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, 2021 Mountainous regions are inherently susceptible to geohazards, such as landslides and debris flows, with the threat of natural disasters compounded by human activities (mainly settlements).
W. Gong, C. Juang, J. Wasowski
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Urban–rural human settlements in China: Objective evaluation and subjective well-being
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022 Human settlements have an important impact on human health, livability, and the economy, which has attracted widespread concern worldwide. Few studies have, however, paid attention to a comprehensive evaluation of urban and rural areas, as well as ...
C. Fang +6 more
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Land, 2022 The unique high/cold environment of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) limits the natural distribution of the population living there and threatens local residents’ health.
Hejie Wei +6 more
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Computational Urban Science, 2022 The impact of climate extremes upon human settlements is expected to accelerate. There are distinct global trends for a continued rise in urban dwellers and associated infrastructure.
Xinyue Ye, D. Niyogi
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Land, 2022 To improve the development quality of rural residential areas in plain areas requires scientific evaluation. Based on the rural residential area in Hengshui City, Hebei Province, the study selected four indicators of location, production, ecology, and ...
Lu Yu, Dinglong Xie, Xiang Xu
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 Resource-based urban agglomerations often encounter greater challenges in the sustainable development of human settlements. The aim of this study is to propose an approach to the coordinated development of competitiveness by analyzing the interaction of ...
Wenbo Yu +6 more
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Coupling Coordination of Urban Pseudo and Reality Human Settlements
Land, 2022 Urban pseudo and reality human settlements (PHSs and RHSs) are important components of the human–land relationship regional system. To explore the coupling and coordination relationship and principle among them is an important approach to high-quality ...
Shenzhen Tian +4 more
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Convolutional neural networks for global human settlements mapping from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery [PDF]
Neural computing & applications (Print), 2020 Spatially consistent and up-to-date maps of human settlements are crucial for addressing policies related to urbanization and sustainability, especially in the era of an increasingly urbanized world.
C. Corbane +7 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 This study used both temperature-humidity and wind efficiency indices at three time-scale resolutions (year, season, and month) for the first time, to analyze the spatio–temporal evolution of urban climate comfort in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Greater
Chunshan Zhou +4 more
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Sustainability, 2021 With the steady advancement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), how to build a sustainable environment for human settlements has become a hot topic of research for scholars from various countries.
Yan-bing Ding +8 more
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