As the wide application of new Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs)shows,the world is moving fast towards an information *** China was first connected to the Internet in 1994,the development of ICTs in Chi...
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As the wide application of new Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs)shows,the world is moving fast towards an information *** China was first connected to the Internet in 1994,the development of ICTs in China and around the world has been astonishingly fast,and yet there is a clear 'digital divide' among different cities in *** Chinese geographers have paid attention to regional differences in the development of the information society,they usually employ a limited number of indicators,mainly focusing on the *** fact,information society is a much broader concept,covering not only the Internet,but also mobile phones as well as user *** the light of these considerations,this study provides a comprehensive examination of the development of information society,and its spatial differences in ***,based on a literature review,the paper identifies 29 preliminary indicators for measuring the development of information society,and employs principal components analysis and the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process to streamline them into 12 indicators to form an ICT Development Index(IDI).Second,by using the data from city statistical yearbooks and the China Internet Network Information Center,the paper calculates the IDI of 317 cities in 2000–2010,and measures the changing spatial differences in the development of information society in ***,the paper quantifies the relationship between the development of information society and economic *** empirical results show that the IDI of the western and central China has been increasing faster than that of the coastal region,indicating that the digital divide in China has been narrowing.
The aesthetic perceptions of local residents towards residential landscapes are significant to the protection and sustainable development of regional landscapes, especially in underdeveloped areas with landscape resou...
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The aesthetic perceptions of local residents towards residential landscapes are significant to the protection and sustainable development of regional landscapes, especially in underdeveloped areas with landscape resources of higher aesthetic value. Using Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province as a case study, we conducted questionnaires with 620 local residents and a logistic regression model to determine aesthetic perceptions and factors affecting these perceptions. We found that local residents in Nujiang hold a relatively high perception of their residential landscapes. A majority of respondents, 75.81%, believe their residential landscapes are beautiful. Eight factors were found to influence the aesthetic perception. In direct influential factors, administrative village located in the protected areas and the standard deviation of the elevation around the administrative village have positive influence; distance from administrative village to county town, the ecological environment has changed in recent years, whether tourism development has a negative impact and wish to live in the city have negative influence. In indirect influential factors, both residential house type and have a television at home have positive influence. Based on these results, we discussed relevant policy suggestions to maintain the aesthetic perceptions held by local residents of their residential landscapes and promote the protection and sustainable development of this valuable landscape in Nujiang.
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