Cesar Ducruet
Biographic Data
| ID | 1036767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cesar Ducruet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cesar |
| FAMILY NAME | Ducruet |
| SIGNATURE | DUCRUET C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0946-4712 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 260 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Transport Connectivity and Urban Development: The Case of Africa (1880–2020)
This paper investigates the interplay between population dynamics and transport connectivity in African municipalities from 1880 to 2020. Using an original historical dataset spanning African countries, we examine how proximity to railways and ports has shaped population dynamics over time. Through the application of Granger causality and Vector Autoregression (VAR) models—accounting for structural breaks and regime changes—we demonstrate that tr…
The influence of port proximity on air pollution and public health in the world's cities
Shipping trade and geopolitical turmoil
Conflicts, whether political, commercial or military, affect transport networks. In the context of large-scale conflicts, operators seek to avoid the most tense areas or reconsider certain routes. Certain links can be disrupted in case of local geopolitical tensions, which can have a significant global impact. The article is devoted to studying Ukraine’s maritime network and identifying changes in these structures because of the armed confrontati…
From fragmentation to integration: Evolving community structure of the Asia-Pacific shipping network since 1890
The impact of shipping activities on air quality and residents' health in China's port cities
International audience
Maritime trade and economic development in North Korea
The North Korean economy is experiencing a deepening economic and political crisis since the early 1990s. Although North Korea is not commonly seen as a shipping nation, its major cities are coastal, and it hosts nine international trading ports. However, little is known about the role of maritime transport in its development. This article uses vessel movement data to reconstitute the maritime network linking North Korean ports and other ports, o…
Does just transition increase social and environmental risks? Evidence from global port cities development
The mutual specialization of port and urban functions: The case of France
Inland cities, maritime gateways, and international trade
The spatial determinants of innovation diffusion: Evidence from global shipping networks
Spatial networks
In geography, the spatial dimension of networks has long been taken for granted. This is not the case in natural sciences, of which physics distinguishes between spatial and nonspatial relationships. The core element at stake is thus distance, resulting in time and cost to travel the network and/or to create new links and nodes. Yet in many disciplines, spatial networks remain analyzed in a binary fashion, without taking into account the length o…
Urban network
The concept of urban network implies a certain degree of interdependency among cities that are connected by various linkages at different spatial scales. Geographers, but also many other scientists, have theorized the urban network, leading to a wide diversity of definitions and empirical studies. This entry reviews existing approaches through three successive steps: schools of thought across scientific disciplines; operational urban networks in …
The geography of maritime networks: A critical review
Urban gravity in the global container shipping network
Revisiting port system delineation through an analysis of maritime interdependencies among seaports
Between geography and transport: A scientometric analysis of port studies in Journal of Transport Geography
Maritime networks as systems of cities: The long-term interdependencies between global shipping flows and urban development (1890–2010)
Graph Theory
Originally a branch of mathematics designed to formalize the topological properties of networks, graph theory has evolved dramatically in the last two decades through interdisciplinary research encompassing both social and natural scientists. Geographers, who have been actively pushing for the integration of graph theoretical methods into geography in the 1960s have somewhat neglected recent advances in network theory and analysis originating fro…
Transport Networks
A transport network is basically defined as a set of connected nodes and links allowing the circulation of goods and/or individuals. Traditionally studied for itself and in rather abstract ways through graph‐theoretical and economic lenses, the transport network has increasingly been defined as one component only, albeit a crucial one, of wider logistical, territorial, and societal realities.
Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling: Tracking and Mapping Maritime Flows in the Age of Big Data
Northwest Africa from colonial to global shipping
This chapter deals with an analysis of the evolution of ports and port systems in Northwest Africa from 1880 to 1972. It presnets data from Lloyd's List to rebuild shipping patterns across Northwest Africa between 1900 and 1970. This chronology is representative for the whole covered period and it permits a comparison between different primary sources. In particular, the Shipping Index provides a snapshot of global and regional maritime activity …
Multilayer dynamics of complex spatial networks: The case of global maritime flows (1977–2008)
Port cities and global legacies: Urban identity, waterfront work, and radicalism, by Alice Mah
Port cities and global legacies: urban identity, waterfront work, and radicalism, by Alice Mah." Urban Geography, 37(5), pp. 801–802
Regions and material flows: Investigating the regional branching and industry relatedness of port traffics in a global perspective
This article proposes a quantitative analysis of the interdependencies between port specialization and regional specialization across the world. A global database is elaborated, covering about 360 port regions in both developed and developing countries. One goal is to verify how interdependent port traffic and regional characteristics are, in a context of increasingly flexible commodity and value chains. Despite the aggregated dimension of availa…
Ports and the local embedding of commodity flows
A tale of Asia’s world ports: The spatial evolution in global hub port cities
Port geography at the crossroads with human geography: Between flows and spaces
Frontline soldiers of globalisation: Port–city evolution and regional competition
Integrating world cities into production networks: The Case of Port Cities
In this article we analyse the location patterns of firms that provide specialized advanced producer services (APS) to international commodity chains that move through seaports. Such activities can take place in world cities or in port cities. The analysis of APS location patterns in port cities provides a good opportunity to integrate the study of world cities into the framework of Global Production Networks. Based upon our empirical findings, w…
Multilayer dynamics of complex spatial networks: The case of global maritime flows (1977–2008)
The worldwide maritime network of container shipping: Spatial Structure and Regional Dynamics
Port and maritime studies dealing with containerization have observed traffic concentration and dispersion throughout the world. Globalization, intermodal transportation, and technological revolutions in the shipping industry have resulted in both network extension and rationalization. However, lack of precise data on inter-port relations prevent the application of wider network theories to global maritime container networks, which are often exam…
Maritime networks as systems of cities: The long-term interdependencies between global shipping flows and urban development (1890–2010)
The changing tides of port geography (1950–2012)
Human geographers actively studied ports in past decades. However, the extent to which port geography constituted a specific research stream within human geography remained largely unanswered. By reviewing 399 port papers published in major geography journals, the authors critically investigated the trends and changing tides of port geography research. The findings point out the emergence of the core community shifting from mainstream geography r…
Spatial Glocalization in Asia-Pacific Hub Port Cities: A Comparison of Hong Kong and Singapore
Port competition at both the regional and global scales results in port concentration and deconcentration, respectively. Whereas a number of recent studies interpret such phenomena as the effects of global forces such as containerization, few researchers have investigated local forces, such as the evolving relationships between urban policy and port growth. This study compares how two global hub port cities in the Asia-Pacific region, Hong Kong a…
Ports in multi-level maritime networks: Evidence from the Atlantic (1996–2006)
Network diversity and maritime flows
Going West? Spatial polarization of the North Korean port system
New port development and global city making: Emergence of the Shanghai–Yangshan multilayered gateway hub
Urban gravity in the global container shipping network
Ports and the local embedding of commodity flows
Transport corridors and regional balance in China: The case of coal trade and logistics
Peripherality in the global container shipping network: The case of the Southern African container port system
Revisiting port system delineation through an analysis of maritime interdependencies among seaports
Maritime trade and economic development in North Korea
The North Korean economy is experiencing a deepening economic and political crisis since the early 1990s. Although North Korea is not commonly seen as a shipping nation, its major cities are coastal, and it hosts nine international trading ports. However, little is known about the role of maritime transport in its development. This article uses vessel movement data to reconstitute the maritime network linking North Korean ports and other ports, o…
Does just transition increase social and environmental risks? Evidence from global port cities development
Regions and material flows: Investigating the regional branching and industry relatedness of port traffics in a global perspective
This article proposes a quantitative analysis of the interdependencies between port specialization and regional specialization across the world. A global database is elaborated, covering about 360 port regions in both developed and developing countries. One goal is to verify how interdependent port traffic and regional characteristics are, in a context of increasingly flexible commodity and value chains. Despite the aggregated dimension of availa…
The mutual specialization of port and urban functions: The case of France
Inland cities, maritime gateways, and international trade
Regional Resilience and Spatial Cycles: Long‐Term Evolution of the C hinese Port System (221 bc –2010 ad )
Spatial models of port system evolution often depict linearly the emergence of hierarchy through successive concentration phases of originally scattered ports. The C hinese case provides a fertile ground for complementing existing works by a long‐term perspective, given the early importance of river ports and seaports and the development irregularities caused by periods of closure and openness over time and across such a large land mass. In both …
The Emergence of a Mega-Port - From the Global to the Local, the Case of Busan
Busan port was ranked in third place of the world container ports in 2001. This port growth was implemented within a major urban settlement of over four million inhabitants. It could be explained by the insertion of the port city in the maritime networks of the world leading ocean carriers. The co-existence of port and urban functions in the same area could lead to asphyxia. The efficient articulation of reticular and territorial logics, in diffe…
The Emergence of a Mega-Port - From the Global to the Local, the Case of Busan
Busan port was ranked in third place of the world container ports in 2001. This port growth was implemented within a major urban settlement of over four million inhabitants. It could be explained by the insertion of the port city in the maritime networks of the world leading ocean carriers. The co-existence of port and urban functions in the same area could lead to asphyxia. The efficient articulation of reticular and territorial logics, in diffe…
Frontline soldiers of globalisation: Port–city evolution and regional competition
A tale of Asia’s world ports: The spatial evolution in global hub port cities
Les connexions maritimes de la Corée du Nord. Recompositions territoriales dans la péninsule Coréenne et dynamiques régionales en Asie du Nord-Est
L’évolution des mouvements de navires dans les ports nord-coréens entre 1985 et 2005 montre que la multiplication des connexions maritimes nord-sud provient autant d’une intégration économique en cours des deux pays que des difficultés du système de transport et de la réorganisation des relations commerciales de la Corée du Nord. Dans un contexte de réformes économiques au nord et d’ouverture entre les deux Corées, le glissement des trafics majeu…
Going West? Spatial polarization of the North Korean port system
Spatial Glocalization in Asia-Pacific Hub Port Cities: A Comparison of Hong Kong and Singapore
Port competition at both the regional and global scales results in port concentration and deconcentration, respectively. Whereas a number of recent studies interpret such phenomena as the effects of global forces such as containerization, few researchers have investigated local forces, such as the evolving relationships between urban policy and port growth. This study compares how two global hub port cities in the Asia-Pacific region, Hong Kong a…
Ports in multi-level maritime networks: Evidence from the Atlantic (1996–2006)
Integrating world cities into production networks: The Case of Port Cities
In this article we analyse the location patterns of firms that provide specialized advanced producer services (APS) to international commodity chains that move through seaports. Such activities can take place in world cities or in port cities. The analysis of APS location patterns in port cities provides a good opportunity to integrate the study of world cities into the framework of Global Production Networks. Based upon our empirical findings, w…
New port development and global city making: Emergence of the Shanghai–Yangshan multilayered gateway hub
The worldwide maritime network of container shipping: Spatial Structure and Regional Dynamics
Port and maritime studies dealing with containerization have observed traffic concentration and dispersion throughout the world. Globalization, intermodal transportation, and technological revolutions in the shipping industry have resulted in both network extension and rationalization. However, lack of precise data on inter-port relations prevent the application of wider network theories to global maritime container networks, which are often exam…
Network diversity and maritime flows
Regional Resilience and Spatial Cycles: Long‐Term Evolution of the C hinese Port System (221 bc –2010 ad )
Spatial models of port system evolution often depict linearly the emergence of hierarchy through successive concentration phases of originally scattered ports. The C hinese case provides a fertile ground for complementing existing works by a long‐term perspective, given the early importance of river ports and seaports and the development irregularities caused by periods of closure and openness over time and across such a large land mass. In both …
Transport corridors and regional balance in China: The case of coal trade and logistics
Port geography at the crossroads with human geography: Between flows and spaces
Peripherality in the global container shipping network: The case of the Southern African container port system
The changing tides of port geography (1950–2012)
Human geographers actively studied ports in past decades. However, the extent to which port geography constituted a specific research stream within human geography remained largely unanswered. By reviewing 399 port papers published in major geography journals, the authors critically investigated the trends and changing tides of port geography research. The findings point out the emergence of the core community shifting from mainstream geography r…
Regions and material flows: Investigating the regional branching and industry relatedness of port traffics in a global perspective
This article proposes a quantitative analysis of the interdependencies between port specialization and regional specialization across the world. A global database is elaborated, covering about 360 port regions in both developed and developing countries. One goal is to verify how interdependent port traffic and regional characteristics are, in a context of increasingly flexible commodity and value chains. Despite the aggregated dimension of availa…
Ports and the local embedding of commodity flows
Regional integration and maritime connectivity across the Maghreb seaport system
Port cities and global legacies: Urban identity, waterfront work, and radicalism, by Alice Mah
Port cities and global legacies: urban identity, waterfront work, and radicalism, by Alice Mah." Urban Geography, 37(5), pp. 801–802
Graph Theory
Originally a branch of mathematics designed to formalize the topological properties of networks, graph theory has evolved dramatically in the last two decades through interdisciplinary research encompassing both social and natural scientists. Geographers, who have been actively pushing for the integration of graph theoretical methods into geography in the 1960s have somewhat neglected recent advances in network theory and analysis originating fro…
Transport Networks
A transport network is basically defined as a set of connected nodes and links allowing the circulation of goods and/or individuals. Traditionally studied for itself and in rather abstract ways through graph‐theoretical and economic lenses, the transport network has increasingly been defined as one component only, albeit a crucial one, of wider logistical, territorial, and societal realities.
Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling: Tracking and Mapping Maritime Flows in the Age of Big Data
Northwest Africa from colonial to global shipping
This chapter deals with an analysis of the evolution of ports and port systems in Northwest Africa from 1880 to 1972. It presnets data from Lloyd's List to rebuild shipping patterns across Northwest Africa between 1900 and 1970. This chronology is representative for the whole covered period and it permits a comparison between different primary sources. In particular, the Shipping Index provides a snapshot of global and regional maritime activity …
Multilayer dynamics of complex spatial networks: The case of global maritime flows (1977–2008)
Geography (34 works) · Maritime Ports and Logistics (34 works) · Engineering (31 works) · Economic geography (30 works) · Port (circuit theory (25 works) · Business (24 works) · Computer Science (23 works) · Economic Zones and Regional Development (20 works) · Regional science (19 works) · Economics (18 works)