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28 August 2023

Food security has received extensive academic attention in recent years. However, research results analyzing cultivated land pressure from the perspective of urbanization are relatively few. This study used Jiangsu Province as the study area and anal...

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13 Citations
4,390 Views
17 Pages

The Effects of Dietary Pattern on Metabolic Syndrome in Jiangsu Province of China: Based on a Nutrition and Diet Investigation Project in Jiangsu Province

  • Yuanyuan Wang,
  • Yue Dai,
  • Ting Tian,
  • Jingxian Zhang,
  • Wei Xie,
  • Da Pan,
  • Dengfeng Xu,
  • Yifei Lu,
  • Shaokang Wang and
  • Guiju Sun

13 December 2021

Metabolic syndrome, a complex group of metabolic disorders of energy use and storage, is considered as an important determinant risk factor for many cardiovascular diseases. This study aimed to examine the association between metabolic syndrome (MetS...

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39 Citations
5,309 Views
14 Pages

12 June 2017

The carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions caused by the global construction industry account for 36% of the world’s total carbon emissions, and 50% of China’s total carbon emissions. The carbon emissions from Jiangsu Province’s construction industry account...

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42 Citations
7,756 Views
24 Pages

Identification of NO2 and SO2 Pollution Hotspots and Sources in Jiangsu Province of China

  • Yu Wang,
  • Md. Arfan Ali,
  • Muhammad Bilal,
  • Zhongfeng Qiu,
  • Alaa Mhawish,
  • Mansour Almazroui,
  • Shamsuddin Shahid,
  • M. Nazrul Islam,
  • Yuanzhi Zhang and
  • Md. Nazmul Haque

18 September 2021

Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) are important atmospheric trace gases for determining air quality, human health, climate change, and ecological conditions both regionally and globally. In this study, the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (O...

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13 Citations
4,899 Views
22 Pages

Impact of Energy Consumption on Air Quality in Jiangsu Province of China

  • Lingyun He,
  • Zhangqi Zhong,
  • Fang Yin and
  • Deqing Wang

2 January 2018

Air quality has become an important sustainability concern for China’s highly developed economic regions. Taking Jiangsu Province as a case, this study investigates the effect of energy consumption on air quality when both considering and not conside...

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14 Citations
8,254 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2014

Human settlement expansion has very important effects on regional population migration, economic balance and ecosystem services. Understanding the evolution of settlement expansion and regional differences is significant for regional sustainability....

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5 Citations
3,362 Views
19 Pages

29 February 2024

As urbanization has accelerated, China has started to build smart cities, which have formed smart-city clusters. It is critical to coordinate development within smart-city clusters to enhance the efficiency of city-cluster construction. From the pers...

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21 Citations
3,254 Views
21 Pages

Scientific measurement and analysis of the spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of agricultural carbon emissions (ACEs) and the influencing factors are important prerequisites for the formulation of reasonable ACEs reduction policies. Co...

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10 Citations
2,255 Views
20 Pages

7 February 2024

Urbanization has a significant negative impact on both the structure and function of ecosystems, as it is a major part of the human-caused transformation of natural landscapes. Concurrently, the attenuation of ecosystem service values (ESVs) poses cr...

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12 Citations
7,096 Views
18 Pages

Impact of Manufacturing Transfer on SO2 Emissions in Jiangsu Province, China

  • Ying Peng,
  • Jian Cui,
  • Youhui Cao,
  • Ying Du,
  • Andrew Chan,
  • Fumo Yang and
  • Hao Yang

The impact of manufacturing transfer in Jiangsu province, China, on the spatial-temporal variations of SO2 emissions is investigated using estimated sector-specific SO2 emissions, and emissions in the different transfer-in and transfer-out regions we...

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1 Citations
1,731 Views
28 Pages

23 December 2024

In recent years, Jiangsu Province has increasingly prioritized the coordinated regional development of innovation. Unicorn and gazelle companies, characterized by technological or business model innovation, serve as significant indicators of regional...

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3 Citations
1,617 Views
16 Pages

Analysis of the Decoupling State and Driving Effects of Economic Development and Production Water Use in Jiangsu Province, China

  • Tianzi Zhang,
  • Xiaojun Wang,
  • Guangping Qi,
  • Shamsuddin Shahid,
  • Yanxia Kang,
  • Hao Wu and
  • Xiangning Zhang

28 June 2023

Identifying the evolutionary patterns and drivers of regional water use is a prerequisite for achieving the strictest water resource management system. This study used the Tapio-LMDI model to analyze the decoupling state and driving factors between e...

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1,673 Views
19 Pages

30 October 2024

Increased external uncertainties and growing tensions within the urban economic system pose new challenges to the urban economy. How to improve the quality of urban economic development and enhance the resilience of urban economies has become a new g...

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482 Views
28 Pages

29 November 2025

Exploring the spatiotemporal patterns of cultivated land conversion to non-agricultural uses and their evolutionary driving mechanisms is of significant importance for regional cultivated land protection and food security. This study utilizes time-se...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,613 Views
18 Pages

26 December 2023

This study used the “Daily meteorological dataset of basic meteorological elements of China National Surface Weather Station (V3.0)” and applied the absolute threshold method and standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index to iden...

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1 Citations
1,735 Views
26 Pages

11 April 2025

China’s industrialization and urbanization processes have recently accelerated, leading to the rapid expansion of urban built-up areas. Fossil fuels, such as natural gas, oil, and coal, are consumed in large quantities, resulting in the accumul...

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5 Citations
3,786 Views
14 Pages

4 March 2019

Economic polarization is a special manifestation of economic disparity which intensifies the gap between the rich and the poor in a region and brings about a series of social problems. Though more and more scholars are studying the phenomenon of econ...

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920 Views
23 Pages

Optimization Simulation of Land Use in Jiangsu Province Under Multiple Scenarios Based on the PLUS-InVEST Model

  • Zhuang Tian,
  • Ge Shi,
  • Jiahang Liu,
  • Yutong Wang,
  • Chuang Chen,
  • Difan Yu and
  • Yunpeng Zhang

6 June 2025

With the severe challenges resulting from global climate change, the role of land use/land cover (LU/LC) optimization in mitigating carbon emissions and promoting carbon cycle balance has gained increasing attention. This study takes Jiangsu Province...

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1 Citations
1,168 Views
18 Pages

14 January 2025

Jiangsu province’s forestry industry offers valuable insights for resource-poor regions in China. This study aims to determine the competitiveness of different forestry sectors in Jiangsu province and identify the industrial structural changes...

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104 Citations
12,008 Views
18 Pages

Spatial Pattern of Land Use Change and Its Driving Force in Jiangsu Province

  • Xindong Du,
  • Xiaobin Jin,
  • Xilian Yang,
  • Xuhong Yang and
  • Yinkang Zhou

Scientific interpretation of the mechanism of land use change is important for government planning and management activities. This study analyzes the land use change in Jiangsu Province using three land use maps of 2000, 2005 and 2008. The study resu...

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44 Citations
6,175 Views
20 Pages

Changes in Reference Evapotranspiration and Its Contributing Factors in Jiangsu, a Major Economic and Agricultural Province of Eastern China

  • Ronghao Chu,
  • Meng Li,
  • Shuanghe Shen,
  • Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam,
  • Wen Cao,
  • Sulin Tao and
  • Ping Gao

2 July 2017

Reference evapotranspiration (ETref) is a key parameter of hydro-meteorological studies as well as water resource planning. In this study, we adopted the Penman–Monteith FAO 56 model to estimate ETref and through the differential equation and detrend...

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1 Citations
1,781 Views
21 Pages

17 February 2024

Tourist resorts stand out as a focal point in the academic discourse on tourism, garnering significant attention within the tourism academic community. Assessing the efficiency of these resorts serves as a crucial tool for steering their management s...

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26 Citations
4,768 Views
21 Pages

7 January 2021

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) mapping of localized ground surface deformation has become an important tool to manage subsidence-related geohazards. However, monitoring land surface deformation using InSAR at high spatial resolution...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,080 Views
21 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Multi-Scenario Simulation of Non-Grain Production on Cultivated Land in Jiangsu Province, China

  • Chengge Jiang,
  • Lingzhi Wang,
  • Wenhua Guo,
  • Huiling Chen,
  • Anqi Liang,
  • Mingying Sun,
  • Xinyao Li and
  • Hichem Omrani

13 May 2024

Cultivated land plays a crucial role as the basis of grain production, and it is essential to effectively manage the unregulated expansion of non-grain production (NGP) on cultivated land in order to safeguard food security. The study of NGP has garn...

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1 Citations
762 Views
17 Pages

Model Construction and Scenario Analysis for Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Energy Consumption in Jiangsu Province: Based on the STIRPAT Extended Model

  • Ying Liu,
  • Lvhan Yang,
  • Meng Wu,
  • Jinxian He,
  • Wenqiang Wang,
  • Yunpeng Li,
  • Renjiang Huang,
  • Dongfang Liu and
  • Heyao Tan

9 October 2025

Against the backdrop of China’s “dual carbon” strategy (carbon peaking and carbon neutrality), provincial-level carbon emission research is crucial for the implementation of related policies. However, existing studies insufficiently...

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25 Citations
4,489 Views
15 Pages

The water quality target management of the control unit is a convenient and direct technology for water environment management and the development direction of water environment management in China, involving control unit division and water environme...

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1 Citations
2,069 Views
16 Pages

13 November 2024

With global environmental changes, lung cancer has become one of the most common types of cancer worldwide, posing a significant public health challenge. Jiangsu Province, located in the eastern part of China, is an economically and socially develope...

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3 Citations
2,501 Views
25 Pages

22 November 2024

Studies on urban shrinkage in eastern China lack relevant contributions. This study investigates population dynamics in Jiangsu Province, focusing on county-level cities to understand the factors influencing urban population size. It developed a mult...

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10 Citations
4,625 Views
16 Pages

5 October 2018

China’s current Air Quality Index (AQI) system only considers one air pollutant which has the highest concentration value. In order to comprehensively evaluate the urban air quality of Jiangsu Province, this paper has studied the air quality of...

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3 Citations
1,248 Views
26 Pages

12 August 2025

Ecosystem services (ES) serve as a critical link between ecosystems and the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Exploring the relationship between ES and SDGs is of great significance for promoting regional sustainable development. This study propo...

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7 Citations
2,602 Views
16 Pages

Study on the Erosion and Deposition Changes of Tidal Flat in Jiangsu Province Using ICESat-2 and Sentinel-2 Data

  • Kaizheng Wang,
  • Huan Li,
  • Nan Zhang,
  • Jiabao Zhang,
  • Xiaoyan Zhang and
  • Zheng Gong

19 July 2023

The ecological dynamics of tidal flats are subject to continuous transformations attributed to the interplay of the tidal erosion and sedimentation processes. Accordingly, the realization of a dynamic monitoring system for tidal flats holds significa...

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9 Citations
2,390 Views
20 Pages

21 November 2023

This study investigated the temporal and spatial variations of precipitation duration and intensity in Jiangsu Province from 1960 to 2020 using the IDW spatial interpolation method and Kendall’s tau trend test, based on daily precipitation data...

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1 Citations
638 Views
18 Pages

11 October 2025

Jiangsu Province is an important economic province on the eastern coast of China, revealing the spatial–temporal characteristics, dynamic degree, and transition direction of land use/cover change, and its main driving factors are significant fo...

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12 Citations
1,837 Views
17 Pages

8 July 2023

Scientific estimations and the dynamic monitoring of the development trend of carbon emissions from energy consumption with a long time series can provide the scientific basis for formulating and implementing regional carbon-reduction strategies. Bas...

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38 Citations
4,266 Views
19 Pages

Land use and cover change (LUCC) is one of the most significant parts of global environmental changes, which reflects the interaction between human society and natural resources. In China, the urbanization process is experiencing a rapid sprawl since...

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23 Citations
4,325 Views
24 Pages

19 September 2022

Based on the concept of high-quality development, this paper constructs an urban ecological welfare evaluation framework, measures the urban ecological welfare performance in Jiangsu Province from 2005 to 2019 using a stochastic frontier production f...

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22 Citations
6,770 Views
20 Pages

9 July 2018

Due to rapid changes in urban and rural economic development, the Chinese landscape has been gradually transforming toward urbanization. Most Chinese rural villages face declining problems such as population loss, land use transformation, fragmentati...

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967 Views
23 Pages

27 August 2025

Carbon stock plays a crucial role in regulating atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and represents a vital ecological function for mitigating climate change and supporting long-term environmental sustainability. Jiangsu Province, a typical regi...

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5 Citations
1,858 Views
18 Pages

16 August 2024

Against the backdrop of the green transformation of the national economy, this paper takes Jiangsu Province as a case study to explore spatiotemporal characteristics of cultivated land utilization green transformation (CLUGT) and its impact on agricu...

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3 Citations
1,351 Views
14 Pages

The electrification of integrated stereoscopic transportation is a critical step toward achieving sustainable urban mobility and addressing the environmental challenges posed by traditional transportation modes. This study focuses on the case of Jian...

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12 Citations
2,719 Views
16 Pages

The Spatio-Temporal Pattern and Transition Mode of Recessive Cultivated Land Use Morphology in the Huaibei Region of the Jiangsu Province

  • Xinyao Li,
  • Lingzhi Wang,
  • Bryan Pijanowski,
  • Lingpeng Pan,
  • Hichem Omrani,
  • Anqi Liang and
  • Yi Qu

4 November 2022

Examining land use transition is a new way of building on the comprehensive research on Land Use/Cover Change (LUCC). Research on transition law and characteristics is important for improving the theory of land use transition and the practice of land...

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11 Citations
6,112 Views
16 Pages

19 May 2019

This study elucidates the current state of hazardous waste management in industrial parks with a particular focus on Jiangsu Province. The development of the Internet of Things and big data technology has encouraged the application of intelligent tec...

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52 Citations
6,589 Views
16 Pages

Contamination and Risk Assessment of Estrogens in Livestock Manure: A Case Study in Jiangsu Province, China

  • Pengcheng Xu,
  • Xian Zhou,
  • Defu Xu,
  • Yanbing Xiang,
  • Wanting Ling and
  • Mindong Chen

This study investigated the occurrence and contamination risk of estrogens in livestock manure in Jiangsu Province, China. Four estrogens—estriol (E3), 17β-estradiol (17β-E2), bisphenol A (BPA), and 17α-ethinyloestradiol (EE2)—were detected in livest...

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3 Citations
1,903 Views
26 Pages

A Comparative Study of Downscaling Methods for Groundwater Based on GRACE Data Using RFR and GWR Models in Jiangsu Province, China

  • Rihui Yang,
  • Yuqing Zhong,
  • Xiaoxiang Zhang,
  • Aizemaitijiang Maimaitituersun and
  • Xiaohan Ju

31 January 2025

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) introduces a new approach to accurately monitor, in real time, regional groundwater resources, which compensates for the limitations of traditional hydrological observations in terms of spatiotempor...

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309 Views
20 Pages

18 December 2025

The shipping service industry plays a pivotal role in enhancing port competitiveness and fostering urban economic growth, yet limited studies systematically integrate its spatial temporal dynamics with the processes driving port–city synergy. T...

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25 Citations
6,544 Views
16 Pages

29 August 2017

On the basis of the “space of flows” theory, city networks emphasizing factor connectivity and spatial connection have become a core perspective for regional spatial relationships. They provide a context for discussing the spatial structures of city...

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19 Citations
3,339 Views
17 Pages

12 November 2020

With the rapid process of urbanization, anthropogenic heat generated by human activities has become an important factor that drives the changes in urban climate and regional environmental quality. The nighttime light (NTL) data can aptly reflect the...

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15 January 2026

The identification of supplementary cultivated land as a reserve resource is of great significance for ensuring implementation of the new mechanism of land occupation and compensation balance in China. Using Jiangsu Province as a case study, here, we...

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12 Citations
3,786 Views
13 Pages

Disaster insurance is an important tool for achieving sustainable development in modern agriculture. However, in China, the design of such insurance indexes is far from sufficient. In this paper, the single-season rice in Jiangsu Province of China is...

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9 Citations
7,297 Views
20 Pages

28 August 2018

Public perception and attitudes towards public affairs in the USA since the 1960s become a societal issue of growing importance in the field of planning. Good land-use planning should deliver a bright future vision in a way that unites and inspires g...

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