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Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines (LM-SWTs) are growing in recognition as a means for rural electrification, and for meeting sustainability and poverty reduction targets set by the UN. This assessment is intended to inform governments and supranational entities where best to invest in order to meet these UN targets and improve the quality of life for millions of people in rural areas. This...
Based on the big data analysis, this paper analyzes the relationship between rural financial development and urban-rural income disparity in Heilongjiang province. The results show that there exists a long-term equilibrium relationship between the two. The expansion of rural financial development will aggravate the income gap between urban and rural areas, and the improvement of rural financial efficiency...
In Malaysia, although the government has promoted technology inclusion of rural area, the consideration of readiness for technology is being neglected. Research effort on technology readiness in Malaysian rural area is low. This research argues that low technology readiness may worsen the disparity of e-inclusion in Malaysia. Hence, this research is performed to provide evidence of the extreme importance...
Rural electrification, especially in the developing countries, is one of the major applications of solar PV based energy systems. The choice of an appropriate PV module and battery technology is very crucial for the success of a product or business model. In the context of PV for off grid rural applications, the choice of technology is not only determined by technological parameters, but also by various...
This article explores the meaning of GNH brought up, analyzes the factors effecting GNH of farmer and constructs the Indexes of Farmers in new countryside set up, furthermore, scales it in the sample of survey data of two contrysides in WuGong county of Shaanxi province, with the empirical analyses on the base of comprehensive fuzzy evaluation, and catches up with some suggestions in leving up the...
Land use and landscape pattern changes were analyzed in Nanjing during 1988-2007, based on RS, GIS and Fragstats software. This city was divided into six regions to explore the detailed variations of land use and landscape pattern in the regions. Landscape pattern were investigated at both landscape level and at class level, by way of various landscape metrics. The results revealed that urban area...
In order to promote the development of agricultural modernization, the evaluation of the rural informatization is very significant. By the study of the domestic rural informatization evaluation methods, a new evaluating index system, including 18 indicators, is constructed for Jiangsu province. On the basis of SOM neural network model, which is able to simulate the self-organizing learning without...
This paper uses 2001 census data from India to identify and measure the spatial structure and intensity of urban deprivation in Delhi. We analyze fourteen indicators from the census using a factor analysis to identify the specific type of deprivation and consequently multiple deprivations by adding it. The study identifies three main types of deprivation - housing, economic and urban amenities and...
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