Evaluation on ecological environment system is to describe and assess the quality of ecological environment, and accurately reflect the ecological environmental quality and pollution situation. In this paper, after reviewing the domestic and foreign relative researches, from the theory perspective of the dissipative structure of complex system, we analyzed the city ecological system dissipative...

Understanding the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases is important to allow for improvements of control measures. To investigate the spatiotemporal pattern of an epidemic dengue occurred at a medium-sized city in the Northeast Region of Brazil in 2009, we conducted an ecological study of the notified dengue cases georeferenced according to epidemiological week (EW) and home address. Ke...

Eco-knowledge city is a new concept for the world’s urban studies, an all-new urban form, and concept of urban development and strategy. The core of eco-knowledge city is to surpass the traditional urban development model of industrial society strategically, to purposely encourage citizens to learn and share knowledge equally, and to enhance creativity through the cultivation of knowledge, tech...

Planning and construction are well-known practical topics; however, eco-city developments and their sustainable effects on the city are less known. Xi’an is a typical city that has a target to become an eco-city. This city is selected in this case study with the aims of (1) framing eco-practices to enhance the understanding of an eco-city development and (2) evaluating the effect of eco-practic...

Green space is important for the maintenance of the ecological dimension of a sustainable urban landscape. Therefore, in order to figure out the relationship between the greening of urban parks and bird diversity, we used 5 avian ecological diversity indexes, such as Species richness, Abundance, ShannonWeiner diversity index, Evenness, and Margalef’s richness indices, to evaluate the functional...

Galf n Cranz has a Masters and PhD in sociolog)' from University" of Chicago, where she specialized in the "social use of space." Since then she has taught architecture from a social and cultural point of view at Princeton University and the University' of California at Berkeley. The author of The Politics ofPniii Design (1982), she hecame interested in the problems of sustainable development i...

It is widely believed that urban ecological landscape regards the city to be an ecosystem built by human activities and supported by natural and man-made functions and processes over time. In the past, human communities have selected their residing places and designed their cities by paying attention to natural environmental resources. The profound influence of technology and industry has broug...

Effective production, living, and ecological space allocation is essential for advancing territorial policy optimization improving the sustainability of land resource use. Based on theory “production-living-ecological” (PLES), present study uses spatial transfer matrix model, coupling degree ecosystem service value measurement to analyze changes in number structural characteristics PLES evoluti...

there are many trends in making an ecological city all around the word, one of important cases in this approach is safe and health water. according by definitions, safe and potable water is water needed for conducting the activities of man. potable water is the most important renewable sources and this resource plays important role for survival of most living organisms as well as man based on s...