Sustainability can be understood as a specific kind of problem framing that emphasizes the interconnectedness of different problems and scales and calls for new forms of problem handling that are much more process-oriented, reflexive and iterative in...
Rapid urbanization has affected the eco-environment in China. A clear understanding of the coupling relationship between urbanization quality and eco-environment pressure is needed for sustainable urban development. This study focused on the relation...
Urban expansion is commonly attributed to market-oriented forces, while public finance factors connected to government forces, especially land finance, in China’s institutional environment, can provide a more interesting explanation. Using a fi...
Urban infrastructure (UI), subject to ever-increasing stresses from artificial activities of human beings and natural disasters due to climate change, assumes a key role in modern cities for maintaining their functional operations. Therefore, underst...
Natural ventilation and the use of fans are recognized as sustainable design strategies to reduce energy use while reaching thermal comfort. A big challenge for designers is to predict ventilation rates of buildings in dense urban areas. One signific...
9 October 2021
Following the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic, this study aimed to evaluate the overall effects of remote blood pressure monitoring (RBPM) for urban-dwelling patients with hypertension and high accessibility to healthcare and provide updated quanti...
Urban well-being in China emerges from spatially uneven configurations of development intensity, environmental pressure, governance input, public-service capacity, land-use transformation, and urban–rural conditions. Using a balanced panel of 2...
27 December 2022
Urban residents have a higher risk of hypertension and psychological stress than rural residents. Aside from medical interventions, understanding how to control hypertension and alleviate the stress of urban populations has become a public concern. A...
Coordination between regional economic development and carbon pressure is essential for sustainable regional development. However, existing research on carbon pressure and studies on the relationship between economic growth and carbon pressure needs...
27 June 2021
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has put hypertensive patients in densely populated cities at increased risk. Nurse-coordinated home blood pressure telemonitoring (NC-HBPT) may help address this. We screened studies published in English on three d...
Urban expansion is often tracked with annual land-cover data, yet year-to-year classification noise can masquerade as persistent urban growth. Previous work has usually treated detection, morphology, spatial structure, driver analysis, and forward-lo...
Urban flood resilience depends not only on the scale of infrastructure investment, but also on whether such investment can be translated into observable flood-mitigation outcomes. Focusing on the transformation from infrastructure response to flood o...
Talent revitalization is the basis of rural revitalization, and the return of migrant workers to their hometowns is a critical way to improve rural human capital. Based on the perspective of individual–family interaction and collaboration, we c...
Addressing the lack of quantitative basis for dynamic response characterization and emergency shutdown decision-making in urban high-pressure gas pipeline leaks, this study takes a JS pipeline as the engineering case and establishes a dynamic simulat...
EnergyPlus AirflowNetwork (EP-AFN) calculates external node pressure using opening height wind speeds, whereas wind pressure coefficients based on a fixed-reference wind speed (
China’s unique economic growth target system exerts significant economic growth pressure (EGP) on local officials, leading to notable economic and environmental consequences for urban land use. Consequently, this system is theoretically expecte...
The relationship of dietary calcium intake (DCI) to blood pressure (BP) and hypertension occurrence (HTN) in the general population is controversial. Few studies have reported the impact of DCI on high blood pressure (HBP) and HTN in rural and urban...
The purpose of this work is to synthesize, for an international audience, certain fundamental elements that characterize the Italian peninsular territory, through the use of a biogeographical model known as the “peninsula effect” (PE). Ju...
In 2000, to efficiently implement land-use policies, the Taiwanese government amended the Agricultural Development Act by easing restrictions on agricultural land purchases. As a result of increasing land development and investment needs, agricultura...
Increasing urbanization and densification are two of the largest global threats to biodiversity. However, certain species thrive in urban spaces. Hedgehogs Erinaceus europaeus have been found in higher densities in green areas of settlements as compa...
This study aims to identify the success factors and main barriers and threats to developing peri-urban farms implementing various business models. For that purpose, a survey was conducted among a group of Polish farms located in the areas surrounding...
With the rapid advancement of urbanization, the problem of traffic congestion in cities has become increasingly severe. Effectively managing traffic congestion is crucial for sustainable urban development. Previous studies have indicated that fluid d...
Urban ponds are increasingly recognised as important refuges for freshwater biodiversity within human-dominated landscapes. However, phytoplankton and zooplankton are often studied separately, leaving unresolved whether different plankton components...
The urban–rural income gap remains a central issue in the income distribution of developing countries, constraining regional coordination and social equity. Although stable economic development is essential for narrowing this gap, the distribut...
22 November 2018
During the last 40 years, China has undergone rapid urbanization which has resulted in land degradation and a decrease in land. Cultivated land protection has thus become one of the most active and important aspects of land science. This study presen...
Historic city centres of European cities are one of the most important elements of the European cultural heritage. They are places that attract many visitors due to their relevance in terms of heritage, but the recent growth of tourist flows constitu...
The assurance of drinking water supply is one of the biggest emerging global challenges, especially in urban areas. In this respect, groundwater and its management in the urban environment are gaining importance. This paper presents the modeling of n...
Rapid urbanisation and intensified agriculture are major drivers of groundwater contamination in peri-urban agricultural aquifers worldwide. Contaminants including nitrates and phosphates accumulate through fertilizer use, wastewater infiltration, an...
Green areas are necessary components of contemporary cities. They have a positive impact on the climate, ecological balance and resilience of the city structure, and provide numerous benefits to inhabitants. However, progressing urbanisation and a ri...
A Constant Pipe Drainage (CPD) capacity for sewer systems is commonly applied when undertaking flood risk assessment, however data that are needed for calibration and validation of numerical models are scarce or unavailable. The CPD model neglects th...
Urban ecosystems are increasingly shaped by multiple environmental stressors, which may threaten both biodiversity and human well-being. We summarised the current knowledge on the ecological and social consequences of seven major urban pressures: air...
Nowadays, urban rail transit is expanding towards high-elevation zones, and the effect of the low air pressure environment on the pantograph-catenary system is becoming increasingly prominent. As a key indicator for evaluating the electrical contact...
Ground-nesting shorebirds face growing pressure from recreational activities in coastal urban areas. We monitored the breeding success of Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) and Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) over six consecutive years...
Enhancing urban resilience is a critical pathway for sustainable development in mountainous cities facing multi-hazard scenarios and rapid urbanization pressures. From an emergency management perspective, this study develops a data-informed urban res...
Amid the accelerating global green transition, urban Low-Carbon Sustainable Development (LCSD) has emerged as a critical governance challenge. Despite a growing body of research on low-carbon initiatives, the role of local governments in shaping urba...
Low-pressure water mist fire extinguishing systems are a cost-effective and highly reliable option for fire protection. However, they have not yet seen widespread use in urban underground utility tunnels. To validate the fire extinguishing effectiven...
Fire security is an important part of the urban infrastructure system. In existing quantitative application research, fire stations have always used a maximally covered approach to optimize the layout of urban functions. With this planning, different...
Urban squares remain underrepresented in conservation-oriented literature compared with parks, street trees and green infrastructure. This scoping review uses CS-derived categories as an analytical lens to examine how the literature on urban squares...
Urban transportation issues continue to emerge and evolve as a result of rapid urbanization, and the systematic and scientific assessment of urban mobility is becoming increasingly essential. In this work, a Pressure-State-Response (PSR) model with 2...
Carbon neutrality is becoming an important development goal for regions and countries around the world. Land-use cover/change (LUCC), especially urban growth, as a major source of carbon emissions, has been extensively studied to support carbon-neutr...
Food security has received extensive academic attention in recent years. However, research results analyzing cultivated land pressure from the perspective of urbanization are relatively few. This study used Jiangsu Province as the study area and anal...
The essence of sustainable urbanization is to take a holistic approach to the harmonious development of economic, social, cultural and environmental protection. This paper applies the urban sustainability assessment system to analyze the characterist...
Historic urban landscapes face development pressures that often shift beyond protected heritage boundaries. This study evaluates the spatial redirection of urban development pressure around the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Safranbolu, Türkiye (...
Background and Objectives: Central aortic pressure (CAP) can be measured through noninvasive methods, and CAP wave analysis can provide information about arterial stiffness. The objective of this study was to compare CAP in women with preeclampsia an...
Although conservation and development are two facets of sustainability, they are often placed in contradictory positions. In this context, planning systems are able to respond to investment pressure, especially in countries with underdeveloped instit...
With the acceleration of global climate change and urbanization, urban resilience has become a critical issue. This study, based on the Pressure-State-Response (PSR) model, constructs an urban resilience evaluation index system for Sanming City. Indi...
In recent years, it has become common practice for Chinese local governments to inject land assets into financing platform companies and use them as mortgage or credit guarantees to obtain bank loans and issue urban investment bonds, which is known a...
Urbanization may exert a strong influence on both near-surface and atmospheric moisture. However, studies on the effect of urbanization on atmospheric moisture using remotely sensed observations have been infrequently conducted. To fill this research...
Urban water distribution networks are crucial infrastructures for providing essential services to society, but their exorbitant costs and limited water resources make their optimization a critical research area. Optimal management and design of these...
24 December 2020
Nighttime walking is becoming a popular exercise for many middle-aged and older people in Asian countries. However, the health benefits of nighttime walking in urban areas and green spaces are still unclear. This study evaluated the physiological and...
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