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Urban villages (UVs) are a special type of urban settlements in China. Their spatial evolution in recent years has a close relationship with urban planning and economic development. However, the remote sensing community pays little attention to UVs. This paper presents a new semantic scene model based on primitive indexes for detecting UVs using high resolution remotely sensed imagery. The model represents...
This study explores the effect of general disposition to trust on the perceived trustworthiness of an online vendor in high-and low-context cultures. A total sample of 616 responses from users of online bookstores was collected from China and Finland. The results show that the disposition to trust has a highly significant effect on the three dimensions of trustworthiness namely ability, integrity,...
This paper deals with the charging infrastructure for EVs in Beijing. By analyzing GPS and vehicle data from 38 real customers, a first statement could be worked out: Most customers drive, park and charge within the sixth ring road, charge at home and approach the same districts during the test duration. Additionally, different types of districts in Beijing generate various charging options. Especially...
This paper studies the management and policy design for low carbon transition of electricity system in China. Based on the discussion of innovation theory, the paper firstly proposes an interactive management framework for transition management in China. The top-down line of the framework is as “vision-strategy planning-implementation plan”, the bottom-up is detailed technology appraise and policy...
Due to high risk of unstable supply from fossil energy and growing concern with the preservation of the environment, well-developed Jiangsu province in China is hungering for alternative energy resources to catalyze stupendous economic growth. Assessing the technically available potential of solar energy spatially and temporally over the whole province might be able to improve the unfavorable situation...
As the population of China becomes more urbanized, cities will continue to expand, unknowingly igniting the multi-dimensional vulnerability of human settlements. Sustainable urban settlement requires serious manifestation in the form of low-carbon city construction. The growing urbanization trend, especially in mountain areas and in coastal areas, makes the search for policy solutions acute. Climate...
By measurement and analysis of the noise along Wuhan Guangzhou express railway, conclusions as follows can be educed: all of the noise on the boundary alongside express railway line measure up to GB12525; during the measurement, to those buildings in 2 noise environment functional area, day-time noise measures up to GB3096-93 hardly on the boundary of functional area, night-time noise goes beyond...
The dwelling, as the earliest building type in history, was influenced by particular region, climate, environment, life style and so on, and had formed various characteristics. Over the vast territory of China, there are a wide range of and different structural styles. Natural light, as an indispensable part of Chinese traditional dwelling, is worth sorting out and generalizing carefully. It is not...
Gushui Hydropower Station is planned as the first leading power station on the upstream of Lancang River in Yunnan Province of china, the slope near the power station is steep and high, the deposit body and the loose rock mass on the top of slop might lose stability if earthquake happened. 3D model of spillway outlet slope is established; the response spectrum method is applied to measure the dynamic...
The carbon dioxide emissions of China have been high for a long time. According to the CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion Highlights 2010 Edition, as to 2008, total carbon dioxide emissions of China have surpassed the U.S. Building products is an important part of the national economy and construction industry is charged with the main task of the infrastructure in China. Construction activities is...
By the specific analysis of electricity consumption and water supply in nationwide universities, this paper clearly indicates the level of energy consumption recently in relevant area. Then, according to the different climatic zones, the universities are divided into four groups, such as severe cold, cold, hot summer and cold winter, hot summer and warm winter areas, so that we can analyze and focus...
A method is proposed to assign the priority for indicators in this paper. This proposed method combines the group analytic hierarchy process (group AHP) and cluster analysis, therefore, it highlights the democracy and avoids the extreme individual preference in group decision. This method has been used to weight 17 identified indicators for assessing the energy efficiency of residential building in...
This paper outlines the trajectory of international planning and design practice in China, focusing on the post-reform era, and challenges and problems that manifested. It shows the initial focus on new concepts and material consideration of space in inviting international practice, and the recent local concerns of a more environmentally and culturally sensitive practice. The paper highlights the...
The accuracy and the applicability of LK model in the field of urban wind simulation, which fixes the structural defects of the standard k model, are further verified. Also, the paper analyzes the impacts of the spatial structure of urban canopy on the regional wind circumstance, and proposes fitting formula of relative region wind speed, building coverage ratio and building space ratio, based on...
This paper reviews the basic method in dealing with the urban traffic of China's metropolises. It analyses of fundamental problem of urban transport development in-depth. Then we give some advantages depending on building underground road network to solve these problems in center district of plain metropolises. After analyzing, we proposed that, to achieve this goal will require study and solve urban...
Based on the theory of green building, through introducing green building and green techniques showed in World Expo of Shanghai, put forward some proposals to green building's development of our country.
Glass curtain wall atrium can provide the building with good lighting and sight-seeing, but since thermal property of glass is unstable, interior environment usually alters with the climate, air condition system is required to reach the comfortable level of body. Hangzhou is taken as a typical example in subtropical monsoon climate region to certificate the limitation of glass atrium use in the south...
One of the original idea of World Expo 2010 Shanghai is to be introduced low-carbon idea, and to be created "low carbon Expo " and low-carbon model, which forms a broad, deep and sustained effects of low-carbon in post-World Expo, responses and describes a global low carbon revolution. According to the central requirements of scientific development, harmonious development, first development,...
Climate change policy and position drives the transition to a low carbon economy, creating opportunities and risks to which businesses must respond to succeed.This paper presents the key policy drivers by sector and summarise the international policy shaping China position. It studies provide in depth analysis of key issues to inform businesses and policy makers on how to address climate change and...
The purpose of this paper is to detect the input condition and technical efficiency of grape production in China, and compare the production condition between Open-field Cultivation and Protected Cultivation using the frontier approach. The results show the mean technical efficiency is about 0.79 suggesting that 0.21 of the potential production is lost in Chinese grape production. Meanwhile, the technical...
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