Beaches are attractive areas that subject to multiple pressures. Some of these beaches located in large coastal cities with which they interact on a physical and social level. Facing this particularity, we propose state knowledge dedicated the management cities, here defined as more than 500,000 inhabitants. Using WoS an analysis grid, 53 articles were identified studied. This shows at interfac...

Policymakers have identified the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development. Yet little is known about how this relationship varies over time in cities with different market size. This study examines the link between new firm start-ups and economic development using a panel of 127 European cities between 1994 and 2009. We found that the immediate economic development impact ...

With the rapid economic growth and development, the problem of environmental pollution in China’s cities is becoming increasingly serious, and environmental pollution takes on a regional difference. There is, however, little comprehensive evaluation on the environmental performance and the regional difference of strictly-environmental-monitored cities in China. In this paper, the environmental ...

Cities are hubs of human activity; the everyday actions of myriad households, businesses, and industries located within a city’s geopolitical boundary. Measuring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with cities is confounded by the relatively small spatial scale of cities compared with the large-scale engineered infrastructures in which they are embedded; that is, the electricity grid, tra...