The coastal regions of major bay areas—including San Francisco, Tokyo, New York, Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao, and Hangzhou—are important centers of economic and social growth due to their strategic location, resources, and dynam...
This study examined the seasonal and spatial changes in the marine algal community structure in the outer and inner areas of the intertidal zone of Yeongil Bay. A seasonal survey was conducted at 13 intertidal sites in Yeongil Bay between August 2021...
The sedimentary dynamics and geological evolution of the Naples canyons during the Late Quaternary have been studied based on sedimentological and seismo-stratigraphic data. Several factors, including the sedimentary environments, tectonic setting, a...
Bay areas are endowed with unique sea and land resources, location advantages, and high environmental carrying capacities. The rapid urbanization process has intensified the demand for limited natural resources, leading to a series of problems in coa...
Heavy metals (HMs) have the characteristics of high toxicity, long residual time, and difficult degradation, which pose a potential threat to aquatic ecosystems. The distribution and migration of HMs in different media can reflect their potential imp...
With global warming, coastal areas are exposed to multiple climate-related hazards. Understanding the facts and attribution of regional climate change in coastal communities is a frontier science challenge. In this study, we focus on fact analysis of...
The increasing rate of sea level rise (SLR) poses a major threat to coastal lands and natural resources, especially affecting natural preserves and protected areas along the coast. These impacts are likely to exacerbate when combined with storm surge...
In this study, a Bayesian network (BN)-based inhibition model is developed for the rainstorm–landslide–debris flow (R-L-D) disaster chain in the mountainous area of the Greater Bay Area (GBA), China, using the historical disaster data. Tw...
Understanding the driving factors and assessing the risk of rainstorm waterlogging are crucial in the sustainable development of urban agglomerations. Few studies have focused on rainstorm waterlogging at the scale of urban agglomeration areas. We us...
When considering the economic growth of the Greater Bay Area, digital transformation stands out as a crucial catalyst. Given its significance, it is imperative to delve into both the theoretical and empirical aspects of how digital transformation aff...
Intercity railways are key transportation infrastructures in the interconnection of urban agglomerations. Their stations are usually distributed based on densely populated and economically active areas, and they also play roles as regional network no...
The bay area contains terrestrial forests and coastal mangroves with vital ecosystem functions, which provide essential ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and biodiversity maintenance. Meanwhile, the bay area usually hosts intensive soci...
Accurate and rapid mapping of fire damaged areas is fundamental to support fire management, account for environmental loss, define planning strategies and monitor the restoration of vegetation. Under climate change conditions, drought severity may tr...
Built-up areas (BAs) information acquisition is essential to urban planning and sustainable development in the Greater Bay Area in China. In this paper, a pseudo-Siamese dense convolutional network, namely PSDNet, is proposed to automatically extract...
To address the trade-off between safety levels and operational efficiency in the Bay Area, this study proposes a Multi-Stand Grouped Operations method based on deep reinforcement learning under the consideration of the safety domain. The full-process...
Against the background of globalization and informatization, innovation is the primary driving force for regional economic and social development. Urban agglomerations are the main body of regional participation in global competition, and promoting t...
This study analyzes the patterns of university co-authorship networks in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. It also examines the quality and subject distribution of co-authored articles within these networks. Social network analysis is u...
As typical innovation organizations, the structure and efficiency of cooperation among universities’ innovation behaviors are important influencing factors for regional innovation sustainable development. In 2019, the Chinese government promulg...
Logistics efficiency is an important indicator when measuring the level of development of the logistics industry, and policy factors are the most difficult to measure among the factors affecting logistics efficiency. This study aimed to construct a n...
We investigated the digital technology innovation association’s spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors using social network analysis and a negative binomial gravity regression model. The model was based on the transfer of...
Coastal zones, and in particular offshore areas, are coming under ever-increasing pressure from human development. Therefore, the evaluation of habitat quality is of vital importance for management of coastal zones. The InVEST model adopts a multi-mo...
Based on the analysis and measurement of the overall situation, import and export structure and international competitiveness of the various sectors of service trade in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, with the help of MATLAB and Gray...
18 December 2021
This paper proposes the “citizen-ecology-city” evaluation framework for urban ecological livability theoretically and studies the ecological livability of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) empirically. In addition, we a...
The Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) of China is one of the largest bay areas in the world. However, the spatiotemporal characteristics and driving mechanisms of urban expansions in this region are poorly understood. Here...
The primary object of this study is to survey the spatial heterogeneity of sustainable land use in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, The introduction of GIS technology into the evaluation index system under the traditional c...
Cultivating the best business environment ecosystem is important for advancing market-oriented reforms and achieving sustainable industrial transformation. How to quantify the business environment is also a relatively complex topic. Based on urban ec...
China’s Bay Area policies are important for integrating Hong Kong (HK) and Macao youth into China’s overall development. However, their effect on national identity is still mostly theoretical, lacking objective and scientific empirical ev...
Different urban growth patterns have various impact degrees on the urban ecosystem and environment. Impervious surface, a typical artificial construction can be used to reflect urban development. Therefore, this study estimated the spatiotemporal dyn...
The relatively low level of sustainability of major public projects has been subject to criticism by the community, increasing the pressure to incorporate the concept throughout the project lifecycle and the importance of understanding the perception...
Energy consumption is an important indicator for measuring economic development and is closely related to the atmospheric environment. As a demonstration zone for China’s high-quality development, the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Great...
The Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is one of the world’s four major bay areas. Groundwater is indispensable in ensuring water supply for human production and living, as well as social and economic development. Stud...
The coasts of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) are facing threats and challenges from rising sea levels, frequent extreme events and human intervention. In this study, the Coastal Hazard Wheel (CHW) was used to classify the coasts of...
As urbanization in China progresses, urban spatial development is transitioning from rapid expansion to more intensive and compact growth. This study examined the role of physical geography and environmental factors in shaping the urban spatial devel...
It is well known that Zipf’s rank-size law is powerful to investigate the rank-size distribution of tourist flow. Recently, widespread attention has been drawn to investigating the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism for its sustainability. However,...
Under the influence of factors such as extreme weather and accelerated urbanization, China has witnessed a sharp escalation in conflicts between various land-use functions, leading to a significant rise in tensions between people and land. The coordi...
Currently, urban crises are spreading, even tending to be magnified along the urban networks. Improving urban network resilience can effectively reduce the loss and cope with sudden disasters. Based on the dimensions of regional resilience and the fr...
The Greater Bay Area (GBA) accounts for a high percentage of pollution due to the large number of internal combustion engines. In the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in internal combustion engines vehicles while electric vehic...
With the rapid economic growth in China over the last two decades, exploring the changes in the Chinese economy has attracted great attention from the research community. Among different economic clusters in China, the southern region represents the...
Understanding the economic impact of COVID-19 is the foundation for formulating targeted policies promoting economic recovery. This study uses panel data of the county economy in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) from 2...
As one of the world’s four Greater Bay Areas, the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) faces many environmental challenges along with rapid economic development, causing significant degradation of aquatic ecosystems. How...
Understanding the historical peak situation and the rules for CO2 emissions from buildings helps to formulate reasonable building mitigation strategies, accelerating the achievement of the Chinese government’s carbon peak goal. As developed reg...
18 November 2022
The Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area urban agglomeration is an urban agglomeration with some of the most intensive urbanization since 1980s. A large amount of cultivated land, forest land, water bodies and other land types in th...
Over the past four decades, urban expansions driven by rapid economic development and climate change have exerted profound impacts on land-use dynamics in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area. However, our understanding of the i...
Haifa Bay Area (HBA) contains Israel’s principal industrial area, and there are substantial public concerns about health effects from its emissions. We aimed to examine associations between exposure to air pollution from HBA industrial area with prev...
The 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) adopted by the UN provide a blueprint for a more sustainable future for all. The implementation of the SDGs largely depends on the action taken by national and local governments. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Mac...
In regions where transportation and the economy are closely integrated, optimizing network structure and enhancing synergy are vital for regional integration. This paper constructs a dual-factor linkage network using enterprise investment and liner s...
Macroalgae provide food for microbial, meio- and macro-faunal communities in coastal ecosystems, thus mediating nutrient dynamics and functions in these ecosystems. Because of this vital role, it is important to clarify physiological information abou...
As one of the four major bay areas in the world, the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is a highly integrated mega urban agglomeration and its unparalleled urbanization has induced prominent land contradictions between huma...
Inverse globalization and the spread of epidemics have affected the world economy. Promoting the convergence and resilience of the tourism industry is an important means of boosting regional economic recovery and high-quality development. Taking the...
In-depth research on the spatial and temporal evolution of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergistic relationships, scientific identification of ecosystem service bundles, and the main factors affecting the spatial differentiation of ecosystem ser...
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