Urban Development Strategies in China Based on Water Resource Constraints

Knowledge-based urban development in Wuhan, China

Knowledge-Based Urban Development (KBUD) has now become a fashionable term both in terms of urban policy making and academic study. This is the case not only in post-industrial cities in developed countries, but also in cities which are still in the process of industrialisation in developing countries. In responding to this, urban development policies have been redirected in recent years to enh...

Urban Development in Contemporary China

Known for its ancient metropolises, China has recently amazed the world with its rapid urban development as it enters the new millennium. Although China is still a predominately agrarian society with only 36 percent of its population living in cities in 2000, it has more people living in cities (456 million) than the total population of any other nation in the world except India (National Burea...

Strategies for Truth Discovery under Resource Constraints

We present a decision-theory based approach for efficiently sampling information sources in resource-constrained environments, where there is uncertainty regarding source trustworthiness. We exploit diversity among sources to stratify the population into homogeneous subgroups to both minimise redundant sampling and mitigate the effect of certain biases (e.g., source collusion). After presenting...

Towards Sustainable Urban Water Resource Management: a Case Study in Tianjin, China

Sustainable water resource management has become a critical issue for the development of cities that suffer scarce water resources. Tianjin City, located in China’s Huaihe basin, one of the most polluted and water-scarce river basins in the country, is a typical example in which water is posing a major constraint to the development. This paper examines the current status of the use of water res...

Atmospheric Pollution and Urban Development in China