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Land, 2022 Despite the increasing interest in understanding the mechanism of household livelihood decisions to increase household livelihood welfare, the combined role of livelihood capitals and human settlements in livelihood decisions is unclear.
Weiwen Wang +3 more
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Land, 2023 It is crucial for the protection and sustainable development of villages in China to effectively determine the changes that have occurred in traditional villages’ architectural features and the causes of such changes in order to provide timely feedback ...
Yingtao Qi +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 Satellite-based broad-scale (i.e., global and continental) human settlement data are essential for diverse applications spanning climate hazard mitigation, sustainable development monitoring, spatial epidemiology and demographic modeling.
J. V. D. Hoek, Hannah K. Friedrich
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South African Construction Craftsmen’s Perceptions of Effective Personnel Management Practices [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 The recent skill shortage within South Africa has raised the need for proper management of the available craftsmen in the construction industry, as a large portion of work executed within the industry is done by this set of workers.
Aghimien Douglas +3 more
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TALK Capability of Biomimicry for Disruptive and Sustainable Output in the Construction Industry [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2020 Several sustainability trends have evolved and proliferated for greening the processes and activities of the construction industry (CI). Striking among the trends is biomimicry, a novel and nature-inspired approach that seeks a sustainable solution to ...
Aanuoluwapo Oguntona Olusegun +1 more
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Buildings, 2022 Climate issues have affected the sustainable development of global human settlements, and carbon, an essential factor affecting climate change, has become a hotspot of academic concern.
Nazan An, Q. Yao, Q. Shen
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Urban fire risk control: House design, upgrading and replanning
Jàmbá, 2018 Urbanisation leads to house densification, a phenomenon experienced in both planned and unplanned settlements in cities in developing countries. Such densification limits fire brigade access into settlements, thereby aggravating fire disaster risks.
Isabela Wilfred Mtani +1 more
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Numerical Research on the Performance of a Phase Change Heat Storage Electric Heating Module [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 A kind of phase change heat storage electric heating modules filled with the composite PCM was designed and fabricated in this paper. The thermal performance of the module was studied through the experiments, and the thermal performance influencing ...
Niu Dongyin +3 more
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Barriers Militating Against the Adoption of Biomimicry as a Sustainable Construction Practice [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019 The integration of sustainable practices into construction processes and activities are imperative for achieving the greening agenda of the construction industry. However, there has been a proliferation of several sustainable construction practices (SCPs)
Oguntona Olusegun Aanuoluwapo +1 more
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A set pair analysis model for suitability evaluation of human settlement environment
, 2021 The human settlement environment is a dynamic subsystem where people live and produce in the social system. This paper aims at evaluating comprehensively the suitability state of a given human settlement environment in a certain time and space and its ...
Wei-Qi Xiang, Xiaohua Yang, Yuqi Li
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