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  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,442 Views
15 Pages

29 September 2018

In China, disordered development and utilization of land space usually lead to serious conflicts between urban, agricultural, and ecological spaces. The identification of these conflicts is an important basis for scientific zoning of the three types...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,081 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,642 Views
16 Pages

Priority-Aware Conflict Resolution for U-Space

  • Jesús Jover,
  • Aurelio Bermúdez and
  • Rafael Casado

In the context of the future urban mobility airspaces, U-space lays the foundation for unmanned aircrafts to be integrated with conventionally manned traffic to offer a multitude of services to citizens and businesses, such as urban public transport,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
821 Views
26 Pages

2 April 2025

Urbanization-driven land use and cover change intensifies the competition for limited land resources, exacerbating spatial conflicts and challenging sustainable development, particularly in rapidly urbanizing regions. This study focuses on the deline...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,030 Views
8 Pages

18 January 2024

In building structure design, refinements during construction for practical use or space conflicts induce construction delays and budget increases. Building information modeling (BIM) provides a 3D building model which includes the structure’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
3,624 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
11 Citations
3,363 Views
20 Pages

12 July 2023

Time–space conflicts are one of the most common issues facing construction practices, impacting safety and productivity in several negative ways at construction sites. Therefore, implementing and developing methods to reduce the frequency of su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
904 Views
28 Pages

26 March 2025

Investigating spatio-temporal differentiation patterns of land-use conflicts in mountainous and flatland regions provides critical insights for optimizing spatial regulation strategies and advancing sustainable regional development. Using the Urban A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,486 Views
17 Pages

14 October 2022

Land use conflicts induced by human activities cause accelerated soil erosion. The response of soil erosion to spatial conflict in production-living-ecological space (PLES) is not clearly understood. In this research, models such as PLES spatial conf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,532 Views
18 Pages

26 September 2021

In the context of ensuring national food security, high-intensity agricultural production and construction activities have aggravated the conflicts between agricultural and ecological spaces in ecologically fragile areas, which have become one of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,110 Views
35 Pages

8 January 2025

In recent years, rapid economic development, increasing human activities, and global climate change have led to escalating demands for land across production, residential, and ecological domains. This surge has heightened land use conflicts, signific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,777 Views
18 Pages

28 August 2022

With the rapid population growth and accelerating urbanization process, people compete for the scarce land resources to pursue their incompatible interests. Thus, a series of land-use conflicts (LUCs) problems are caused. Scientifically identifying t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,131 Views
19 Pages

A Tactical Conflict Resolution Proposal for U-Space Zu Airspace Volumes

  • Jesús Jover,
  • Aurelio Bermúdez and
  • Rafael Casado

22 August 2021

Conflict management between UAVs is one of the key aspects in developing future urban aerial mobility (UAM) spaces, such as the one proposed in U-Space. In the framework of tactical conflict management, i.e., with the UAVs in flight, this paper prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
419 Views
24 Pages

21 October 2025

China’s rapid urbanization and ecological civilization initiatives have intensified land space governance challenges. This paper introduces a novel integrated framework to investigate the bidirectional interactions among land space conflicts (L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,046 Views
11 Pages

9 June 2020

Interfaith relationships offer particular potential for creating religious coexistence; they also play out very differently in domestic space than in public and civic spaces, with the result that interfaith marriage becomes an important, yet unique,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,539 Views
27 Pages

An Electronic Warfare (EW) system is a highly complex and highly uncertain dynamic system. With a change of environment conditions, EW systems present different states and exhibit the characteristics of a Markov chain, which also directly affects and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,992 Views
19 Pages

Land-use conflict (LUC) is a major problem of land management in the context of rapid urbanization. Conflict identification plays an important role in the development and protection of land space. Considering the possibility of, exposure to, and nega...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
4,587 Views
11 Pages

11 March 2020

Production–living–ecological space (PLES) is a recent research hotspot on land planning and regional sustainable development in China. Taking the Yangtze River Delta agglomerations as a case study, this paper establishes a spatial-conflic...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,630 Views
20 Pages

When Is a Park More Than a Park? Rethinking the Role of Parks as “Shared Space” in Post-Conflict Belfast

  • Ian Mell,
  • John Sturzaker,
  • Alice Correia,
  • Mary Gearey,
  • Neale Blair,
  • Luciana Lang and
  • Fearghus O’Sullivan

20 September 2022

With the signing of the Belfast Agreement, Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK) entered a new phase of urban development. Moving away from notions of division, Belfast City Council envisaged an inclusive and accessible city. Over a 20-year period, there ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
860 Views
22 Pages

Identification of Production–Living–Ecological Spatial Conflicts and Multi-Scenario Simulations in Extreme Arid Areas

  • Amanzhuli Yerkenhazi,
  • Kerim Mamat,
  • Abudukeyimu Abulizi,
  • Yusuyunjiang Mamitimin,
  • Xuemei Wei,
  • Shanshan Tang,
  • Junxia Wang,
  • Shaojie Bai and
  • Le Yuan

6 May 2025

“Production–Living–Ecological” spatial conflicts (PLECs) are critical issues arising from regional land development, affecting economic, social, and ecological security. Identifying and analyzing these conflicts’ spatiot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,976 Views
22 Pages

Unifying Tactical Conflict Prevention, Detection, and Resolution Methods in Non-Orthogonal Constrained Urban Airspace

  • Călin Andrei Badea,
  • Andres Morfin Veytia,
  • Niki Patrinopoulou,
  • Ioannis Daramouskas,
  • Joost Ellerbroek,
  • Vaios Lappas,
  • Vassilios Kostopoulos and
  • Jacco Hoekstra

The use of small aircraft for a wide range of missions in urban airspace is expected to increase in the future. In Europe, efforts have been invested into developing a unified system, called U-space, to manage aircraft in dense very-low-level urban a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,150 Views
23 Pages

24 January 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,694 Views
18 Pages

1 November 2021

The optimization of space is the priority goal of spatial planning. Spatial planning policies have numerous objectives, including the prevention of land-use conflicts. Conflicts arise whenever two entities have contradictory expectations regarding th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,282 Views
18 Pages

Identification of Territorial Spatial Pattern Conflicts in Aksu River Basin, China, from 1990 to 2020

  • Yuee Cao,
  • Yunlu Jiang,
  • Lin Feng,
  • Ge Shi,
  • Haotian He and
  • Jianjun Yang

11 November 2022

The change in land use leads to territorial spatial conflict. Territorial spatial conflicts mainly show that the boundaries of agricultural space, urban space, and ecological space overlap each other and interfere with each other’s functions, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,776 Views
11 Pages

16 October 2024

The N-Queens problem is a fundamental challenge in combinatorial optimization, commonly used as a benchmark for assessing the efficiency of algorithms. Traditional algorithms, such as Backtracking with Forward Checking (BFC), constraint satisfaction...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,970 Views
16 Pages

22 May 2023

In recent years, the issue of “human–elephant” conflict in the south of the Yunnan Province, China has been escalating and poses a severe threat to the livelihoods of local residents. To address this problem, this study utilized sur...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,887 Views
48 Pages

28 July 2021

Over the past few decades, the wealth of Africa has not made African wealthy. There is a voicing that Africa is cursed, whether richly poor or poorly rich. Sub-Saharan Africa is commonplace for political turbulence, as well as humanitarian and econom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,414 Views
14 Pages

30 May 2022

This paper argues for an interdisciplinary approach within the study of religion and conflict. Using a religious studies framework, it demonstrates that tools from human geography, peace studies, and the theology of religions can be used to shed ligh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,380 Views
24 Pages

26 June 2023

The foundation for accurately understanding regional land-use structures and pursuing the coordination of human–land relations is the scientific identification and simulation of temporal and spatial evolution patterns of land-use spatial confli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,158 Views
23 Pages

30 December 2021

Space is the fundamental carrier for production, living, and ecological activities, and optimizing the spatial pattern is of vital importance to promote regional sustainable development. To achieve this goal, the core issues are to identify the risks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,927 Views
19 Pages

15 July 2023

Accurately identifying the matching relationships between territorial space evolution and the resources and environment carrying capacity will directly guide the sustainable use of territorial space. Based on the evaluation of the territorial space d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,212 Views
21 Pages

11 March 2022

Trade-offs and conflicts among different sectors of production, living, and ecology have become important issues in regional sustainable development planning due to both the versatility and limitation of land resources, especially in poverty-stricken...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,225 Views
13 Pages

The research herein presented aims to analyze the impacts of gentrification in a medium-sized Mallorca municipality because of the tourism accommodation changes. Using the available data from national and regional official sources, qualitative resear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
11,501 Views
47 Pages

Over the last decade, the accelerated transition towards cleaner means of producing energy has been clearly prioritised by the European Union through large-scale planned deployment of wind farms in the North Sea. From a spatial planning perspective,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
827 Views
18 Pages

22 March 2025

Understanding the interdependencies among production, living, and ecological spaces (PLESs) is critical for sustainable regional development. Urban fringe areas, shaped by rapid urbanization and conflicting land-use demands, are particularly vulnerab...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,132 Views
3 Pages

A high standard of planetary protection is important for astrobiology, though the risk for contamination can never be zero. It is therefore important to find a balance. If extraterrestrial life has a moral standing in its own right, it will also affe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
892 Views
21 Pages

21 February 2025

Rapid urbanization is causing ecological and environmental issues to worsen. The stability of the ecosystem function of the farming–pastoral ecotone (FPE) in Inner Mongolia is essential to ensuring the sustained growth of the nearby cities, act...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,903 Views
13 Pages

19 September 2019

This article focuses on the archaeological site of Kantarodai (Tamil) or Kadurugoda (Sinhala) on the Jaffna peninsula at the northernmost tip of Sri Lanka to examine the power of spatially embodied, contested histories within postcolonial and post-wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,486 Views
19 Pages

22 March 2022

The number of satellites in low Earth orbit is constantly increasing, particularly with the introduction of larger satellite constellations in recent times. This has resulted in a very crowded environment in Outer Space, which poses a number of chall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,152 Views
13 Pages

21 January 2019

In today’s “liquid” society, boundaries and limits are shifting or disorienting: belonging to no place, not knowing where ‘home’ is, underlines the sense of uncertainty and in-betweenness experienced by people. This cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,813 Views
20 Pages

25 January 2019

Under conditions of climate change, land-use conflicts are a significant challenge for spatial planning, especially in densely populated metropolitan regions. By using a multi-methodological approach, this study aims to identify different stakeholder...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,160 Views
32 Pages

Current investigations into urban aerial mobility, as well as the continuing growth of global air transportation, have renewed interest in conflict detection and resolution (CD&R) methods. The use of drones for applications such as package delive...

  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
3,383 Views
19 Pages

27 June 2023

Few studies test whether education can help increase support for wildlife management interventions. This mixed methods study sought to test the importance of educating a community on the use of a baboon-proof electric fence to mitigate negative inter...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,082 Views
13 Pages

2 July 2019

An evolving land governance context compounds the case for practitioners to closely track developments as they unfold. While much research sheds light on key trends, questions remain about approaches for collective bottom-up analysis led by land gove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,000 Views
16 Pages

2 September 2022

Scientifically diagnosing the spatial conflict of resource-based cities and clarifying the coupling coordination relationship between the intensity of spatial conflict and the dynamic degree of land use is of great significance for the transformation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,517 Views
24 Pages

19 December 2022

Future high traffic densities with drone operations are expected to exceed the number of aircraft that current air traffic control procedures can control simultaneously. Despite extensive research on geometric CR methods, at higher densities, their p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,541 Views
31 Pages

(De)Linking with the Past through Memorials

  • Tamara Zaninović,
  • Nerma Omićević and
  • Bojana Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci

9 October 2023

Numerous examples of urban, architectural, and landscape projects indicate global and continuous interest in memorial design without a comparative study of their contextual similarities and differences. There is no clear terminological and conceptual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,123 Views
21 Pages

6 April 2024

This study examines how heterosexual couples in Taipei used space when both were working from home. I interviewed 29 heterosexual couples on how they arranged working space at home and how these spatial arrangements influenced their working experienc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,785 Views
35 Pages

Feasibility of Conflict Prediction of Drone Trajectories by Means of Machine Learning Techniques

  • Victor Gordo,
  • Javier A. Perez-Castan,
  • Luis Perez Sanz,
  • Lidia Serrano-Mira and
  • Yan Xu

20 December 2024

The expected number of drone operations in the coming decades, together with the fact that most of them will take place in very-low-level airspace, will lead to a density of drone flights much greater than that of conventional manned aviation. In thi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
11,491 Views
37 Pages

Review of Conflict Resolution Methods for Manned and Unmanned Aviation

  • Marta Ribeiro,
  • Joost Ellerbroek and
  • Jacco Hoekstra

Current investigations into urban aerial mobility, as well as the continuing growth of global air transportation, have renewed interest in Conflict Detection and Resolution (CD&R) methods. With the new applications of drones, and the implications...

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