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Exploring the social metabolism of urban wastewater reuse: Analysis framework and a case study in South-Central Chile Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Patricio Neumann, Steven Hidalgo, Michelle Díaz, Carlos Quintana, Cristina Madrid-López
Although wastewater reuse is a vital strategy for mitigating water scarcity, its implementation is complex and faces several challenges. To effectively inform decision-makers, comprehensive evaluations are essential, considering the strategy's benefits and socio-ecological constraints in a case-specific manner. This study employs the social metabolism concept to assess the sustainability of wastewater
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Chance-Constrained Optimal Scheduling of Power and Hydrogen Systems in Power Distribution Network with Significant Photovoltaic and Carbon Offsetting strategies Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Wei Wei, Honglei Wang, Yilan Chen, Kui Xu
The urgent need to address climate issues increases the significance of sustainable strategies in power networks. This study focuses on the optimal operation of a hydrogen-based microgrid incorporated with photovoltaics (PVs), time-of-use demand response (TOU-DR) program, distributed generation (DG) units, hydrogen fuel stations (HFSs), and battery storage units. Employing a multi-objective approach
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A Cost-Benefit Secured DAG Based Analysis of Distributed Energy Generation in Urban Settings Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Jing Tianjun, Zhang Liqing, Ma Zhicheng, Wang Weizhou
This study presents a groundbreaking approach to energy management in urban areas, focusing on smart building frameworks. The proposed method integrates a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) architecture to enhance data security, transparency, and integrity within the smart building ecosystem. To optimize the energy management system, advanced algorithms, namely Harmony Search (HS) and Artificial Bee Colony
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Navigating Legal Pathways for Accelerating Urban Energy Transition: A Comprehensive Deep Analysis of Photovoltaic Power Prediction and Policy Instruments Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Lei Liu, Kun Sheng
This research proposes a navigation method that explores how to accelerate urban energy transformation through legal means from the perspective of energy law, in order to improve the accuracy of photovoltaic output power prediction in sustainable energy transformation. Firstly, a deep learning model based on adversarial autoencoder (AAE) architecture was introduced to predict photovoltaic output power
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Stackelberg game-based method towards carbon-economy equilibrium for the prefabricated construction supply planning: A case study from China Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Mengyuan Zhu, Yu Wang, Rui Liu, Lurong Fan
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Augmenting cybersecurity in smart urban energy systems through IoT and blockchain technology within the Digital Twin framework Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Xianghui Meng, Lingling Zhu
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Food For Future: Exploring Cutting-Edge Technology and Practices in Vertical Farm Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Swathi Erekath, Holger Seidlitz, Monika Schreiner, Christian Dreyer
With the growing urbanized population, vertical farming becomes indispensable in eradicating hunger and ensuring food security for the future. Food security has become a major challenge for the future owing to the scarcity of land, rising global population, urbanization, and polluted soil and water resources. In this scenario, vertical farming as an innovative food production technology caters increased
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Spatio-temporal patterns and impact mechanisms of CO2 emissions from China's construction industry under urbanization Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Ying Zhou, Haomiao Jin, Chenshuang Li, Lieyun Ding
The construction industry fuels China's rapid urbanization, which also escalates carbon emissions. This study aims to investigate the spatio-temporal patterns and impact mechanisms of construction carbon emissions (CCE) under urbanization to inform low-carbon policies. We investigate the spatial heterogeneity and temporal trends of China's CCE employing the carbon emission coefficient method and the
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An Applied Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Control Active Networked Microgrids in Smart Cities with Multi-Level Participation of Battery Energy Storage System and Electric Vehicles Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Reza Sepehrzad, Amir Saman Godazi Langeroudi, Amin Khodadadi, Sara Adinehpour, Ahmed Al-Durra, Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam
This study proposed an intelligent energy management strategy for islanded networked microgrids (NMGs) in smart cities considering the renewable energy sources uncertainties and power fluctuations. Energy management of active power and frequency control approach is based on the intelligent probabilistic wavelet fuzzy neural network-deep reinforcement learning algorithm (IPWFNN-DRLA). The control strategy
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Contribution of buildings climate change mitigation options to sustainable development Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Sebastian Mirasgedis, Luisa F. Cabeza, David Vérez
Buildings are responsible for a big part of total GHG emissions; therefore, their climate change mitigation potential is high. But research shows that mitigation actions in the sector can have significant social and economic values beyond reduction of energy consumption and the associated GHG emissions. This paper summarizes these multiple impacts of mitigation actions in buildings, which are related
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Perceptions of how occupants adopt water conservation behaviors under psychosocial processes: A complementary dual-stage SEM-ANN perspective Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Seyyed Ahmadreza Shahangian, Mohammad Rajabi, Tahereh Zobeidi, Massoud Tabesh, Masoud Yazdanpanah, Mohsen Hajibabaei, Mohammadreza Jalili Ghazizadeh, Robert Sitzenfrei
This study delved into socio-psychological determinants driving residential water curtailment actions, an area relatively overlooked in the existing literature. The theory of planned behavior was innovatively expanded with moral norms, perceived expectations, self-identity, and risk-related components. The proposed framework was empirically examined by conducting an online self-administered survey
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Comparing the whole life cycle carbon impact of conventional and biogenic building materials across major residential typologies in Ghana and Senegal Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Mae-ling Lokko, Frederick Wireko Manu, Nzinga Mboup, Mohamed Aly Etman, Marco Raugei, Ibrahim Niang, Kingdom Ametepe, Rosemary Sarfo-Mensah
Across West African built environments, patterns of high greenhouse gas emissions are driven by the widespread importation of high embodied carbon building materials by a largely self-built industry and recurring operational carbon costs driven by increased access to fossil-fuel based energy services. Using a whole life cycle assessment (LCA) of major residential typologies in two case-study West African
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Research on charging demands of commercial electric vehicles based on Voronoi diagram and spatial econometrics model: An empirical study in Chongqing China Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Chunyan Shuai, Xiaoqi Zhang, Xin Ouyang, Kai Liu, Yang Yang
In order to address the mismatch between the current charging demand of electric vehicles and the layout of charging stations, this paper collects multi-source heterogeneous data that may affect charging demand, and explores their spatiotemporal distributions in depth. Then, this paper proposes a Voronoi polygon spatial partitioning method based on charging demand clustering and two spatial econometric
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Evaluation of solar energy potential for residential buildings in urban environments based on a parametric approach Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Jia Tian, Ryozo Ooka
Building integrated photovoltaics is an important measure to promote low-carbon urban growth. The residential buildings, which play an important role in cities, have a great development potential to utilize solar resources. However, the solar utilization performance of buildings in a block is influenced by the shadings from surrounding buildings with diverse layouts and heights. Therefore, this study
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Sustainable waste collection optimization using electric vehicles Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 David Peña, Bernabé Dorronsoro, Patricia Ruiz
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Environmental assessment of daily mobility for the design of neighbourhoods: Coupling mobility microsimulation and life-cycle assessment Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Cyrille Francois, Nicolas Coulombel
This paper aims to develop an environmental assessment methodology of daily mobility for neighbourhoods. Thus, a microsimulation model represents mobility at an individual scale, which is coupled with a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for private cars and public transport to provide a holistic environmental assessment. The model is calibrated using census data and regional mobility surveys, providing information
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Temporal analysis of settlement areas and city footprints on construction and demolition waste quantification using Landsat satellite imagery Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Sagar Ray, Kelvin Tsun Wai Ng, Tanvir Shahrier Mahmud, Amy Richter, Nima Karimi
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Impact of Urban built-up volume on Urban environment: A Case of Jakarta Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Tanni Sarker, Peilei Fan, Joseph P. Messina, Nurul Mujahid, Edvin Aldrian, Jiquan Chen
In this paper, the spatial patterns of urban form (e.g., 2D and 3D characteristics) from 2000 to 2020 in Jakarta are assessed and the interdependent relationships between urban built-up volume and urban environment are examined. Jakarta experienced rapid urban built-up land expansion of 19 %, from 483 km in 2000 to 574 km in 2020 but with moderate urban built-up volumetric expansion at 4 %, from 23
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Machine learning in modelling the urban thermal field variance index and assessing the impacts of urban land expansion on seasonal thermal environment Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Maomao Zhang, Tan Shukui, Cheng Zhang, Enqing Chen
Land use practices in urban areas exert a profound influence on the urban thermal environment and the pursuit of sustainable development. This paper aims to investigate and forecast future changes in land use/land cover (LULC) and their response to seasonal variations in land surface temperatures (LST), the urban thermal field variance index (UTFVI), and the urban heat island effect (UHI) during summer
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The synergy between pollution reduction and carbon reduction in Chinese cities and its influencing factors Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Kai Liu, Guixiu Ren, Shumin Dong, Yuting Xue
The synergy between pollution reduction (PR) and carbon reduction (CR) is crucial for cities facing both climate change and environmental pollution in achieving sustainable development. This study evaluates the PR-CR synergy in 295 Chinese cities from 2014 to 2022. Utilizing the improved Tapio Decoupling Principle and the Probit model, the study reveals that: (1) About 51.5% (152) of the cities demonstrated
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The impact of green finance policy on land ecological security: City-level evidence from China Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Chien-Chiang Lee, Zhi-Wen He
As the phenomenon of ecological degradation increases, there is a growing body of research related to green finance, but no papers evaluating the link between it and land ecological security. Thus, this research calculates land ecological security using data from 158 cities in China's major grain-producing regions from 2012 to 2020. Taking China's green finance policy as an example, it applies the
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Towards Customized Mitigation Strategy in the Transportation Sector: An Integrated Analysis Framework Combining LMDI and Hierarchical Clustering Method Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Bin Shui, Zimeng Cai, Xiaowei Luo
As the world's largest CO emitter, China's decarbonization in the transportation sector is vital for achieving global sustainable goals. This study develops an in-depth framework to elucidate and tailor decarbonization strategies across regions effectively. Through the application of the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) approach, this analysis spans transportation, energy, economic, and demographic
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A decentralized multi-agent framework for urban flood management Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Amir Reza Nazemi, Mehri Dolatshahi, Reza Kerachian
The management of water resources in urban environments is challenging due to the existence of numerous stakeholders and the large number of affected people. In this paper, agents in an urban environment are categorized as active, passive, and monitoring agents, and a new mechanism is proposed to determine the flood control motivation functions (FCMFs) of active agents. An FCMF shows the motivation
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The association between travel demand of docked bike-sharing and the built environment: Evidence from seven US cities Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Justin Hayse Chiwing G. Tang, Yuantan Huang, Ye Zhu, Xiong Yang, Chengxiang Zhuge
A large number of attempts have explored the association between travel demand of docked bike-sharing (DBS) and the built environment. Yet, empirical findings from various studies have shown inconsistency. To determine whether any built environment factors consistently correlate with DBS travel demand across different scenarios, we conducted a comparative study across seven cities in the United States
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Sustainable urban logistics: A case study of waterway integration in Amsterdam Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Nadia Pourmohammad-Zia, Mark van Koningsveld
This paper tackles the growing challenges in urban logistics by presenting an optimal distribution network that integrates urban waterways and last-mile delivery, tailored for cities boasting extensive waterway networks. We examine Amsterdam's city center as a case study, prompted by the strain on quay walls, congestion, and emissions, urging a reevaluation of its urban logistics design. We formulate
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Tree form characteristics as criteria for tree species selection to improve pedestrian thermal comfort in street canyons: Case study of a humid subtropical city Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Qiankun Xiao, Xuan Fan, Yayun Guo, Sitao Li, Wei He, Yongcheng Deng, Zhiyan Xiao, Pengcheng Wang, Changguang Wu
The combined effect of tree characteristics on heat stress in different street canyons has been widely reported. However, there remains a lack of effective methods for improving pedestrian thermal comfort through the use of integrated knowledge of tree characteristics. Here, a tree species selection approach was developed for assessing the dynamic effects of tree forms and canyon geometries on pedestrian
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Revolutionizing affordable housing in Africa: A comprehensive technical and sustainability study of 3D-printing technology Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Alireza Moghayedi, Jeffrey Mahachi, Refilwe Lediga, Tshepang Mosiea, Ephraim Phalafala
The global challenge of providing affordable and sustainable housing, particularly in Africa's intensified housing crisis, has spurred interest in transformative solutions such as 3D-printing technology. This research addresses a significant gap in understanding the technical and sustainability characteristics of 3D-printed housing, by comprehensively assessing a full-size 3D-printed house. Beyond
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Two-stage deployment and operation plan of PCR sample collection booths under demand uncertainty Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Zhibin Chen, Yuhao Liu, Pengyu Yan, ChengHe Guan
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing programs have been crucial in combating infectious diseases, such as COVID-19. However, the widespread implementation of frequent nucleic acid testing requires the dense deployment of PCR sample collection booths (SCBs). In this study, we propose two-stage stochastic modeling frameworks to optimize the deployment and operation of SCBs, considering demand uncertainty
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Potential thermal constraints for sustainable industrial city: refined simulation and prediction of extreme urban heat island effect Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Shidong LIU, Jianjun ZHANG, Xia WU, Wei CHEN, Jie ZHANG
Extreme urban heat islands (E-UHIs) have caused radical changes in urban climates. The lack of refined extreme thermal environment simulation models (ETESM) hinders research on the spatial evolution of E-UHI, which increases the uncertainty for managers to make sustainable decisions. Here, considering both the heating of industrial land and the heat transfer of surrounding facilities, a refined ETESM
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Evaluation of regional integration in urban agglomeration area from the perspective of urban symbiosis Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Chun Li, Sijia Lin, Yiting Wang, Liding Chen
Integrated development of urban agglomeration is a process involves both interactive elements flow between cities and cohesive function advancement within each city. However, existing researches struggle to effectively evaluate urban integration considering both urban interaction and urban function. Taking Yunnan Central urban agglomeration (CYUA) as a case study, we adopt the framework of symbiosis
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Evaluating the synergistic effects of digital economy and government governance on urban low-carbon transition Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Mengru Liu, Shixiang Li, Yi Li, Jianru Shi, Jun Bai
Under the vision of the “dual carbon” targets, the digital economy and government governance have emerged as pivotal means for urban low-carbon transition. This study, based on theoretical analysis, utilizes panel data from 253 Chinese cities spanning 2011 to 2019 to investigate the relationship between the digital economy, government governance, and urban low-carbon transition. The findings demonstrate
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Quantifying energy flexibility potential of ground electric vehicles in an airport with real behavior data Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Xiaochen Liu, Ming Li, Xiaohua Liu, Tao Zhang, Zhi Fu, Zhihan Su, Rang Tu
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Incorporating Land Use and Transport Interaction Models to Evaluate Active Mobility Measures and Interventions in Urban Areas: A case study in Southampton, UK Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Paraskevi Sarri, Panagiotis G. Tzouras, Stefanos Tsigdinos, Ioannis Kaparias, Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou
New transport strategies, which aspire to create sustainable and resilient cities, prioritize active and public transport modes. This paper investigates the differences in accessibility, mobility and activity patterns as a result of radical road space allocation changes. To do so, the TRANUS Land Use and Transport Interaction model is utilized. Also, the city of Southampton is selected as a case study
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Potential zones identification for district cooling system: A GIS-based multi-criteria assessment method incorporating cooling demand mapping Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Zhibin Lai, Junjie He, Yajun Li
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Unveiling causal dynamics and forecasting of urban carbon emissions in major emitting economies through multisource interaction Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Xuedong Liang, Wenting Zhan, Xiaoyan Li, Fumin Deng
Mitigating city carbon emissions in major emitting economies is vital for sustainable development. This study exploits the complex interactions among major sources of emissions to address two research gaps in city carbon neutrality: causal discovery and forecasting in high-emission economies through developing a novel two-stage algorithm. In the initial phase, the algorithm intricately unravels the
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Long‒term trends in surface thermal environment and its potential drivers along the urban development gradients in rapidly urbanizing regions of China Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Chengyu Zhao, Hongkai Zhu, Shuyi Zhang, Ziwen Jin, Yiwen Zhang, Yawei Wang, Yadie Shi, Jianhui Jiang, Xiaoyong Chen, Min Liu
Urban areas are experiencing extensive expansion and intensive warming, accompanied by the deterioration of environmental quality and increased health risks. However, the complex effect of global climate change and human activity on the thermal environment evolution under different stages of urbanization remains unclear. In this study, land surface temperature (LST) and a newly-proposed surface urban
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Revealing the driving factors and mobility patterns of bike-sharing commuting demands for integrated public transport systems Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Bing Zhu, Simon Hu, Ioannis Kaparias, Wenyu Zhou, Washington Ochieng, Der-Horng Lee
Bike-sharing for integrated public transport systems (BIPTS) offers an effective solution to the first- and last-mile problems. However, most existing studies have used overly simplified single-catchment area methods to identify BIPTS demands, and the driving factors and mobility patterns of BIPTS commuting demands have remained unclear. To fill this gap, a comprehensive framework for analyzing BIPTS
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Spatiotemporal evolutionary characteristics and driving forces of carbon emissions in three Chinese urban agglomerations Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Meng Wei, Zhi Cai, Yan Song, Jiangang Xu, Muqiu Lu
Assessing carbon emissions in urban agglomerations has emerged as a pivotal step towards achieving carbon neutrality. In this study, panel data from 75 cities within the three largest urban agglomerations in China—the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region, and Pearl River Delta (PRD)—were constructed to analyse the spatiotemporal evolution of carbon emissions from 2005 to 2020
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Assessment of energy and thermal resilience performance to inform climate mitigation of multifamily buildings in disadvantaged communities Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Sang Hoon Lee, Tianzhen Hong, Minh Le, Lujuana Medina, Yujie Xu, Alastair Robinson, Mary Ann Piette
The compound impacts of heatwaves and power outages pose a serious indoor heat-related health risk for residents living in disadvantaged communities (DACs) with limited or no air conditioning. In this study we selected 13 heat vulnerable multifamily buildings in El Monte, in Los Angeles County, and employed CityBES to evaluate their energy and thermal resilience performance. A retrofit package with
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Will environmental concern contribute to the transition of household cleaner cooking? Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Boqiang Lin, Kai Wei
Access to clean cooking is a vital sustainable development goal, yet achieving it poses challenges within the current trend. We should now investigate whether the increasing environmental concern would drive a shift towards cleaner cooking or potentially lead to the abandonment of pro-environmental behaviors. Based on China's national micro survey data from 2012 to 2018, the results of multiple econometric
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An approach to exploring the spatial distribution and influencing factors of urban problems based on Land use types Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jianling Jiao, Yaxin Jin, Ranran Yang
Numerous urban problems seriously affect the residents' well-being and urban governance. Urban problems are strongly correlated with land use types and are spatially uncertain. Existing research on urban problems and land use types is limited, predominantly relying on land planning data and focusing on specific problems. Therefore, using Sanya as an example, this study identified the latest land use
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Multi-objective distributed robust cooperative optimization model of multiple integrated energy systems considering uncertainty of renewable energy and participation of electric vehicles Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Yiming Li, Jiangjiang Wang, Yihuai Cao
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Subsidy allocation for residential building energy retrofit: A perspective of families' incomes Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Kairui You, Queena K Qian, Weiguang Cai, Xia Wang, Henk Visscher
High household end-user services demand of high-income families results in higher energy consumption compared with low-income families, indicating high-income families may save more energy from similar building energy retrofitting (BER) strategies. Therefore, current BER subsidy policies, which consider technique indicators and ignore families' income, will make high-income families' recovery costs
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A scaled outdoor experimental study of the urban thermal environment in street canyons with green walls under various weather conditions Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Xiaona Zheng, Wentao Hu, Shuang Luo, Jinrui Chen, Zhiquan Zhu, Yujie Bai, Weiwen Wang, Lan Pan
A scaled outdoor experiment was conducted to examine the thermal effects of west-facing green walls (GWs) in street canyons with different street aspect ratios (building height/street width, = = 1, 1.5, and 2, = 1.2 m) under different weather conditions in humid-subtropical Guangzhou, China. Compared with the control cases ( = 1, 1.5, and 2), the wind speed at the height of 0.3 m (0.25) was reduced
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Optimal planning of collective photovoltaic arrays in energy communities through a multi-cut benders’ decomposition strategy Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 José Luis Maldonado, Marcos Tostado-Véliz, Hany M. Hasanien, Nima Khosravi, Francisco Jurado
With the deregulation and the urgent necessity of decarbonizing the electricity sector, end users have been empowered to actively partake in the operation of the system. In this context, energy communities arise as a regulatory framework that allows aggregating a group of domestic consumers (or prosumers) in order to share own resources such as storage or photovoltaics. However, such collective assets
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A novel building flexibility potential assessment method based on hybrid CNN-GRU-CALDA framework considering consumer psychology Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Wei Zhang, Jie Wu, Jiapeng Liu
Buildings are rapidly getting on top of the agendas of various initiatives aimed at enhancing the operational flexibility and resource utilization. Accurately and comprehensively assessing the flexibility potential of buildings is pivotal for unlocking and efficiently harnessing demand-side flexibility, thereby bolstering the overall development of the energy system. In this study, a novel transfer
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Seasonal anthropogenic heat fluxes over 200 cities in China: an investigation of driving factors with three-dimensional building forms Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Meizi Yang, Shisong Cao, Dayu Zhang, Rui Liu, Ling Cui, Yile Cai
Various studies have highlighted substantial the impact of urban development on AHFs. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the factors that influence AHFs to develop effective development and planning strategies for mitigating urban heat. This study chose 200 cities in China to explore seasonal variations in AHFs, and how anthropogenic activities, natural factors, and urban structures interact to
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Risk-aware day-ahead planning of an energy hub integrated with the carbon capture unit considering cap and trade concept, energy and carbon markets and demand side flexibility Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Lubna Abd Alnabi Abd Alameer, Sajjad Tohidi, Vahid Sohrabi Tabar
This paper optimizes the stochastic day-ahead planning of an energy hub considering the carbon capture system, energy and carbon markets and flexible loads to achieve a sustainable economical-environmental operation. In the p÷resented model, the cap and trade concept as a successful policy in the regulatory programs of governments is considered to limit the level of environmental pollution caused by
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Spatial correlation network characteristics and influencing factors of water environmental efficiency in three major urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Basin, China Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Zhigang Li, Keyao Yu, Jialong Zhong, Jie Yang, Dong Zhang, Jiaxing Zhu
Within the framework of achieving carbon peak and neutrality, studying the measurement and spatial correlation network of water environmental efficiency (WEE) is beneficial for protecting the water environment and strengthening the coordinated development between regions. This study quantifies WEE under carbon emission constraints in three major urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Basin. Employing
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Real-time high-resolution modelling of grid carbon emissions intensity Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Vahid Aryai, Mark Goldsworthy
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the energy industry is broadly acknowledged as important with numerous countries implementing targets to reduce emissions. Understanding the carbon emissions intensity of electricity grids is an important step in this process, and higher spatial and temporal granularity estimates are critical for delivering actionable insights. Existing emissions intensity models
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Characterizing the 3-D structure of each building in the conterminous United States Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Yangzi Che, Xuecao Li, Xiaoping Liu, Xucai Zhang
The three-dimensional building structure is crucial for understanding human activities and environmental interactions. Previous studies have estimated building height on a grid-scale, lacking height estimation results concurrently over large areas and at fine resolution. Here we mapped the height of each building in the conterminous US in 2020, using integrated multi-source datasets (i.e., satellite
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Decision support for improved construction traffic management and planning Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 N. Brusselaers, A. Fredriksson, D. Gundlegård, R. Zernis
Densifying cities continuously call for new construction, renovation and demolition projects, each generating vast amounts of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) transports. However, how construction transportation affects the urban traffic network remains largely unexplored. This study addresses spatiotemporal network impacts from construction transport, by leveraging traditional traffic and transport simulation
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Assessing impact of urban densification on outdoor microclimate and thermal comfort using ENVI-met simulations for Combined Spatial-Climatic Design (CSCD) approach Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Shreya Banerjee, Rachel Xin Yi Pek, Sin Kang Yik, Graces Ny Ching, Xiang Tian Ho, Yuliya Dzyuban, Peter J. Crank, Juan A. Acero, Winston T.L. Chow
Future urban planning requires context-specific integration of spatial design and microclimate especially for tropical cities with extreme weather conditions. Thus, we propose a Combined Spatial-Climatic Design approach to assess impact of urban densification on annual outdoor thermal comfort performance employing ENVI-met simulations for Singapore. We first consider building bylaws and residential
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Combined effects of urban forests on land surface temperature and PM2.5 pollution in the winter and summer Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Wei Cao, Wen Zhou, Wendong Yu, Tao Wu
The interactions and mechanisms among green space patterns, air quality and thermal environments are not well understood. This study aimed to identify co-benefits of urban forest pattern indicators (UFIs) in reducing PM on highly polluted winter days and providing cooling on hot summer days. We selected urban core areas of seven cities in Jiangsu Province, China as a study case, and obtained data from
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A provincial analysis of centralized heating systems decarbonization in China's residential sector: History and future Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Kairui You, Yan Li, Wei Feng, Weiguang Cai, Minda Ma
Decarbonization of China's residential Centralized heating (RCH) is crucial for China's carbon peak and neutrality. To tap the decarbonization potential, from the perspective of heating production and consumption, this study uses Log-Mean Divisia Index to investigate the historical decarbonization of RCH. Meanwhile, this study novelty develops a bottom-up RCH CO emission forecast model, which can quantify
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County-level land use carbon emissions in China: Spatiotemporal patterns and impact factors Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Chong Liu, Shougeng Hu, Si Wu, Jiarui Song, Haiyang Li
Counties play a foundational role in China's economic progress and the governance of society. Studying land use carbon emissions (LUCE) at the county level is crucial for meeting China's dual carbon targets, which facilitate the decomposition of national emission reduction targets, thereby enabling more refined management and control and enhancing the precision and effectiveness of local-level emission
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Assessing vegetation distribution based on geometrical and morphological characteristics of the urban fabric to provide thermal comfort for pedestrians: A case study in Sanandaj Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Asrin Salehi, Nazanin Nasrollahi
In previous studies, geometrical aspects of the buildings have been mainly considered in designing of the models, while the impacts of vegetation distribution have not been taken into account. The influence of building geometry on vegetation distribution to create a comfortable thermal environment for pedestrians has not received much attention. An examination of Sanandaj, a city in western Iran, in
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Event-independent resilience assessment of the access to care network at the pre-disaster stage using a spatio-temporal analysis Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Amir AminShokravi, Gholamreza Heravi
Providing timely access to healthcare is one of the main components of resilient cities and communities. Even without the occurrence of a disaster, the need to access healthcare and the availability of healthcare resources change over time in different areas, so it is crucial to assess the resilience of the access to care network. Previous research on urban infrastructure resilience focused mainly
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Integrated Bayesian Network and Strongest Path Method (BN-SPM) for effective multi-hazard risk assessment of interconnected infrastructure systems Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Soheil Bakhtiari, Mohammad Reza Najafi, Katsuichiro Goda, Hassan Peerhossaini
This study proposes an integrated framework based on Bayesian Network (BN) and Strongest Path Method (SPM) to provide a robust assessment of the natural hazard risks to interconnected infrastructure systems. Leveraging Bayesian inference, the BN transforms prior failure probabilities into posterior ones, while SPM prioritizes network entities based on global impact, global vulnerability, and risk indices
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Urban green land use efficiency of resource-based cities in China: Multidimensional measurements, spatial-temporal changes, and driving factors Sustain. Cities Soc. (IF 11.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Weiming Li, Zhaoyang Cai, Leshan Jin
The green use of urban land has become a key for the sustainable transformation of resource-based cities. This paper selects 116 Chinese resource-based cities to construct an evaluation system for urban green land use and measure its efficiency. Secondly, it identifies driving factors affecting urban green land use efficiency (UGLUE) and comprehensively analyze the heterogeneity of these factors. The