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Discerning Spatiotemporal Patterns and Policy Drivers of Rural Settlement Changes from 1962 to 2020
Land, 2022 Despite two centuries of urbanisation worldwide, 45% of the world’s people still live in rural areas. Driven by urban development, the form and structure of rural settlements have undergone drastic changes.
Congjie Cao, Wei Song
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Effect of Soundscape on Place Attachment for Historical Blocks: A Case Study of Harbin, China
Buildings, 2023 Sound is a memory carrier in places with rich history and culture, which can invoke place memories and images. The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of soundscape on place attachment in different types of historical blocks.
Wei Zhao +3 more
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Chinese Geographical Science, 2021 Social interaction has become one of the key factors affecting the spatial reconstruction of rural settlements (SRRS). However, most studies ignored the multi-scale impact of social networks on the identification of restructuring types of rural ...
Qiaobing Yue, Jianhua He, Dianfeng Liu
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 A complex urban living environment and residents' sleep quality are intrinsically linked. Nonetheless, there is little evidence that the residential environment affects sleep quality. Based on the results of subjective questionnaires, this study uses the
Xun Zhu +7 more
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Migrants’ experiences of material and emotional security in rural Scotland: implications for longer-term settlement [PDF]
, 2017 Drawing on qualitative research with Central and East European (CEE) migrants living and working in rural areas of Scotland, this article explores what it is that facilitates a desire to stay longer term and how this relates to theorisations of social ...
Flynn, Moya, Kay, Rebecca
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Sustainability, 2021 To explore the future development state of urban and rural settlements, we combined random forest algorithm (RFA) and cellular automata (CA) to simulate high precision in urban and rural settlements in Aksu city. The settlement distribution was predicted
J. Heng +4 more
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Analyzing the actions of the Administration of Novy Vasyugan rural settlement [PDF]
, 2006 The paper analyzes the actions of the Administration of Novy Vasyugan rural settlement. Novy Vasyugan is a village in Tomsk oblast and an administrative center of rural settlement. The Administration is a key element of a democratic society.
Aretz, Anke +7 more
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Energy Reports, 2021 A variety of renewable energy sources, demand side loads, and other factors bring a lot of uncertainties to the operation of district energy systems. However, there is no strict standard for the selection of uncertainty factors.
Tianjie Liu, Wenling Jiao, Xinghao Tian
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Research on the Acoustic Environment of Heritage Buildings: A Systematic Review
Buildings, 2022 As a significant part of heritage building protection, an increasing number of researchers pay attention to the study of the acoustic environment. The purpose of this study was to provide a clear understanding of the status quo of acoustic environment ...
Jingyi Mu, Tian Wang, Zhenlin Zhang
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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2022 Background: Regional ecosystem health assessments are the basis for the sustainable development of society. However, an ecosystem is a complex integration of ecosystem mosaics and subsystems that influence each other, making it difficult to evaluate them
Yuze Li, Yuanxiang Wu, Xiaoguang Liu
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