Cities worldwide have been trying to achieve a sustainable urban form to handle their rapid urban growth. Many sustainable urban forms have been studied and two of them, the compact city and the eco city, were chosen in this study as urban form foundations. Based on these forms, four sustainable city criteria (compactness, compatibility, dependency, and suitability) were considered as necessary...

Land use is recognized as a pervasive driver of environmental impacts, including climate change and biodiversity loss. Global trade leads to "telecoupling" between the land use of production and the consumption of biomass-based goods and services. Telecoupling is captured by accounts of the upstream land requirements associated with traded products, also commonly referred to as land footprints....

This paper presents a constructive solution to the classic land division problem. This is the first result that enables allocation of higher-dimensional resources without degenerating them into a onedimensional resource allocation problem first. We base our allocation procedure on the topology of overlaps among the regions of interest of different agents. Our result is an algorithm suitable for...

SUMMARY Purpose: study optimization location-allocation of emergency shelter for Earthquake after destructive earthquake disaster, so as to prevent or reduce the damage caused by the earthquake and its secondary disasters, to guide the resettlement and reconstruction of post-disaster. Methods: basis on GIS, by applying the location-allocation optimization of P-center model of geographical space...

today, ecotourism is a major tourist activity around the world. it is based on environment potential through which suitable utilization and conservation of sites under management practices including considering accurate planning, potential, and peoples’ preferences are realized. the present study was conducted to determine people’s recreational preferences using questionnaires to evaluate the e...

The rural land use preferences of multiple agents are crucial for optimizing land-use allocation. Taking Guanlin Town, Yixing City, China as an example, this study analyzed the factors by effecting conversion probability, identified objectives and constraints within optimization allocation, simulated optimal allocation 2030 combining MAS with MOPSO procedure. results showed that decisions main ...

Zambia has in the recent years witnessed domestic and international land boundary conflicts as a result of commercialization, urban-rural migration and high demand for customary land and its consequent translation into monetary values due to improper land demarcation system and partial documentation of customary land parcels. In this study we propose the utilization and integration of Informati...

Economic growth in China is accompanied by many problems, such as rapid deterioration of the environment and a sharp decline in the area of arable land. China’s current land-use planning system fails to deal with these problems, especially at the regional level. The lack of sustainable spatial allocation at regional level has become a pressing problem. This article aims to: (1) analyze the reas...