The low carbon development is the important trend of Chinese urbanism, and the gap between transportation infrastructure resource and travel demand induces to the transportation problems, such as congestion, energy, and safety. There is a missing connection with the Demand-Oriented Planning and Low-Carbon-Oriented Planning, since most of our discussion in the Urban Comprehensive Planning Procee...

Models of coupled landscape and aquatic systems (CLAS) are prone to input uncertainties that vary over space. To address this challenge, we employ a comprehensive model evaluation that: [1] quantifies the variability of model results (uncertainty analysis), and [2] decomposes this variability based on the relative contribution of inputs to identify major drivers in the model (sensitivity analys...

Although ecosystem approaches to management often look beyond specific jurisdictions and focus on broad spatial scales, the contribution local level plans and policies make in managing ecological systems must be strongly considered along with state and federal initiatives. Increasingly, environmental planners and policy makers are acknowledging the importance of local land use decisions impleme...

We describe acoustic/prosodic and lexical correlates of social variables annotated on a large corpus of task-oriented spontaneous speech. We employ Amazon Mechanical Turk to label the corpus with a large number of social behaviors, examining results of three of these here. We find significant differences between male and female speakers for perceptions of attempts to be liked, likeability, spee...

In this investigation, it was tried to identify major requirements of Ramsar city concerning passive and civil defense and to propose necessary strategies via evaluation of principles and methods of passive defense in preparation of civil plans especially from land use perspective. The objective of the present study was urban planning using passive defense principles and approaches in Ramsar, d...

Agricultural and forest ecosystems provide multiple ecosystem services (ESs) fundamental to the well-being quality of life citizens. However, in European context, these are often threatened by processes urban development, around cities, or abandonment, mountainous remote areas. Faced with need for solutions oriented towards greater sustainability resilience socio-ecological systems, planning sh...

Over recent decades, "Transit-oriented development" has been developed as a new approach based on sustainability concepts. This approach is mainly concerning coordinated action between land use planning and transportation planning which tries to create a clean, people friendly, livable, and dynamic community with growing local economy. Today, old urban centers face enormous challenges in terms ...

In this study, an inexact stochastic fuzzy programming (ISFP) model is proposed for land-use allocation (LUA) and environmental/ecological planning at a watershed level, where uncertainties associated with land-use parameters, benefit functions, and environmental/ecological requirements are described as discrete intervals, probabilities and fuzzy sets. In this model, an interval stochastic fuzz...

Human activity is rapidly transforming most of Earth's natural systems. How this transformation is impacting human health, whose health is at greatest risk, and the magnitude of the associated disease burden are relatively new subjects within the field of environmental health. We discuss what is known about the human health implications of changes in the structure and function of natural system...