Based on the questionnaire survey, this paper analyzes China’s public perception of climate change in terms of several influence factors and some empirical findings are obtained. We find that some respondents are willing to take individual actions to address climate change, and they pay more...

Acid rain has been a great threat to socioeconomic sustainable development of China; therefore, we develop an indicator system based on the sensitivity and adaptive capacity perspectives and employ the TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) approach to investigate...

China’s macroeconomic policy framework has been determined to ensure steady growth, adjust the industrial structure and advance the socioeconomic reforms in recent years. And urbanization is supposed to be one of the most important socioeconomic reform directions. Meanwhile, China also...

This paper investigates the residents’ direct and indirect energy consumption behaviors in Beijing, as well as the impact of age, educational background and income level on the behaviors. The results show that, first, there are a high proportion of residents who may support the policies and...

In order to investigate the main drivers of CO<Subscript>2</Subscript> emissions changes in China during the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006–2010) and seek the main ways to reduce CO<Subscript>2</Subscript> emissions, we decompose the changes of energy-related CO<Subscript>2</Subscript> emissions using the production-theoretical decomposition analysis...</subscript></subscript></subscript>

Urban earthquake disaster prevention is regarded as an integrated systematic engineering. Urban earthquake disaster prevention system is made up of all the earthquake disaster prevention activities. The concept and composition of urban earthquake disaster prevention system periphery were...

Regional vulnerability research is helpful in understanding the formation mechanism of regional disaster risk deeply. Owing to the pressure from earthquake disasters occurred frequently in the whole world, the assessment of regional vulnerability to seismic hazards is a focus in current research...

The surface rupture triggered by strong earthquakes will extensively damage the buildings on the ground. It is significant for choosing construction sites to forecast accurately and calculate reasonable building lien distance. A method is proposed aiming at forecasting the surface rupture width...

The Huaibei coalfield is in the East China Economic Area, which is rich in coal and gas resources. However, hundreds of coal and gas outburst accidents have occurred because of the complex geological structures of the coalfield. Based on theoretical analysis and field statistics, the...