scholarly journals Conservation for Sustainable Development: The Sustainability Evaluation of the Xijie Historic District, Dujiangyan City, China

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaiyun Kou ◽  
Jian Zhou ◽  
Jie Chen ◽  
Sichu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Sustainability Evaluation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Historic Districts ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Using Data

Historic districts have become a significant aspect of urban diversity and sustainable development, due to their dual attributes of cultural heritage and living community. This study aims to assess the influence of conservation efforts on the sustainable development of historic districts. Based on a literature review, this study designed a sustainability evaluation model that included twelve indicators and twenty-seven sub-indicators, in reference to heritage conservation, stakeholder participation, economic development, and planning and governance. The case study of the Xijie Historic District in Dujiangyan City, China, was selected to apply the model. Using data collected via questionnaire surveys and in-depth interviews, and using qualitative and quantitative combined methods and weighted averages, the model produced the sustainability index of the Xijie Historic District. Further examinations were performed and findings were explored, regarding the conservation efforts for the Xijie Historic District. Despite the research limitation of a lack of multi-sample verification, the results of the assessment are consistent with what is found in practice, demonstrating the validity of the model. The sustainability evaluation model can be applied to various historic districts and regions, by reassigning indicator weights to the different cases; the indicators system also provides references for research and practical applications for the conservation and sustainable development of other heritage types.

scholarly journals Development of Evaluation Index Model for Activation and Promotion of Public Space in the Historic District Based on AHP/DEA

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Fengwen Wu ◽  
Shiyu Qin ◽  
Chunyu Su ◽  
Mingyuan Chen ◽  
Qian Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Evaluation Index ◽  
Superposition Method ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Historic Districts ◽  
Evaluation Indexes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Index Model

Historic districts represent an important characteristic of Beijing and are also a crucial carrier of Chinese historic culture. However, they are significantly affected by the rapid urban constructions. Thus, it is of great significance to maintain and promote the public space in historic districts. This paper uses a multisource data superposition method to select the evaluation index of public space. The AHP was also used to complete the single-level and total-level ranking and calculation of evaluation indexes. Finally, based on the DEA model, a vitality evaluation model of Beijing historic district public spaces was developed and its validity was verified through a case study of the Wanping historic district.

scholarly journals Monitoring Development Sustainability through Sustainable Community Indicators

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (22) ◽  
pp. 1396
Author(s):  
Somchai Jitsuchon
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Outcome Indicators ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Personal Attitudes ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Development Outcomes ◽  
Sufficiency Economy Philosophy

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is both a continuation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and an improvement on the addition of ‘means of implementation’ to achieve the goals. The SDGs recognize that countries should have their own ways to achieve development goals. In this regard, Thailand, through its ‘sufficiency economy philosophy’ (SEP) invented by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, has created a unique path to attain sustainable development. The SEP path involves (a) shaping personal attitudes and behaviors towards sufficiency and (b) setting procedures or protocols for development projects and programmes. In this paper, we developed a system of indicators that capture the first component—personal attitudes and behaviors—of the sufficiency economy philosophy practiced by Thai people, as well as a set of ultimate development outcome indicators, using data from nation-wide household and community surveys. We then analyze how practicing the sufficiency economy philosophy is associated with development outcomes, where we find positive correlation between the two groups of indicators.

Exploration on Traditional Courtyard Micro-Climate Characteristics and Improvement Method - Case Study of No. 6 Courtyard of Chang'anxue Alley in Xi'an Sanxuejie Historic District

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 1918-1927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruo Bing Fan ◽  
Xiao Ming Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Thermal Environment ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Historic Districts ◽  
Improvement Method ◽  
New Perspective

Xian Sanxuejie district is a typical historic district of the city. Presently this type of traditional districts is surrounded by many modern buildings due to the rapid urban expansion. The historic districts are facing problems of poor courtyard micro-climate conditions and low living level, which has become the bottleneck of historic districts sustainable development. This paper studies thermal environment, luminous environment, solar environment and wind environment from a new perspective using Ecotect building environment analyzing software. The author explores micro-climate improving method suitable for traditional courtyard in order to promote micro-climate quality of historic district and to improve the comfort of local residences. The purpose is to achieve sustainable development of historic districts.

scholarly journals Sustainable Deforestation Evaluation Model and System Dynamics Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huirong Feng ◽  
C. W. Lim ◽  
Liqun Chen ◽  
Xinnian Zhou ◽  
Chengjun Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Dynamic Effect ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Sustainable Forestry ◽  
Flow Diagram ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Time Dynamic

The current study used the improved fuzzy analytic hierarchy process to construct a sustainable deforestation development evaluation system and evaluation model, which has refined a diversified system to evaluate the theory of sustainable deforestation development. Leveraging the visual image of the system dynamics causal and power flow diagram, we illustrated here that sustainable forestry development is a complex system that encompasses the interaction and dynamic development of ecology, economy, and society and has reflected the time dynamic effect of sustainable forestry development from the three combined effects. We compared experimental programs to prove the direct and indirect impacts of the ecological, economic, and social effects of the corresponding deforest techniques and fully reflected the importance of developing scientific and rational ecological harvesting and transportation technologies. Experimental and theoretical results illustrated that light cableway skidding is an ecoskidding method that is beneficial for the sustainable development of resources, the environment, the economy, and society and forecasted the broad potential applications of light cableway skidding in timber production technology. Furthermore, we discussed the sustainable development countermeasures of forest ecosystems from the aspects of causality, interaction, and harmony.

scholarly journals Meeting the Sustainable Development Goal of Good Health and Well-Being by European Union Countries in 2017

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Iwona Konarzewska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Good Health ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Health And Well Being

In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One of them, Goal 3, is defined as: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. In the paper, we have considered the indices proposed by Eurostat, which help to measure the level that the targets achieve. We present the dynamics of indices over the period 2002–2017. Multi-criteria statistical analysis for 28 EU countries was conducted using data up to 2017 to show how much EU countries are diversified and to present rankings of countries on their way to achieving the good health and well-being status of their citizens. The results are compared with a global SGD-Sub-Index for Goal 3, developed by Sachs et al. (2018).

scholarly journals RESEARCH ON THE POSITIONING OF PROTECTION AND UTILIZATION OF HISTORIC DISTRICTS UNDER BIG DATA ANALYSIS

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W5 ◽  
pp. 731-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Zhang ◽  
J. Zhang ◽  
X. Huo ◽  
W. Zheng ◽  
X. Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Space Environment ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Historic Districts ◽  
Comprehensive Management ◽  
Protection And Utilization

Historic districts are a special type of cultural heritage, as living cultural heritage, the utilization and development of historical districts is an inevitable issue. How to accurately position the protection and utilization of districts and achieve its healthy and sustainable development is the key work in the protection of districts. In this paper, the Internet data including Tencent’s location big data are employed to study some Chinese historic and cultural streets, establish protection and development index system for historic and cultural streets, carry out in-depth study of ten core indicators, and sum up the positioning and development direction for the protection and use of districts.<br><br> Historic district, as a special type of cultural heritage, is the birthplace and supporting zone of urban context, and also the place for the daily life of the general public. It boasts profound historic and humanistic background and the characteristics of a living form. As the living cultural heritage, its use and development are necessary, and attention shall also be paid to static protection and dynamic comprehensive management. But judging from the current practice, protection and use of historic districts face a host of challenges. Some districts are devoid of popularity and vitality and become cold galleries. Some districts suffer excessive development for tourism and commercialism, and lose its “original” cultural characteristics. In addition, throngs of tourists exert a negative impact on the life of the local people and the protection of immovable cultural relics. Disorderly business format and increasingly similar landscape go against the presentation of local characteristics.<br><br> We should regard historic district as a dynamic urban heritage, and achieve dynamic development and protection in accordance with its inherent development laws and the principle of “step by step” through the “organic update” mode, with emphasis on the continuous comprehensive management of material space environment and cultural society.<br><br> Therefore, how to make accurate positioning of the protection and utilization of districts and achieve its healthy and sustainable development is the key work in the protection of districts.

scholarly journals Application of Financial Cloud in the Sustainable Development of Smart Cities

Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yangchun Cao ◽  
Guangyu Zhang ◽  
Chunyao Ou
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Evaluation Score

This article first investigates the status of financial cloud development in smart cities and studies the sustainable development of smart cities. Secondly, it investigates the construction of the evaluation model, using the power of the financial cloud, through exploratory factor analysis, selecting the principal component analysis method to extract the factors, for screening and dimensionality reduction of the indicators, and making hypotheses. We used confirmatory factor analysis to establish the structural equation. The measurement model analyzes and validates the assumptions of the previous stage and finally determines the sustainable development evaluation index system. Then, starting from the scoring coefficient matrix of the exploratory factor analysis of the final model, the variance contribution rate of each common factor is weighted to construct a comprehensive evaluation model to calculate the comprehensive evaluation score. For the comprehensive evaluation score of the sustainable development level of the smart city, SPSS software performs cluster analysis, performs regional clustering, and determines the level of urban development. Finally, by comparing the sustainable development levels of smart cities, the related causes of the gaps are analyzed. Key factors affecting the sustainable development of smart cities are identified, and corresponding countermeasures are proposed.

scholarly journals Application of Geospatial Methods in Evaluating Environmental Interventions and Related Socioeconomic Benefits

2022 ◽  
pp. 275-289
Author(s):  
Anupam Anand ◽  
Geeta Batra
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
Global Environment Facility ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Socioeconomic Benefits

AbstractEnvironmental interventions underpin the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Rio Conventions. The SDGs are integrated and embody all three aspects of sustainable development—environmental, social, and economic—to capture the interlinkages among the three areas. The Rio Conventions—on biodiversity, climate change, and desertification, also intrinsically linked—operate in the same ecosystems and address interdependent issues, and represent a way of contributing to the SDGs. Assessing the results of environmental interventions and the related socioeconomic benefits is challenging due to their complexity, interlinkages, and often limited data. The COVID-19 crisis has also necessitated creativity to ensure that evaluation’s critical role continues during the crisis. Satellite and other geospatial information, combined with existing survey data, leverage open-source and readily available data to determine the impact of projects. Working with geospatial data helps maintain flexibility and can fill data gaps without designing new and often expensive data tools for every unique evaluation. Using data on interventions implemented by the Global Environment Facility in biodiversity, land degradation, and climate change, we present the application of geospatial approaches to evaluate the relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness of interventions in terms of their environmental outcomes and observable socioeconomic and health co-benefits.

scholarly journals Health and sustainable development: challenges and opportunities of ecosystem approaches in the prevention and control of dengue and Chagas disease

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. S149-S154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Boischio ◽  
Andrés Sánchez ◽  
Zsófia Orosz ◽  
Dominique Charron
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Vector Borne Diseases ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Ecosystem Approaches

A world of healthy people living in healthy ecosystems has proven to be an elusive goal of the sustainable development agenda. Numerous science-based assessments agree on the fundamental interdependence between people's health, the economy, and the environment, and on the urgency for more determined and concerted action based on multi-sector participatory approaches at the global and local levels. For knowledge to be policy-relevant and capable of contributing to healthy and sustainable development, it must take into account the dynamic and complex interactions between ecological and social systems (systems thinking), and it must be linked to development actions. This in turn requires greater interaction and exchange between decision-makers, researchers and civil society (a multi-stakeholder participatory process); and the harnessing of different disciplines and of different kinds of knowledge (a transdisciplinary approach). Ecosystem approaches to human health (ecohealth) link these elements in an adaptable framework for research and action. This paper presents an overview of ecohealth research approaches applied to vector-borne diseases, with particular attention to multi-stakeholder participation given its prominence in the sustainable development policy discourse.

Fuzzy Evaluation Method of Sustainable Development of Mining Area

2014 ◽  
Vol 587-589 ◽  
pp. 86-91
Author(s):  
Ri Jia Ding ◽  
Lu Yin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Actual Condition ◽  
Fuzzy Evaluation ◽  
The Sustainable Development

With respect to mining area, to establish an evaluation system that aims to reflecting its actual condition and assessing its sustainable development ability has been of importance. In this paper, we discussed the meaning of sustainable development and evaluation factors, and then built a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model to evaluate the sustainable development condition of mining area.

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