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Mabrouk M, Han H, Abdrabo KI, Mahran MGN, AbouKorin SAA, Nasrallah S, Shen G, Fan C, Yousry A, Hafez HM. Spatial congruency or discrepancy? Exploring the spatiotemporal dynamics of built-up expansion patterns and flood risk. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 915:170019. [PMID: 38224877 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2023] [Revised: 01/05/2024] [Accepted: 01/06/2024] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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Most coastal cities have been experiencing unprecedented urbanization-induced flood risk, climatic events, and haphazard anthropogenic activities, jeopardizing residents' lives and building environments. Despite mounting flood-related studies, analyzing the correlation between the spatiotemporal dynamics of Built-up Expansion patterns (BE) and flood risk remains unknown and holds divergent perspectives. In this context, the coastal city of Alexandria, Egypt, characterized by multiple urban patterns and experiencing heavy rainfall annually, was selected as a testbed. Our method defined the spatiotemporal rates of BE from 1995 to 2023, quantified flood risk spatially, and finally investigated the correlation between BE and flood risk through spatial and statistical analysis. Our results show the built-up area occupied 30.32 % of the total city area till 2023, and the infilling pattern dominated the BE growth by 45.21 % of the total built-up area, followed by leapfrogging and edge expansion by 33.25 % and 21.55 %, respectively. The unplanned-infilling pattern is predominantly highly correlated with the flood-vulnerable peaks (correlation coefficient (rk) = 0.975, p-value < 0.05) and lowers dramatically towards planned-infilling regions with flood protections. Meanwhile, a spatial mismatch exists between high-risk peaks and leapfrogging and edge expansion (rk = 0.118 and 0.662, respectively, with a p-value < 0.01), indicating that controlling the built-up amount is inadequate for mitigating flood risk. Porosity-based urban configuration and spatial distribution of built-up patches in harmony with nature-based solutions are recommended for shaping flood-resilient and effective urban planning.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mahmoud Mabrouk
- College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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- College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Faculty of Innovation and Design, City University of Macau, Macau.
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- Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt; Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Department of Architecture, El Minya High Institute for Engineering and Technology, Egypt
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- College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Department of Architecture, El Minya High Institute for Engineering and Technology, Egypt
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- College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, USA
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- Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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- Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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Liu X, Ma F, Guo T, Ding Z. Spatial pattern of China's rural digital economy based on subjective-Objective evaluation: Evidence from 2085 counties. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0292249. [PMID: 38381735 PMCID: PMC10880976 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 09/14/2023] [Indexed: 02/23/2024] Open
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The rural digital economy plays an essential role in China's industrial upgrading, transformation, and urban-rural integration. To determine the state of China's rural digital economy, we constructed a county-level evaluation system using the subjective-objective evaluation method and calculated the digital economic levels of 2085 counties. Then, we analyzed the spatial distribution characteristics, spatial autocorrelation pattern, spatial disequilibrium degree, and spatial driving force of the rural digital economy at the county level using spatial analysis technology and a self-organizing feature mapping model. The results are as follows: 1) Compared with the real economy, the agglomeration effect of the digital economy was more obvious, and the economic gradient was more significant. Specifically, the dense high-value regions formed a continuous belt on the eastern coast from the Beijing-Tianjin area to the Pearl River Delta, opposite the dense low-value regions in the west. 2) There were significant differences in the rural digital economy within cities or provinces. Intraregional differences were not necessarily linked to the overall digital economy level because central and northeastern China presented a more balanced rural digital economy. 3) Digital network performance, e-commerce level, and economic vitality were identified as the core factors influencing the rural digital economy.
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- Xuran Liu
- College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China
- Key Research Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development Collaborative Innovation Center on Yellow River Civilization, Kaifeng, Henan, China
- Institute for Ocean Engineering, Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China
- Key Research Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development Collaborative Innovation Center on Yellow River Civilization, Kaifeng, Henan, China
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- College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China
- Key Research Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development Collaborative Innovation Center on Yellow River Civilization, Kaifeng, Henan, China
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China
- Key Research Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development Collaborative Innovation Center on Yellow River Civilization, Kaifeng, Henan, China
- National Demonstration Center for Environment and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, China
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Mabrouk M, Han H, Fan C, Abdrabo KI, Shen G, Saber M, Kantoush SA, Sumi T. Assessing the effectiveness of nature-based solutions-strengthened urban planning mechanisms in forming flood-resilient cities. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2023; 344:118260. [PMID: 37354590 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Revised: 05/20/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/26/2023]
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Cities have experienced rapid urbanization-induced harsh climatic events, especially flooding, inevitably resulting in negative and irreversible consequences for urban resilience and endangering residents' lives. Numerous studies have analyzed the effects of anthropogenic practices (land use changes and urbanization) on flood forecasting. However, non-structural mitigation's effectiveness, like Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), has yet to receive adequate attention, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which have become increasingly significant and indispensable for operationalizing cities efficiently. Therefore, our study investigated the predictive influence of incorporating one of the most common NBS strategies called low-impact development tools (LID) (such as rain gardens, bio-retention cells, green roofs, infiltration trenches, permeable pavement, and vegetative swale) during the urban planning of Alexandria, Egypt, which experiences the harshest rainfall annually and includes various urban patterns. City characteristics-dependent 14 LID scenarios were simulated with recurrence intervals ranging from 2 to 100 years using the LID Treatment Train Tool (LID TTT), depending on calibrated data from 2015 to 2020, by the Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency index and deterministic coefficient, and root-mean-square error with values of 0.97, 0.91, and 0.31, respectively. Our findings confirmed the significant effectiveness of combined LID tools on total flood runoff volume reduction by 73.7%, revealing that different urban patterns can be used in flood-prone cities, provided LID tools are considered in city planning besides grey infrastructure to achieve optimal mitigation. These results, which combined multiple disciplines and were not explicitly mentioned in similar studies in developing countries, may assist municipalities' policymakers in planning flood-resistant, sustainable cities.
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- Mahmoud Mabrouk
- College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University, Egypt
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- College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, USA
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- Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University, Egypt; Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
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- College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
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- Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
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- Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan
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Zhang J, Huang B, Chen X, Zhu C, Gan M. Multidimensional Evaluation of the Quality of Rural Life Using Big Data from the Perspective of Common Prosperity. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:14166. [PMID: 36361053 PMCID: PMC9657861 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192114166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Revised: 10/21/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Evaluating and revealing the spatial differentiations of quality of rural life (QRL) is the basis for formulating rural revitalization planning to promote rural transformation and achieve common prosperity. Taking the Lin'an District of Hangzhou city in China, an economically developed mountainous area, as an example, this study explored the connotation of QRL from the perspective of common prosperity and constructed a QRL evaluation framework involving living, employment, consumption, and leisure aspects. Then, based on multi-sourced data of 270 administrative villages as the assessment unit, we revealed the spatial patterns of QRL and proposed optimization paths to improving QRL. The results showed that (1) differences in the spatial distribution of quality of rural living, employment, consumption, and leisure of Lin'an District were significant, presenting stepped, block clustering, irregularity, and scattered patterns, respectively. (2) The overall QRL was mainly at a low level, clustered spatially, distributed in a strip pattern, and with obvious road directionality. (3) Based on the evaluation results of QRL, we divided the 270 administrative villages into six types of improvement: livability, employment, consumption, leisure, and balanced and lagged development types. This study could provide a scientific cognitive basis for the improvement of QRL and a useful reference for rural revitalization in China.
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- Jing Zhang
- Institute of Applied Remote Sensing and Information Technology, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
- The Rural Development Academy, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Shandong (Linyi) Institute of Modern Agriculture, Zhejiang University, Linyi 276000, China
- Key Laboratory of Urban Land Resources Monitoring and Simulation, Ministry of Natural Resources, Shenzhen 518000, China
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- Institute of Applied Remote Sensing and Information Technology, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Shandong (Linyi) Institute of Modern Agriculture, Zhejiang University, Linyi 276000, China
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- Territorial Consolidation Center in Zhejiang Province, Department of Natural Resources of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou 310007, China
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- Department of Land Resources Management, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China
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- Institute of Applied Remote Sensing and Information Technology, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
- The Rural Development Academy, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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Li Y, Geng H. Study on sustainable development and construction of karst mountain city based on the concept of a sponge city. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : A JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON WATER POLLUTION RESEARCH 2022; 86:1467-1477. [PMID: 36178817 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2022.265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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In recent years, there has been rapid urbanization development in China. The rapid expansion of cities and the increase in the proportion of the area of impervious surfaces have caused urban flooding problems. The karst area in Southwest China is characterized by a sensitive ecosystem, poor self recovery ability and typical karst development. The problems of a fragile and imbalanced water ecology are particularly prominent in karst areas, making it necessary to explore the applicability of the concept of sponge cities in such environments. This study reviews the technical ideas, methods and concepts of sponge cities in China and abroad in recent years. Guiyang, a typical karst mountain city in China, was taken as an example in this study. This was because Guiyang has special hydrogeological characteristics as well as the current urbanization development processes that are affecting the water resources and the environment in the region. It is believed that the construction of mountain sponge cities in karst areas should be mainly through source reduction, process control and end management, combined with intelligent construction methods. Focus should be on strengthening the prevention and control of soil erosion in key areas and risk areas and on properly handling the relationship between urban construction and water resources and ecological environment protection.
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- Yue Li
- College of Public Administration, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guizhou 550025, China E-mail:
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- College of Public Administration, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guizhou 550025, China E-mail:
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Gao M, Wang Z, Yang H. Review of Urban Flood Resilience: Insights from Scientometric and Systematic Analysis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:ijerph19148837. [PMID: 35886688 PMCID: PMC9316510 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19148837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2022] [Revised: 07/15/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In recent decades, climate change is exacerbating meteorological disasters around the world, causing more serious urban flood disaster losses. Many solutions in related research have been proposed to enhance urban adaptation to climate change, including urban flooding simulations, risk reduction and urban flood-resistance capacity. In this paper we provide a thorough review of urban flood-resilience using scientometric and systematic analysis. Using Cite Space and VOS viewer, we conducted a scientometric analysis to quantitively analyze related papers from the Web of Science Core Collection from 1999 to 2021 with urban flood resilience as the keyword. We systematically summarize the relationship of urban flood resilience, including co-citation analysis of keywords, authors, research institutions, countries, and research trends. The scientometric results show that four stages can be distinguished to indicate the evolution of different keywords in urban flood management from 1999, and urban flood resilience has become a research hotspot with a significant increase globally since 2015. The research methods and progress of urban flood resilience in these four related fields are systematically analyzed, including climate change, urban planning, urban system adaptation and urban flood-simulation models. Climate change has been of high interest in urban flood-resilience research. Urban planning and the adaptation of urban systems differ in terms of human involvement and local policies, while more dynamic factors need to be jointly described. Models are mostly evaluated with indicators, and comprehensive resilience studies based on traditional models are needed for multi-level and higher performance models. Consequently, more studies about urban flood resilience based on local policies and dynamics within global urban areas combined with fine simulation are needed in the future, improving the concept of resilience as applied to urban flood-risk-management and assessment.
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- Meiyan Gao
- Yellow River Laboratory, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China; (M.G.); (Z.W.)
- School of Water Conservancy Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- Yellow River Laboratory, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China; (M.G.); (Z.W.)
- School of Water Conservancy Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- Yellow River Laboratory, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China; (M.G.); (Z.W.)
- School of Water Conservancy Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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This study aims is to verify the effects of sponge city projects focusing on the aspect of water pollutant control and urban flood control, applying the geodesign framework as an integrated planning method that can evaluate alternatives against the impacts of the designs. The study analyzed the effects of sponge city projects in Harbin, Quzhou, and Sanya, China. Three LULC scenarios are proposed based on the geodesign framework, and the spatial distribution and quantitative values are simulated by the InVEST NDR model and urban flood model study. By comparing different scenarios, the study proved the current sponge project could improve the water pollutant control capability by 11–18% and the stormwater control capability by 0.4–6.3%. If the city-wide green infrastructure network is introduced with sponge projects, the water pollutant control capability can increase by 9–15% and the stormwater control capability can increase by 0.8–2.9%. These results show that the current sponge projects can improve the city’s sustainability and be helpful strategies to fight climate change and global warming.
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