Urban renovation projects, which have led to the conversion of port areas through a new vision of waterfronts as elements of the potential development of the urban system in its entirety, have spread since the early 1950s and now some port cities are able to trigger some mechanisms which, even if they are the result of some processes that have been activated for decades and which are still evol...

Hardly any area in the whole world is undergoing such dynamical environmental and social change as the coastal regions of the world. Approximately 20% of the world’s human population live within 30 km of the sea, and nearly double that number live within the nearest 100 km of the coast (IPCC 2001). Furthermore, a big part of economic activities is going on in these areas. In the coastal environ...

The paper revisits port capacity providing a more holistic approach via including immediate port connections from the seaside and the hinterland. The methodology provided adopts a systemic approach encapsulating the different port terminals along with the seaside and hinterland connections providing a holistic estimation of port capacity. Capacity is defined with the use of two dimensions; stat...

Introduction Modern Europe has rural roots, even today, as much as 90 per cent of Europe (EU25) consists of rural areas in which half of the population lives. The different challenges that rural areas face range from restructuring the agricultural sector, remoteness, poor service provision and depopulation to population influx and pressure on the natural environment, particularly in the rural a...

Due to the increasing freight volumes passing via seaports checkpoints, and increasingly reported delays in customs clearance procedure, dry port, emerged as one kind of solution to such situation, instead of extending the port scale under limited land use. The place located with dry port (sometimes inland port) can solve not only the congestion embarrassment faced by connected seaport, but als...

Just as modern nation-states struggle to manage the cultural and economic impacts of migration, ancient civilizations dealt with similar external pressures and set policies to regulate people's movements. In one of the earliest urban societies, the Indus Civilization, mechanisms linking city populations to hinterland groups remain enigmatic in the absence of written documents. However, isotopic...

This article presents the background to and prospects for a new initiative in archaeological field survey database integration. The Roman Hinterland Project combines data from Tiber Valley Project, Suburbium Pontine Region into single database, which authors believe be one of most complete repositories hinterland major ancient metropolis, covering nearly 2000 years history. logic combining thes...

Guyana, a lower income country that has a limited communication infrastructure and occupies an area of 216,000 km, is home to a population of 750,000. While 90 percent of the population occupies the narrow and relatively easily accessible coastal plain, the remaining population is sparsely distributed in the mountainous and forested hinterland which, more than any other part of the country, is ...