Floods in river deltas are driven by complex interactions between astronomical tides, sea levels, storm surges, wind waves, rainfall-runoff, and discharge. Given the anticipated increase compound flood hazards a warming climate, climate-informed regional to local extreme water levels (EWLs) is thus critical for decision-makers evaluate take adaptation measures. We develop simple yet computation...

Urban resilience is an emerging research topic of urban studies, and its essence described by the ability cities to resist, recover, adapt uncertain disturbances. This paper constructs a “Size-Density-Morphology” ecological evaluation system, uses coupling coordination degree model measure between urbanization in Pearl River Delta from 2000 2015, conducts in-depth discussion on spatiotemporal c...

China has experienced unprecedented urbanization since the 1980s, resulting in substantial climatic effects from local cities to broad regions. Using the Weather Research and Forecasting model dynamically coupled to an urban canopy model, we quantified the summertime climate effects of urban expansion in China's most rapidly urbanizing regions: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH), Yangtze River Delta (...

Background China’s rise as a “world factory” since the late 1970s has been attributed to the strategic coupling of local assets, particularly low–cost labour in the coastal regions, viz. Pearl River Delta (PRD) and Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in the Global Production Networks (GPNs) driven by transnational corporations (TNCs)’s cross-border investment. Since 2000, these export-led regions have en...

Secondary inorganic aerosols (SIA) are the predominant components of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and have significant impacts on air quality, human health, and climate change. In this study, the Community Multiscale Air Quality modeling system (CMAQ) was modified to incorporate SO2 heterogeneous reactions on the surface of dust particles. The revised model was then used to simulate the spat...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to describe the spatial and temporal characteristics of human infections with H7N9 virus in China using data from February 2013 to March 2014 from the websites of every province's Population and Family Planning Commission. METHODS A human infection with H7N9 virus dataset was summarized by county to analyze its spatial clustering, and by date of illness onset to ana...

Economic reform has resulted in considerable decentralization and exceptional economic growth in China. It has however posed a serious contradiction for China’s environmental protection efforts. This study empirically investigated the environmental effects of market and power decentralization using data on industrial SO2 emission and dusts at the city level. It is found that China’s industrial ...

Through interpreting Landsat TM images, this study analyzes the spatial distribution of rural settlements in China in 2000. It calculates rural residential land percentage for every 1-km(2) cell. The entire country is divided into 33 regions to investigate the spatio-temporal dynamic patterns of rural residential land during the 1990s. According to the remote sensing survey, the rural residenti...