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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Over the last 25 years, perceptions of the early prehistory of Northwest Africa have undergone radical changes due to new fieldwork projects and a corresponding growth in scientific interest in the region. Much of this work has been focused in Morocco, known for its extremely rich fossil and archaeological records in caves and rock shelters.
Nick Barton +3 more
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WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
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FROM NY‐LON TO SILK? Shifting Centres of Attention in the World's Urban Fabric
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This Interventions essay explores Silk Road urbanism's emergence as a rival to New York and London (NY‐LON) for global centre stage in Anglophone urban and regional studies. Through China's Belt and Road Initiative, more attention is being given to urban formations and associated new centralities beyond North Atlantic global/world cities ...
Tim Bunnell, Han Cheng, Wenn Er Tan
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The Location Analysis on Dry Port of the Inland in Jinan City
E3S Web of Conferences, 2018 The port competition is more and more intense, starts to be the initial infrastructure and the operation ability competition, now is in the port economy hinterland competition.
Sun Jianmeng, Wang Haining
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
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Enhance Berth to Berth Navigation Requires High Quality ENC's - The Port ENC - a Proposal for a New Port Related ENC Standard [PDF]
TransNav, 2011 The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) was about 42 month, between May 2006 and October 2009, the work package leader for the Port ECDIS work package within the integrated European research project named EFFORTS (Effective Operation in Ports).
Dieter Seefeldt
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300 Years of Degradation in Wales Estuaries and Coasts
Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The world's oceans are in a severe state of degradation, yet our understanding of that degradation is often based on changes observed only in the past 20–50 years. This narrow view leads to marine conservation efforts that aim to preserve already degraded ecosystems, shaped by shifted ecological baselines.
Richard K. F. Unsworth +3 more
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Particularities of Planning, Organizing and Managing Port Marketing [PDF]
Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2017 The study of planning and organizing activities starts from the knowledge of the port-specific characteristics of activities related to maritime and inland waterway transport that take place in or near the port.
Sorescu Florin
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Market Integration and Nonlinear Price Transmission in 19th‐Century British Wheat Markets
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Important developments in infrastructure and institutions characterized 19th‐Century wheat markets in Great Britain. Among these developments was the construction of the national rail system which enabled cheaper and more efficient transport of grain and other bulky cargoes between inland towns and ports.
Barry K. Goodwin, A. Ford Ramsey
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Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2018 The reflection characteristics of radar waves in coastal high-rise buildings form a certain shielding area, which makes it difficult for vessel traffic service to control the ship dynamic situation in sheltered waters.
Lang-xiong Gan +5 more
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