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The aim of this study is to examine the influence of environmental satisfaction, job satisfaction, and Big Five personality traits on subjective well-being. Data were collected from white-collar workers across four Chinese cities in 2009. All the research variables were measured with multi-item instruments with good psychometric properties. The research found that environmental satisfaction, job satisfaction,...
Since the 1980s, Chinese water environment has got worse and worse, and water pollution extended from local pollution to total watershed pollution. From the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the government recognized the seriousness of water pollution, and put the core of the prevention and cure of water pollution in Three Rivers and Three Lakes, e.i. Huaihe River, Haihe River, Liaohe River, Taihu Lake, Chaohu...
Rural Urbanization is a process of the transfer of the rural population to cities and towns and the change of the rural economy into urban economy. Urbanization is a major issue for the social and economic development of China in the new era. This paper mainly describes the development history, current situation and development models of rural urbanization in China, focus on analyzing the problems...
In 21st century, information has become an important resource of social and economic development. Though information resources being one kind of objective reality, but its quality, the value, the efficacy, depends on developing degree. So information competency is recognized as the critical capacity for the twenty-first century. Information competency is defined as the ability to know when there is...
The water environment vicissitude of Yangtze River Basin was induced by the climate vicissitude especially during the cold period. Warm humid water environment in Yangtze River advanced the development of an economic society. The southward people's migration led to the development of this area, turning it into a cultural and economic centre after Tang-Song dynasty. The development of human society...
With the process of economic globalization and development of information technology, the construction of a modern three-dimensional network of logistics has become an important foundation and means in logistics industry, it is also one of the important symbols of social development level and economic strength. In this paper, at the basis of the connotation and main elements about three-dimensional...
This paper analyzed the characteristics and major human driving forces of cultivated land change in Fuzhou, China, using remote sensing (RS) images, geographic information system (GIS) spatial analysis, and socio-economic data. Based on the RS images and GIS spatial analysis, a change matrix was constructed to detect land-use change from 1989 to 2005. The result indicated that paddy fields and dry...
Regional land use change has been and will continue to be one of the hugest human impacts on the environment. Based on eight remotely sensed images of Guiyang city from 1973 to 2001, this paper studies the effect of urban sprawl on the land use and land cover of Guiyang in recent three decades. The process and characteristics of urban expansion and the surrounding land use change were analyzed. Besides,...
The Knowledge-intensive Business Services (KIBS) play an important strategic role in the development of national economy. However, China's KIBS are in an early stage of development, to the worst, in the situation of a heavy brain drain which has become a serious business crisis to threat their healthy and rapid development. Therefore, the brain drain crisis of the KIBS should be attached great importance...
Since the reform and opening up policy was launched in China in 1978, the society and economy of the southeastern coastal area of China (SCAC) has experienced rapid growth, and great changes have taken place in land-use structure. This paper analyzes the characteristics and major socio-economic driving forces of land-use change in Fuzhou, a typical city in SCAC, using remote sensing (RS) maps, geographic...
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