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Product Space Clustering with Graph Learning for Diversifying Industrial Production

  • Kévin Cortial,
  • Adélaïde Albouy-Kissi and
  • Frédéric Chausse

27 March 2024

During economic crises, diversifying industrial production emerges as a critical strategy to address societal challenges. The Product Space, a graph representing industrial knowledge proximity, acts as a valuable tool for recommending diversified pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,370 Views
18 Pages

Grain Production Space Reconstruction and Its Influencing Factors in the Loess Plateau

  • Zhangxuan Qin,
  • Xiaolin Liu,
  • Xiaoyan Lu,
  • Mengfei Li and
  • Fei Li

Grain production space, ecological service space and urban–rural development space are the classifications of land systems from the perspective of the dominant function of the land system. Grain production space reconstruction concentrates on t...

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  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,180 Views
27 Pages

With the acceleration of economic and social development and the increasing competition between multi-functional spaces, the coordination and stability of land space have been seriously affected. In order to simulate the conflict pattern of “pr...

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  • Open Access
752 Views
24 Pages

20 November 2025

In Latin America, informal urbanization on hillsides has given rise to unique forms of occupation that combine constructive precariousness with social creativity. This study analyzes the Los Portales del Mirador settlement in Arequipa, Peru, from the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,662 Views
16 Pages

16 May 2019

Rural China is experiencing a phase of rapid transition and new conflicts have arisen between the sharp shrink of rural production space and the high goal of rural economic development due to the spatial competition amongst multiple stakeholders and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,337 Views
19 Pages

The paper uses the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), spatial autocorrelation analysis, and geographic detectors to reveal the spatial pattern of agricultural production space suitability in China, explores the impact mechanism of agricultural product...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,007 Views
15 Pages

21 August 2023

The identification, evaluation, and spatial distribution of “Production–Living–Ecological” space (PLEs) have been widely studied, but there is still little attention paid to whether their distribution characteristics will vary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,919 Views
23 Pages

21 September 2024

In the strategic orientation of promoting high-quality development of metropolitan areas, ecological space is not only the core carrier for maintaining regional ecological balance and harmony but also a key element in shaping the scientific layout of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,633 Views
17 Pages

14 September 2023

Utilizing idle space for agricultural planting can generate production profits while greening the urban environment. How can the space available for agricultural planting in cities be inventoried and quantified, and what is the production potential?...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,182 Views
20 Pages

Management and Control of Agricultural Production Space in the Yanhe River Basin Based on Peasant Household Behavior

  • Quanhua Hou,
  • Shihan Chen,
  • Yitong Miao,
  • Yahui Zhang,
  • Su Chen,
  • Xiaoyang Fan,
  • Yaqiong Duan and
  • Lingda Zhang

22 May 2023

With increases in urbanization, agricultural production space is facing a series of problems, such as limited spatial development, loss of development entities, and difficulties in transformation, posing a huge challenge to national food security and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
4,367 Views
20 Pages

9 December 2021

Referencing the land use classification system of the “production-living-ecological” space and using 1 km × 1 km grids, this study examines the spatial pattern changes of “production-living-ecological” space in Guangdong...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,710 Views
11 Pages

An Electro–Microbial Process to Uncouple Food Production from Photosynthesis for Application in Space Exploration

  • Philip J. L. Bell,
  • Ferdinand E. Paras,
  • Sophia Mandarakas,
  • Psyche Arcenal,
  • Sinead Robinson-Cast,
  • Anna S. Grobler and
  • Paul V. Attfield

6 July 2022

Here we propose the concept of an electro–microbial route to uncouple food production from photosynthesis, thereby enabling production of nutritious food in space without the need to grow plant-based crops. In the proposed process, carbon dioxi...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,446 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2023

With the vigorous development of industrialization and urbanization, rural space faces many difficulties in achieving sustainable development, such as the spatial structure being unbalanced. To explore the sustainable development of rural space, this...

  • Review
  • Open Access
92 Citations
5,972 Views
15 Pages

25 February 2022

The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the optimization of territorial space development patterns as the primary measure of ecological civilization construction, and put forward the goal of “promoting intensive a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,503 Views
17 Pages

Village resettlement communities (VRCs) are a special type of urban community that the government has promoted considerably during China’s rapid urbanization. This study uses the theory of the production of space as a basis to explore the proce...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,426 Views
15 Pages

16 November 2022

The internal trade-off of land space is caused by the competition of land use for multiple functions, such as agricultural production, economic development and ecological protection. In response to this common problem, this study uses a positive and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,562 Views
19 Pages

The main function zone (MFZ) is the major strategy of China’s economic development and ecological environment protection. Clarifying the logical relationship between “MFZ strategy” and “territorial spatial layout” is vit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,310 Views
25 Pages

10 December 2023

Based on the “Production-Living-Ecological Space” evaluation system, we hereby form its functional index and take the results of corresponding functional measurement to analyze the spatial pattern, functional evolution, and coupling chara...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,172 Views
24 Pages

6 August 2025

Urban regeneration is an important issue in urban development, in which the regeneration of historic districts is a frontier and sensitive field. In this study, the regeneration process of Zhongshan Road Historic District in Qingdao, China, spanning...

  • Article
  • Open Access
268 Views
34 Pages

18 January 2026

Optimizing the “production–living–ecological” space (PLES) is critical for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in ecologically sensitive mountainous border regions. This study investigates the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,282 Views
22 Pages

31 August 2022

To understand the changing pattern of urban carbon metabolism from the perspective of urban “production–living–ecological” (PLE) space, taking Suzhou City as an example, this study constructed a carbon metabolic network model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,423 Views
15 Pages

Assessing Rural Production Space Quality and Influencing Factors in Typical Grain-Producing Areas of Northeastern China

  • Lintao Chen,
  • Xiaohong Chen,
  • Wei Pan,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Yongle An,
  • Yue Gu,
  • Haihan Liu and
  • Fan Yang

27 September 2023

Rural production spaces are important sites for agricultural activities, and high-quality rural production space is of great significance for guaranteeing food security and revitalizing rural areas. This study used Songnen Plain, a typical grain-prod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
3,933 Views
17 Pages

23 September 2021

With rapid urbanization and industrialization, China’s metropolises have undergone a huge shift in land use, which has had a profound impact on the ecological environment. Accordingly, the contradictions between regional production, living, and ecolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
3,709 Views
22 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Pattern and Conflict Identification of Production–Living–Ecological Space in the Yellow River Basin

  • Furui Xi,
  • Runping Wang,
  • Jusong Shi,
  • Jinde Zhang,
  • Yang Yu,
  • Na Wang and
  • Zhiyi Wang

18 May 2022

Production–living–ecological space (PLES) is the main body of the optimization of the development and protection pattern of territorial space, and the spatial conflict in PLES reflects a struggle for ecological protection and socio-econom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,194 Views
22 Pages

6 February 2023

Evolution and influencing factors of manufacturing production spaces in the global city regions of China are diverse from the West, attracting attention to accurately identify and analyze the real and continuous distribution of manufacturing producti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,819 Views
21 Pages

2 November 2022

The function evaluation and coordination analysis of production–living–ecological space is of great significance for guiding the high-quality development of territorial space. Considering the complexity of territorial space, this study co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,469 Views
19 Pages

Evolution of Land Use and Its Hydrological Effects in the Fenhe River Basin Under the Production–Living–Ecological Space Perspective

  • Junzhe Zhang,
  • Azhar Ali Laghari,
  • Qingxia Guo,
  • Jiyao Liang,
  • Akash Kumar,
  • Zhenghao Liu,
  • Yongheng Shen and
  • Yuehan Wei

20 December 2024

Analysing the patterns and impacts of land-use changes in the production–living–ecological space (PLES) of the Fenhe River Basin (FRB 39,721 km2), China, is necessary to support sustainable development. Based on remote sensing images from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,062 Views
15 Pages

3 July 2023

The rapid development of industrialization and urbanization aggravates the tension of human–land relationships, leading to increasingly prominent contradictions and a serious imbalance in the relationship among production–living–eco...

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  • Open Access
82 Citations
6,385 Views
18 Pages

5 March 2020

Production–living–ecological (PLE) space is the basic site of all human activities. The coordinated development of these three spaces is an important prerequisite for achieving sustainable development goals. However, a quantitative assess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,699 Views
26 Pages

2 December 2019

In the context of economic globalization, the manufacturing production space in the global city-regions of developing countries have presented significant spatial characteristics, attracting attention to the problems of intensive and sustainable deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,985 Views
29 Pages

Parabolic Modeling Forecasts of Space and Time European Hydropower Production

  • Cristina Lincaru,
  • Adriana Grigorescu and
  • Hasan Dincer

27 May 2024

Renewable sources of energy production are some of the main targets today to protect the environment through reduced fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Alongside wind, solar, marine, biomass and nuclear sources, hydropower is among the oldest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,358 Views
26 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Variation and Influencing Factors of the Coupling Coordination Degree of Production-Living-Ecological Space in China

  • Xinghua Cui,
  • Ning Xu,
  • Wanxu Chen,
  • Guanzheng Wang,
  • Jiale Liang,
  • Sipei Pan and
  • Binqiao Duan

Territorial space is a multi-functional complex. The coordinated production-living-ecological space (PLES) effectively coordinates the man-land relationship, promotes regional sustainable development, and maximizes territorial space. How to build a h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,077 Views
22 Pages

2 September 2025

In urban regeneration, co-production has become a significant approach for shaping public space in urban communities. While existing studies focus on the processes and stakeholders involved in co-production of community public space (CPS), few have e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,038 Views
26 Pages

16 November 2022

In the 21st century, China’s economic development has made great achievements, and at the same time, it has brought about the problem of distribution of production–living–ecology space (PLES). As an important region of population ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
995 Views
25 Pages

18 February 2025

China’s rapid economic growth has increased tensions between production, living, and ecological spaces (PLES), making sustainable land-use planning difficult. Therefore, PLES evolution and processes are a focus of current research. Remote sensi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,104 Views
14 Pages

Design Method for Automatic Assembly Production Line of Electric Valves in Space Propulsion Systems

  • Xiaohua Zang,
  • Zhaoqi Zeng,
  • Mingqiang Pan,
  • Kun Cai,
  • Quancheng Liu,
  • Xudong Wang and
  • Yanming Wei

15 August 2023

This article proposes a design method for a valve automatic assembly production line in response to the automation assembly requirements of electric valve products in space propulsion systems and the engineering problems of inaccurate loading force c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,670 Views
24 Pages

22 January 2025

Effective production, living, and ecological space allocation is essential for improving and optimizing urban space development. In this study, we proposed a production–living–ecological space (PLES) identification method based on Point o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,467 Views
21 Pages

15 January 2023

Effective production, living, and ecological space allocation is essential for advancing territorial policy optimization and improving the sustainability of land resource use. Based on the theory of the “production-living-ecological” spac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,718 Views
22 Pages

31 March 2024

Territorial spatial planning requires thoughtful consideration of the scientific layout and synergistic control of production, living, and ecological spaces (PLESs). However, research in this field often neglects the human perspective and fails to ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,335 Views
23 Pages

A Policy Framework for Producing Age-Friendly Communities from the Perspective of Production of Space

  • Jianbo Han,
  • Edwin H. W. Chan,
  • Esther H. K. Yung,
  • Queena K. Qian and
  • Patrick T. I. Lam

Given various hindrances in the macro context, how to efficiently develop age-friendly community policies requires further research. Currently, such kinds of frameworks are lacking. This paper aims to develop a policy framework to minimise cost and r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,511 Views
15 Pages

18 February 2025

The Yellow River Basin (YRB) serves as a critical ecological functional and economic zone in China. However, due to the rapid economic and social development, the YRB has encountered dual pressure from the anthropogenic disturbances and climate chang...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,471 Views
18 Pages

17 March 2023

This study draws on the lessons learned during a summer school on cultural mapping (CM), which linked these methodologies and the co-design process to the city’s re-application to the UNESCO creative city designation. The event implemented arti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,555 Views
19 Pages

15 July 2024

Based on five periods of Landsat remote sensing data from 1980 to 2020, this study constructs a landscape ecological risk-ecosystem service value evaluation model and integrates it with a geodetector model to analyse the environmental benefits of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,703 Views
23 Pages

11 November 2024

Since the introduction of the rural revitalization strategy by the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2017, there have been significant transformations in the production–living–ecological space (PLES) within village...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
3,767 Views
22 Pages

The division of the territorial space functional area is the primary method to study the rational exploitation and use of land space. The research on the Production–Living–Ecological Space (PLES) change and its motivating factors has majo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
274 Views
27 Pages

1 January 2026

The evolution of “Production–Living–Ecological” spaces (PLESs) in mountainous rural areas is shaped by complex interactions between terrain gradients and socio-economic factors. However, existing research lacks a targeted expl...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
2,965 Views
19 Pages

The urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, which is the second largest urban agglomeration in China, represents a typical land space range of ecological vulnerability in China. Large differences occur in economic development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,355 Views
24 Pages

13 June 2022

With industrialization and urbanization, the competition among land production, living, and ecological (PLE) spaces has intensified. Particularly in ecological reserves, competition among various types of land use restricts the coordinated developmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,084 Views
26 Pages

6 July 2022

The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) is a major “river source” and “ecological source” in China, as well as South Asia and Southeast Asia, and is a typical plateau region. Studying the evolution characteristics and ecological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
806 Views
22 Pages

18 July 2025

In the stage of high-quality development, the functional coordination between transportation systems and territorial space is a key issue for improving urban spatial efficiency. This paper breaks through the traditional volume-to-capacity ratio analy...

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