Big spatial data for urban and environmental sustainability

B Huang, J Wang - Geo-spatial Information Science, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Eighty percent of big data are associated with spatial information, and thus are Big Spatial
Data (BSD). BSD provides new and great opportunities to rework problems in urban and …

Nonlinear and synergistic effects of TOD on urban vibrancy: Applying local explanations for gradient boosting decision tree

L Xiao, S Lo, J Liu, J Zhou, Q Li - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban vibrancy can facilitate human activities and social interactions, attract capital and
talent, enhance competitiveness and creativity, maintain resilience, and finally achieve a …

The Resilience to Emergencies and Disasters Index: Applying big data to benchmark and validate neighborhood resilience capacity

CE Kontokosta, A Malik - Sustainable cities and society, 2018 - Elsevier
Resilience planning and emergency management require policymakers and agency leaders
to make difficult decisions regarding which at-risk populations should be given priority in the …

Local responses to disaster: The value of community led post disaster response action in a resilience framework

RM Cretney - Disaster Prevention and Management, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose–When the devastating 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch, Aotearoa New
Zealand on the 22 February 2011 the landscape of the city and its communities were …

Evaluating and characterizing urban vibrancy using spatial big data: Shanghai as a case study

B Huang, Y Zhou, Z Li, Y Song… - … and Planning B …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Although people may recognize urban vibrancy when they see or sense it, developing direct
and comprehensive measures of urban vibrancy remains a challenge. In the context of …

A prototype framework for models of socio-hydrology: identification of key feedback loops and parameterisation approach

Y Elshafei, M Sivapalan, M Tonts… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2014 - hess.copernicus.org
It is increasingly acknowledged that, in order to sustainably manage global freshwater
resources, it is critical that we better understand the nature of human–hydrology interactions …

Shaping tomorrow's facilities management

J Bröchner, T Haugen, C Lindkvist - Facilities, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose Against the background of earlier publications on the future of facilities
management (FM) and acknowledging digitalization and sustainability as two major shaping …

Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon

M Londres, C Salk, KP Andersson, M Tengö… - Global Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Amazon has a diverse array of social and environmental initiatives that adopt forest-
based land-use practices to promote rural development and support local livelihoods …

Urban resilience in climate change adaptation: A conceptual framework

D Kim, U Lim - Sustainability, 2016 - mdpi.com
This study presents a conceptual framework for analyzing urban resilience in the context of
climate change. The key conceptual elements of resilience are first identified and then …

Key elements of attentions for enhancing urban resilience: A Comparison of Singapore, Hong Kong and Hangzhou

M Chen, Y Lu, Y Peng, T Chen, Y Zhang - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Urban resilience is an attractive concept among academies and governments with the
increasing severity of climate change and relevant disasters in cities. Few studies have been …