tourism development in to geographical areas especially ecotourism, in addition to their economic, social and cultural consequences, will also leave great environmental impacts on geographical locations. if careful preventive and proactive measures in the form of strategy formulation, setting standards and ongoing specific assessments are not taken, destructive effects of ecotourism in an exten...

The digital divide is nowadays evolving to digital inequality, i.e., the socio-economic disparities inside the ‘online population’. This paper examines two main dimensions of the digital inequality, namely ‘skills’ and ‘autonomy’ of Internet users. The level of formal education was selected as a representative variable of the skill dimension, as well as the density of population in different ge...

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The growth of the Web and the increase in using GPS-enabled devices, coupled with the exponential growth of the social media sites, have led to a surge in research interest in Geo-folksonomy analysis. In Geo-Folksonomy, a user assigns an electronic tag to a geographical place resource identified by its longitude and latitude. The assigned tags are used to manage, categorize and describe place r...

We suggest a method for embedding scale-free networks, with degree distribution Pk approximately k(-lambda), in regular Euclidean lattices accounting for geographical properties. The embedding is driven by a natural constraint of minimization of the total length of the links in the system. We find that all networks with lambda>2 can be successfully embedded up to a (Euclidean) distance xi which...

The impact of an inhomogeneous arrangement of nodes in space on a network organization cannot be neglected in most real-world scale-free networks. Here we propose a model for a geographical network with nodes embedded in a fractal space in which we can tune the network heterogeneity by varying the strength of the spatial embedding. When the nodes in such networks have power-law distributed intr...

Location intelligence is a set of tools and techniques to integrate a geographical dimension into BI platforms, aimed at enhancing their capability of better monitoring and interpreting business events. Though most commercial data warehouse tools have implemented spatial extensions to support GIS integration, the user experience with spatial data is still mostly limited to the visualization of ...

Interactions between universities and industry are essential for innovation systems, whereby the process is catalyzed by proximity these actors in different dimensions (cognitive, organizational, social, institutional geographical). The present paper seeks to investigate specific importance of geographical university-industry interactions during a moment Brazil’s peripheral socioeconomic format...

We study how cultural distance affects the rejection of imposed institutions. To this purpose, we exploit the transplantation of Piedmontese institutions on Southern Italy which occurred during the Italian unification. We assemble a novel and unique dataset containing information on episodes of brigandage, a form of violent uprising against the unitary government, at the municipal level. We use...

It is important to understand urban auto markets from a spatial perspective. Specifically, the question of how to simplify and visualize the relatedness of the complicated urban markets arises. Based on the concept of ‘product space’, this research explores the similarity between Chinese cities and identifies the city clusters using data of automobile sales in 2012. A city’s automobile market i...