Sea shores of Gilan Province is one off the biggest tourist attractions in Iran. This area have valuable forests and grasslands. In addition it provides significant amount of corps like rice, tea, olive. Considering this facts, environmental protection of this area must be priority for national government. However waste management instruction have been ratified in Iran, there isn’t any specific...

In the context of economic globalization, coastal port logistics has gradually become a focus development, and proper management performance is main way to realize high-efficiency operation ports, drives direct development hinterland, enhances import export trade market competitiveness. Accordingly, this study was aimed measure efficiency explore its path improvement for China’s ports during 20...

This paper presents a first estimate of the exposure of the world’s large port cities (population exceeding one million inhabitants in 2005) to coastal flooding due to sea-level rise and storm surge now and in the 2070s, taking into account scenarios of socio-economic and climate changes. The analysis suggests that about 40 million people (0.6% of the global population or roughly 1 in 10 of the...

There were 6 severe haze events over a large area of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region in January 2013. In this study, based on the hourly concentrations of trace gases and PM2.5 at 10 observation stations (8 city stations, 1 regional background station and 1 island station) during Jan. 1–31, 2013 as well as the concentrations of water-soluble ions at 5 stations (4 city stations and 1 region...

This study aims to investigate how lighting design can be used as an environmental design feature within historic sites in cities to turn a space into a place through placemaking processes. Accordingly, the research question is: What artificial lighting design aspects need to be taken into account in historic sites within cities through a placemaking process? Naghshe-Jahan Square’s in Isfahan, ...

Purpose This study aims to combine information about sea level rise (SLR), the probability distribution of storm surge, a flood damage function and value property by elevation along coast selected cities measure expected damage. The six all have nearby long-term tidal stations that can be used estimate floods. model is calibrated each city. then compares cost building higher seawalls today vers...

Beaches are attractive areas that subject to multiple pressures. Some of these beaches located in large coastal cities with which they interact on a physical and social level. Facing this particularity, we propose state knowledge dedicated the management cities, here defined as more than 500,000 inhabitants. Using WoS an analysis grid, 53 articles were identified studied. This shows at interfac...

Culture sustainability is one of the indispensable components of sustainability. Culture has likely always been an important element for promoting urban and rural sustainable development. It is now playing an increasingly significant role in sparking and incubating innovation, which is becoming the main driver of economic growth and competitiveness. Unfortunately, little research has been condu...