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Avijit Sarkar, James B. Pick and Shaista Jabeen
This paper examines spatiotemporal patterns and socioeconomic influences on host participation in Airbnb?s short-term rental (STR) marketplace in San Francisco during the years 2019?2022, a four-year period that spans the COVID-19 pandemic. This provides...
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Yue Wang, Feilong Weng and Xuexi Huo
As a product of the deep integration of digital technology and financial services, digital finance provides vital financial support for rural revitalization and increasing farmers? income. Based on the survey data of 1030 professional apple growers in th...
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Huidan Xu, Kun Song, Yichao Li and Martinson Ankrah Twumasi
Improving the income of rural residents is a requirement for poverty alleviation in all countries. Based on China Land Economic Survey (CLES) 2021 data, this paper investigates the homogenous and heterogeneous relations between financial literacy and the...
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Marieke J. Oskam, Milena Pavlova, Charles Hongoro and Wim Groot
While evidence from several developing countries suggests the existence of socio-economic inequalities in the access to safe drinking water, a limited number of studies have been conducted on this topic in informal settlements. This study assessed socio-...
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Xueyan Zhang
China?s rural population has declined markedly with the acceleration of urbanization and industrialization, but the area under rural homesteads has continued to expand. Proper rural land use and management require large-scale, efficient, and low-cost rur...
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Matthew Oakley, Sam Mohun Himmelweit, Paul Leinster and Mónica Rivas Casado
Despite the significant financial and non-financial costs of household flooding, and the availability of products that can reduce the risk or impact of flooding, relatively few consumers choose to adopt these products. To help explain this, we combine th...
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Mahsa Nazeriye, Abdorrahman Haeri and Francisco Martínez-Álvarez
Human living could become very difficult due to a lack of energy. The household sector plays a significant role in energy consumption. Trying to optimize and achieve efficient energy consumption can lead to large-scale energy savings. The aim of this pap...
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Extreme flooding usually causes huge losses of residential buildings and household properties, which is critical to flood risk analysis and flood resilience building in Shanghai. We developed a scenario-based multidisciplinary approach to analyze the exp...
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Yu Xie, Chuhao Chen, Dezhi Wu, Wenming Xi and Houde Liu
This paper proposes a novel material recognition method for robotic tactile sensing. The method is composed of two steps. Firstly, a human-touch-inspired short-duration (1 s) slide action is conducted by the robot to obtain the tactile data. Then, the ta...
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Kei Owada, Mark Nielsen, Colleen L. Lau, Laith Yakob, Archie C.A. Clements, Lydia Leonardo and Ricardo J. Soares Magalhães
Functional literacy is one of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. Functional literacy indicators are likely to vary between locations given the geographical variability of its major determinants. This property p...
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