With the current acceleration of climate change, there is a global demand for sustainable development and carbon emission reduction. As a major link in the global supply chain, the logistics industry’s green and low-carbon transformation has be...
In recent years, China’s population growth rate is slowing, and birth rates are declining. The impact of changes in population size and structure on logistics development has raised important concerns. The coupling coordination between populati...
With the growing influences of anthropogenic activities and climatic change, the problem concerning the vulnerability of the Water-Energy-Food-Carbon (WEFC) system in the Yellow River Basin is prominent. Using the VSD framework, the WEFC system vulne...
Understanding the spatio-temporal evolution of land consolidation is essential for optimizing regional land resource allocation and mitigating human–land conflicts during socio-economic development. This study introduced a novel framework for a...
Since the 1930s, due to the rapid development of the city and the increase of population, the demand from Beijing residents for water resources has gradually increased. Land deformation in the Beijing Plain is a serious issue. In order to warn of, an...
Road traffic safety is a key concern of transport management as it has severely restricted Chinese economic and social development. With the objective to prevent and reduce road traffic crashes, this study proposes a comprehensive spatiotemporal anal...
The “14th Five-Year Plan” period is a critical period and a window to obtain emission peak and carbon neutrality in China. The Yellow River Basin, a vital location for population activities and economic growth, is significant to China&rsq...
Against the backdrop of rapid global urbanization, studying the spatiotemporal evolution of cross-regional tourism corridors can effectively guide decision-making for sustainable tourism development. However, previous studies have overlooked the role...
The terrestrial spatial patterns were affected by human activities, primarily on regional land use (LU) changes, with habitat quality (HQ) serving as a prerequisite for achieving regional sustainable development. Assessing and predicting the spatiote...
Spatiotemporal evolution and fluctuation characteristics of a centrifugal compressor are investigated by numerical simulation under near-stall conditions and with a high mass-flow rate. The large-eddy simulation (LES) for unsteady computations is imp...
As an important mode of transportation for the global trade, waterborne transportation has become a priority option for import and export trade due to its large load capacity and relatively low cost. Meanwhile, shipping safety has been highly valued....
In the 21st century, China’s economic development has made great achievements, and at the same time, it has brought about the problem of distribution of production–living–ecology space (PLES). As an important region of population ac...
In this paper, the spatiotemporal evolution of wind turbine (WT) wake characteristics is studied based on lattice Boltzmann method-large eddy simulations (LBM-LES) and grid adaptive encryption at different incoming flow velocities. It is clearly capt...
Agricultural drought events have become more frequent in the Inner Mongolia inland river basin in recent years, and the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics and development rules can be accurately and comprehensively understood using the three-d...
Synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) has the advantages of a wide monitoring range, high density, high accuracy, and is not limited by weather conditions, providing a new technical means for landslide research. On 21 August 2021, a landsli...
A quantitative study on the spatial structure and spatiotemporal variation characteristics of net carbon sinks in regional farmland ecosystems is of significant importance for uncovering the multifunctional roles of farmland ecosystems and formulatin...
Soil organic matter (SOM) is a key component of nutrient cycling and soil fertility in terrestrial ecosystems. SOM is of great significance to the stability of terrestrial ecosystems and the improvement of soil productivity; to further exert its role...
Rural restructuring is an effective means to boost rural revitalization. Research on rural restructuring and its driving forces is helpful to adjust the evolution direction of key development factors, and form a coupling and coordinated development p...
15 November 2022
The material foundation of sustainable agricultural development is cultivated land resources, and their sustainable use is critical to fostering agricultural sustainability and guaranteeing national food security. In this paper, the multifunctional e...
PM2.5 pollution events evolve continuously through spatiotemporal diffusion. However, their three-dimensional spatiotemporal variation characteristics are often overlooked, and the interactions among key characteristics (e.g., duration, maximum conce...
23 January 2023
Studying the spatiotemporal evolution of carbon emissions from the perspective of major function-oriented zones (MFOZs) is crucial for making a carbon reduction policy. However, most previous research has ignored the spatial characteristics and MFOZ...
Influenced by historical background, regional economic development, and the frequent occurrence of armed conflict, the human–earth relationship in the Central and Southern Peninsula, which is located in a “fragmented zone”, is chara...
Frontier research has focused more on the sustainable economic development (SED) of developing countries, with slightly less attention paid to the SED of underdeveloped regions in developing countries, especially without analyzing their driving facto...
This paper aims to measure the development level and dynamic evolutionary characteristics of the digital business environment, and explore its sustainable development strategies, which would contribute to the sustainable development of the digital ec...
To understand the early warning signs of damage during the coal mass deformation process, an integrated monitoring procedure was designed that combines the apparent resistivity (AR) and acoustic emission (AE) of coal damage under multi-step loading....
Water conservation services are key indicators of ecological services. Against the backdrop of frequent extreme weather events and water scarcity caused by global climate change and intensified human activities, assessing these services and their dri...
The value of ecosystem regulation services (ERSV) is a crucial aspect of gross ecosystem product (GEP). Understanding and mastering the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and driving factors of ERSV is essential for the efficient management of...
Understanding the characteristics of downburst wind fields is crucial for studying structural resistance to downbursts. Based on measured data from the 325 m meteorological tower in Beijing, this paper investigates the spatiotemporal evolution of mea...
The Central Yunnan Water Diversion Project (CYWDP) is currently under construction and represents China’s most extensive and geologically challenging water transfer infrastructure, facing significant geohazard risks induced by intensive engineering a...
Innovation is the core driving force behind the high-quality development and global competitiveness of cities. The spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of innovation are of significant value in optimizing the allocation of inn...
The destabilizing damage of rock structures in coal beds engineering is greatly influenced by the bearing rupture features and energy evolution laws of rock–coal assemblages with varying height ratios. In this study, we used PFC3D to create roc...
The formation and development of cities are inseparable from a certain scale of water resources. The information contained in the morphological structures of cities and water systems is often overlooked. Exploring the spatiotemporal evolution of wate...
Ecosystem service flow (ESF) provides a new perspective for understanding the spatial transfer of ecosystem services across urban administrative boundaries, which is of significant importance for optimizing the regional ecological resource allocation...
The impact generated by landslide-induced surge waves in large reservoirs poses significant threats to the safety of coastal residents and their property. It is essential to further elucidate the characteristics of these surge waves and enhance the c...
Strategic Emerging Industries (SEIs) are a critical driver of China’s green transition and high-quality development; however, the Ecological and Environmental Effects of Firm Entry and Exit remain insufficiently explored. Based on micro-level d...
Promoting the development of low-carbon renewable energy is crucial for meeting the growing energy demand, reducing dependence on fossil fuels, and controlling carbon dioxide emissions. Clarifying the spatiotemporal characteristics of regional renewa...
Under the context of global climate change, aridity responses exhibit significant differences across various latitudinal zones, and quantifying the dependency relationship between aridity and latitudinal zones is of great importance for differentiate...
This paper explores the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and spatial correlation patterns of green building development differences in 41 cities in the Yangtze River Delta region from 2012 to 2020 by means of the gravity center analysis model...
Exploring the interaction and coupling effects within the digital economy and eco-economic system resilience in urban agglomeration areas is conducive to promoting high-quality sustainable urban development. Based on the coupling effect perspective,...
The Pattern Informatics Method (PI) was initially developed for medium-to-long-term earthquake prediction by analyzing changes in seismic activity. It has since been refined and extended to identify ionospheric anomalies associated with earthquakes....
Precipitation unevenness significantly influences the rational allocation of water resources and the management of agricultural irrigation. Based on precipitation data from 29 meteorological stations in Heilongjiang Province, China, from 1961 to 2020...
China’s higher education system is the largest globally but faces significant spatial imbalance issues. While studies have examined the spatial distribution of universities, long-term dynamic analysis, quantitative exploration of influencing fa...
Carbon emissions (CE) in Anhui Province are closely related to carbon emissions from industrial land (CEIL). In this study, based on industrial land, industrial energy consumption, and related statistical data in Anhui Province from 2000 to 2016, the...
Traditional villages are irreplaceable cultural heritages, embodying complex human–environment interactions. This study uses historical geography analysis, kernel density estimation, centroid migration modeling, and Geodetector techniques to an...
Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of croplands is crucial for guiding agricultural transformation, food security, and sustainable land use in Africa. This study employs 30 m resolution land cover data and multi-source datasets to examine the...
In the context of global warming, the continued increase in the frequency of compound events—where drought and high-temperature extremes coincide—has led to severe natural disasters and substantial socio-economic losses. To systematically...
Intensified water consumption has driven rapid groundwater depletion globally, threatening economic and environmental sustainability. Understanding large-scale groundwater dynamics has been constrained by the scarcity of long-term, high-resolution re...
Ammonia (NH3) is a crucial alkaline component in the atmosphere, with significant impacts on environmental and ecosystem health. However, our understanding of the long-term variability characteristics of NH3 emissions is still limited due to the scar...
Based on provincial panel data from 2014 to 2023, this study employs the entropy weight method to construct an indicator system for measuring the logistical resilience of regions along China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Dagum Gini coef...
Corn and pig farming are representative sectors of China’s crop production and livestock industries, respectively. The spatial relationship between these two industries is of great significance for coordinating crop–livestock integration...
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