The development of citizen-based approaches to the diagnosis and decision-making on urban noise environments responds to a demand from both local authorities and residents. However, the methods for ...fostering the involvement of citizens and the valorization of local knowledge have yet to be invented. This article reports on a co-constructed experiment between researchers and local authorities, in the city of Rezé (France), of an urban noise diagnosis based on the residents and the use of the smartphone application NoiseCapture, which allows a participative measurement of sound levels. The framework also includes focus group discussions. The dynamics of the recruitment and data collection phase are analysed, showing the importance of creating public events around the initiative. Maps of noise levels, but also of the presence of sound sources, such as road, rail and air traffic, or animals, are produced in a collaborative way. Finally, the focus group discussions highlight that (i) repeated noise measurement modifies participants’ relationship to sound environments; (ii) NoiseCapture enhances the formation of a group of residents active on noise issues. Such a framework can provide a citizen-based basis for decisions on noise environments; the next step will be to study its adaptability to different territories.
In the face of global environmental challenges and China's commitment to achieving carbon neutrality, understanding the impact of energy transition in rural areas, particularly in traditional ...villages, becomes crucial for sustainable development. Based on 703 traditional villages in Hunan Province from 2005 to 2020, this study conducts a comprehensive spatiotemporal analysis of energy utilization, and analyzes the influence of energy utilization on the coupling coordination of the Atmosphere-Ecology-Socioeconomics System. The findings reveal a fluctuating trend in traditional villages' coupling coordination degree (CCD), particularly higher in western Hunan Province, and a notable reduction in regional disparities over time. The traditional villages' atmospheric conditions are better than the social and ecological conditions, which reflects the importance of improving socioeconomics and ecological subsystems for coupling coordination development. The study identifies that all seven energy utilization factors have positive effects on CCD. Forest vegetation carbon stocks and total energy consumption are critical drivers of CCD, highlighting spatial heterogeneity in their impacts on the CCD across different regions. Additionally, from 2005 to 2020, the effects of Forest Understory Vegetation Carbon Stocks on coupling coordination changed from widespread to localized, while Total Energy Consumption's impact was consistently localized. This paper reevaluates the role of energy management in enhancing the quality of traditional village habitats and offers valuable insights into environmental management and sustainable development in traditional villages, providing compelling evidence for policymakers.
•The Importance of macro-scale energy utilization on rural human settlement Coupling Coordination.•Geographic models unveil the mechanisms through which energy utilization impacts rural environments.•Spatiotemporal analysis reveals trends in the effects of energy consumption and underground carbon stocks in forest vegetation.•The study provides empirical support for rural sustainable development policies.
Although zoning has great potential in coordinating regional development and destination management, it is challenging to derive an optimal zoning method in the historic district. To address this ...challenge, this paper proposes a zone division method attempting to balance tourists' and residents' spatial demands and realizing urban historic area sustainable development. A 3-zones (Tourist active zone, Local community zone, and Buffer zone) plan is put forward based on a case study of the Qianmen area in Beijing, China. Then zone extraction is conducted with two kinds of big data, Points of Interests (POI) and Mobile Phone Signal (MPS). The Thiessen polygon-based method to divide the tourists' concentrated area and a fishnet-based density method to distinguish the area of residents mainly living are used to help identify borderlines of different zones. A survey map for tourists and residents is used to verify the zone extraction results. Subsequently, zone management strategies are suggested for different zones improvement. This discussion contributes to overcoming the traditional methods' defects in subarea-scale research with scientifically sound and practical.
This paper presents the residents' perceptions on the urban resources environment (URE) in the context of China. Previous studies have suggested that the urban resources environment has been ...improving in recent years. However, it is unknown whether this improvement is perceived by the residents. The data for analysis in this paper are from a comprehensive questionnaire survey. The questionnaire was designed to understand the residents' satisfaction with water resources (W), energy resources (E), air environment (A), land resources (L), culture resources (C), human resources (H), transportation (T), infrastructures (I) and public service resources (P). The questionnaire was distributed to the residents in 35 large Chinese cities. In total, 4792 valid questionnaires were collected, which were analyzed by using statistical methods. The research results conclude that there are differences in the perceptions on URE by different groups of residents who are with different background characteristics. The residents have different levels of satisfaction with different types of urban resources. And different cities perform differently in satisfying their residents in managing URE. The findings of this study provide policymakers with important references for designating measures to improve URE.
•The connotation of urban resources environment is expanded.•The data referring to URE is collected through a comprehensive questionnaire survey.•Different types of URE dimensions presents different level. And different cities perform differently in providing URE to local residents.•Urban managers in China should give priority to improving the levels of air environment, human resources, infrastructure, and public services resources.
Highlights of the Innovation Showcase Brown, Steven R; Sartor, Lance Kelley Zach; Worth, Anna ...
Annals of family medicine,
07/2022, Letnik:
20, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Abstract
Do exclusionary policies mobilize minority political participation? We theorize that the threat of exclusionary policies creates and resurfaces grievances that facilitate mobilization. To ...test our theory, we leverage Donald Trump's announcement of a peace plan for the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which posed a threat to the citizenship status of Palestinian citizens of Israel residing in the Triangle area adjacent to the West Bank. First, using more than 170,000 posts from public Facebook groups and pages, we show that Trump's announcement was indeed a more salient political event for Triangle residents. Then, employing locality‐level election data as well as records detailing the origin of citizens’ joining a Jewish‐Arab social movement, we use a difference‐in‐difference design to demonstrate that the threat to citizenship imposed by Trump's plan increased mobilization in the Triangle area. Our evidence from three distinct data sources suggests that threats of exclusion can mobilize minority political behavior.
The reproduction of social relationships in a rural tourism destination is examined through a micro-sociological lens that explores residents’ everyday interactions. Interaction ritual theory is ...adopted as the theoretical foundation. Zhinan, a mountainous village in Hangzhou, China, which initiated tourism in 2014, is the study site. Two rounds of focus groups and interviews were conducted with village residents. Qualitative inquiry shows that, under the influence of tourism, residents’ daily interactions consist of three interaction rituals, that is, rural living rituals, tourism operation rituals, and event and festival rituals. Due to the distinct ingredients, these rituals unfold differentially and engage different social actors. They complement each other in the co-construction of rural social relationships that have symbolic, emotional, collective, and normative connotations. This study provides in-depth, contextualized understandings of rural residents’ interactions and relationships, and draws practical implications for sustainable development of rural tourism destinations.
