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Beyond “emptied Spain”: climate change, depopulation, and globalisation in rural areas
Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, Daniel Gaitán Cremaschi, Beatriz Pierri-Daunt, and Leticia Santos de Lima, Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB); Esteve Corbera, ICTA-UAB e Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA);
Climate change, depopulation and the globalization of agricultural trade are causing vulnerability. This study analyzes which areas are most affected.
Article
Where and how do young people seek help when experiencing emotional distress?
David Fraguas, Instituto de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, IdISSC, CIBERSAM, UCM, Fundación Manantial; Antonio Perdigón, Octavio Finol, Diana Torres, Vanesa López and Sara Toledano, Fundación Manantial;
According to this study, 46% of young people aged between 16 and 32 years old claim to suffer from emotional distress; of these, 29.8% decide to ask for help, but only 25.9% go to health professionals.
Dossier
Young people, opportunities, and futures
What challenges are faced by young people in Spain and Portugal? In the Social Observatory’s twelfth Dossier, we analyse aspects such as performance in the education system, incorporation into the labour market, or leaving the parental home.
Interview
“For the first time, we are living in a culture in which young people educate their grandparents in many aspects”
Robert Pogue Harrison examines the concept of youth from the perspective of philosophy and cultural studies. How do we define it?
Infodata
Indicators on youth
This section presents a series of key indicators on the young population in Spain and Portugal. These indicators come from European and international databases (Eurostat and OECD).
Article
Have the labour reforms reduced the temporary employment rate among young workers?
Alejandro Godino and Oscar Molina, Sociological Research Centre on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB); Fátima Suleman, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Dinâmia’CET;
The reduction in the casualisation of young people since the labour reforms is very evident in Spain and almost imperceptible in Portugal. Why?
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Personal relationships of young adults in Spain and Portugal: sociability, isolation, and social inequality
Joan M. Verd, Mireia Bolíbar and Joan Rodríguez-Soler, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball, Institut d’Estudis del Treball, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona;
What factors contribute most to the social isolation of young people? We analyse the influence of the family network in countries in the south of Europe.
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Inequality of carbon emissions across income and age in Spain
Stefan Drews, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Universidad de Málaga; Théo Konc, Technical University of Berlin and Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK);
The higher the income, the higher the carbon footprint? This study shows that this is the case and that the top 1% of carbon emitters have a carbon footprint that is 7 times higher than the average.