The multifunctional role of agriculture —in its productive, social and environmental aspects— is considered a legitimate objective of agricultural policies. However, there is much debate about the best way to promote these ...

The urban agriculture is a task that is becoming more and more usual, due to the demographic growth of the cities, since it allows having foods and employment, and at the same time it is potential source of business ...

This document proposes a review of different methods for estimating durations of activities or tasks in the classical models of programming projects and a proposal for improvement of these estimates, using stochastic models. ...

The carrying out of infrastructure projects inside consolidated urban areas is always a complex question, especially if this area is affected by preexisting monuments or relevant archaeological remains. Very often the ...

The new paradigm of sustainability, framed in a sustainable development in its three dimension, economic, social and environmental, demands joint efforts in planning, construction and management of infrastructure to optimize ...

Earned value project management is a well-known management system that integrates cost, schedule and technical performance. It allows the calculation of cost and schedule variances and performance indices and forecasts of ...

The increasing demand on the traceability of the processes related to agriculture, linked to the use of practices that respect the environment and reduced costs, both in a sustainability context, involving the need to ...

The proposed paper will analyze the causes for project failure and factors for project success based on a study being currently developed among the agents involved in project management within the Asturian field. A survey ...

The Ministry of Economy and Technological Innovation in the Madrid Region and the Official College of Industrial Engineering of Madrid, under the policy of promoting innovation in the Madrid Region, created the "Portal of ...

This communication reports the analysis of the most important economic and business activities in Sierra Norte (Madrid) and its formative needs at a local level. Its main objective is to identify formative necessities at ...