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PROFESSOR PANAGIOTIS LIARGOVAS The Board of the HELLENIC Regional Science Inquiry Journal Department of Economics

ASSOCIATION OF REGIONAL University of Peloponnese, Greece SCIENTISTS H.A.R.S. 2011-2012 Managing Editor PROFESSOR THEODORE PELAGIDIS PROFESSOR MARIA GIAOUTZI [H.A.R.S. is a Think Tank of groups of people with Department of Maritime Studies Department of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National multidisciplinary work in the fields of Regional Science, University of Piraeus, Greece Technical which occurs with the selfless contribution of University of Athens, Greece participants who offer their work to the global scientific PROFESSOR EFSTATHIOS TSACHALIDIS

community] Department of Forestry and Environmental Hon. Managing Editor Management Democritus University of Thrace,

President and Chair, Journals Management Greece PROFESSOR PETER NIJKAMP Committee (RSI J – ΚΠΕ - R ICR – ZRW) Free University of Economics and Business PROFESSOR MOH’D AHMAD AL-NIMR

Administration, Department of Spatial Economics Mechanical Engineering Department Dr Christos Ladias Amsterdam, the Netherlands Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid – Jordan Legal Committee Editors PROFESSOR IOANNIS MAZIS Lukas Apostolidis, Associate Professor Dimitrios PROFESSOR IOANNIS MOURMOURIS Department of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies Panagiotopoulos, Assistant Professor Panagiotis Department of International Economic Relations and National and Kapodistrian Kribas, Dr Leandros Lefakis, Dr Angelika Kallia, Dr Development, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece University of Athens, Greece Evaggelos Mallios, Athanasios Papathanasis PROFESSOR EMMANUEL MARMARAS PROFESSOR SPYROS VLIAMOS Advisors Department of Architecture Department of Philosophy and History of Science Technical University of Crete, Greece National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Associate Professor Georgios Korres, Associate Greece Professor Stephanos Karagiannis, Dr Apostolos PROFESSOR PANAGIOTIS REPPAS Parpairis, Dr Nikolaos Chasanagas, Nikolaos Zacharias, Department of Economic and Regional Development PROFESSOR NAPOLEON MARAVEGIAS Dimitrios Kouzas, Esaias Papaioannou, Antonia , Greece Department of Political Science and Public Obaidou, Maria Karagianni Administration National and Kapodistrian PROFESSOR JOSE ANTONIO PORFIRIO University of Athens, Greece Chief Executive Departamento de Ciencias Sociais de Gestao Universidade Aberta, Lisboa, Portugal PROFESSOR CHARALAMPOS BOTSARIS Vilelmini Psarrianou Department of Regional and EconomicDevelopment PROFESSOR PAOLO MALANIMA University of Central Greece Conference Co-ordinator Department of Economic History and Economics Magna Graecia University in Catanzaro, Italy PROFESSOR PANTELIS SKAYANNIS Dr Stylianos Alexiadis Department of Planning and Regional Development PROFESSOR RADOVAN STOJANOVIC , Greece International Relations Coordinator Faculty of Electrical Engineering University of , Podrorica, Montenegro PROFESSOR ELENI KAPETANAKI- BRIASOULI Dr Aikaterini Kokkinou, Antonia Obaidou PROFESSOR RUDIGER HAMM Department of Geography

Department of Business Administration and Economics University of the Aegean, Greece Student Observer Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Germany PROFESSOR GEORGE CHIOTIS Eleonora Stavrakaki Department of Economic Sciences PROFESSOR GEORGE KARRAS Athens University of Economics and Business, Secretariat Department of Economics Greece University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Dr Chrisa Balomenou, Dr Fotios Chatzitheodoridis, Dr PROFESSOR DIMITRIOS DIONISIOU Nikolaos Karachalis, Dr Panagiota Karametou, PROFESSOR IOANNIS YFANTOPOULOS Department of Senior Mathematics Chrisoula Kouza,Maria Botsari, Victor Atoun, Iosif Faculty of Political Science & Public Hellenic Air Force Academy, Greece Atoun, Eleftheria Gkrimpa Maria Rigaki, Konstantina Administration National & Kapodistrian University of Mantzavinou, Konstantina Georgiou, Nikolaos Athens, Greece PROFESSOR LOIS LAMPRIANIDIS Alampanos, Elektra Katsiantoni, Dora Kyriazopoulou, Department of Economic Sciences Anna Maria Giallousi De-Boorder, Eleni Koursari, Vis. PROFESSOR KONSTANTINA ZERVA , Greece Eleni Hinopoulou, Aggeliki Koursari, Elena Stournara, Dept de Economia y Facultad de Turismo Dimitrios Ladias, Chrisanthi Zisimopoulou, Maria Universidad de Girona, Espania PROFESSOR PARIS TSARTAS Oikonomou, Athanasios Koulopoulos, Christos Morres, Department of Business Administration Socratis Chitas, Maria Karagianni, Nikolaos Motsios, PROFESSOR PETROS KIOXOS University of the Aegean, Greece Apostolos Tsapalas, Victoria Frizi, Apostolos Department of Economic Sciences Ladias,Vasiliki Petrou, Areti Zioga, Nikoleta Giesil, University of Piraeus, Greece PROFESSOR YUZARU MIYATA Kyriakos Katsaros, Filippos Rountzos, Katerina Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering Kotsiopoulou, Nilos Kotsiopoulos, Dimitra Tsetsoni, PROFESSOR MINAS AGGELIDIS Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Maria Kousantaki, Chaim Kapetas, Vasilios Karvounis, Department of Architecture National Technical University of Ted Galanos, Aggela Trikili, Eleni Zioga, Loukia Athens, Greece Tsana, Andriana Katsantoni, PROFESSOR GEORGIOS MERGOS Efrosini Makri PROFESSOR JOSE VARGAS HERNANDEZ, Departmentt Department of Economic Sciences de Mercadotecnia y Negocios Internacionales, Universidad National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, de Guadalajara, Mexico Greece

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University, Athens, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Greece LECTURER NIKOLAOS MPENOS NIKOLAOS KYRIAZIS Department of Economic Sciences Department of Economic Sciences ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR , Greece University of Thessaly, HELEN THEODOROPOULOU Volos, Greece Department of Home Economics Ecology, Harokopion University, LECTURER ALEXANDROS MANDHLA

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