Investigating the spatial correlation characteristics and configurational pathways of ecological space service value (ESSV) is of importance for alleviating urban ecological pressure. This study, focusing on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountai...
Natural gas is considered a transitional energy source in the transition to clean energy owing to its clean, efficient, and ecologically beneficial properties. The trade of liquefied natural gas (LNG) serves as the backbone of the global natural gas...
26 December 2021
Based on the panel data of 82 cities in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) during 2008–2017, this paper calculated the urban ecological carrying capacity (UECC) index by means of the entropy method, drew a spatiotemporal evolution map using ArcGIS10....
Existing research on crude oil trade networks has largely focused on their static structural characteristics. However, systematic quantitative assessments of network stability, as well as examinations of the relationship between structural characteri...
Social media has been a vital channel for communicating and broadcasting disaster-related information. However, the global spatiotemporal patterns of social media users’ activities, interactions, and connections after a natural disaster remain unclea...
There is a long-term equilibrium relationship between urban tourism network attention (UTNA) and the volume of tourism. Understanding the spatio-temporal patterns of UTNA before and after the COVID-19 pandemic has important implications for destinati...
Ecological networks provide an important spatial framework for maintaining regional ecological security in fragmented landscapes. However, structural comparison of ecological network evolution at the provincial scale remains relatively limited, espec...
Delving into the spatiotemporal evolution of the railway network in different periods can provide guidance and reference for the planning and layout of the railway network. However, most of the existing studies tended to model the railway data separa...
Water resources constitute a foundational strategic resource, and the efficiency of their spatial allocation profoundly impacts national sustainable development. This study integrates multi-regional input–output modeling, complex network analys...
The high separation of crude oil supply and demand markets has led to the formation of a global crude oil trading system. This paper constructs global crude oil trade networks, integrates macro, meso, and micro network analysis methods, combines geos...
(1) Background: Eco−spatial networks play an important role in enhancing ecosystem services and landscape connectivity. It is necessary to study landscape structure optimization to achieve synergistic gains in network connectivity and ecosystem...
Tourism network attention, defined as the quantifiable measure of public interest toward tourism destinations through online search activities, has become a crucial indicator for understanding tourist behavior in the digital era. This study analyzes...
Bolstering the resilience of shrinking cities (SCs) is essential for maintaining urban dynamic security and fostering sustainable development. Accurately assessing and revealing the resilience level and impact mechanism of SCs to cope with disturbanc...
Bus networks are a crucial support for urban commuting. By studying the evolutionary characteristics of bus networks, we can uncover their development patterns, coverage efficiency, and changes in regional balance, providing a scientific basis for su...
Precipitation nowcasting aims to predict short-term precipitation evolution over forecast lead times of 1–6 h and can support hydrological-risk and disaster-prevention applications when near-real-time observations are available. However, precip...
Understanding the evolutionary characteristics of innovation network structure can improve urban innovation and regional construction. Urban innovative development is affected by various factors, which can be analyzed via models of innovation network...
Amid ongoing societal development, tourists’ travel behavior patterns have been undergoing substantial transformations, and understanding their evolution has emerged as a key area of scholarly interest. Taking Beijing as a case study, this rese...
Ports face critical security threats from hazardous cargo misdeclaration, which poses unique challenges due to its high concealment and catastrophic potential, as exemplified by the Beirut Port explosion. Traditional resilience assessment approaches...
Artificial intelligence (AI), as a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field, is a key driver of future economic development. The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) is one of the most significant economic regions of China, which also has a leading role in th...
With the operation of the first route in Xi’an City, the matching relationship between the metro networks and the urban population is a root factor affecting the utilization of rail transit facilities. The mismatch between the metro networks an...
Urban livability and sustainable development remain major global challenges, yet the interplay between urban planning layouts and actual human activities has not been sufficiently examined. This study investigates this relationship in Beijing by inte...
Enhancing the synergistic governance of pollution control and carbon emission reduction is essential for achieving high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin urban agglomerations. Based on the connotation of synergistic governance of pollutio...
Under the continuous disturbance of ecosystems driven by urbanization, landscape fragmentation and the disruption of ecological processes and functions are key challenges in optimizing ecological networks (EN). This study aims to examine the spatiote...
Agriculture has become a major source of greenhouse gases in China. Agricultural carbon emission efficiency (AECC), as a key indicator of agricultural greening and sustainability, holds significant importance for advancing synergistic pollution reduc...
Time series and spatio-temporal forecasting are fundamental tasks for complex system modeling and intelligent decision-making, with broad applications in transportation, meteorology, finance, healthcare, and public safety. Compared with simple univar...
Due to advancements in information technology and growing eco-tourism demand, National Park Network Attention (NPNA) has emerged as a novel indicator of tourism appeal and ecological value recognition. Utilizing Baidu search index (accessed in 2023)...
As an important part of trade in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) area, significant research attention has been devoted to direct energy transfer, whereas studies on energy embodied in non-energy products have largely been neglected. To present an...
Research on the establishment of a regional ecological network can provide a scientific basis and valuable guidance for the protection of regional animals and plants, water conservation, sustainable resource utilization, and optimization of land use...
Urban heat island networks characterize the spatial organization and potential connectivity of relatively high-temperature patches, but multi-temporal analyses are constrained by the limited availability of fine-resolution and temporally dense land s...
The coordinated improvement of urban land green use efficiency (ULGUE) requires an in-depth exploration of its spatial correlation network characteristics and impacts. However, the existing studies on the matter have not yet formed a unified evaluati...
As a mesh-free solving paradigm, Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) demonstrate potential in both forward and inverse problems by embedding physical equations into the loss function. However, they still face challenges in capturing the spatiote...
2 January 2022
The promotion of information flow reinforces the interactive cooperation and evolutionary process among cities. In the information age, public online search is a typical behavior of Internet society, which is the key to information flow generation an...
Sensor data are increasingly used in monitoring spatiotemporal phenomena for diverse applications such as flood management, urban traffic, air quality control, forest fire management, etc. Real-time modelling and representation of such evolving pheno...
The global shift towards low-carbon economies underscores the critical role of new energy (NE) technologies in addressing climate change and ensuring energy security. China’s renewable energy sector serves as a prime example of this transition....
Against the backdrop of China’s “dual-carbon” goals, accurate analysis and prediction of subway passenger flows are crucial for optimizing operational efficiency and advancing low-carbon urban transportation. Beijing’s subway...
Ecological network resilience is an important indicator for evaluating whether regional ecosystems can maintain structural connectivity and functional stability under external disturbance. However, long-term changes in ecological network structure an...
This paper comprehensively utilizes the entropy-TOPSIS method, Lyapunov index, and kernel density estimation to measure the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of regional economic resilience in 52 African countries (regions) from 2008 to 2019....
The plain river network region is faced with ecological and environmental challenges such as insufficient hydrological connectivity and degradation of ecosystem services under the influence of urbanization and human activities, and therefore attentio...
Rapid urbanisation has reshaped Shanghai’s ecological land base and intensified fragmentation of its green infrastructure (GI). This study evaluates the spatiotemporal evolution of Shanghai’s GI network from 2000 to 2020 using a resilienc...
Maintaining water ecological health is essential for the sustainable development of plain water-network regions, where natural hydrological conditions and intensive human activities jointly shape ecological processes. To address the limited understan...
Intercity cooperation networks are critical for addressing regional imbalances and advancing sustainable regional development, yet existing studies typically focus on specific functional domains, rather than the overall intercity cooperation network....
Based on social network analysis (SNA) and the modified Boston Matrix (also known as Market Growth Rate—Relative Market Share Matrix or Four Quadrant Analysis, which was developed by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in the early 1970s.), this...
In the urbanization development trend, constructing inter-provincial metropolitan areas has gradually become an important pathway for China to implement its new urbanization strategy. Economic development in metropolitan areas inevitably leads to eco...
This study evaluates the new urbanization (NU) quality and the ecological resilience (ER) of 33 districts and counties in the Urban Agglomeration of Central Guizhou from 2010 to 2020. For this purpose, we used a modified coupled coordination degree (...
Achieving sustainable transport requires not only reducing aggregate emissions but also avoiding the concentration of emission burdens and transition costs in less-developed regions. Transport carbon-emission inequality therefore captures a distribut...
Aerosol optical depth (AOD) serves as a critical indicator for atmospheric aerosol monitoring and air quality assessment, and quantifies the radiative attenuation caused by airborne particulate matter. This study uses MODIS remote sensing imagery tog...
The upper Yellow River basin is a classic ecologically vulnerable area, characterized by acute human–land conflicts. The rapid pace of urbanization drives landscape fragmentation, which severely threatens regional sustainability and ecological...
Improving ecological well-being performance (EWP) is the essential requirement of green transformation development and ecological civilization construction. With the help of a network DEA model and threshold panel regression model, this study evaluat...
18 January 2023
The concept of strong sustainability suggests that natural capital is irreplaceable and emphasizes that human natural consumption cannot exceed the carrying capacity of the ecological environment. In the realistic context of tightening resource const...
Rapid urbanization poses a serious threat to China’s ecological security. However, the current single-spatio-temporal-scenario ecological network constructed based on the current situation of natural resources and land use ignores the dynamic c...
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