Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability-Volume 2

Our world is facing many challenges, such as poverty, hunger, resource shortage, environmental degradation, climate change, and increased inequalities and conflicts. To address such challenges, the United Nations proposed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), consisting of 17 interlinked global goals, as the strategic blueprint of world sustainable development. Nevertheless, the implementation of the SDG framework has been very challenging and the COVID-19 pandemic has further impeded the SDG implementation progress. Accelerated efforts are needed to enable all stakeholders, ranging from national and local governments, civil society, private sector, academia and youth, to contribute to addressing this dilemma. This volume of the Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability book series aims to offer inspiration and creativity on approaches to sustainable development. Among other things, it covers topics of COVID-19 and sustainability, environmental pollution, food production, clean energy, low-carbon transport promotion, and strategic governance for sustainable initiatives. This book can reveal facts about the challenges we are facing on the one hand and provide a better understanding of drivers, barriers, and motivations to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all on the other. Research presented in this volume can provide different stakeholders, including planners and policy makers, with better solutions for the implementation of SDGs. Prof. Bao-Jie He acknowledges the Project NO. 2021CDJQY-004 supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. We appreciate the assistance from Mr. Lifeng Xiong, Mr. Wei Wang, Ms. Xueke Chen and Ms. Anxian Chen at School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing University, China

Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money

Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking study covering a range of contemporary authors and issues, from Haizi to Yin Lichuan and from poetic rhythm to exile-bashing. Its rigorous scholarship, literary sensitivity and lively style make it eminently fit for classroom use

Chinese elements : a bridge of the integration between Chinese -English translation and linguaculture transnational mobility

[Abstract] As the popularity of Chinese elements in the innovation of the translation part in Chinese CET, we realized that Chinese elements have become a bridge between linguaculture transnational mobility and Chinese-English translation.So, Chinese students translation skills should be critically improved; for example, on their understanding about Chinese culture, especially the meaning of Chinese culture. Five important secrets of skillful translation are introduced to improve students’ translation skills

Assessing China’s Environmental NGO Public Interest Litigation Against the U.S. Citizen Suit Model

This dissertation introduces the U.S. and China’s environmental governance evolution, the background of their private enforcement provisions, including each country’s environmental legislative, administrative, and judicial development before establishing private enforcement. After the introduction, the second section examines the U.S. environmental citizen suits’ origin, environmental movements during the 1960s and 1970s, and pioneer ENGOs’ legal experiences. Statutory provisions are reviewed in various aspects in order to fully present this significant U.S. private enforcement measure. The third section analyzes the trajectory of Chinese ENGO EPIL development, including the provisions and typical actions according to several scattered provisions. Section four compares the theoretical and procedural distinctions between the two. Finally, in section five, specific legislation and implementation recommendations to Chinese legislatures and growing Chinese ENGOs are also discussed. One recommendation is to comprehensively legislate an Environmental Public Interest Relief Law in China by integrating statutesto reframe a sound legal system with a rectified understanding of the U.S. environmental citizen-suit system. Another suggestion is to encourage ENGOs to positively and actively reinforce their professionalism through achievable and practical actions based on steady resources and altruistic ethical compliance. As a vital type of private enforcement, ENGO EPIL actions would be oriented to assuring environmental governance compliance to ultimately promote the fundamental and comprehensive environmental governance pattern, environmental administrative enforcement. The recommendations will help systematically realize and regulate environmental EPIL proceedings and continually promote the primary environmental administrative enforcement in an increasingly open and inclusive social context in the coming future

Generating and sharing differentially private spatio-temporal data using real-world knowledge

Privacy-preserving spatio-temporal data sharing is vital for addressing many real-world problems, such as managing disease spread or tailoring public services to a population’s travel patterns. Differential privacy has become the de facto privacy standard owing to its strong privacy guarantees, although existing mechanisms make very restrictive assumptions regarding what outside knowledge is known beyond the data itself. .is limits the practical utility of the private data, and has prevented the widespread deployment of differentially private algorithms in the real world. . This thesis aims to show that incorporating publicly available information, such as the road network or characteristics of places of interests, can enhance the practical utility of the output data without negatively affecting privacy. .This thesis focuses on two main problems, both of which are fundamental in enabling location analytics with private data. The first considers the synthesis of spatial point data, and three solutions are proposed. The first solution uses a private adaptation of kernel density estimation to generate data within small private partitions, and the second uses the road network as the basis for data generation. The third solution combines randomised response with generative adversarial networks to develop a generative model that satisfies label local differential privacy – a more practical and realistic privacy setting. The second problem focuses on sharing trajectory data using local differential privacy. .e proposed solution uses the exponential mechanism to efficiently perturb overlapping, hierarchically structured =-grams of trajectory data, which help to preserve the spatio-temporal correlations inherent in trajectory data. .is problem, and its solution, is then extended to a setting in which two services wish to privately share event sequence data with each other. All solutions incorporate publicly available external knowledge by imposing hard constraints on feasible outputs, exploiting the intrinsic hierarchies and underlying structures of realworld data, and using distance functions to ensure that semantically similar values are more likely to be output. Experiments with real data show that including this information helps to produce private data that performs very well in many spatio-temporal analytical tasks, including range, hotspot, and facility location queries. These strong results demonstrate the potential for more widespread use of differential privacy in the real world

LIPIcs, Volume 244, ESA 2022, Complete Volume

LIPIcs, Volume 244, ESA 2022, Complete Volum