it increasingly difficult to balance the components of sustainability in agricultural-based development. These factors include increasing internationalization, tighter control of distribution and frequent changes in agricultural policies. Indeed, in the framework of European...

La horticultura intensiva desempeña un papel fundamental en el desarrollo socioeconómico de la provincia de Almería. Este sector ha superado hasta el momento todos los obstáculos que han ido apareciendo desde su surgimiento en la década de los años sesenta del pasado siglo. Sin embargo, una de las deficiencias que ya se señaló en las primeras etapa...

The aim of this research is to identify and analyze the number and type of adventure tourism activities that are of interest to tourists in Costa Rica. The activities analyzed included hiking, visits to volcanoes, observation of flora/fauna, bird watching and zip-lining. Data were taken from the Air Travel Survey for Non-Resident International...

Recent studies have focused on how exports affect environmental performance or vice versa, while others have concentrated on the productivity of export-oriented firms. The objective of the present paper is to provide a simultaneous analysis on the aforementioned relationships. The approach followed is a composite equation model in which export perf...

The quality effects embodied in unit values might have strong repercussions on the estimation of the demand elasticities of aggregate food products, particularly when prices respond to supply conditions (endogeneity). In this article, the approximation to consumer quality preferences is carried out from the estimation of the measurement errors of u...

Demand for tourist activities related to natural spaces and wildlife has increased over recent years. This paper analyses the influence of socio-demographic and travel indicators on international demand for such tourism in Costa Rica. Using discrete choice models, a range of principal activities is studied: hiking, visits to volcanoes, observation...

This paper analyses the potential demand for sea transport services for agrifood exports to European countries. The approach of the study is based on the random utility and the application of discrete choice models to two alternative transports: land and sea. The empirical analysis takes as reference the possibility of increasing shipping of food p...

In recent decades several theories on rural development have been expounded in an attempt to explain some experiences of regional economic growth or to provide recommendations on rural development policies. The objective of this article is to revise this open debate and attempt to introduce more concerns about the delimitation of theories and the m...

Several studies have observed asymmetric behavior between sale prices in the supermarket and the price paid to the farmer. This article presents the consequences derived from a simplified framework considering a scenario in which the retailer wishes to maintain balanced profits due to external pressures or because the retailers' strategy to differe...

Much of the recently published literature in Europe on rural development tends to focus on de-agrarianization and multifunctionality in rural livelihoods as a way to generate employment and incomes. This paper analyses the case of Almería (Spain), an exception to this general rule. Almería, once one of the poorest Spanish provinces, has become the...

This article analyzes the programming of farm production, understood not only as the choice among several crops, but also as their temporal distribution. The empirical study takes as a reference the horticultural sector in southeast Spain, since this area constitutes the highest concentration of small-scale farm production in Europe, where the clim...

This paper analyses the potential demand for sea transport services for agrifood exports to European countries. The approach of the study is based on the random utility and the application of discrete choice models to two alternative transports: land and sea. The empirical analysis takes as its reference the possibility of increasing shipping of fo...

The focus of this chapter is on the relationship between environmental performance and exports at country or industry level. The aim is to provide an analysis of these relationships at the firm level. Can environmental performance explain differences in export intensity between firms? Does a firm’s environmental performance improve as its export ac...

Esta investigación busca conocer y evaluar el tipo y número de actividades de turismo aventura que el turista está dispuesto a realizar en Costa Rica. La información analizada proviene de la Encuesta Aérea a Turistas Internacionales no Residentes en el país, aplicada por el Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (ICT), en el I trimestre del 2007 a turi...

Why are retailers less likely to vary sale prices of food products when the price paid to the farmer falls than when it rises? As far as perishable goods are concerned, this behavior is usually related to the retailer’s bargaining power. With a view to analyzing the question in greater depth, this study presents a simplified framework considering a...

Several studies have analyzed the spread of technology by the multinational enterprises. The conclusions obtained are unsettling. Multinationals benefit more from the local branches in terms of knowledge than what they contribute.In the -agro-industrial business cluster, multinationals are present as supply companies (seeds and machinery). However,...

This paper analyzes the management of international tourist demand for adventure activities in Costa Rica and Valle Central. In particular, tourist demand for activities such as hiking, bird watching, nature observation and visits to volcanoes, among others, is not being met by tour operators and travel agencies. These activities are being offered...

Changes in rural areas in recent decades have resulted in a new approach to local rural development called 'neo-endogenous'. This paper describes the main characteristics of this new development model, which is based on three pillars, harnessing endogenous potential, developing social capital (endogenous units, local/global actors and neo-endogenou...

Abstract The objective of this paper is to study empirically the relationship between export orientation and firms' environmental performance from different perspectives of trade theory. On the one hand, productivity heterogeneity is analysed within the new trade-theoretical framework. The approach followed is to determine firm-level productivity c...

Almeria is Spain's leading area for the production and exportation of vegetables. In this province we can find the largest area of greenhouses in the world, around which a major agroindustrial cluster has arisen. The present study follows a holistic approach to analyse its development and the modification of its sources of advantage. For this purpo...