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Advances in Application of Geographic Information Science for SDG 11 "Sustainable Cities and Communities"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 7 July 2024 | Viewed by 9787

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Dr. Jinyao Lin

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School of Geographical Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
Interests: urban expansion; cellular automata; land use planning; land management; artificial intelligence; urban sustainability; nighttime light; remote sensing
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Dear Colleagues,

Rapid urbanization has become an increasingly serious issue worldwide. Although rapid urban growth can greatly promote socio-economic development, it has also triggered a series of environmental and social issues, such as agricultural land loss, food security issues, and air pollution. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 is about making “cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable”. It is one of the 17 SDGs in the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Geographic Information Science (GIS) communities are committed to achieving SDG 11 because GIS is an essential tool to make sustainable development a reality at the local level.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to discuss the related theories and advanced methods of GIS in supporting the development of sustainable cities and to explore novel applications and possibilities of spatio-temporal techniques in sustainable development. The outcome of this Special Issue will be useful to understand and guide sustainable urban development from a new perspective, offer practical solutions to environmental and social issues, and promote the achievement of SDG 11.

We would like to invite you to submit original research that fits the aims and scope of this Special Issue. We look forward to receiving your well-prepared research and will be delighted to provide preliminary feedback to evaluate the potential for publication in this Special Issue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Land use change and its environmental consequences;
  • Artificial intelligence in sustainable urban planning;
  • Spatial optimization for urban land management;
  • Implications of land use/cover changes on the environment;
  • Sustainable planning for urban and rural integration;
  • Smart growth of land use and ecological conservation;
  • Sustainable urban form for climate change adaption;
  • Urban hazard susceptibility analysis and assessment;
  • Urban resilience and vulnerability against COVID-19.

Dr. Jinyao Lin
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • urban expansion
  • cellular automata
  • land use planning
  • land management
  • artificial intelligence
  • sustainable cities
  • nighttime light
  • spatial optimization

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Towards a Holistic Framework for the Olympic-Led Sustainable Urban Planning Process
by Farideh Baroghi, Paulo J. G. Ribeiro and Fernando Fonseca
Sustainability 2024, 16(3), 951; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16030951 - 23 Jan 2024
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Sport mega-events, like the Olympics, are renowned for their urban and socioeconomic impacts. Based on a literature review, this paper proposes a holistic framework for an Olympic-led sustainable planning process, encompassing five key sustainable urban principles: accessibility, integration, flexibility/adaptability, security, and sustainability compliance. [...] Read more.
Sport mega-events, like the Olympics, are renowned for their urban and socioeconomic impacts. Based on a literature review, this paper proposes a holistic framework for an Olympic-led sustainable planning process, encompassing five key sustainable urban principles: accessibility, integration, flexibility/adaptability, security, and sustainability compliance. The framework provides a structured approach to assess these principles at three different temporal and spatial levels: location selection, pre-event planning, and post-event planning. The proposed holistic framework is applied to the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, revealing a significant disconnection between the initially promised sustainable development goals and practical achievements. While enhancements in accessibility were observed, the other key sustainable urban principles exhibited limited or negligible improvements. The proposed holistic framework holds the potential to foster lasting positive impacts and sustainable urban improvements in host cities, particularly in developing countries. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Application of Geographic Information Science for SDG 11 "Sustainable Cities and Communities")
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Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Green Innovation: Evidence from China’s Provincial Panel Data
by Lifeng Chen, Fuxuan Guo and Lingyan Huang
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3318; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043318 - 10 Feb 2023
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The last couple of decades have witnessed growing interest in the academic literature in the conciliation of finance and sustainable development. Foreign direct investment (FDI) faces increasing pressure from both host and home country towards adoptinsg sustainable approaches. Such solutions can be green [...] Read more.
The last couple of decades have witnessed growing interest in the academic literature in the conciliation of finance and sustainable development. Foreign direct investment (FDI) faces increasing pressure from both host and home country towards adoptinsg sustainable approaches. Such solutions can be green innovation (GI) for climate change, environmental risks, green processes and products that allow tracking the carbon footprint, as well as many other green technologies. Based on the macro-level data of 31 provinces in China from 2003 to 2020, this paper employed policy environment (PE) and marketization level (ML) as moderating variables to further investigate the impact of FDI on GI. Our results show the following: (1) FDI has a significant positive and dynamic evolution feature of diminishing marginal efficiency on GI. (2) The heterogeneity analysis of regional regression shows that FDI significantly increases GI in the eastern and western regions. In contrast, FDI in the central region inhibits GI but not significantly. (3) Both PE and ML can positively moderate the impact of FDI on GI. Furthermore, our empirical results of the robustness test of 2SLS and GMM are highly consistent with the main test. The conclusions of this paper provide policy implications for local governments to fully and effectively utilize foreign capital for green innovation activities. Full article
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Towards Sustainable and Livable Cities: Leveraging Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Geo-Information Modelling to Explore and Predict Thermal Field Variance in Response to Urban Growth
by Mirza Waleed, Muhammad Sajjad, Anthony Owusu Acheampong and Md. Tauhidul Alam
Sustainability 2023, 15(2), 1416; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15021416 - 11 Jan 2023
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Urbanization-led changes in land use land cover (LULC), resulting in an increased impervious surface, significantly deteriorate urban meteorological conditions compromising long-term sustainability. In this context, we leverage machine learning, spatial modelling, and cloud computing to explore and predict the changing patterns in urban [...] Read more.
Urbanization-led changes in land use land cover (LULC), resulting in an increased impervious surface, significantly deteriorate urban meteorological conditions compromising long-term sustainability. In this context, we leverage machine learning, spatial modelling, and cloud computing to explore and predict the changing patterns in urban growth and associated thermal characteristics in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Using multi-source earth observations (1990–2020), the urban thermal field variance index (UTFVI) is estimated to evaluate the urban heat island effect quantitatively. From 1990 to 2020, the urban area increased by ~90% at the expense of vegetation and barren land, which will further grow by 2050 (50%), as determined by the artificial neural network-based prediction. The land surface temperature in the summer and winter seasons has experienced an increase of 0.88 °C and ~5 °C, respectively. While there exists spatial heterogeneity in the UTFVI 1990–2020, the city is expected to experience a ~140% increase in areas with severe UTFVI in response to predicted LULC change by 2050. The study provides essential information on LULC change and UTFVI and puts forth useful insights to advance our understanding of the urban climate, which can progressively help in designing more livable and sustainable cities in the face of environmental changes. Full article
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Study on the Accessibility of Community Sports Facilities in Fuzhou, China
by Wei Xiao and Wei Wang
Sustainability 2022, 14(21), 14331; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114331 - 02 Nov 2022
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With the coordinate data of community sports facilities in Fuzhou and the Geographic Information System platform, this paper developed a research framework of accessibility from three aspects of distribution, service coverage and access equality level. In addition, based on this, this paper analyzed [...] Read more.
With the coordinate data of community sports facilities in Fuzhou and the Geographic Information System platform, this paper developed a research framework of accessibility from three aspects of distribution, service coverage and access equality level. In addition, based on this, this paper analyzed the level and characteristics of the accessibility of community sports facilities within the third ring road of Fuzhou, China. The results showed that the community sports facilities within the third ring road of Fuzhou basically achieved the coverage of being within a ten-minute walking distance, but there were still some deficiencies regarding to the distribution of facilities and the equality level of accessibility. In addition, the results showed poor spatial matching between the number of facilities and population. A shortage of community sports facilities was found in the old central urban area, leading to poor accessibility. It is suggested in this paper that an overall improvement could be carried out through urban renewal. Full article
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