Investigation of public’s perception towards rural sustainable development based on a two-level expert system

Cai, Yanpeng; Huang, Guohe; Zhang, Yang; Sun, Wei; Chen, Bing

doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2008.11.032

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“…Most of the respondents claimed that their awareness came from the media (newspapers and magazines, followed by TV), with only a relatively small proportion obtaining information on LCE from public education programmes and discussions with friends and other people. The reliance on mass media as a source of information on environmental issues in China is in line with findings from previous research [18,20,21]. When being asked the importance of implementing LCE, many respondents recognised the need for China, as a major producer of GHG emissions, to take seriously its responsibilities to act to mitigate global climate change.…”

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“…A lack of public support has been cited as a reason for problems in implementing environment-friendly policies in China in the past [9,10,18]. Although there has been an increased interest in public awareness towards LCE, research targeting the environmental behaviour of members of the general public in China has tended to focus on marketing or on finding ways to increase consumption [9].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Public Awareness and Performance Relating to the Implementation of a Low-Carbon Economy in China: A Case Study from Zhengzhou

Chen¹,

Taylor²

2011

LCE

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Public Awareness and Performance Relating to the Implementation of a Low-Carbon Economy in China: A Case Study from Zhengzhou

Chen¹,

Taylor²

2011

LCE

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“…In practice, information technologies such as remote sensing and geographic information systems can also be utilized for determining the spatial layout of crops. Decision support systems integrating the developed model and information technologies have great potential to directly assist the authorities and farmers in making decisions [37]. Moreover, the authorities should encourage and educate farmers to cultivate crops in alignment with the optimized plans for maximizing overall benefits.…”

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Optimal Use of Agricultural Water and Land Resources through Reconfiguring Crop Planting Structure under Socioeconomic and Ecological Objectives

Tan

Shan

2017

Water

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Many economic, social and ecological problems can be attributed to the scarcity and mismanagement of water and land resources. In this study, a multi-objective fuzzy-robust programming (MOFRP) method was developed for supporting the optimal use of land and water resources in agriculture. MOFRP improved existing methods through taking ecological services of crop cultivation into account. It was also capable of reflecting fuzziness in preferences, priorities and parameters that were largely neglected in previous agricultural decision making. This method was applied to address a case in arid northwestern China. Optimal plans of crop cultivation reconfiguration were generated for sustaining local development under economic, ecological and social objectives as well as physical restraints in water and land resources. Compared to the status quo, the optimized plan would increase economic and ecological benefits by 12.2% and 18.8%, respectively. The efficiency of irrigation water could also be enhanced with the economic and ecological benefits per unit water being raised and the water consumption per unit land being reduced. The comparisons of the MOFRP model to four alternatives validated that it was capable of achieving satisfactory benefits and reducing system-violation risks without neglecting valuable uncertain information and ecological services of crops. The proposed method was also applicable to other multi-objective management problems under uncertainty without loss of generality.

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“…For example, it was adopted in a landfill selection problem in the city of Regina and was considered as a powerful tool for decision analysis. More recently, it has been rapidly developed in numerous fields such as management, engineering, and so on (Buede, 1996;Eom, 1999;Yu et al, 2004;Cai et al, 2009;Parviz and Saeed, 2010;George and Mike, 2011;Harrison et al, 2011;Ana et al, 2012).…”

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Comprehensive evaluation of water resources security in the Yellow River basin based on a fuzzy multi-attribute decision analysis approach

Liu

Cai

et al. 2014

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. In this paper, a fuzzy multi-attribute decision analysis approach (FMADAA) was developed for supporting the evaluation of water resources security in nine provinces within the Yellow River basin. A numerical approximation system and a modified left-right scoring approach were adopted to cope with the uncertainties in the acquired information. Also, four conventional multi-attribute decision analysis (MADA) methods were implemented in the evaluation model for impact evaluation, including simple weighted addition (SWA), weighted product (WP), cooperative game theory (CGT) and technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). Moreover, several aggregation methods including average ranking procedure, Borda and Copeland methods were used to integrate the ranking results, helping rank the water resources security in those nine provinces as well as improving reliability of evaluation results. The ranking results showed that the water resources security of the entire basin was in critical condition, including the insecurity and absolute insecurity states, especially in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia provinces in which water resources were lower than the average quantity in China. Hence, the improvement of water eco-environment statuses in the above-mentioned provinces should be prioritized in the future planning of the Yellow River basin.

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Investigation of public’s perception towards rural sustainable development based on a two-level expert system

Cited by 56 publications

References 38 publications

Public Awareness and Performance Relating to the Implementation of a Low-Carbon Economy in China: A Case Study from Zhengzhou

Public Awareness and Performance Relating to the Implementation of a Low-Carbon Economy in China: A Case Study from Zhengzhou

Optimal Use of Agricultural Water and Land Resources through Reconfiguring Crop Planting Structure under Socioeconomic and Ecological Objectives

Comprehensive evaluation of water resources security in the Yellow River basin based on a fuzzy multi-attribute decision analysis approach

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