scholarly journals Public Landscape Design for Residential Neighborhood in Coastal Areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 175-180
Author(s):  
Yang Wang ◽  
Yun Yu ◽  
Shuhang You ◽  
Ying Lin
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Design ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Current Status ◽  
The Public ◽  
Design Scheme ◽  
Residential Neighborhood

The quality of public landscape design for residential neighborhood has a direct impact on the living comfort of the neighborhood and the life quality of the residents. To improve our citizens’ living standards, this paper summarizes the current status and ideas of public landscape design for residential neighborhood in Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province, China, with the landscape design scheme of Qiaosi-II River as an example, this paper gives a discussion on the strategies for the public landscape design of environmental-friendly residential neighborhood in coastal areas, and the research results show that there are many problems with the public landscape environment in the residential neighborhood of Hangzhou city, to cope with these problems, this paper proposes a few detailed countermeasures for the public landscape design of multi-story and high-rise residential building neighborhood. From a global view, the landscape design scheme of Qiaosi-II River is an integrated design scheme of buildings and landscapes in various regions such as commercial area, health care area, fitness area, green area, and play area for kids, etc. The research in this paper provides a theoretical basis for the public landscape design of safe, comfortable, and livable residential neighborhood in coastal areas.

scholarly journals Electrification of Madrid Fleet Public Transport Company (EMT-Madrid): Strategic Analysis and Implementation

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
J. García Hernanz ◽  
G. Morales-Alonso ◽  
G. Fernández Sánchez ◽  
E. Pilkington González ◽  
T. Sánchez Chaparro
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Urban Pollution ◽  
City Council ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Councils ◽  
Strategic Assessment

Madrid Public Transport Company (EMT-Madrid) is a property of the Madrid City Council, and it provides the public buses service in the whole city. Madrid, as most of the big cities in the world, is facing problems related to high levels of urban pollution, which directly affects the health and life quality of their inhabitants. EMT, having a fleet of around 2000 buses, has an impact in the mentioned problem and in the global warming. With the Strategic Plan 2017-2020, many new buses will be acquired, resulting in a fleet of natural gas, hybrid and electric vehicles by the end of 2020. The present study has the goal of being the cornerstone of a future strategic plan of the company. To this end, both external and internal analyses of the company have been conducted, which support that the electrification of the whole fleet is the best option in the long term. Furthermore, a Benchmarking of the state of the public transport in other 25 cities and the technology used in them has been conducted. Last, a model that allows replicability of this strategic assessment is proposed, in order to help other Transport Companies and City Councils to decide which transport fleet is the best to implement in their cities depending on their necessities and resources.

scholarly journals Analysis on Landscape Ecological Design in Landscape Architecture

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Chen ◽  
Dawei Xu ◽  
Safa Fadelelseed ◽  
Lianying Li
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Cultural Literacy ◽  
Ecological Design ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Landscape Ecological

With the continuous improvement of China’s economic level, the people’s cultural literacy is gradually increasing, and the same people are increasingly pursuing new changes and changes in the quality of life. At present, most people are not only satisfied with the basic needs of life, but also have a new height and pursuit in the improvement of new life quality. In the current landscape design field, people are increasingly demanding landscape design. How to design urban landscape design that meets the real needs of people under current social conditions is one of the hottest topics in the current landscape design industry. As an important component in the construction of landscape architecture, effective landscape ecological design plays an important role in maintaining the sustainable development of urban ecological environment and enhancing the visual beauty of landscape architecture. Therefore, it is necessary to pay more attention to the ecological design of the landscape, clarify the ideas and principles of ecological design, and realize the improvement of the safety and aesthetics of the landscape ecological design in the construction of landscape architecture. Then, this paper gives a brief overview and analysis of some design concepts, design principles and design points in landscape ecological design in current landscape architecture, which aims to promote the quality improvement of the landscape ecological design in the current Landscape architecture and promote the progress and development of the overall landscape ecological design industry.

Water use in the tropics and subtropics and human health

Scire Salutis ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Manoel Gonçalves Rodrigues ◽  
Josimar Ribeiro de Almeida ◽  
Jackeline Maria Cardoso de França Bahé
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
The Public ◽  
Good Population ◽  
Quality Of Living ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Public Politics

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the environmental degradation and its effects in the human health particularly related to the use of water of the tropics and subtropics areas on Earth. In this conception towards a healthy society a continuous investing in basic and environmental sanitation is very important and simultaneously less expensive than dealing with illnesses. In order to improve a better and friendly society linked to Sustainable Development with a good population life quality will need to point out a series of services to the community such as treated water supply, collection and disposal of sewers and solid residues. The public politics that efficiently provide investments of financial resources in sanitation, preventively collective health, must be a strategy to achieve the human being quality of living in the XXI century.

scholarly journals Integrity Design Strategy in Steel Structure Bridge Design

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
Meng Wan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Steel Structure ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Bridge Construction ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Design Scheme ◽  
Actual Design

Nowadays, the scope of bridge construction projects in China is becoming wider, which promotes China’s economic development to a large extent and also improves China’s transportation system. Meanwhile, people also put forward new requirements for the quality of steel structure bridges. However, in actual design, due to the influence of many factors, some problems are inevitable, which will affect the integrity of the design. Therefore, the designer needs to fully grasp the possible design problems, and then take effective measures to improve the integrity of the design scheme, so as to ensure the quality of the steel structure bridge and improves the safety of the steel structure bridge from the fundamentals. This paper mainly focuses on steel structure bridges, analyzed the current status of steel structure bridge types and their selection, and proposes the integrity design strategy of steel structure bridges.

scholarly journals Research on Public Participation in Recording Intangible Cultural Heritage in Rural Area

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 01014
Author(s):  
Yanling Guo ◽  
Yonghui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government

Being an important part of cultural heritage, intangible cultural heritage (hereinafter referred to as “ICH”) needs to be passed down from generation to generation. Seemed as the gene of national cultures, ICH is very important for the development and prosperity of human culture, for the development of social economy and civilization, and for the identity of individuals and ethnic groups. Since the publication of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2003, ICH safeguarding activities have been fully implemented throughout the world. Recording ICH is a basic and important way to safeguard ICH, this way plays an important role and has been widely approved throughout China and other countries. It has been applied in many ICH item safeguarding, such as Nanjing Yunjin, Qinhuai Lantern Festival. As we all know, ICH resources are very rich in China. There are 39 ICH items have been listed in “ the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”, 1,372 ICH items have been listed in “the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in China”. There are a large number of famous and not famous ICH items scattered in urban areas. To record so many ICH resources, it is not enough to rely on the power of the government. As the creator and inheritor of ICH, the public should play an important role in the safeguarding activities. Attracting the public to participate is a prerequisite of ICH safeguarding. Through questionnaires, interviews and other research methods, this paper introduces the public’s awareness and attitude about recording ICH, and their ability and willingness to participate in ICH safeguarding activities. Based on the current status, It analyzes the advantages of public participation in the protection of ICH , and the disadvantages, opportunities and threats are also analyzed. Based on the international principle of “government-led, public participation”, this paper proposes to construct a “folk-government” model to optimize the quality of recording ICH. To ensure the quality of public participation, it further points out that some measures should be taken, such as strengthen the government leadership to provide necessary support, identifying their advantages and responsibilities of different participants to joint, expanding the participation content and diversifying the participation method. These measures are all aimed at promotion the safeguarding and inheriting the ICH.

scholarly journals The impact of potted street gardens on depression levels in a dense residential neighborhood: case of Beni-Makada, Tangier

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdellah Afrad ◽  
Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Urban Families ◽  
Housing Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Residential Neighborhood ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

<p>The data used is from a face-to-face survey (N=388) we conducted in January 2019, in the Beni-Makada district of Tangier, Morocco. The neighborhood is one of the most disadvantaged (World Bank. 2012), with the smallest per-capita green space of 0.27m2 in the city (OPEMH, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung foundation, 2016).<br></p><p>The district is famous for the abundance of street potted gardens, widely mediatized during the 22<sup>nd</sup> conference of parties (COP22) organized in 2016 in Morocco. It houses more than 40% of Tangier’s population, mostly middle-low to low-income, living in individual houses (Modern Moroccan houses) built directly to the property line, 65% of urban families in Morocco live in the same housing type (RGPH 2014). All SPGs observed in the study area were present in the public domain, the vast majority were back to back with owners’ houses, except for two narrow streets where SPGs were at the center to barre access to cars.<br>The questionnaire was tested and verified with focus groups in Arabic before being conducted in Morocco. The final version was composed of four parts and 36 questions. </p><div>Part one inquired about PSGs size, age, maintenance, in addition to recreational activities done next to it. </div><div>Part two had eighteen questions measuring neighborhood satisfaction, cleanliness, safety, noise annoyance social capital, neighborhood life quality, and belonging pride perception. </div><div>In part three, we measured depression levels using the Arabic version of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9).</div><div>And in part four, we had demographic questions.</div><div>The obtained data were analyzed using SPSS 25.</div>

Social tourism for seniors in Spain: an example to be followed?

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-82
Author(s):  
Elisa Alén González ◽  
Trinidad Domínguez Vila ◽  
Nieves Losada Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Life Quality ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This chapter aims to identify the determining factors and the main aspects to be developed to facilitate healthy and active ageing, thus improving the life quality of elderly people based on the Spanish government's social tourism programmes designed for this population group. This chapter starts with a contextualization of the social tourism concept, followed by a review of the public policies for active and healthy ageing and their impact on the tourism industry. Finally, an in-depth analysis of social tourism programmes in Spain is presented. Included is an exploratory analysis of the impact of social tourism on seniors' quality of life.

United States Environmental Protection Agency National Radon Proficiency Programmes

1994 ◽  
Vol 56 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 275-280
Author(s):  
P.P. Jalbert ◽  
G.L. Salmon ◽  
S. De Scisciolo (INVITED)
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Radon Measurement ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us

Abstract The US Environmental Protection Agency's voluntary National Radon Proficiency Programmes: Radon Measurement, and Reduction Proficiency are described, including their history and development, current status and future directions. The Radon Measurement Proficiency (RMP) and Radon Contractor Proficiency (RCP) programmes are fundamental to the Agency's programme to reduce the health risk associated with exposure to elevated radon levels in indoor air. Originally developed to provide technical assistance to States, the proficiency programmes now offer US consumers assurance of the quality of their radon measurements and reduction jobs. In other words, the proficiency programmes provide a means to consumers for deciding from which organisations or individuals to purchase radon services. This is especially important in the United States where most radon services are acquired through private enterprises rather than through the public sector. The Agency encourages the public to purchase radon measurement and reduction services only from organisations or individuals that have met the requirements of EPA's proficiency programmes. An increasing number of States require an EPA proficiency listing for their radon registration, licensing, and certification programmes. EPA estimates that about 85% of US companies offering radon services are participating in its proficiency programmes. Consequently, the Agency believes that the development and growth of quality radon services has kept pace with consumer demand. The United States markeplace for residential radon measurement and mitigation services has been dynamic since its inception in the mid-1980s. The fluidity of the market is likely to continue, with some significant changes appearing imminent. The US Congress is now considering legislation that would require participation in the Agency's radon proficiency programmes. In addition, this legislation contains provisions that would encourage consumer testing. Increased testing, coupled with a mandatory national proficiency programme, is likely to result in an increase in the quality of radon services available to the US public.

Science Coverage: What Does the Audience Want and Really Need? Exploring Media Consumption in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-112
Author(s):  
Olha Harmatiy
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Science Content ◽  
Science Journalism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Stereotypes ◽  
Socially Relevant

In today’s world, effective science communication enhances the ability of a society to develop, seek breakthroughs and innovate; it consolidates the nation and unites people and science. Such kind of communication through the media has the potential to influence the public understanding of scientific and technological development, explore the ways to overcome challenges, increase the life quality and achieve improvement and prosperity. Mass media is an important source of science content and the main translator of social stereotypes concerning the image of science and scientists. Based on data from a survey of a wide age range of media consumers, the study reveals a social request for saturation of the Ukraine’s media with science content. Yet the research findings suggest that the current status of science does not fully meet the needs of Ukrainian audience and does not promote the critical thinking among media consumers. Besides, it was found out that people would prefer expanding the range of thematic coverage of science and reporting topics that are socially relevant and beneficial to the public. Finally, the study indicates that Ukraine needs qualified science journalism, including maintaining professional norms, preventing the pseudoscience spread and supporting public demands, for quality science coverage.

scholarly journals Life Quality of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea patients after Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation Therapy

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Hamna Rao
Keyword(s):  
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Sleep Apnoea ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Positive Pressure ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Obstructive Sleep ◽  
Sleeping Disorder ◽  
Made In

Obstructive Sleep Apnoea is an emerging sleeping disorder affecting much population around the world due to obesity and other medical conditions. My literature review will explain the current status of OSA worldwide and what betterments are being made in this area of advancement to provide better health and life quality.

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