This study investigates the spatiotemporal evolution and key obstacle factors of urban flood resilience in the Shenyang Metropolitan Area, aiming to inform regional flood resilience planning and management. A comprehensive assessment indicator system...
Against the background of intensifying human–land contradictions, evaluation of land use benefits and identification of obstacles are crucial for sustainable land management and socioeconomic development. Taking Henan Province as an example, th...
27 December 2022
China’s food security has attracted global attention as the various drivers of its instability and uncertainty have intensified. This study developed a new framework for food security evaluation in China by analyzing its availability, distribut...
Under the background of China’s proposal to achieve “carbon neutralization and carbon peak”, it is an important task for each province to clarify their forest ecological security (FES) status. However, there is little understanding of the temporal an...
Globally, rural tourism development faces challenges such as inadequate infrastructure, insufficient marketing resources, and unreliable service quality, all of which limit its potential. However, digital technology offers unprecedented opportunities...
The high-quality development of rural e-commerce is not only one of the important tasks to solve the “three rural” problems and comprehensively promote rural revitalization, but also the internal requirement to implement the new concept o...
24 February 2023
The increase in population and economic development has made environmental issues more serious and threatens regional ecological security and sustainable development. Currently, most indicators in the related research field of ecological security ten...
With the rapid advancement of industrialization and urbanization, the systematic assessment of water environment security in lake-type basins and the identification of key restoration zones have become critical scientific challenges for sustainable w...
Urban resilience assessment is crucial to guarantee the safe and stable operation of our cities. Looking at the whole process of emergencies from the occurrence, development, causing disaster losses to taking emergency response measures, we combine t...
With the rapid expansion of the Chinese economy in recent years, the urbanization process of the provinces in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) has put serious pressure on the sustainability of the water resources carrying capacity (WRCC). It is necessary...
Optimizing the regional spatial pattern of land use and high-quality economic development requires an accurate understanding of the multifunctional evolution of land use. Based on remote sensing data and socio-economic data from 2000 to 2023, this st...
The Hengduan Mountains in China are known for their complex geological environment, which leads to frequent geological disasters that pose significant threats to the safety and economic and social development of the local population. In this study, w...
State-owned forest farms (SOFFs) help maintain forest ecological security and hold an important strategic position in China’s development. In this study we used 1305 sample data from 16 provinces, a structural equation model (SEM), and a projection p...
Enhancing climate resilience is imperative for cities to mitigate the effects of global warming and the rising frequency of extreme weather events. This paper develops an evaluation index system for urban climate resilience in Hebei Province, based o...
24 August 2022
The acceleration of urbanization and climate change has increasingly impacted the health level of urban dual water cycles. In order to accurately evaluate the health status of urban water cycles, the evaluation system covers four standard layers of w...
10 March 2023
As a new mode of mining development, green mine optimizes the development and utilization of mineral resources with a minimum of the environmental impact, and how to objectively evaluate the construction level of the green mine has become the key to...
As climate change intensifies, cities are experiencing more severe rainfall and frequent waterlogging. When rainfall exceeds the carrying capacity of urban drainage networks, it poses a significant risk to urban facilities and public safety, seriousl...
In order to promote the sustainable development of a social economy and ecology, the social–economic–natural compound ecosystem (SENCE) conceptual framework was used to construct the water environmental carrying capacity index system. Tak...
Rural tourism is one of the important ways to achieve rural revitalization and one of the choices for farmers to improve their viability. Therefore, the socio-ecological systems (SES) analysis framework and obstacle factor analysis can provide a new...
Lake-island villages face increasing cultural–ecological pressures due to tourism expansion and rural transformation, yet few studies have systematically assessed their cultural–ecological health. To address this gap, this study aims to q...
Urban–rural integration is an inevitable course for the transformation and development of resource-exhausted cities, and it is also an internal requirement to achieve sustainable development goals. Taking Zaozhuang city as a case study, this pa...
Promoting the intensive utilization of arable land is a critical strategy for addressing the scarcity problem of arable land resources and thus ensuring food security. However, public emergencies pose significant challenges to the intensive utilizati...
Measuring the carrying capacity of water resources and identifying obstacle factors are critical prerequisites for the rational allocation of regional water resources and the high-quality development of economic society. This study took Longnan City,...
Low-cost specialization, differentiation, and diversification are common business models of urban farms in developed countries. Similarities and differences between them as well as detailed insights into specific farm characteristics are widely absen...
22 December 2022
Based on the evaluation model of the gray correlation-TOPSIS method, this paper examines the index system of grass-roots water conservancy services in Hunan Province, China. This paper aims at the present situation of grassroots water conservancy in...
Developing new-quality productivity in water conservancy (NQPWC) is vital for advancing economic and social development, with a focus on sustainability. An evaluation of NQPWC and the identification of key barriers can help define the challenges and...
In response to the urgent need for quantitative evaluation of the obstacle avoidance performance of an unmanned ship, a quantitative evaluation model is established to evaluate quantitatively the obstacle perception performance, static obstacle avoid...
Cultivated land quality (CLQ) is at the core of the trinity protection of cultivated land in China. Scientific evaluation of CLQ and identification of its obstacle factors are the foundation for the construction and improvement of the quality of cult...
Based on probabilistic time-geography, the encounter between two moving objects is random. The quantitative analysis of the probability of encounter needs to consider the actual geographical environment. The existing encounter probability algorithm i...
The energy consumption structure in underdeveloped rural areas of China has long been dominated by fossil fuels. Such a structure not only makes it difficult to improve the rural living environment but also hinders the stable development of the rural...
In complex mining environments, driverless mining trucks are required to cooperate with multiple intelligent systems. They must perform obstacle avoidance based on factors such as the site road width, obstacle type, vehicle body movement state, and g...
This paper presents the problem of obstacle avoidance with bearing-only measurements in the case that the obstacle motion is model-free, i.e., its acceleration is absolutely unknown, which cannot be dealt with by the mainstream Kalman-like schemes ba...
The current unmanned surface vehicle (USV) intelligent obstacle avoidance algorithm based on deep reinforcement learning usually adopts the mass point model to train in an ideal environment. However, in actual navigation, due to the influence of the...
This paper analyzed the current development status of the economy, transportation, and ecology in Xi’an and constructed a coupling coordination evaluation index system. Employing the entropy weight method to determine indicator weights, it adop...
This paper presents the design of an intra-row obstacle avoidance shovel-type weeding machine. Theoretical analysis of intra-row weeding components guided the determination of the structures and parameters for key parts, including the signal acquisit...
New-quality productivity and industrial structure upgrading has become a primary area of concern with respect to regional economic transformation and sustainable development. Based on static panel data of 108 prefecture-level-and-above cities in the...
In this article, we construct an evaluation index system based on the DPSIRM framework to determine the water resources carrying capacity of Shiyan City. Then, we use an obstacle model to calculate and analyze the factors that constrain the improveme...
There is a mutual causal relationship between population shrinkage and the level of regional social–economic–ecological development and their coordinated development. It is of great significance to reveal the correlation effect between po...
25 February 2022
Turbulence phenomena created around a greenhouse due to different wind loads are key factors in its structural design and significantly affect the ventilation rates through its side and roof openings. Using the turbulence models of ANSYS FLUENT softw...
Currently, promoting the high-quality development (HQD) of higher education is an urgent need of the country, which is the requirement for achieving stable and sustainable development. As the main bodies of the university, the development levels of t...
The research on decision-making models of ship collision avoidance is confronted with numerous challenges. These challenges encompass inadequate consideration of complex factors, including but not limited to open water scenarios, the absence of stati...
Transformation and development performance evaluation and obstacle factor research are standard and important bases for measuring the transformation of mature resource cities. Based on the connotation of transformational development, this paper prese...
At present, the construction industry in China has problems such as low production efficiency, low technical efficiency, low management efficiency of the construction project, delayed delivery, budget overruns, and unreasonable risk allocation. Value...
17 January 2023
This study established a comprehensive evaluation indicator model for the safety culture among residents during COVID-19 and an obstacle degree model for the identification of the major factors affecting the residents’ safety culture. The resul...
An accurate assessment of food security and its challenges is essential for formulating effective measures and promoting sustainable socioeconomic development. This study develops an evaluation system for China’s food security, focusing on four...
The effects of the slope of the ground and the obstacle conditions on the lateral overturning/backward rollover of a tractor with an implement were analyzed through dynamic simulation. The tractor and implement’s 3D simulation model was constru...
In order to solve the problem of mowing between plants in Xinjiang trunk orchards, an obstacle avoidance mower suitable for trunk orchard planting mode was designed. The whole structure, working principle and main parameter design of the obstacle avo...
Exploring the coordination of agricultural water resources (W), cultivated land (L), and the ecoenvironment (E) system is crucial for sustainable agriculture in the North China Plain (NCP). However, the synergistic effects of this composite system re...
11 January 2023
With economic expansion having moderated to a “new normal” pace, the eastern coastal provinces have been given a new historical task of high-quality development and become a window and frontier of China’s high-quality development. B...
The management of urban flood disasters is a systematic engineering project that requires a great amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources, and the interaction and coordination degrees of various elements in the system deeply a...
of 15