The determination of the sustainable development of a region requires estimating its carrying capacity in terms of resources and environment. It is essential to investigate the carrying capacity of Kunming City to comprehend its rapid development and...
Vegetation is a fundamental component of ecosystems and plays a vital role in maintaining ecological processes. It contributes to soil conservation, climate regulation, and landscape quality. Kunming, widely known as the “Spring City,” re...
Forest growing stock volume (GSV) is a fundamental indicator for assessing the status of forest resources. It reflects forest carbon storage levels and serves as a key metric for evaluating the carbon sequestration capacity of forest ecosystems, ther...
Kunming city is located in the middle of Yunnan Province. Due to large-scale groundwater exploitation and urban development in recent years, this area has been affected by surface subsidence. In this paper, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (I...
The integration of intelligent decision-making algorithms with urban cultural expression is becoming a hot topic in both academic and practical fields for exploring urban street landscapes. Exploring the application strategies of intelligent decision...
As a pivotal industrial hub in southwestern China, Kunming City has accumulated abundant industrial heritage resources. Investigating the spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of industrial heritage across different districts i...
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events and rapid urbanization has exacerbated pluvial flood risks, underscoring the urgent need to strengthen the assessment of pluvial flood resilience in China’s southwestern mountainous regions. Ku...
In recent years, the frequency and intensity of global extreme weather events have gradually increased, leading to significant changes in urban rainfall patterns. The uneven distribution of rainfall has caused varying degrees of water security issues...
In the face of increasingly complex urban challenges, a critical question arises: can urban ecosystems maintain resilience, vitality, and sustainability when confronted with external threats and pressures? Taking Kunming—a plateau-mountainous c...
As a critical resource in emergency response and a pivotal element in disaster prevention and risk reduction, shelters play a central role in the holistic continuum of rescue and relief efforts. However, existing research often overlooks the comprehe...
20 October 2021
To explore the mass concentration levels and health risks of heavy metals in the air in dense traffic environments, PM2.5 samples were collected at three sites in the city of Kunming in April and October 2013, and January and May 2014. Ten heavy meta...
As a frequently occurring natural disaster, drought will cause great damage to agricultural production and the sustainable development of a social economy, and it is vital to reasonably evaluate the comprehensive risk level of drought for constructin...
Amid China’s push for new urbanization and refined urban governance, urban villages function as key transitional spaces in the process of rural–urban spatial restructuring. Their internal differentiation and typological governance approac...
Land subsidence (LS) is a geological hazard driven by both natural conditions and human activities. Traditional LS time-series prediction models often struggle to accurately capture nonlinear data characteristics, leading to suboptimal predictions. T...
Subway construction changes land use patterns, disrupting the balance between traffic supply and demand and influencing residents’ activity and travel behaviors along the route. Previous studies have often overlooked the multiple attributes of...
The three-dimensional (3D) spatial structure within cities can reveal more information about land development than the two-dimensional spatial structure. Studying the relationship between the urban 3D spatial structure and the population distribution...
The contents of potentially toxic elements (V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd, and Pb) and emission characteristics of PM2.5 in soil fugitive dust (SFD) in six Yunnan cities (Baoshan, Kunming, Wenshan, Honghe, Yuxi, and Zhaotong) were investigated in...
In the current ecological footprint (EF) calculations, the parameters of built-up land are set as equal to those of cropland, based on the assumption that built-up land is totally converted from cropland. However, built-up land may be derived from ot...
As urban construction has been leaping forward recently, large-scale land subsidence has been caused in Kunming due to the special hydrogeological conditions of the city; the subsidence scope has stretched out, and the subsidence rate has been rising...
It is of great importance to study the spatiotemporal variation in vegetation and its influencing factors at a regional scale in plateau mountainous cities for ecological restoration and management and maintenance of ecosystem stability. This study e...
At present, most of the research on shared electric bikes mostly focuses on the scheduling, operation and maintenance of shared electric bikes, while insufficient attention has been paid to the behavioral characteristics and influencing factors of sh...
The main city of Kunming is located on the north bank of Dianchi Lake. The complex geological environment, large-scale construction, and expansion of the city in recent years have caused uneven land surface subsidence and threatened public safety. In...
Climate change threatens human survival and development. Cities, as the main gathering places for human production and life, serve as the focal points for the implementation of the policies related to energy efficiency, energy transition, and environ...
The abandonment degree of an urban residential building can reflect the popularity of residential areas. This study uses this idea as a basis for proposing the concept of using residential quarters’ abandonment rate to measure the abandonment d...
Despite enhancements in pollution control measures in southwestern China, detailed assessments of PM2.5 dynamics following the implementation of the Clean Air Action remain limited. This study explores the PM2.5 concentrations and their chemical comp...
The study of land use efficiency (LUE) evaluation and coupled coordination (CC) relationships under the perspective of urbanization can reasonably allocate land resources and contribute to the solution for agriculture, rural areas, and farmers. The L...
Coordinated development between landside transport at civil airports and aviation networks is key for determining the attractiveness and competition of tourist cities. However, only a few studies have focused on the accessibility of tourist locations...
Local climate zones (LCZs) provide a comprehensive framework to examine surface urban heat islands (SUHIs), but information is lacking on their thermal contributions and spatial effects in different macroclimate cities. A standard framework for disti...
Long-term trends in sunshine duration in Chinese cities have been closely linked to factors caused by air pollution. To understand this impact on sunshine duration (SD), surface solar radiation from 1981 to 2020, annual PM2.5 concentration from 2012...
Long-term series monitoring of ground surface settlement by remote sensing has become an effective method. Based on TS-InSAR (time series Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) interferometry, this paper proposes a new model based on the Grey Wolf...
The increasing demand for sustainable development and carbon neutrality highlights the need to improve the energy efficiency of infrastructure, particularly in highway service areas. This study explores the application of green roofs as a low-carbon...
Vertical greening systems, in addition to enhancing the aesthetic design of building facades, contribute to energy saving and carbon reduction. This study proposes a simplified calculation method for the annual comprehensive carbon reduction potentia...
As a crucial form of public transportation, subways are becoming essential infrastructure that cities in China increasingly prioritize for development. However, there is a lack of effective risk assessment methods for subway station and line siting....
This paper first analyzes the climate characteristics of five typical cities in China, including Harbin, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Kunming. Then, based on Grasshopper, Ladybug and Honeybee analysis software, according to the indoor layout of ty...
In China, the notion of a water sensitive city has gained popularity in urban water management as a result of the detrimental effects of flooding and pollution caused by developmental activities. Urban systems and their interrelationships are critica...
The existing neural network model in urban land-subsidence prediction is over-reliant on historical subsidence data. It cannot accurately capture or predict the fluctuation in the sequence deformation, while the improper selection of training samples...
17 October 2022
Greenhouse gas (GHG) production is one of the urgent problems to be solved in the wastewater treatment industry in the context of “carbon neutrality”. In this study, the carbon emissions and energy consumption of typical wastewater treatm...
Orientation is a key indicator affecting the street thermal environment, especially by modifying the radiation temperature. Comprehending the temporal variation in the thermal environment helps in adapting to heat exposure on streets with different o...
Under China’s dual carbon strategy, low-carbon city construction is expected to help reduce urban flood risks. However, the flood resilience of low-carbon communities remains unclear, limiting effective disaster prevention. This study examines...
The relationship among cities is getting closer, so are housing prices. Based on the sale price of stocking houses in thirty-five large and medium-sized cities in China from 2010 to 2021, this study established the modified gravity model and used the...
In order to study the characteristics and causes of ozone (O3) pollution in 16 cities of Yunnan Plateau, the methods of COD, backward trajectory and potential source contribution function (PSCF) were used to analyze the O3 concentrations from 2015 to...
25 October 2022
Methylsiloxanes (MSs), used in industrial production and personal care products, are released in various environmental media. In this study, we combined monitoring and modeling to investigate the occurrence and behavior of MSs in the urban environmen...
Deformation along a subway rail network is related to the safe operation of the subway and the stability of construction facilities on the surface, making long-term deformation monitoring imperative. Long-term monitoring of surface deformation along...
The Chinese main air transport network (CMATN) is the framework for air passenger transport in the country. This study uses complex networks and an econometric model to analyze CMATN’s evolution and determinants. In terms of overall network str...
Over the last decade, Kunming has been subject to a strong urbanisation driven by rapid economic growth and socio-economic, topographical and proximity factors. As this urbanisation is expected to continue in the future, it is important to understand...
Rhododendron hybridum Ker Gawl, a widely cultivated horticultural species in China, is highly valued for its ornamental and medicinal properties. However, with the expansion of its cultivation, leaf spot disease has become more prevalent, significant...
13 February 2023
Societal concerns in ethnic minority areas are global issues. Paying close attention to the equitable allocation of social resources in an aging population is crucial to preserving the cultural diversity and social stability of multi-ethnic countries...
This study analyzed changes in nighttime light during the 2019 Spring Festival using Luojia 1-01 nighttime images in six western cities of China (Chengdu, Panzhihua, Kunming, Yuxi, Lhasa, and Jinchang). First, the radiance of the nighttime images was...
With the rapid development of distributed energy and electric vehicles (EVs), the limited hosting capacity of distribution networks has severely impacted their economic dispatch and safe operation. To address these challenges, in this work, an optima...
With the rapid development of urbanization, it is necessary to understand the evolution of land resource carrying capacity (LRCC), so as to avoid irreversible damage to the land resources system in a specific region. Therefore, this paper aims to stu...
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