Urbanization and Riverine Hinterlands: A Proposal for an Integrative High-Definition and Multi-Scalar Approach to Understanding Ancient Cities and their Dynamic Natural Resources

Rivers have always been a magnet for human settlement, providing resources, such as water, food, and energy, communication travel routes. Climate- human-made changes to the environment can easily affect fragile balance between ‘natural’ ‘urban’, causing droughts, floods, other in riverine systems that challenge economic, environmental, social sustainability. This is especially true semi-arid regions times of rapid climate change human-driven deterioration environment. Therefore deeper understanding needed evolution urban-riverine relationships within long-term historical frameworks. article presents an integrative interdisciplinary programme research, which although exemplified by one case study - city Gerasa/Jerash its hinterland modern Jordan be applied locations with benefits.