The evolution of rural settlement planning has the potential to improve regional sustainability through aligning components of human settlement ecosystems. In this study, we promoted the integration of sustainability in 23 rural communes of Rehamna province (central Morocco). We assessed rural...

Land-use policies shape the spatial allocation of infrastructure, services, and development and thus have direct implications for welfare. This paper examines the effects of Colombia's municipal territorial plan updates on poverty through the lens of the housing and services channel. Using...

Iceland's significant onshore wind energy potential remains untapped, with no operational wind farms despite recognized opportunities for over a decade. Two wind energy projects, approved under Iceland's Master Plan for Nature Protection and Energy Utilization - a legally enshrined...

STRING (South Western Baltic Sea Transregional Region - Implementing New Geography) is a regional cooperation of urban centers and regions in the Nordic countries and Northern Germany. The study shows that the member countries of STRING have developed dynamically over the last decades, both...

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held at a crucial juncture when the country is about to enter a period of laying a solid foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization. The session made...

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is an internationally known tool for organizing and governing marine spaces and activities, economic or otherwise, carried out in these spaces. Being a public process of mapping and analyzing the maritime area that involves multiple interests, actors and factors, it...

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held at a crucial juncture when the country is about to enter a period of laying a solid foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization. The session made...

Chapter 1. Introduction (Tomaz Ponce Dentinho) -- Chapter 2. Railway Infrastructure of Czechia and its Effect on Land Use (Stabak Roy) -- Chapter 3. Howrah Railway Station: A Catalyst for Regional Growth and Development in India (Saptarshi Mitra) -- Chapter 4. Connecting New Horizons and...