Cooperation projects rooted in cultural ties, such as South-South cooperation, are contemporarily receiving unprecedented attention from the international development community. This focus on specific types of partnerships points to an increasing concern that who a development actor partners with matters. One reason behind the comparative advantage of South-South cooperation is that countries f...

preferences for carbon credits sourced from urban forests. Current market carbon credit prices do not necessarily reflect the type and location of offset projects. Despite the fact that revenue generated from sales of carbon credits could help communities in many ways, the source of offset credits is largely unknown to the buyers. For example, buying offset credits generated by storing carbon i...

Recent years have witnessed a rapid development in the technologies that are related to digital visualization and simulation together with the technologies that try to link between digital and physical modelling. Many engineering and design practitioners have begun to apply selective technologies in their practices. The research attempts to classify the possible technologies that can be used th...

Promoting the intelligent level of urban pipelines network planning and management is an important way to improve rational development utilisation underground space ensure safe operation infrastructure systems. The research on using rapid visual expression technology 3D model data, which has functions techno-economic indexes calculation automatic comparison pipeline construction projects, effec...

A reliable urban transport system provides citizens’ access to workplaces, social engagements and other services (Browne and Ryan, 2011). At the same time, high levels of traffic impose negative externalities on society, including congestion, accidents, noise pollution or environmental damage (Santos et al., 2010). Decision-makers objectives are made up of a variety of different impacts (econom...

China provides a unique social-economic and political context for urban conservation and regeneration within the current trend of modernisation and globalisation. This paper investigates 4 urban regeneration projects conducted in four most internationalised historical Chinese cities from 1989 to 2005, in order to understand how traditional architectural elements are manipulated in these project...

Over the last decade, concept of circular economy (CE) has gained momentum among practitioners, politicians, and scholars because its promise achieving sustainability goals. However, there is still a need to demonstrate assess positive environmental impacts CE. With respect building sector, CE relatively new topic. To date, research tended focus primarily on macro-scale (cities or eco-parks) mi...

typically, best management practices (bmps) are implemented to help sustainable stormwater management in urban areas. over recent decades the selection of urban stormwater management measures for a site has been a challenge among urban planners where thecriterion based on flood volume no longer suffices for selecting urban drainage solutions. therefore there is a need to consider a set of holis...