Climate Suitability Assessment of Human Settlements for Regions along the Belt and Road

Lin, Yi; Li, Peng; Zhu, Feng; Yang, Yanzhao; Zhou, You; Zhu, Fuxin

doi:10.1007/s11769-021-1241-5

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“…With respect to the research scale, existing research on urban climate comfort evaluation is based mainly on the single year, month, and day time scale (Lyu and Chen, 2021;Xiong and Zhang, 2021), with a lack of comparative analysis of the spatial characteristics of urban climate comfort based on the three time dimensions (year, month, and day). With respect to the research perspective, existing research mainly focuses on summarizing the spatial and temporal change characteristics of regional human settlement climate comfort (Camila et al, 2021;Lin et al, 2021), but it does not explore the effect of change in human settlement climate comfort on the spatial layout of population density.…”

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Spatiotemporal relationship characteristic of climate comfort of urban human settlement environment and population density in China

Zhang

Zhou

et al. 2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Rapid urbanization in China has caused substantial changes in the urban climate, leading to accelerated shifts in the climate comfort of the human settlement environment. In addition, in certain regions of China, a glaring disproportion exists in the distribution of population to the available area. Therefore, the climate comfort of such areas needs to be improved to enhance their habitability. In this study, we explored the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of the climate comfort of the urban human settlement environment in China from 2000 to 2015, based on a three-level time scale of year, month, and day using the temperature and humidity index and wind efficiency index. In addition, the population density in China was calculated by employing the population grid spatial calculation method. Subsequently, we compared and analyzed the spatiotemporal relationship characteristics between the climate comfort of the urban human settlement environment and population density. Our results indicated that (1) the extremely cold area was the largest, followed by the cold area, with the comfort area being the smallest. The area range of climate comfort and cold expanded northward, whereas the extremely cold area shrank from 2000 to 2015. (2) The duration of the comfort month and comfort day in southern China was higher than that in northern China. The climate comfort area of 3–4 months was the largest, and that of 7–12 months was the smallest, with the largest climate comfort area being 66–130 days and the smallest being 196–325 days. (3) The spatial difference in the climate comfort month was greater than that in the daily change, and the evolution process of various regions became relatively complex over time. The spatiotemporal evolution of the climate comfort day showed minimal change in northwest, north, and northeast China, whereas it changed significantly in southwest, south, central, and east China. These results imply that the population density in the country is generally concentrated in the climate comfort areas.

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Spatiotemporal relationship characteristic of climate comfort of urban human settlement environment and population density in China

Zhang

Zhou

et al. 2022

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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“…Note that when θ ij equals 0, then θ ij × ln θ ij is regarded as 0. Finally, the entropy value of the indicator jth can be calculated by Equation (7).…”

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“…According to the official document published by the Chinese Government in 2015, "Vision and Actions on Jointly Building Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road," the core concept of BRI is the mutualistic symbiosis [6]. The BRI aims to build a community with a shared future for mankind with complementary advantages, winwin cooperation, and common development [7]. Fundamentally, mutualistic symbiosis is already an objective requirement of the Chinese government to promote high-quality and sustainable development of the BRI; to implement the win-win of BRI well, symbiotic cooperation is essential.…”

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Investment Suitability Assessment Based on B&R Symbiotic System Theory: Location Choice of China’s OFDI

Yin

You-jin

2022

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Achieving mutualistic symbiosis is the core concept of China’s promotion of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Therefore, how to guide China’s OFDI location decision-making in the Belt and Road (B&R) countries from the perspective of mutualistic symbiosis is of great significance. This paper constructs the B&R symbiotic system based on symbiotic system theory, to establish the investment suitability index from three dimensions: stability, coordination, and sustainability, then uses the entropy weight, TOPSIS, and GIS method to assess and analyze the investment suitability index of 60 major countries in B&R’s six economic corridors. The findings indicate that Russia, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, and Malaysia have the highest investment suitability and are China’s most favorable OFDI destinations for achieving mutualistic symbiosis. Conversely, Syria, Lebanon, Jordon, and Yemen have the lowest investment suitability. Based on these results, policymakers can formulate more scientific and reasonable policies to guide China’s OFDI to make location decisions in B&R countries with high investment suitability, so as to promote the high-quality and sustainable development of B&R construction. However, due to data acquisition and technical reasons, this study does not analyze investment suitability from time trends. The analysis of investment suitability from more B&R countries or different types of industries is an important direction for further research in the future.

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Analysis of spatial characteristics and influence mechanism of human settlement suitability in traditional villages based on multi-scale geographically weighted regression model: A case study of Hunan province

Chen,

Zhong,

2023

Ecological Indicators

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Climate Suitability Assessment of Human Settlements for Regions along the Belt and Road

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

Spatiotemporal relationship characteristic of climate comfort of urban human settlement environment and population density in China

Spatiotemporal relationship characteristic of climate comfort of urban human settlement environment and population density in China

Investment Suitability Assessment Based on B&R Symbiotic System Theory: Location Choice of China’s OFDI

Analysis of spatial characteristics and influence mechanism of human settlement suitability in traditional villages based on multi-scale geographically weighted regression model: A case study of Hunan province

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