The rural landscape of Eastern Iberia Iron Age : agricultural intensification and sociopolitical dynamics
This paper focuses on the rural landscape during the Iberian Iron Age in the Valencia Region (Eastern Spain). This paper deals with two main issues. The first is to integrate and analyze the results of archeological fieldwork to understand the systems of settlement and land-use intensification during the Iberian Iron Age. The second issue addresses socio-economic aspects related to changes in the observable spatial patterns. These processes are characterized by the dynamics of urbanization and emergence of Iberian Early States.
Line -of -sight and Co St Surface Analysis Usi Ng Gis *
This review article assesses the majority of accessible archaeological studies based on two GIS techniques (viewshed analysis and cost surface analysis) over the decade 1990-2000. The two techniques are taken together because of certain similarities in methodology and underlying theoretical principles, which express an emphasis on the human experience of being and moving in the landscape; not surprisingly, these techniques have been at the centre of processual – postprocessual debate almost from the beginning.
Did the metamorphosis from Export Processing Zones to Special Economic Zones improve the efficiency of trade enclaves in India?
In this paper, the efficiency of seven conventional Special Economic Zones in India is analyzed, by adopting a stochastic production frontier technique, for the period between 1986–1987 and 2007–2008.Results indicate that although the efficiency scores of these enclaves have improved over the years, specifically with the introduction of the SEZ policy (2000–2001), it is far below the threshold level as identified in the literature. Besides, one can also observe a discrepancy emerging between better export earning zones and efficient zones. On the determinants side, policy intervention and large geographical area, accompanied by clustering of units, are found to have impacted the efficiency scores of these enclaves positively.