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Sustainable development is among the greatest challenges of this century. Sustainability and development are apparently opposite. The traditional approaches try to manage the planet protection without taking the best from technology while eco-innovation focus mainly on smart transportation, smart use of energy and water and waste recycling. Many new concepts such as Smart, Intelligent, Green or Wise...
Urban logistics is the important foundation of economic, social and environmental coordinated development. Correct evaluation of a urban logistics operation, and establishment of corresponding macroeconomic regulation and management policies is very important to effectively promote the healthy development of urban logistics to ensure the city's economic, social and environmental sustainable development...
Implementing renewable energy resources to enable sustainable development of cities, requires a more flexible and re-silient energy system than currently present. Integrating multiple energy carriers and services allow more efficient implementation of these renewables. Although most research efforts so far have focused on the electricity grid, multi-energy systems attract ever more attention. Over...
Xi'an is in a critical period of urbanization. Thequantitative assessment of renovation sustainability of """"cityvillage"""" provides a theoretical basis for the sustainabledevelopment monitoring by the city government and theurban development planning. According to the connotationof sustainable land use and combining the characteristics ofurbanization in Xi'an,...
To evaluate the development of 9 provinces (or cities) of China, we analyze the relative advantage of different provinces ities) from four aspects: economy, society, sustainable development and politics and culture. Considering the difference of resource of rent provinces (or cities), we provide a new evaluation model. Specifically, first, the provinces (or cities) are divided into three regions,...
Megacities in India are historically the major economic growth centers and Kolkata is the oldest and the most densely populated mega city. An assessment of sustainable development challenges and possible green growth strategies give rise to some interesting insights that are generalisable as well. Sustainable development priority assessment for Kolkata district brings forth the issues which go beyond...
Pakistan is facing severe energy crisis even having a great potential of renewable energy resourcesespecially solar energy. Pakistan has~2.9 million MW potential of electricity generation using solar energy (PV) which is hardly exploited. Current articleis focused to analyze the implementation of solar photovoltaic for the domestic sector of Pakistan where blackouts of 6 to 7 hours are common. Current...
Mega cities around the world are highly concerned about the impacts of urban transportation. It is very frequently to find multiple actors from both private and public sectors involved in the design and operation of urban passenger transportation systems to make decisions that seek at optimising their own particular objectives. Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques actually aid this process...
Based on analyzing the development status of the real estate market in Harbin, this paper selects 18 indicators to construct the real estate investment environment evaluation index system from economic development, natural environment, infrastructure status and other aspects, and then the paper uses factor analysis method to conduct an evaluation for Harbin real estate investment environment compared...
Improving the efficacy of space utilization has been listed as the primary task of land space development in the report to the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. But with the booming development of the tourism industry, tourism land has shown the trend of rapid expansion. Therefore, the efficacious utility of the land for scenic area is The inevitable tendency of tourism...
International policies to reduce global warming impact directly on territorial strategies concerning decision making on urban development projects. It is thus necessary for local authorities to adopt the best practices, and to take informed decisions in order to move towards more sustainable urban development projects. But today the challenge lies in the involvement of all the stakeholders in the...
The fast motion of railroad trains in China which has brought a positive influence to Chinese economics also facilitate economy of the world to a new stage. However, the higher velocity of the trains doesn't mean that the transportation is better. The Chinese railroad is still groping and developing and the experience of success or failure is worthy of learning for us. In this paper, we mainly make...
In the process of industrialization and rapid urbanization, with the deterioration of ecological environment and the advocating of urban sustainable development concept, urban agriculture has developed gradually. There is a complex and close connection between urban agriculture and urban sustainable development; this paper discusses the interacting mechanism between urban agriculture and the urban...
More often than not, systems tend to be termed intelligent when their own structures, processes and rule systems possess the capability to transform into intelligent system components. Through this paper, we make a sincere effort to apply the concept of intelligent governance to large-scale urban systems, primarily cities (Hoboken, New Jersey), by prioritizing the key subsystems that can prove to...
Sustainable development is an undertaking of all human beings. The realization of sustainable development is of paramount impendency and importance for China. The quality deterioration in the ecological environment as well as the desperate lack of resources calls for the urgent realization of sustainable development. Administrative management system is not only an important guarantee for the implementation...
To study the development state of the Xiantao city, in the view of sustainable coordination development an evaluation index system about city's development is established which includes three subsystems (economic subsystem, social subsystem and life sub system). Then based on entropy weight method, this paper gives the comprehensive evaluation method about city's sustainable development and coordination...
Tourism is often considered to stimulate economic development, attract foreign investment, generate economic income, increase employment opportunities and improve government revenue smokeless industry. However, in the process of creating economic income and promoting social progress, tourism may also change even deteriorate tourist city inherent economic, natural environment and social culture state...
Based on the expert advice and field research,this article tries to construct the index system of the sustainable development of tourism eco-compensation and the evaluation model with the utilization of AHP. In the meantime,it conducts the fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation with the case study of Kanas scenic spot.
Resource-based cities occupy a prominent position in the process of industrialization and urbanization in China. After the long-term development, most resource-based cities are faced with the situation that their resources are decreasing and exhausted. In the period of post-resource economy, the value of natural resources must be compensated reasonably to achieve sustainable development. This paper...
Development strategies in the central China has brought unprecedented opportunities and challenges for Wuhan city circle of development. In order to investigate the sustainable development modal of Wuhan “1+8” city cluster area, this paper analyzes the development of Wuhan “1+8” city cluster area by using three theoretic views (i.e. system view, non-additive law, and utility maximization law) based...
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