Search
Search Results
-
Modeling Structural Equations to Balance the Positive Energy Area in Cities
Recently, the concept of a Positive Energy District (PED) has been deeply discussed, and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) has been widely used in... -
How Does Urban Shrinkage Affect Land Use Efficiency? A Case Study of Shrinking Cities in Northeast China
The effect of urban shrinkage has gradually become a new topic. Theoretically, urban shrinkage may exert great influence on land use efficiency (LUE)...
-
Artificial Intelligence-Based Metaverse as a Virtual Model of Smart Urbanism: Unveiling the Challenges for Cybersecurity
Artificial intelligence (AI) is at the center of the Metaverse, a vast ecosystem adoption centered on Extended Reality technology. As the creation of... -
Evaluation and Driving Force Analysis of Cultivated Land Quality in Black Soil Region of Northeast China
Cultivated land is an important natural resource to ensure food, ecological and economic security. The cultivated land quality evaluation (CQE) is...
-
Residential location choice: an investigation of transportation, public facilities, and social factors
Residential location choice is a crucial topic in transportation planning research since land use as well as residential land use can significantly...
-
Analytical Frameworks of TSESs
This chapter reviews the current analytical frameworks for coupled human–nature systems. It analyzes the challenges and limitations of existing... -
A Structural Equation Model of Commercial Vehicle Ownership
Behavioral freight transportation modeling has recently emerged as an approach to enhance the quality of freight and logistics-related decisions.... -
Withdrawal Intention of Farmers from Vacant Rural Homesteads and Its Influencing Mechanism in Northeast China: A Case Study of Jilin Province
The effective use of land in Northeast China is of great significance for ensuring national food security and regional rural revitalization. In this...
-
Plant property regulates soil bacterial community structure under altered precipitation regimes in a semi-arid desert grassland, China
Variations of precipitation have great impacts on soil carbon cycle and decomposition of soil organic matter. Soil bacteria are crucial participants...
-
Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus additions on soil microbial community structure and ecological processes in the farmland of Chinese Loess Plateau
Microorganisms regulate the responses of terrestrial ecosystems to anthropogenic nutrient inputs. The escalation of anthropogenic activities has...
-
Effects of desert plant communities on soil enzyme activities and soil organic carbon in the proluvial fan in the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountain in Ningxia, China
It is of great significance to study the effects of desert plants on soil enzyme activities and soil organic carbon (SOC) for maintaining the...
-
A Study of Intended Unsafe Pedestrian Crossing Behaviors at Signalized Intersections in Vietnam
This paper presents a model for pedestrians’ intended unsafe crossing behaviors at signalized intersections based on the Theory of Planned Behavior... -
Challenges, perceptions, and future preferences for post-secondary online education given experiences in the COVID-19 outbreak
To gain a better understanding of online education status during and after the pandemic outbreak, this paper analyzed the data from a recent survey...
-
Urban Design for Health: Innovation for Sustainable Smart City After the Pandemic
While the present concept of a smart city mainly focuses on technology without considering health and sustainable development, the Coronavirus... -
Effects of landscape fragmentation of plantation forests on carbon storage in the Loess Plateau, China
Tree plantation and forest restoration are the major strategies for enhancing terrestrial carbon sequestration and mitigating climate change. The...
-
Systemic Disruptive Events and Sustainability in Supply Chains: Assessments by Mediating Effect of Vulnerability and Resilience—A Study on Health Sector in Morocco
The viable resilience of supply chains, in which resilience, durability, and performance remain unchanged at acceptable levels in the presence of... -
Empirical Evaluation of Urban Sustainability from Underlying Causal Structures and Legacy Effects: The Prefecture Cities in China as a Case Study
One innovation separating the total socioenvironmental system (TSES) analytical framework from other coupled human–nature systems is its focus on... -
Online and in-store shop** interactions for non-essential experience goods
The online and in-store shop** landscape underwent transformative shifts due to the Covid-19 pandemic, potentially leading to novel hybrid shop**...
-
Latent factor analysis and measurement on sustainable urban livability in Siliguri Municipal Corporation, West Bengal through EFA and CFA model
United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal targets to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable; as it is...
-
Drivers of water pollutant discharge in urban agglomerations and their scale effects
Revealing the drivers and scale effects of water pollutant discharges is an important issue in the study of the environmental consequences during...