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Prof. Salvador Garcia-Ayllon
Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Technical University of Cartagena)

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Journal article
Published: 16 January 2021 in Applied Sciences
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Climate change is making intense DANA (depresión aislada en niveles altos) type rains a more frequent phenomenon in Mediterranean basins. This trend, combined with the transformation of the territory derived from diffuse anthropization processes, has created an explosive cocktail for many coastal towns due to flooding events. To evaluate this problem and the impact of its main guiding parameters, a geostatistical analysis of the territory based on GIS indicators and an NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) analysis is developed. The assessment of the validity of a proposed methodology is applied to the case study of the Campo de Cartagena watershed located around the Mar Menor, a Mediterranean coastal lagoon in Southeastern Spain. This area has suffered three catastrophic floods derived from the DANA phenomenon between 2016 and 2019. The results show that apart from the effects derived from climate change, the real issue that amplifies the damage caused by floods is the diffuse anthropization process in the area, which has caused the loss of the natural hydrographic network that traditionally existed in the basin.

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon; John Radke. Geostatistical Analysis of the Spatial Correlation between Territorial Anthropization and Flooding Vulnerability: Application to the DANA Phenomenon in a Mediterranean Watershed. Applied Sciences 2021, 11, 809 .

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon, John Radke. Geostatistical Analysis of the Spatial Correlation between Territorial Anthropization and Flooding Vulnerability: Application to the DANA Phenomenon in a Mediterranean Watershed. Applied Sciences. 2021; 11 (2):809.

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon; John Radke. 2021. "Geostatistical Analysis of the Spatial Correlation between Territorial Anthropization and Flooding Vulnerability: Application to the DANA Phenomenon in a Mediterranean Watershed." Applied Sciences 11, no. 2: 809.

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Published: 13 March 2020 in Water
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The assessment of coastal erosion risk is a major challenge, since environmental and geomorphic features, together with sea state parameters, can seriously change the configuration of coastal areas. In addition, the anthropic actions of the coastal communities may also drastically modify the configuration of the coast in vulnerable areas. In this study, a linkage between regional mapping guidelines and national geological cartography procedures is presented as a meaningful tool in the geomorphic trends analysis for the integrated mapping of the main morphological patterns of San Vincenzo’s coastal area, in the region of Tuscany (Italy). Comparing and joining different procedures—which have different scales and topics—requires adapting the fields and the information provided in maps and databases. In this case study, a GIS morpho-sedimentological approach is developed. This GIS approach enables us to cover several issues simultaneously, such as the representation of coastal active processes, the adaptation of regional and national cartography to coastal erosion assessment, and lastly the calculation of the sedimentary stock analysis, since it represents the first attribute of coasts to be preserved in a resilience-oriented integrated assessment.

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Francesco Bianco; Paolo Conti; Salvador García-Ayllon; Enzo Pranzini. An Integrated Approach to Analyze Sedimentary Stock and Coastal Erosion in Vulnerable Areas: Resilience Assessment of San Vicenzo’s Coast (Italy). Water 2020, 12, 805 .

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Francesco Bianco, Paolo Conti, Salvador García-Ayllon, Enzo Pranzini. An Integrated Approach to Analyze Sedimentary Stock and Coastal Erosion in Vulnerable Areas: Resilience Assessment of San Vicenzo’s Coast (Italy). Water. 2020; 12 (3):805.

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Francesco Bianco; Paolo Conti; Salvador García-Ayllon; Enzo Pranzini. 2020. "An Integrated Approach to Analyze Sedimentary Stock and Coastal Erosion in Vulnerable Areas: Resilience Assessment of San Vicenzo’s Coast (Italy)." Water 12, no. 3: 805.

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Published: 05 August 2019 in Applied Sciences
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The analysis of damage in cities after an earthquake to implement mitigation strategies of seismic risk is a complex job that is usually full of uncertainties. Numerous variables affect the final result of the observable damage in a set of buildings in an urban area. The use of methodologies capable of providing global explanations beyond the traditional unidisciplinary approach of disciplines, such as structural analysis, earthquake engineering, geotechnics, or seismology, can be very useful for improving the behavior of our cities against earthquakes. This article presents geostatistical post-earthquake analysis, an innovative approach in this field of research based on GIS spatial statistical tools to evaluate the importance of the different variables after an earthquake that may have caused damage in a city. This new framework will be applied to analyze, from a geostatistical perspective, the damage levels observed in the city of Lorca (Spain) after the earthquake of 2011; a case study where various studies have proposed different measures to mitigate the impact of future earthquakes as a consequence of focusing on different phenomena as the main variable for the damage produced. A bivariate GIS assessment will allow spatial correlation of the problems detected from a statistical point of view (inadequate design of buildings, age of the real estate stock, inefficient urban planning configurations, geological risk, etc.) and the different levels of damage that the technicians who participated in the post-earthquake phase evaluated in the city. The results obtained will allow one to hierarchize the importance of the different detected phenomena to prepare the city better against future earthquakes and to elaborate an improved seismic mitigation strategy.

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Salvador García-Ayllón; Antonio Tomás; José Luis Ródenas. The Spatial Perspective in Post-Earthquake Evaluation to Improve Mitigation Strategies: Geostatistical Analysis of the Seismic Damage Applied to a Real Case Study. Applied Sciences 2019, 9, 3182 .

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Salvador García-Ayllón, Antonio Tomás, José Luis Ródenas. The Spatial Perspective in Post-Earthquake Evaluation to Improve Mitigation Strategies: Geostatistical Analysis of the Seismic Damage Applied to a Real Case Study. Applied Sciences. 2019; 9 (15):3182.

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Salvador García-Ayllón; Antonio Tomás; José Luis Ródenas. 2019. "The Spatial Perspective in Post-Earthquake Evaluation to Improve Mitigation Strategies: Geostatistical Analysis of the Seismic Damage Applied to a Real Case Study." Applied Sciences 9, no. 15: 3182.

Journal article
Published: 16 February 2019 in Sustainability
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Enclosed coastal seas and wetlands are areas of high ecological value with singular fauna and flora, but several cases of environmental catastrophes in recent decades can easily be referenced in the international literature. The management of these natural territories is complex in developed countries since they are usually subjected to intense human activity with a varied catalog of activities and anthropizing features that alter the balance of the ecosystem. In this article, the concept of the Socio-Ecological System (SES) to diagnose and achieve a sustainable cohabitation between human anthropization and the natural values based on the tool of GIS participatory mapping is proposed as an innovative approach for the management and recovery of these complex areas. The article develops a comprehensive general methodology of spatial GIS diagnosis, planning, and co-management implementation between public and private stakeholders combined with economic tools such as the Willingness to Pay (WTP) and the Cost Transfer Sector (CTS). This innovative approach is applied to the Mar Menor lagoon, which is an international and successful case study of environmental recovery on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. The coastal lagoon suffered an unprecedented eutrophication crisis in 2015, but it managed to recover in the summer of 2018 without the need to implement major structural measures. In this case study, several solutions to redress the current impacts will be developed through a participatory process based on GIS mapping. Lastly, the discussion reflects the concept of self-resilience of an ecosystem based on the unexpected positive turn of the environmental crisis in the lagoon ending.

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Salvador García-Ayllón. New Strategies to Improve Co-Management in Enclosed Coastal Seas and Wetlands Subjected to Complex Environments: Socio-Economic Analysis Applied to an International Recovery Success Case Study after an Environmental Crisis. Sustainability 2019, 11, 1039 .

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Salvador García-Ayllón. New Strategies to Improve Co-Management in Enclosed Coastal Seas and Wetlands Subjected to Complex Environments: Socio-Economic Analysis Applied to an International Recovery Success Case Study after an Environmental Crisis. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (4):1039.

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Salvador García-Ayllón. 2019. "New Strategies to Improve Co-Management in Enclosed Coastal Seas and Wetlands Subjected to Complex Environments: Socio-Economic Analysis Applied to an International Recovery Success Case Study after an Environmental Crisis." Sustainability 11, no. 4: 1039.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2018 in Ocean & Coastal Management
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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. The Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) of the Mar Menor as a model for the future in the comprehensive management of enclosed coastal seas. Ocean & Coastal Management 2018, 166, 82 -97.

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. The Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) of the Mar Menor as a model for the future in the comprehensive management of enclosed coastal seas. Ocean & Coastal Management. 2018; 166 ():82-97.

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. 2018. "The Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) of the Mar Menor as a model for the future in the comprehensive management of enclosed coastal seas." Ocean & Coastal Management 166, no. : 82-97.

Journal article
Published: 13 November 2018 in Water
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The relationship between the impacts of coastal perimeter transformations derived from human activity and coastal vulnerability is not easy to assess. The impacts associated with coastal dynamics are phenomena that usually develop very extensively over a considerable time. These are transformations that cause significant environmental damage in vulnerable coastal areas, but whose results are very often not really visible until 10, 20, or even 40 years have elapsed. In addition, the analysis and quantification of the current context in complex territories is particularly difficult, since the spatial feedback of various issues and its consequences can generate an uncertain scenario with many interrelated variables. In this field, the use of GIS tools can be of great help to objectively analyze the relationship between coastal anthropization and its impact on its vulnerability in order to correct wrong inertias in vulnerable coastal areas. To this end, a long-term GIS analysis has been carried out of the impacts from urbanization and seaside infrastructures suffered by a complex Mediterranean coastal area in Spain. This territory, with singular elements such as dune ridges, beaches located in protected areas, and a coastal lagoon, will be evaluated using GIS spatio-temporal indicators over the last 90 years and geostatistical correlation methods. This approach will allow us to better understand the relationship between territorial transformations on the coast and the current coastal vulnerability of this area.

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. Long-Term GIS Analysis of Seaside Impacts Associated to Infrastructures and Urbanization and Spatial Correlation with Coastal Vulnerability in a Mediterranean Area. Water 2018, 10, 1642 .

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. Long-Term GIS Analysis of Seaside Impacts Associated to Infrastructures and Urbanization and Spatial Correlation with Coastal Vulnerability in a Mediterranean Area. Water. 2018; 10 (11):1642.

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. 2018. "Long-Term GIS Analysis of Seaside Impacts Associated to Infrastructures and Urbanization and Spatial Correlation with Coastal Vulnerability in a Mediterranean Area." Water 10, no. 11: 1642.

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Published: 01 September 2018 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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Land consumption is a good indicator to directly diagnose present and future imbalances in territories, and indirectly, possible issues associated to the management of other resources. Therefore, after reaching the target of standardizing urban research that makes it possible to build healthier and greener cities, the real challenge for the future is to make the leap from urban scale to regional scale and deploy these policies in an integrated manner, in so-called "smart territories". In that context, this paper presents a model of multidisciplinary analysis through indicators based in land consumption and transformation rates. The model, called GIS-LiDAR retrospective analysis, is implemented through territorial information tools in order to simulate and diagnose possible future imbalances based on past and current trends. This innovative methodology will be applied in a Spanish Mediterranean coastal area called the Campo de Cartagena, a territory with issues related to low-density urban sprawl, intensive agriculture and mass tourism coastal urbanization. This territory of high economic activity and with important environmental protected areas like the Mar Menor lagoon as well as complex interrelated phenomena will be "retrohistorically" diagnosed from the perspective of land transformation over 60 years. The method, designed to advance future scenarios and help planners in decision-making, will show dangerous current trends leading to imbalances in this area so that future planning can be implemented with smart (sustainable) criteria.

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Salvador García-Ayllón. Retro-diagnosis methodology for land consumption analysis towards sustainable future scenarios: Application to a mediterranean coastal area. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 195, 1408 -1421.

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Salvador García-Ayllón. Retro-diagnosis methodology for land consumption analysis towards sustainable future scenarios: Application to a mediterranean coastal area. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 195 ():1408-1421.

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Salvador García-Ayllón. 2018. "Retro-diagnosis methodology for land consumption analysis towards sustainable future scenarios: Application to a mediterranean coastal area." Journal of Cleaner Production 195, no. : 1408-1421.

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Published: 18 August 2018 in Sustainability
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Globalization and the development of the so-called “collaborative economies” has coincided with an important transformation of mass tourism in the last decades. This phenomenon has been accentuated enormously in many European cities in recent years, generating a new P2P tourist model. The situation is having a strong social impact on the urban transformation of cities, and its characteristics are closely related to real estate speculative movements. In this sense, the analysis of urban transformation can offer interesting conclusions about the sustainability of these new tourist models in large touristic cities. In this article, we will analyse the effect associated with of so-called phenomena of “tourist flats” from the Airbnb portal in the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, and Palma de Mallorca. Through the use of GIS indicators and geostatistic analysis of spatial correlation, the current incidence of this phenomenon in these cities, and possible future scenarios of maintaining the current trend, will be evaluated and discussed. The results obtained show worrying indicators in relation to the economic and social sustainability of the current urban-tourist model created in the city which are linked to gentrification processes.

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. Urban Transformations as an Indicator of Unsustainability in the P2P Mass Tourism Phenomenon: The Airbnb Case in Spain through Three Case Studies. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2933 .

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. Urban Transformations as an Indicator of Unsustainability in the P2P Mass Tourism Phenomenon: The Airbnb Case in Spain through Three Case Studies. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (8):2933.

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. 2018. "Urban Transformations as an Indicator of Unsustainability in the P2P Mass Tourism Phenomenon: The Airbnb Case in Spain through Three Case Studies." Sustainability 10, no. 8: 2933.

Journal article
Published: 23 July 2018 in Applied Sciences
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In spite of the enhancements related to building construction, many regions still present a major level of seismic risk as a consequence of the high vulnerability of the urban configuration of their cities. An improved method to assess the seismic vulnerability of buildings in urban areas is proposed in this contribution in order to advance the management of seismic emergency scenarios. The methodology, mainly based on the cadastral database, allows for a more standardized implementation as a function on the typological, structural, and urban parameters of the buildings, reducing the level of uncertainties linked to these methodologies and giving continuity to the different RISK-UE published works. The generalization of the method to any urban area has also been improved by means of removing the parameters whose calibration is associated with a specific area. The methodology has been put into practice in the urban area of the city of Lorca (SE Spain), in the aftermath of the earthquake of 11 May 2011, due to the availability of well-documented data reported from this seismic event. The proposal, when it is combined with Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques, provides valuable information for the planning and management of post-earthquake emergency situations.

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José Luis Ródenas; Salvador García-Ayllón; Antonio Tomás. Estimation of the Buildings Seismic Vulnerability: A Methodological Proposal for Planning Ante-Earthquake Scenarios in Urban Areas. Applied Sciences 2018, 8, 1208 .

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José Luis Ródenas, Salvador García-Ayllón, Antonio Tomás. Estimation of the Buildings Seismic Vulnerability: A Methodological Proposal for Planning Ante-Earthquake Scenarios in Urban Areas. Applied Sciences. 2018; 8 (7):1208.

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José Luis Ródenas; Salvador García-Ayllón; Antonio Tomás. 2018. "Estimation of the Buildings Seismic Vulnerability: A Methodological Proposal for Planning Ante-Earthquake Scenarios in Urban Areas." Applied Sciences 8, no. 7: 1208.

Journal article
Published: 31 May 2018 in Sustainability
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The Mediterranean southeastern area of Spain has traditionally been known as the “Orchard of Europe”. This configuration, which is based fundamentally on traditional agriculture in periurban areas, has evolved in recent decades as a consequence of the sophistication of the agrifood processes transforming its landscape. In addition, tourism, the growth of cities, and the impact of the real estate bubble between 1995 and 2007 have configured important alterations which have generated heterogeneous phenomena in these periurban areas. The present article studies this process by analyzing the evolution of the territory and diagnosing its transformation at a large scale. The evolution of three very representative periurban and similar in size environments of this so-called Europe’s orchard will be compared by using different GIS tools: the El Ejido area, the Campo de Cartagena—Mar Menor area and the Huerta de Murcia area. Through the implementation of different territorial indicators, the current issues will be established from an objective and quantifiable perspective. Moreover, possible future scenarios for 2030 will be raised according to the current transformation trends. This approach will lead us to consider the concept of life cycle in the transformation process of a territory.

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Salvador García-Ayllón. Predictive Diagnosis of Agricultural Periurban Areas Based on Territorial Indicators: Comparative Landscape Trends of the So-Called “Orchard of Europe”. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1820 .

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Salvador García-Ayllón. Predictive Diagnosis of Agricultural Periurban Areas Based on Territorial Indicators: Comparative Landscape Trends of the So-Called “Orchard of Europe”. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (6):1820.

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Salvador García-Ayllón. 2018. "Predictive Diagnosis of Agricultural Periurban Areas Based on Territorial Indicators: Comparative Landscape Trends of the So-Called “Orchard of Europe”." Sustainability 10, no. 6: 1820.

Journal article
Published: 26 April 2018 in Sustainability
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On the Mediterranean coast, the tourism activity which has developed since the 1950s has become a mass tourism industry in recent decades, cohabitating with natural spaces of high environmental value. These sensitive areas are thus subjected to a varied catalog of anthropizing actions (urbanization of the natural soil, modification of the dune balances by the construction of port infrastructures, alteration of marine ecosystems by recreational activities, etc.). All these inter-related elements are often difficult to analyze in a comprehensive way because of their diffuse nature. This paper proposes a methodology based on GIS analysis for the evaluation of diffuse anthropization associated to tourism in sensitive coastal environments. By using different indicators of territorial transformation, a complete method is proposed to establish the index of diffuse anthropization of a territory. This methodology, which is easily applicable in a generalized manner in different cases for developed countries, will be applied in the Mar Menor, a coastal lagoon area in the Mediterranean that has been suffering from mass tourism during recent decades. The results will show the important impact of several actions linked to tourism and the worrying inertia that the current trend can cause in the lagoon’s ecosystem.

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Salvador García-Ayllón. GIS Assessment of Mass Tourism Anthropization in Sensitive Coastal Environments: Application to a Case Study in the Mar Menor Area. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1344 .

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Salvador García-Ayllón. GIS Assessment of Mass Tourism Anthropization in Sensitive Coastal Environments: Application to a Case Study in the Mar Menor Area. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (5):1344.

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Salvador García-Ayllón. 2018. "GIS Assessment of Mass Tourism Anthropization in Sensitive Coastal Environments: Application to a Case Study in the Mar Menor Area." Sustainability 10, no. 5: 1344.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2017 in Ecological Indicators
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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. Diagnosis of complex coastal ecological systems: Environmental GIS analysis of a highly stressed Mediterranean lagoon through spatiotemporal indicators. Ecological Indicators 2017, 83, 451 -462.

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. Diagnosis of complex coastal ecological systems: Environmental GIS analysis of a highly stressed Mediterranean lagoon through spatiotemporal indicators. Ecological Indicators. 2017; 83 ():451-462.

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. 2017. "Diagnosis of complex coastal ecological systems: Environmental GIS analysis of a highly stressed Mediterranean lagoon through spatiotemporal indicators." Ecological Indicators 83, no. : 451-462.

Journal article
Published: 15 November 2017 in Habitat International
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The fall of the communist regimes in the Eastern European countries supposed a drastic transformation in their economic systems that has been reflected in the urban development of their cities. Urbanism from the planned socialist economy has often been replaced by strong and accelerated urbanization processes of neoliberal economies with common issues and specific casuistries of each territory. The new economic inertia, coupled with the major development of infrastructures derived from the important arrival of cohesion funds from the European Union and western multinationals investors, have meant a sudden change in the urban landscape of their territory that needs to be diagnosed from a global comparative approach to really assess the actual transformation of these former communist European countries of Eastern Europe. In the present article, the transformations which have occurred in the urban configuration of five representative cities will be evaluated through different space-time GIS indicators: Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, Bucharest and Sofia. These indicators will help planners and decision-makers to diagnose the issues derived from the rapid urbanization associated with the new economic and social context. Their numerical and comparative analysis allow us to draw conclusions about the current situation of these processes of transformation of the territory and the future perspectives of the inertias of change in cities suffering from unbalanced urban sprawl and growth phenomena of gated communities.

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S. Garcia-Ayllon. Urban transformations as indicators of economic change in post-communist Eastern Europe: Territorial diagnosis through five case studies. Habitat International 2017, 71, 29 -37.

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S. Garcia-Ayllon. Urban transformations as indicators of economic change in post-communist Eastern Europe: Territorial diagnosis through five case studies. Habitat International. 2017; 71 ():29-37.

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S. Garcia-Ayllon. 2017. "Urban transformations as indicators of economic change in post-communist Eastern Europe: Territorial diagnosis through five case studies." Habitat International 71, no. : 29-37.

Journal article
Published: 04 November 2017 in International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements
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J. L. Ródenas; A. Tomàs; Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. Advances in seismic vulnerability assessment of reinforced concrete buildings applied to the experience of Lorca (Spain) 2011 earthquake. International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements 2017, 6, 887 -898.

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J. L. Ródenas, A. Tomàs, Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. Advances in seismic vulnerability assessment of reinforced concrete buildings applied to the experience of Lorca (Spain) 2011 earthquake. International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements. 2017; 6 (3):887-898.

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J. L. Ródenas; A. Tomàs; Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. 2017. "Advances in seismic vulnerability assessment of reinforced concrete buildings applied to the experience of Lorca (Spain) 2011 earthquake." International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements 6, no. 3: 887-898.

Journal article
Published: 01 July 2017 in Ocean & Coastal Management
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S. García-Ayllón. Integrated management in coastal lagoons of highly complexity environments: Resilience comparative analysis for three case-studies. Ocean & Coastal Management 2017, 143, 16 -25.

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S. García-Ayllón. Integrated management in coastal lagoons of highly complexity environments: Resilience comparative analysis for three case-studies. Ocean & Coastal Management. 2017; 143 ():16-25.

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S. García-Ayllón. 2017. "Integrated management in coastal lagoons of highly complexity environments: Resilience comparative analysis for three case-studies." Ocean & Coastal Management 143, no. : 16-25.

Original research paper
Published: 10 February 2017 in Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
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This paper proposes a modification of the empirical method for seismic vulnerability assessment of reinforced concrete buildings in urban areas. In the RISK-UE LM1 framework, the values of the behaviour modifiers related to: (i) the level of seismic code design; (ii) the number of storeys above ground; and (iii) the structural joint between adjoining buildings, have been modified according to an analysis of the actual seismic performance of buildings and a review of the currently available models, providing continuity to the progress of the previous works published to date. The new model has been applied to the city of Lorca, Spain following the damage data from the earthquake of May 11, 2011. Less dispersion between actual observed and estimated damage in buildings is presented in comparison with the previous studies, with a statistical significance level of 5%, thus achieving a more accurate evaluation of seismic risk based on the typological, structural and urban parameters of the buildings. Nevertheless, future work to further improve these modifiers is necessary in order to achieve a better adjustment between the estimated and observed damage. By using GIS techniques, the proposal can also be used to develop the planning and management of post-earthquake emergency situations, allowing for a better definition of several damage scenarios.

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A. Tomás; J. L. Ródenas; Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. Proposal for new values of behaviour modifiers for seismic vulnerability evaluation of reinforced concrete buildings applied to Lorca (Spain) using damage data from the 2011 earthquake. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 2017, 15, 3943 -3962.

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A. Tomás, J. L. Ródenas, Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. Proposal for new values of behaviour modifiers for seismic vulnerability evaluation of reinforced concrete buildings applied to Lorca (Spain) using damage data from the 2011 earthquake. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. 2017; 15 (9):3943-3962.

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A. Tomás; J. L. Ródenas; Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. 2017. "Proposal for new values of behaviour modifiers for seismic vulnerability evaluation of reinforced concrete buildings applied to Lorca (Spain) using damage data from the 2011 earthquake." Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 15, no. 9: 3943-3962.

Journal article
Published: 27 October 2016 in Habitat International
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One of the main factors of imbalance in the urban development of cities is undoubtedly their growth rate. In this sense, one of the main characteristics of rural-urban migration phenomena that have shaped the development of megacities in developing countries has been the need to integrate a large mass of people through processes of rapid growth of its urban plot. In this paper the growth of five different cities in Latin America is analyzed from the perspective of the impact of these processes of transformation in the urban landscape, describing different levels of pathology in their development. Consumption of periurban space, cityscape misconfiguration, or the long-term sustainability of these processes of transformation are complex issues that need to be addressed from a rigorous and technical perspective. These variables will be subject to GIS evaluation and diagnosis by territorial indicators in order to establish patterns of behaviour.

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Salvador García-Ayllón. Rapid development as a factor of imbalance in urban growth of cities in Latin America: A perspective based on territorial indicators. Habitat International 2016, 58, 127 -142.

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Salvador García-Ayllón. Rapid development as a factor of imbalance in urban growth of cities in Latin America: A perspective based on territorial indicators. Habitat International. 2016; 58 ():127-142.

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Salvador García-Ayllón. 2016. "Rapid development as a factor of imbalance in urban growth of cities in Latin America: A perspective based on territorial indicators." Habitat International 58, no. : 127-142.

Journal article
Published: 31 August 2015 in International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning
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J. L. Miralles; Salvador Garcia-Ayllon; C.A. Brebbia. Gis analysis of the consequences of short-term urban planning in a mass tourism destination in Spain. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 2015, 10, 499 -519.

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J. L. Miralles, Salvador Garcia-Ayllon, C.A. Brebbia. Gis analysis of the consequences of short-term urban planning in a mass tourism destination in Spain. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning. 2015; 10 (4):499-519.

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J. L. Miralles; Salvador Garcia-Ayllon; C.A. Brebbia. 2015. "Gis analysis of the consequences of short-term urban planning in a mass tourism destination in Spain." International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 10, no. 4: 499-519.

Conference paper
Published: 03 June 2015 in Ecosystems and Sustainable Development X
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S. García-Ayllón. Occupation models in peri-urban areas: actions for orchard-city integration. Ecosystems and Sustainable Development X 2015, 1 .

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S. García-Ayllón. Occupation models in peri-urban areas: actions for orchard-city integration. Ecosystems and Sustainable Development X. 2015; ():1.

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S. García-Ayllón. 2015. "Occupation models in peri-urban areas: actions for orchard-city integration." Ecosystems and Sustainable Development X , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 30 April 2015 in International Journal of Tourism Research
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Tourism in Spain has evolved from being a residual sector in the economy during the 1950s to become at present the main source of wealth in the country. The Spanish Law of Centres and National Tourist Interest Areas of 1963 created numerous new resorts on the coast whose life cycle is now over 50 years. On the Mediterranean coast, urban development and tourism model processes have been developed with major feedback to each other. In this context, it is particularly interesting to evaluate the results obtained since the decade of the 1960s in order to achieve sustainable tourism. This paper analyses a paradigmatic case study located on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. A diagnosis that explains the evolution of the life cycle tourist destination as a consumer product is carried out using geographic information system analysis of the urban plot. The mutation of the target customer, the real estate overcrowding, or the seasonality of demand will be the variables to be evaluated in order to assess the final return of the managed product. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. Geographic Information System (GIS) Analysis of Impacts in the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) of a Mediterranean Resort. International Journal of Tourism Research 2015, 18, 186 -196.

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. Geographic Information System (GIS) Analysis of Impacts in the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) of a Mediterranean Resort. International Journal of Tourism Research. 2015; 18 (2):186-196.

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Salvador Garcia-Ayllon. 2015. "Geographic Information System (GIS) Analysis of Impacts in the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) of a Mediterranean Resort." International Journal of Tourism Research 18, no. 2: 186-196.