Bei He

Henan University · School of Management Science and Engineering

A water park is a nature-based site along a river or water management project that plays a vital role in protecting the local ecological system and providing water recreation, making it an essential component of China’s ecological and ecotourism security strategy. This study sought to portray the distribution of China’s 878 National Water Parks (NW...

Finding solutions to the challenges posed by China’s urbanization is an urgent, pressing global concern. An effective approach for evaluating the ecological well-being performance (EWP) is a guideline for improvement. Most previous studies have focused on the evaluation of EWP efficiency without considering the effectiveness of the EWP, which may m...

Urbanization is widely regarded as an inevitable process of human progress and ecosystem is considered as the planet’s life-support systems for human and other forms of life. Hence, accurately measuring the relationship to promote the coordinated development between urbanization and ecosystem seems to be significant. In this study, the values of ur...

The urban metro system has been widely appreciated as the most important component in urban infrastructures. It plays a critical role in promoting urban social and economic development, and particularly in reducing the urban traffic congestion. However, there are various inherent problems with operating metro systems, which typically involve the cr...

In periods of rapid urbanization, investment in urban infrastructure should not only meet the increasing demands of all urban people, but also be equally allocated between cities to achieve social equity and sustainable development. This paper aimed to conduct quantitative research on the unbalance of urban infrastructure investment between cities...

Assessment tools for evaluating green buildings performance have been developed mainly from the perspective of their environmental impacts and sustainable performance since 1990s. These assessment tools have been developed under different aspects for evaluation. The increasing number of application practices of assessment tools presents the growing...

The rapid urbanization process has brought problems to China, such as traffic congestion, air pollution, water pollution and resources scarcity. Sustainable urbanization is commonly appreciated as an effective way to promote the sustainable development. The proper understanding of the sustainable urbanization performance is critical to provide gove...

Policy instrument is the key to drive improving energy-efficiency in building sectors. This paper presents the current development of BEE policy instruments by examining their practices in seven selected countries and regions. These policy instruments are classified into three groups: the mandatory administration instrument, the economic incentive...

Building energy-efficiency (BEE) is the key to drive the promotion of energy saving in building sector. A large variety of building energy-efficiency policy instrument exist. Some are mandatory, some are soft scheme, and some use economic incentives from country to country. This paper presents the current development of implementing BEE policy inst...

The development of metro infrastructure projects (MIP) has been playing an important role in the economic growth in China through improving urban transportation condition. The economic benefits from MIP in China have been well appreciated. However, concerns on the utility efficiency and the impacts of MIP on social and environmental aspects have be...

Application of sustainable urban development indicators is one of the most important strategies to achieve the mission sustainable development. Appropriateness of the indicators is therefore essential to the successful achievement of the mission. Particularly, those developing countries such as China where there are huge plans of future urbanizatio...