An innovation-industrial cluster is an association of business entities for the purpose their effective interaction and joint sustainable development. The most important component development infrastructure digital platform industrial – information system designed to support members throughout its entire life cycle. Within framework platform, applied specific tasks are solved. article devoted s...

Arid regions are an important part of the world as they cover more than 40% of the land surface and they can provide sufficient opportunities for extensive development. However, urban development of these regions is facing a set of problems. This is besides the development barriers due to the arid regions climate associated with a set of economical, social, administrative, and physical problems...

Thessaly is a low relief region in Greece where hundreds of Neolithic settlements/tells called magoules were established from the Early Neolithic period until the Bronze Age (6,000 - 3,000 BC). Multi-sensor remote sensing was applied to the study area in order to evaluate its potential to detect Neolithic settlements. Hundreds of sites were geo-referenced through systematic GPS surveying throug...

Technology and business models share a common evolution within the Internet. To enable deployment of the technology within a service environment there is also the need to create a robust and stable business model. This tied destiny of technology and business factors is perhaps most apparent within the area of the interconnection of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Here there is both an intera...

This paper will outline the objectives of an on-going Knowledge and Research study being undertaken by TRL on behalf of the Department for International Development [DFID/UK] which is investigating ‘Sustainable Livelihoods, Access and Mobility’ in Zimbabwe and Uganda. The paper begins by discussing the Livelihoods Approach concept in relation to transport, and continues with an overview of the ...

Abstract The quality of life in rural housing settlements is at the heart territorial cohesion concerns across Europe and United Nations’ sustainable development goals. However, gap between urban developments remains substantial, stressing need to adopt integrated approaches for territories. These should include heritage preservation strategies as a priority. Vernacular constructions integrate ...

The article studies methodological approaches to the environmental assessment of quality environment and population rural settlements. components “rural environment” life activity include factors support residents or are resource potential that determine viability vitality environment. polystructurality living forms a special functional regime within boundaries settlements agricultural activiti...