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John Wainwright 《Geoforum》2008,39(2):659-674
Landform-evolution models have typically failed to include human actions, or have done so only in a static, scenario-based way. This failure is despite the extensive empirical data that suggest rates of soil erosion are most sensitive to anthropic pressure. The CybErosion modelling framework overcomes this limitation by using an agent-based approach to simulating the dynamic interactions of people and their landscapes. The interactions simulated relate to basic processes of food acquisition (hunting, gathering and basic agriculture) in prehistoric communities. Simulations demonstrate the value of this approach in supporting the vulnerability of landform evolution to anthropic pressures, and demonstrate the limitations of existing models that ignore human and animal agency, which are likely to produce both quantitatively and qualitatively different results. The model is also a useful heuristic tool for understanding human-landscape interactions and for suggesting directions for future research. Despite the acknowledged limitations of agent-based approaches in simulating human populations, it is suggested that further research will be fruitful, especially if combined with a range of field evidence. 相似文献
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Kirsten Valentine Cadieux 《GeoJournal》2011,76(4):341-363
This paper explores different ways that the category of nature is used in addressing landscape changes associated with exurbia
and exurbanization. Nature is an important category in the practices and representations that residents and planners use to
construct and maintain exurban landscapes. However, common ways of mobilizing nature in exurban planning discourses often
obstruct better discussion, rather than facilitate it. Invoking nature can make planning processes more difficult by providing a means
for naturalizing planning decisions and also by exacerbating struggles over whose nature will be managed in what ways. More
explicitly framing what is meant by nature in exurban planning may improve discussion of landscape problems associated with
sprawl. The goal of this paper is to contribute to creating a framework for more actively contextualizing how “nature” is
used in discourses relating to exurbanization. I suggest that such a framework would need to consider—and make explicit—themes
such as the four that I discuss in this paper: (1) the centrality of the production of nature to exurban landscapes; (2) multiple
meanings of nature that are often confused; (3) ways that normative statements about nature tend to be unquestioned in exurban
planning; and (4) the simultaneous difficulty and usefulness of critiquing and “denaturalizing” both material and discursive
nature. Explicit conversations about the role and representation of nature within residents’ and managers’ land-use practices
and ideologies could create opportunities for dialogue between residents, planners, and academics about the valuation of and
preferences for constructing particular landscapes, especially in addressing problematic aspects of the phenomena of “amenity
migration” and “sprawl.” 相似文献
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《地学前缘(英文版)》2022,13(6):101435
The past two decades have seen a rapid adoption of artificial intelligence methods applied to mineral exploration. More recently, the easier acquisition of some types of data has inspired a broad literature that has examined many machine learning and modelling techniques that combine exploration criteria, or ‘features’, to generate predictions for mineral prospectivity. Central to the design of prospectivity models is a ‘mineral system’, a conceptual model describing the key geological elements that control the timing and location of economic mineralisation. The mineral systems model defines what constitutes a training set, which features represent geological evidence of mineralisation, how features are engineered and what modelling methods are used. Mineral systems are knowledge-driven conceptual models, thus all parameter choices are subject to human biases and opinion so alternative models are possible. However, the effect of alternative mineral systems models on prospectivity is rarely compared despite the potential to heavily influence final predictions. In this study, we focus on the effect of conceptual uncertainty on Fe ore prospectivity models in the Hamersley region, Western Australia. Four important considerations are tested. (1) Five different supergene and hypogene conceptual mineral systems models guide the inputs for five forest-based classification prospectivity models model. (2) To represent conceptual uncertainty, the predictions are then combined for prospectivity model comparison. (3) Representation of three-dimensional objects as two-dimensional features are tested to address commonly ignored thickness of geological units. (4) The training dataset is composed of known economic mineralisation sites (deposits) as ‘positive’ examples, and exploration drilling data providing ‘negative’ sampling locations. Each of the spatial predictions are assessed using independent performance metrics common to AI-based classification methods and subjected to geological plausibility testing. We find that different conceptual mineral systems produce significantly different spatial predictions, thus conceptual uncertainty must be recognised. A benefit to recognising and modelling different conceptual models is that robust and geologically plausible predictions can be made that may guide mineral discovery. 相似文献
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Land-cover classification and analysis of change using machine-learning classifiers and multi-temporal remote sensing imagery 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Frequent human activity and rapid urbanization have led to an assortment of environmental issues. Monitoring land-cover change is critical to efficient environmental management and urban planning. The current study had two objectives. The first was to compare pixel-based random forest (RF) and decision tree (DT) classifier methods and a support vector machine (SVM) algorithm both in pixel-based and object-based approaches for classification of land-cover in a heterogeneous landscape for 2010. The second was to examine spatio-temporal land-cover change over the last two decades (1990–2010) using Landsat data. This study found that the object-based SVM classifier is the most accurate with an overall classification accuracy of 93.54% and a kappa value of 0.88. A post-classification change detection algorithm was used to determine the trend of change between land-cover classes. The most significant change from 1990 to 2010 was caused by the expansion of built-up areas. In addition to the net changes, the rate of annual change for each phenomenon was calculated to obtain a better understanding of the process of change. Between 1990 and 2010, an average of 4.53% of lands turned to the built-up annually and there was an annual decrease of about 0.81% in natural land. If the current trend of change continues, regardless of the actions of sustainable development, drastic declines in natural areas will ensue. The results of this study can be a valuable baseline for land-cover managers in the region to better understand the current situation and adopt appropriate strategies for management of land-cover. 相似文献
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Brian Edward Johnson 《GeoJournal》2013,78(4):601-614
Covenants and restrictions (C&Rs) have increased in popularity in recent decades, being commonly applied in new residential developments. Despite the fact that developers are more commonly writing C&Rs for their developments, little research has investigated how well C&Rs actually fit the preferences of residents. Recognizing this gap in the literature, this paper examines the fit of neighborhood C&Rs with resident preferences in Porter County, Indiana, a growing suburban/exurban place in the Chicago Metropolitan Statistical Area. The researcher conducted in-depth interviews with 51 residents to ascertain how well C&Rs fit resident preferences. The majority of interviewees stated that C&Rs match resident preferences because they believed that C&Rs promoted subdivision tidiness and worked to support property values. The minority view was that C&Rs do not fit because they are too strict and residents do not obey C&Rs. Interviewees who perceived a fit were more likely to have a lower level of engagement with C&Rs and were more likely to live in developments with no C&R enforcement attempts by the homeowners’ association (HOA). The results suggest the particular content of C&Rs does not seem to fit resident preference; rather the fact that C&Rs are not enforced fits resident preference. Seemingly, residents are content being unaware of the C&Rs, then they do not know if someone is breaking the rules or not. This may imply that residents would not want to have C&Rs in the first place. 相似文献
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Anisotropic path modeling to assess pedestrian-evacuation potential from Cascadia-related tsunamis in the US Pacific Northwest 总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0
Recent disasters highlight the threat that tsunamis pose to coastal communities. When developing tsunami-education efforts and vertical-evacuation strategies, emergency managers need to understand how much time it could take for a coastal population to reach higher ground before tsunami waves arrive. To improve efforts to model pedestrian evacuations from tsunamis, we examine the sensitivity of least-cost-distance models to variations in modeling approaches, data resolutions, and travel-rate assumptions. We base our observations on the assumption that an anisotropic approach that uses path-distance algorithms and accounts for variations in land cover and directionality in slope is the most realistic of an actual evacuation landscape. We focus our efforts on the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington (USA), where a substantial residential and tourist population is threatened by near-field tsunamis related to a potential Cascadia subduction zone earthquake. Results indicate thousands of people are located in areas where evacuations to higher ground will be difficult before arrival of the first tsunami wave. Deviations from anisotropic modeling assumptions substantially influence the amount of time likely needed to reach higher ground. Across the entire study, changes in resolution of elevation data has a greater impact on calculated travel times than changes in land-cover resolution. In particular areas, land-cover resolution had a substantial impact when travel-inhibiting waterways were not reflected in small-scale data. Changes in travel-speed parameters had a substantial impact also, suggesting the importance of public-health campaigns as a tsunami risk-reduction strategy. 相似文献
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Laura Taylor 《GeoJournal》2011,76(4):323-339
The dream of a house in the country, at the seashore, or near a ski hill, is one shared by many in North American society.
But the environmental and social impacts of the realization of this dream by an increasing number of people has created crises
and conflict for many communities. The concept of exurbia has traditionally been used to describe settlement patterns simultaneously
dispersed from the city yet also connected to urban networks. This paper reviews scholarship across disciplines including
geography, ecology, sociology, and political ecology. Exurbia is here proposed to be strengthened as a powerful conceptual
approach to capture and discuss the complex processes producing this phenomenon. Previous scholarship has produced excellent
but largely disconnected work on the periurban zone around cities, exurban settlement processes, tensions between exurbanites
and other rural residents, environmental impacts and habitat fragmentation. Future work on exurbia holds a great deal of promise
to think about cultural values supporting the processes that produce these landscapes, working across scales from local to
global using interdisciplinary and multi-method study. 相似文献
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Transition probability-based indicator geostatistics 总被引：30，自引：0，他引：30
Traditionally, spatial continuity models for indicator variables are developed by empirical curvefitting to the sample indicator (cross-) variogram. However, geologic data may be too sparse to permit a purely empirical approach, particularly in application to the subsurface. Techniques for model synthesis that integrate hard data and conceptual models therefore are needed. Interpretability is crucial. Compared with the indicator (cross-) variogram or indicator (cross-) covariance, the transition probability is more interpretable. Information on proportion, mean length, and juxtapositioning directly relates to the transition probability: asymmetry can be considered. Furthermore, the transition probability elucidates order relation conditions and readily formulates the indicator (co)kriging equations. 相似文献
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基于3S技术的西部石羊河流域土地利用/土地覆盖变化研究 总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6
在3S技术支持下,通过利用土地利用/土地覆盖信息分析参数对20世纪90年代中期和21世纪初两个时期石羊河流域土地利用变化进行的定量分析结果表明:7年间,土地利用类型发生变化比较大的地区是石羊河流域的东部和北部.整个流域湿地、冰川、耕地、裸露地、草地、盐碱地等都发生了变化.研究实践表明,利用3S技术进行国土资源调查,建立国土资源环境数据平台,每5~10年进行一次数据更新,可以很好地反映土地利用/土地覆盖的变化情况,从而为更好地研究土地利用、土地覆盖变化规律,为政府的宏观决策提供依据. 相似文献
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The paper contributes to the conceptualization of cities in the world by first outlining the conceptual and empirical challenges of theorizing the urban/global nexus in both relational and territorial terms. It argues that the most useful and appropriate approach to understanding contemporary urban governance in global context is to develop a conceptualization that is equally sensitive to the role of relational and territorial geographies, of fixity and flow, of global contexts and place-specificities (and vice versa), of structural imperatives and embodied practices, in the production of cities. In order to illustrate the benefits of this conceptualization, the paper will apply it to the case of how downtown development is governed in many contemporary cities. The role of the Business Improvement District (BID) program and New Urbanist planning models in shaping downtowns will be examined in terms of: (1) how and by whom these models are developed in a global-relational context and are set in motion through scaled circuits of policy knowledge and (2) how the mobilization of these models are conditioned by their territorialization in specific spatial and political economic contexts. The paper emphasizes that the ‘local globalness’ of policy models like BIDs and New Urbanism and their consequences for cities can best be understood through a combined focus on relationality and territoriality. 相似文献
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Discrete-element, individual-based and agent-based modelling techniques represent the interactions of individuals or entities with one another and their environments by sets of computational rules. These methods are now being used in geophysics, ecology, zoology, and increasingly in the social sciences. A characteristic is that the “agents” are embedded in an environment with which they interact, so that joint evolution of physical, ecological and socio-economic systems can be studied; this makes them of interest in integrated geographical investigation. Of particular interest is the fact that they allow the study of macro-scale emergent behaviour generated by multiple individual actions. Discrete techniques have the potential to create integrated models that cross disciplines. Similar computational methods can be employed to control the spatial search process, deal with irregular or changing boundaries, and to track the evolution of systems where preservation of heterogeneity across space and time is important. The complex series of feedbacks between the different types of system can thus be modelled within a single computational framework. Humans modelled in this way as “agents” can allow the collective effect of many interacting individuals to generate emergent structures at the community scale. The structural characteristics of their social and natural environments will influence their behaviour, while at the same time constituting emergent consequences of their actions. The principal challenge of the latter is to find those sets of rules that represent the beliefs and desires of real human agents, accurately reflecting the cultural context, while allowing us to explore the social and economic limitations of agents to take action. This paper reviews and illustrates discrete methods applicable to a range of geographical enquiries, and with particular reference to individual- and agent-based methods, assesses the rich diversity of approaches that must be combined to take full advantage of their potential to explore interactions of social and environmental processes. 相似文献
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Land price is the central link in the urban land market movement. Along with socio-economic development, urban land price continuously changes. Therefore, it is critically important to study the impact of urban water system treatment on the residential land price under an “ecological city” development model. A hedonic model was established in which the characteristic variable of distance between land and water system after being treated was used as the metric of the impact of urban water system treatment on the residential land price, with an aim to quantitatively study the influence of urban water system treatment on the residential land price. Results indicated that (1) the urban water system treatment had a positive impact on the residential land price. In addition, the residential land price shows a negative correlation to the distance between land and water system after being treated; (2) for every one-unit increase of distance between land and water system after being treated, the logarithm of residential land unit prices decreases by 0.025, and the residential land unit prices decrease by 2.47%. The findings of this study provide a valuable reference for local water resource planning and land management. 相似文献
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黄河源区土地利用/覆盖变化（LUCC）研究 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
利用遥感（RS）监测手段和地理信息系统（GIS）技术,获取了黄河源区在1975、1990、和2005年3个时期的土地利用/覆盖数据,并通过叠加分析,获得了该地区土地利用/覆盖的时空转移特征. 此外,通过县级行政区对源区各县域内的土地利用/覆盖变化特征进行了统计分析,以期为该地区的环境管理提供科学依据. 结果表明：在1975-2005年间,黄河源区的环境退化非常明显,土地利用/覆盖变化主要表现为耕地、沙地、滩地和水库、坑塘面积增加;沼泽地面积减小;高覆盖度草地面积减小,中、低覆盖度草地面积增加. 从县级行政区划上来看,耕地的增加主要分布于贵南、同德和泽库三个县;林地面积在玛沁和甘德两县有大面积的减小趋势;新增的沙地主要分布在玛多、共和、曲麻莱和若尔盖县;新增水库、坑塘则主要分布于共和、和贵南两县;沼泽地面积的减少绝大部分发生在若尔盖县;高覆盖度草地在甘德和玛沁两县增加非常明显,但在玛曲、玛多、达日、兴海、阿坝、若尔盖、红原等县均有大面积的减小趋势. 因此,在黄河源区开展环境保护或环境治理工作,应根据不同区域的具体环境问题采取相应的治理措施. 相似文献
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A quantitative vulnerability function for fluvial sediment transport 总被引：11，自引：6，他引：5
In quantitative risk assessment, risk is expressed as a function of hazard, elements at risk exposed, and vulnerability. Vulnerability
is defined as the expected degree of loss for an element at risk as a consequence of a certain event, following a natural-scientific
approach combined with economic methods of loss appraisal. The resulting value ranges from 0 (no damage) to 1 (complete destruction).
With respect to torrent processes, i.e., fluvial sediment transport, this concept of vulnerability—though widely acknowledged—did
not result in sound quantitative relationships between process intensities and associated degrees of loss so far, even if
considerable loss occurred during recent years. To close this gap and establish this relationship, data from three well-documented
torrent events in the Austrian Alps were used to derive a quantitative vulnerability function applicable to residential buildings
located on torrent fans. The method applied followed a spatially explicit empirical approach within a GIS environment and
was based on process intensities, the spatial characteristics of elements at risk, and average reconstruction values on a
local scale. Additionally, loss data were collected from responsible administrative bodies and analysed on an object level.
The results suggest a modified Weibull distribution to fit best to the observed damage pattern if intensity is quantified
in absolute values, and a modified Frechet distribution if intensity is quantified relatively in relation to the individual
building height. Additionally, uncertainties resulting from such an empirical approach were studied; in relation to the data
quality a 90% confidence band was found to represent the data range appropriately. The vulnerability relationship obtained
allows for an enhanced quantification of torrent risk, but also for an inclusion in comprehensive vulnerability models including
physical, social, economic, and institutional vulnerability. As a result, vulnerability to mountain hazards might decrease
in the future. 相似文献
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Eli Borukhov 《GeoJournal》1991,2(1):71-80
Residential density (dwelling units per area) affects the quality of life in urban environments in many direct and indirect ways. Determining the optimal level of density requires in each case, balancing all the relevant factors and influences, and should depend on the preferences of the potential residents and their financial resources.A residential neighborhood has many characteristics. Usually people trade off one characteristic against another. For instance: people can trade off density against cost or accessibility against space. The aim of good planning is to find the combination of characteristics that will give maximum level of satisfaction to the residents of a neighbourhood subject to the limitations of their budgets. Density standards should, therefore, be adapted to the preferences of the potential residents and their preferred compromise between the various attributes of their environment.To make things more complicated, the concept of density has many definitions, and different definitions are relevant when analysing the various effects of density. It seems that people do not perceive the gross residential density as it is measured, but are influenced by variables such as set-back distances, the percentage of building coverage and the like.Evidence is cited from an investigation in Kiryat-Gat which suggests that the perception of density is affected by other factors except the density itself.If people do not perceive the density as such but are affected by other factors, then modification of these factors is very important. If planners are to design neighborhoods according to the residents' preferences, they should have quantitative estimates of the residents' relative evaluation of these characteristics, including possible savings in the price of housing. The problems of investigating residential preferences are discussed, and examples of studies addressed to these questions are described. 相似文献
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Wanwilai Kraipech Wu Chen Tom Dyakowski Andrzej Nowakowski 《International Journal of Mineral Processing》2006,80(2-4):100-115
Many empirical models have been used widely for designing hydrocyclones in industry. These empirical models consist of a set of design equations. Most of the design equations are based on the correlations obtained experimentally, using dimensionless similarity numbers. These equations have their limitations due to the specific systems used for model development. Therefore, in many cases, they cannot be used with confidence to predict the design of an individual separator, or the overall plant configuration that is required to meet different user requirements. A modified version of the existing design equations presented by previous researchers was developed. The design equations, describing four fundamental parameters: pressure drop, flow recovery to underflow, corrected cut size and classification function, were modified by fitting with set of experimental data to obtain the system-specific constant parameters. These modified design equations were then called, the fine-tuned design equations. Four sets of fine-tuned design equations describing all the fundamental parameters were constructed and used to predict the separation performance of many hydrocyclone operational systems at the Dow Chemical Company, Texas, USA. The performance of these equations is evaluated, and the limitations of their use are discussed, thus providing useful insights into hydrocyclone design. 相似文献
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本文通过对大比例尺城市三维模型和城市地质模型集成过程中存在的问题进行研究,提出了基于多源异构数据的地上地下一体化城市三维模型集成方法。首先将地上、地下三维模型以独立功能区为单位进行单体化处理和重组,并在单体化区域内以高精度DEM为地层的水平基准,以钻孔岩性矢量为地层的垂向基准,采用钻孔核定法对地质体穿插、建筑体悬空、河流水体交叉等不正确、不合理的三维空间拓扑关系进行处理和校正,从而在不同的地学空间实体之间建立正确的相交、相离或重合的拓扑关系,实现地上地下三维模型的一体化集成。本次选取北京南站附近4.9 km^(2)区域开展试验,使用本方法快速、准确地解决了496处地层穿插错误、385处建筑体悬空错误和2处水体拓扑错误,取得了良好的集成效果,为已建模型的二次利用提供了机会。 相似文献