Passive Environmental Control at Neighborhood and Block Scales for Conservation of Historic Settlements: The Case Study of Huatzai Village in Wang-An, Taiwan

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

 

The recent climatic changes have globally changed the world's biodiversity and pose a severe threat to the earth's ecosystem and living places. The manuscript entitle "Passive Environmental Control at Micro Scale for Conservation of Historic 1 Settlements: The Case of Huatzai Village in Wang-an, Taiwan" address a well-known and vital issue of recent world problem. The idea and model used may attract broader readers, however, were not adequately addressed by the authors. The manuscript sections are very poorly and carelessly arranged. The manuscript lacks proper structure and understanding of the research area and is formatted sloppily without any focus on the scientific design of articles and journal format.

Some suggestions for the authors is as follow

Abstract

The abstract length is sufficient but it’s a bit confused to take conclusions. Therefore, the abstract needs thorough revisions for clear understanding of the readers.

- Line 12. CFD-based simulations.. Please explain abbreviations when firsts use

-Line 10. Please rephrase

-Line 17.  Key words are very long and many unnecessary words are added

 Introduction

The introduction is very poor; it lacks proper literature and need of the research work. The introduction also lack, proper hypothesis and objectives of the study

-Line 21, replaced “at the” by in …

-Line 21. ACE???

-Line 22-25, Very confusing and incomplete sentence can be simplified as

However, interdisciplinary and intergovernmental research has been exploring the threat of climate change to cultural heritage sites.

-Line 26-32, Many twisted sentence, hard to follow it.. Please rephrase

-Line 33-42, Apology clear cut structure is missing

-Figure 1 added without any proper need or understanding

Material and method

-The methodology completely lack continuation with introduction section.

-Figure 2 like explain methodology in a class room lecture. Please explain each step in details

Literature review

Very poorly arranged and written

-Strange to see after methodology

-I feel it’s more a part of introduction and material method than literature and can be added in these sections in appropriate places

Results and discussion

Same issue as that with other sections

-4.1 abbreviations in the heading

-Line 177-191, like a part of methodology

-Line 200, Section 3.4 is literature review or results

-208-210, part of introduction

-section 3.5 please arranges each portion in proper way and in relevant places

-Figure 6, seems like a lecture figure without any proper link of the authors research data

-Some parts of section 4.4 and 4.5 whole section are the results, but these need to be properly placed in the manuscript.

-Table 2 need proper arrangement and explanation

Conclusion

Conclusion is too general, although a bit understandable compared to other section. However, it’s not based on the results of the study conducted

Author Response

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Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear authors,

I am glad that I had the opportunity to read your manuscript. The research captures very topical issues, it is well structured.

As a suggestion, I would like you to write more clearly what the purpose of this study is from the abstract.

I also noticed that the writing part of the bibliography does not respect the format of the magazine.

Sincerely,

Author Response

Thanks for your comments. The article has been re-structured and re-written to make our statement clearer. The bibliography format has also rewritten to fit the requirement.  Please refer to the revised manuscript.

Reviewer 3 Report

Passive Environmental Control at Micro Scale for Conservation of Historic 2 Settlements: The Case of Huatzai Village in Wang-an, Taiwan

The article seems well defined with emphasis on wind impact on Huatzai settlement to develop neighbourhood-scale and block-scale climate adaptation strategies.  The study is well defined and can be better with few revisions as follows:

 

Comments

1.      Please define every abbreviations at first mention

2.      Sentences are too long. Overall the paper is little confusing please try to improve more by stating simple, clear and short sentences.

3.      Line 23-25; 34-38; 51-53 in introduction should be rewritten.

4.      Line 85 give references

5.      Line 238-248, the paragraph defines only strategy A. Strategy B is not mentioned clearly please define clearly

6.      If possible, please add the reason or criteria for selection of Huatzai village for the study in subsection 3 or introduction.

7.      Please justify the application of computational fluid dynamics tools and mention the other alternate tools applicable for the study in subsection 2.

 

 

 

Author Response

Thanks for your comments. The article has been re-structured and re-written to make our statement clearer. The bibliography format has also rewritten to fit the requirement.  Please refer to the revised manuscript. The responses for each comment are as follows:

1. Please define every abbreviations at first mention

Have defined every abbreviation at first mention.

2. Sentences are too long. Overall the paper is little confusing please try to improve more by stating simple, clear and short sentences.

Have rewritten the article and make all sentence shorter and clearer.

3. Line 23-25; 34-38; 51-53 in introduction should be rewritten.

Have rewritten the introduction section.

4. Line 85 give references

The references have been added. (Line 100 in the revised manuscript)

5. Line 238-248, the paragraph defines only strategy A. Strategy B is not mentioned clearly please define clearly

The definition has been added. (section 3.3.2 in the revised manuscript)

6. If possible, please add the reason or criteria for selection of Huatzai village for the study in subsection 3 or introduction.

Have added the explanation for the selection. (line 68-73 in the revised manuscript)

7. Please justify the application of computational fluid dynamics tools and mention the other alternate tools applicable for the study in subsection 2.

Have justified the CFD tool is applicable for the study. (Line74-81 in the revised manuscript)

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Some suggestions for the authors is as follow

The authors has sufficiently revised the manuscript and arranged the materials properly. Still, i have some question which will improve the manuscript.

Abstract: If proper conclusion in the abstract is added

Introduction: The materials of the introduction are arranged properly, but still it lack gaps in the research and proper objectives. The last paragraph tried to focus on objective, but it’s in very limited sentence.

Methodology

Very much better and improved, some specific comments are

Line 72. [8-13]..Same for line 77, 87 and 113

Results and discussion

Line 131-151. Seems parts of material and methods (Study areas), better to place their appropriately

References need to be properly formatted

 

 

 

Author Response

The authors has sufficiently revised the manuscript and arranged the materials properly. Still, i have some question which will improve the manuscript.

Thanks again for your review. We are appreciate your constructive comments.

Abstract: If proper conclusion in the abstract is added

The abstract has been rewritten and more research results have been added in as well.

Introduction: The materials of the introduction are arranged properly, but still it lack gaps in the research and proper objectives. The last paragraph tried to focus on objective, but it’s in very limited sentence.

The last paragraph of introduction has been restructured. A figure is added to show the scope of the study. ( Figure 2 in the revised manuscript)

Methodology

Very much better and improved, some specific comments are

Line 72. [8-13]..Same for line 77, 87 and 113

Have revised these parts.( Line 80, 85, 93, 107 in the revised manuscript)

Results and discussion

Line 131-151. Seems parts of material and methods (Study areas), better to place their appropriately

Have moved this part to methodology  ( section 2.2  (Line 116-138) in the revised manuscript)

References need to be properly formatted
Have revised the format of reference list to meet journal's requirement.