Ancient villages are a unique landscape of cultural heritage with both tangible and intangible culture, which provide rich ecosystem services for human beings. Assessment society’s perceptions on landscapes can improve the integration values into decision-making processes that affect landscapes, thereby contributing to maximizing benefits people receive from services. Based this premise, new se...

Localism or regionalization has become a popular topic in urban design, but recent critics raise the question of whether the local or regional scale is most desirable for industrial ecosystems. As a way to explore the claim that localized metabolism is more sustainable, this study examines the costs and benefits of two differentially scaled strategies for the management of post-consumer polyeth...

Over the last decade Australia's free-to-air commercial networks Seven, Nine and Ten have undergone a protracted digital transformation with development of their online, ad-supported broadcaster video-on-demand (BVOD) platforms 7Plus, 9Now, 10Play. The present article considers some questions these BVODs raise for television policy in Australia, specific reference to local content regulation. T...