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Comprehensive understandings to the built environment especially the urban form is a prerequisite for building a smart city. This paper is based on computational methods to examine the urban fabric of Hankou, China, as a case study. Quantitative and comparative analyses are involved to understand the characteristics on the block scale, where massive demolition and new construction coincide with the...
Natural resource development is accelerating in the circumpolar region, raising questions about the balance between potential economic benefits for northern indigenous peoples with the risks of increasing long-standing health inequities. New communication tools are needed to document and synthesize complex and diverse evidence of health impacts in a context relevant for natural resource management...
The German “Energiewende” requires a notable transmission network expansion. Since 2009, only approximately 400□km of 1877□km were realized. Most projects are delayed because of the low acceptance amongst local residents due to the perceived potential risk for the environment. This paper presents a transparent method of acquiring environmental parameters caused by the visibility of the transmission...
The assessment stage is one of the first elements of effective water resources management. A miniwatershed-based assessment provides an evaluation of conditions and trends in the watershed in a larger scale. It assists in the development, prioritization, and execution of an overall watershed management program. The increased use of groundwater is showing negative impact on the availability of groundwater...
Renewable energy integration to achieve the challenges of energy independence and sustainable development is one the most important priorities of the European Union (EU). Biomass is expected to make an important contribution to the energy and environmental objectives. The 20% of energy consumed in the EU countries should be based on renewable energy sources with about two-thirds from biomass by 2020...
The green space system was an important part of the urban ecosystem. The functions of the green space system were mainly for protection, productivity, and recreation. Green space system planning and construction provides an important way for sustainable urban construction in China. Firstly, the green space system was an ecological conservation corridor. Furthermore, combining ecological technology,...
Sustainability of Georgetown as world heritage site is a primary objective and urgent problem to be address by The State Government in Penang. The aims are to develop Web GIS solution and 3D visualization for sustainability of Georgetown as World Heritage Site. The objective of this research is to study concept and principles sustainable development and to construct the Web GIS solution with 3D visualization...
Environment planning development encompasses applied, natural, social and liberal sciences. GIS take advantage of integration mechanism to execute the plan of this magnitude of complexity requires more emphasis on the initial study by people from all involved disciplines. GIS will help ensure engineering quality by integrating the knowledge from these domains and other disciplines. Management can...
Based on the renewable sources energy, this paper proposes a modified tourism ecological footprint (TEF) model by using energy theory and method to assess the environmental capacity of regional tourism in certain area, which is named as tourism energy ecological footprint (TEEF) model. Then it takes Beijing suburbs as an example and adopts the evaluation method and indexes system of the TEEF model...
In general, mountain over 3500m is called High Mountain and more than 5000m is called extra-high mountain from geomorphology view. High Mountain and extra-high mountain have much more advantages than those of low mountain and middle mountain corresponding the world tourism trend of novelty and knowledge, which have strong natural attraction and international competitiveness. Because of the limit of...
Sustainable eco-community is one of the current global hotspots, but what eco-community is and how to build it, are still under research. Our research constructed a set of practicable and normative indicators, and applied of principle component analysis method to study the social and environmental indicators which affects the ecological community of Taipei. Mainly it uses the indicators that can be...
The study on groundwater vulnerability is an effective technical measure for rational development and protection of groundwater resource. In the paper, according to the hydrogeology conditions of the Lincang Basin in Yunnan Province, USEPA's DRASTIC method was applied to evaluate the groundwater vulnerability of this area with the consideration of depth to the water table, Net recharge, aquifer material,...
It is an important and basic work for the sustainable development research on cities to learn the relations between economic development and the variation of urban construction land, and for the modeling and prediction as well. This paper makes a case study in Hangzhou, compares the process of urban expansion in the central, near-central and suburban areas, acquiring the information of construction...
A sustainable management for the mangroves has not only provided consistent yield of renewable forest wood products such as timbers that are utilized for firewood, poles for foundation, construction materials, fishing gear and even tannin extraction, but also fishery resources and conductive environment for practice of non-destructive aquaculture activities. Mangrove play an important role in providing...
This research is innovative in such aspects as research content, method and so on. Authors took Northeast China as study area, with the help from "3S" technology and based on spatial and temporal land resource data, agricultural statistics data and considering the natural and socio-economic factors. And, this paper analyzed the impact of cultivated land change on the grain production capacity...
This paper developed land sustainable use administration information system-ecological footprint analysis and forecast system, which was based on GIS, integrated by Map basic and VB. First, the thesis put forward a series of conception and principle on ecological footprint analysis, then introduced total design route, system structure and function, finally, the paper concluded the merit and limitation...
Wuhan city is the core city of Wuhan city circle and the major city of the Yangtze River, and the change of water have attracted great attention. Using the techniques of "3S" and landscape ecology, based on 1991 and 2009 Landast TM remote sensing image, integrating with the change of water modeling, transform matrix, the shift of gravity centers and landscape pattern analysis software Fragstats3...
According to basic problems with the construction of environmental resource supported conditions of social-economic sustainable development in the source area of water of a karst plateau, the land use/land cover pattern of Bajiang Basin has been researched. Using RS & GIS technology as a basic platform, we, analyzed the changes in areas of land-use and the features of spatial variation with access...
Combining the character of landscape and the theory of Markov chain, this paper inferred the forecast model of fuzzy weight Markov chain. The new model which was called FWMC to predict the future value of cultivated land demand in land use planning. Factors to consider in driving conditions was used in this model, the real response to landscape pattern change position using a weighted Markov transfer...
Land resources are the foundation of existence and development of human being, its an important part of country resources. Urbanization and industrialization is very fast in Dalian City.In the process, too much agricultural land was transformed into construction land,which aggravated the contradiction between people and land.So how to achieve sustainable development and use of land resource, keep...
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