published_or_final_version / Transport Policy and Planning / Master / Master of Arts in Transport Policy and Planning

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

by Wong Yiu Fai Peter. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leave 91). / ABSTRACT / TABLE OF CONTENTS / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / LIST OF TABLES / CHAPTER Page(s) / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1-3 / Chapter II. --- THE THEORY OF PROPERTY RIGHTS --- p.4-8 / Chapter 1. --- Value of Good --- p.4 / Chapter 2. --- Nature of Property Rights --- p.4-5 / Chapter 3. --- Externalities and Property Rights --- p.5-6 / Chapter 4. --- The Exchange of Property Rights and Internalization --- p.6-7 / Chapter 5. --- The Development of Property Rights --- p.7-8 / Chapter III. --- the changing pattern of real property rights in china --- p.9-24 / Chapter 1. --- Historical Background --- p.9-14 / Chapter 2. --- The Propelling Forces For the Changein the System of Real Property Rights --- p.14-20 / Chapter i. --- Political Forces --- p.14-15 / Chapter ii. --- Economic Forces --- p.15-19 / Chapter iii. --- To Attract Foreign Investment --- p.19-20 / Chapter 3. --- Theoretical Justification and Concepts --- p.20-24 / Chapter i. --- Land Ownership --- p.20-21 / Chapter ii. --- Property Ownership --- p.21 / Chapter iii. --- Land Use Rights --- p.21-22 / Chapter iv. --- Theoretical Justification --- p.22-24 / Chapter IV --- LEGAL FRAMEWORK --- p.25-42 / Chapter 1. --- Enactment of new legislation to accommodate the change in real property rights --- p.25-27 / Chapter 2. --- Grant of Land Use Rights --- p.27-32 / Chapter 3. --- Transfer of Land Use Rights --- p.32-34 / Chapter 4. --- Lease of Land Use Rights --- p.34-35 / Chapter 5. --- Mortgage of Land Use Rights --- p.35-37 / Chapter 6. --- Termination of Land Use Rights --- p.37-38 / Chapter 7. --- Registration and Certificate of Rights --- p.38-40 / Chapter 8. --- Land Use Rights in Allotted Land --- p.40-42 / Chapter V --- DISPUTE RESOLUTION - LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION --- p.43-45 / Chapter 1. --- Litigation --- p.43-44 / Chapter i. --- Courts --- p.43 / Chapter ii. --- Judges --- p.43-44 / Chapter iii. --- Time and Costs --- p.44 / Chapter 2. --- Arbitration --- p.44-46 / Chapter i. --- International Aspect --- p.44-45 / Chapter ii. --- Time and Costs --- p.45-46 / Chapter 3. --- Dispute resolution and theory of property rights --- p.46 / Chapter VI --- PROBLEMS OF THE NEW LEGAL SYSTEM --- p.47-54 / Chapter 1. --- Complexity --- p.47-51 / Chapter i. --- "Various sources of laws, regulations and practices" --- p.47-48 / Chapter ii. --- Localism --- p.49 / Chapter iii. --- Great discretion of officials --- p.49-50 / Chapter iv. --- The myth of lawless China --- p.50-51 / Chapter 2. --- Immaturity --- p.51-53 / Chapter i. --- Immature Concepts --- p.51-52 / Chapter ii. --- Immature Systems --- p.52-53 / Chapter 3. --- Loopholes in the legal system --- p.53-54 / Chapter VII. --- conclusion --- p.55 / APPENDICES / Chapter 1. --- Table / Chapter 2. --- Sample Land Certificate / Chapter 3. --- An Extract of the relevant laws and regulations / Chapter 4. --- A Scale of Court Costs and Charge / Chapter 5. --- china International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission Arbitration Rules / footnotes / bibliography

嚴南海. / 複寫本. / 附錄: Geotechnical area study: north west. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院地理系. / Fu xie ben. / Fu lu: Geotechnical area study: north west. / New Territories: terrain classification map. / Yan Nanhai. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan di li xi. / Chapter 第一章 --- 緒論 / Chapter 1.1 --- 理論依據 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- 土地分析的性質 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- 土地分析的概念 / Chapter 1.1.3 --- 土地分析的發展 / Chapter 1.1.4 --- 土地分類的方向 / Chapter 1.1.5 --- 土地分析的方法 / Chapter 1.1.6 --- 土地評估的性質 / Chapter 1.1.7 --- 土地評估的方法 / Chapter 1.2 --- 研究目的 / Chapter 1.3 --- 研究意義 / Chapter 第二章 --- 研究區域與研究方法 / Chapter 2.1 --- 研究區自然環境概況 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- 位置 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- 地質 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- 氣候 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- 土壤 / Chapter 2.1.5 --- 植被 / Chapter 2.2 --- 研究方法 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- 資料搜集及處理 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- 統計分析 / Chapter 2.3 --- 研究限制 / Chapter 第三章 --- 元朗地區的土地特徵 / Chapter 3.1 --- 土地條件 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- 坡度 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- 土地要素 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- 侵蝕不穩性 / Chapter 3.1.4 --- 地表物質 / Chapter 3.2 --- 土地特徵的相互關係 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- 土地要素與坡度 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- 土地要素與侵蝕不穩性 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- 土地要素與地表物質 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- 坡度與侵蝕不穩性 / Chapter 3.2.5 --- 坡度與地表物質 / Chapter 3.2.6 --- 地表物質與侵蝕不穩性 / Chapter 3.3 --- 岩性與土地特徵 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- 岩性與坡度的關係 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- 岩性與侵蝕不穩性的關係 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- 岩性與地表物質的關係 / Chapter 3.4 --- 小結 / Chapter 第四章 --- 土地利用與土地特徵的關係 / Chapter 4.1 --- 土地利用分佈概況 / Chapter 4.2 --- 各土地特徵對土地利用的影響 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- 土地利用與坡度 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- 土地利用與土地要素 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- 土地利用與侵蝕不穩性 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- 土地利用與地表物質 / Chapter 4.2.5 --- 小結──農業用地與城市用地的土地條件差異 / Chapter 第五章 --- 元朗地區的土地分區與評估 / Chapter 5.1 --- 元朗地區的土地分區 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- 聚類分析結果 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- 判別分析結果 / Chapter 5.2 --- 元朗地區七個土地分區的土地利用潛力評估 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- 土地利用潛力分類 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- 各分區的土地利用潛力及發展方向 / Chapter 5.3 --- 元朗地區社區發展的土地潛力 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- 社區發展上的地貌限制 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- 元朗地區社區發展的空間取向 / Chapter 5.4 --- 小結 / Chapter 第六章 --- 結論 / 參考文獻 / Chapter 附錄： --- Geotechnical Area Study──North West New Territories: Terrain Classification Map

by Chan, Cheung-Wai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 184-189). / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.ii / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.iii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.iv / Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.2 --- Background / Chapter 1.3 --- Objectives of this study / Chapter 1.4 --- The Structure of the thesis / Chapter Chapter Two --- Literature Review --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 2.2 --- Rural-urban fringe / Chapter 2.3 --- Characteristics of land use changes in the fringes / Chapter 2.4 --- Factors affecting the mechanism of land use changes in the urban fringe / Chapter 2.5 --- Parties involved in land use change decision / Chapter 2.6 --- Land use in the urban fringe of Zhujiang Delta / Chapter 2.6.1 --- Cities' in China / Chapter 2.6.2 --- Urban fringes in China ---the case of Zhujiang Delta / Chapter 2.6.3 --- Land use pattern in the Zhujiang Delta / Chapter Chapter Three --- Methodology --- p.29 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- Change detection techniques of land use changes / Chapter 3.1.1 --- A concept of change detection / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Change detection techniques / Chapter 3.2 --- Method employed to detect land use change in Zhujiang Delta / Chapter 3.3 --- Procedures / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Data description / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Preprocessing / Chapter a. --- Atmospheric correction / Chapter b. --- Image Registration / Chapter i. --- Spatial interpolation / Chapter ii. --- Intensity interpolation / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Image differencing / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Post-classification comparison / Chapter a. --- Land Use / Land Cover classification scheme / Chapter b. --- Definitions and image characteristics of land / Land cover classes / Chapter c. --- Supervised classification / Chapter d. --- Training sites / Chapter e. --- Maximum likelihood classifier / Chapter f. --- Accuracy assessment / Chapter g. --- post-classification comparison / Chapter Chapter Four --- Study Area --- p.64 / Chapter 4.1 --- Physical and agricultural landscape of Zhujiang Delta ---a general description / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Physical landscape / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Urban develoment / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Agricultural landscape / Chapter 4.2 --- Shunde / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Agricultural land use / Chapter 4.2.2 --- The image of Shunde / Chapter 4.3 --- Dongguan / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Agricultural land use / Chapter 4.3.2 --- The image of Dongguan / Chapter 4.4 --- Guangzhou / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Agricultural land use / Chapter 4.4.2 --- The image of Guangzhou / Chapter 4.5 --- Land use changes expected within the study area / Chapter Chapter Five --- Results and discussions --- p.83 / Chapter 5.1 --- Image differencing / Chapter 5.2 --- Results of classifications / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Shunde / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Dongguan / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Guangzhou / Chapter 5.3 --- Post-classification comparison change detection / Chapter Chapter Six --- Land use chancre analysis of the urban fringesin Zhujiang Delta --- p.107 / Chapter 6.1 --- Framework for discussion / Chapter 6 .2 --- Land use / land cover changes in Shunde / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Rural-to-urban changes / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Rural-to-rural changes / Chapter 6. 3 --- Land use / land cover changes in Dongguan / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Rural-to-urban changes / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Rural-to-rural changes / Chapter 6.4 --- Land use / land cover change in Guangzhou / Chapter 6.4.1 --- Rural-to-urban changes / Chapter 6.4.2 --- Rural-to-rural changes / Chapter 6 .5 --- Comparson of land use changes of the study area / Chapter 6.5.1 --- Land-use change comaprison / Chapter 6.5.2 --- Rural-to-urban changes / Chapter 6.5.3 --- Rural-to-rural changes / Chapter a. --- Origins of wet cropland and market gardening / Chapter b. --- Origins of woodland / Chapter c. --- Origins of fish ponds / Chapter 6.5.4 --- Conclusions / Chapter Chapter Seven --- Conclusion --- p.175 / Chapter 7.1 --- Land use change in the urban fringes in the Zhujiang Delta ---a comparison / Chapter 7.2 --- the applicability of western theories on land use change to the Zhujiang Delta / Chapter 7.3 --- Remote sensing method as an application for land use change monitoring in China

Cheung, Suk Man. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 189-206). / Abstracts in English and Chinese ; appendix in Chinese. / ACKNOELDGEMENTS --- p.i / ABSTRACT --- p.iii / 論文摘要 --- p.vi / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.viii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.xi / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.xiii / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION / Chapter 1.1 --- Research Problem --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Objectives --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3 --- Significance of Research --- p.5 / Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis Outline --- p.6 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- APPLYING THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN LAND-USE PLANNING / Chapter 2.1 --- Concept of Sustainable Development --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Good Governance for Sustainable Development --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3 --- Sustainable Land-use Planning --- p.13 / Chapter 2.4 --- Important Aspects of Sustainable Land-use Planning --- p.14 / Chapter 2.5 --- Significance of Sustainability Assessment and Public Participation --- p.20 / Chapter 2.6 --- Conclusion --- p.23 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND LAND-USE PLANNING IN HONG KONG / Chapter 3.1 --- Sustainable Development in Hong Kong --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2 --- Land-use Planning System in Hong Kong --- p.30 / Chapter 3.3 --- Sustainability Assessment in Land-use Planning System --- p.36 / Chapter 3.4 --- Public Participation in Land-use Planning System --- p.36 / Chapter 3.5 --- Conclusion --- p.38 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- BACKGROUND OF STUDIED CASES / Chapter 4.1 --- Choices of Case Studies --- p.39 / Chapter 4.2 --- General Background --- p.41 / Chapter 4.3 --- Questionnaires Surveys --- p.42 / Chapter 4.4 --- Residents' and Visitors' Perceptions and Visions of Pat Heung Kam Tin and Kai Tak area --- p.48 / Chapter 4.5 --- Summary --- p.63 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- KEY ISSUES AND SUSTAINABILITY IDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND-USE PLANNING / Chapter 5.1 --- Designing Sustainable Cities: Key Issues and Sustainability Indicators --- p.65 / Chapter 5.2 --- Key issues and Sustainability Indicators for Pat Heung Kam Tin and Kai Tak area --- p.71 / Chapter 5.3 --- Further Discussion on Sustainability Indicators --- p.89 / Chapter 5.4 --- Opportunities and Challenges --- p.93 / Chapter 5.5 --- Summary --- p.98 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- PULBIC PARTICIPATION FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND-USE PLANNING / Chapter 6.1 --- Review of Public Participation --- p.101 / Chapter 6.2 --- Participatory Planning Processes of Pat Heung Kam Tin and Kai Tak area --- p.113 / Chapter 6.3 --- Questionnaires Design and Surveys on Participatory Planning Processes --- p.118 / Chapter 6.4 --- Quality of Public Involvement Activities of Pat Heung Kam Tin and Kai Tak --- p.120 / Chapter 6.5 --- Factors Affecting Participation of Public Engagement Activities --- p.134 / Chapter 6.6 --- Opportunities and Challenges --- p.142 / Chapter 6.7 --- Summary --- p.153 / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- CONCLUSION / Chapter 7.1 --- Summary --- p.155 / Chapter 7.2 --- Implication of Study --- p.158 / Chapter 7.3 --- Limitations of Current Study --- p.164 / Chapter 7.4 --- Directions for Future Research --- p.166 / APPENDIX 1 Residents' and visitors' questionnaires for Pat Heung Kam Tin --- p.167 / APPENDIX 2 Residents' and visitors' questionnaires for Kai Tak area (Non-participants' questionnaire attached) --- p.177 / APPENDIX 3 Participants' questionnaire for Pat Heung Kam Tin and Kai Tak area --- p.183 / REFERENCES --- p.189

Hu Tianxin. / "August 2003." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-220). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.

Finally, the newly integrated model was firstly applied to analyze the relationship of land use and hydrologic regimes based on the land use maps in 1980 and 2000. Then the newly integrated model was applied to simulate the potential impacts of land use change on hydrologic regimes in the East River Basin under a series of hypothetical scenarios. The results show that ET has a positive relationship with Leaf Area Index (LAI) while runoff has a negative relationship with LAI in the same climatic zone, which can be elaborated by surface energy balance and water balance equation. Specifically, on an annual basis, ET of forest scenarios is larger than that of grassland or cropland scenarios. On the contrary, runoff of forest scenarios is less than that of grassland or cropland scenarios. On a monthly basis, for most of the scenarios, particularly the grassland and cropland scenarios, the most significant changes occurred in the rainy season. The results indicate that deforestation would cause increase of runoff and decrease of ET on an annual basis in the East River Basin. On a monthly basis, deforestation would cause significant decrease of ET and increase of runoff in the rainy season in the East River Basin. / In order to effectively simulate hydrologic impact of LUCC, an integrated model of ESEBS and distributed monthly water balance model has been developed in this study. The model is capable of considering basin terrain and the spatial distribution of precipitation and soil moisture. Particularly, the model is unique in accounting for spatial and temporal variations of vegetation cover and ET, which provides a powerful tool for studying the hydrologic impacts of LUCC. The model was applied to simulate the monthly runoff for the period of 1980-1994 for model calibration and for the period of 1995-2000 for validation. The calibration and validation results show that the newly integrated model is suitable for simulating monthly runoff and studying hydrologic impacts ofLUCC in the East River Basin. / Land use/cover change (LUCC) has significantly altered the hydrologic system in the East River (Dongjiang) Basin. Quantitative modeling of hydrologic impacts of LUCC is of great importance for water supply, drought monitoring and integrated water resources management. An integrated eco-hydrologic modeling system of Distributed Monthly Water Balance Model (DMWBM), Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) was developed with aid of GIS/RS to quantify LUCC, to conduct physically-based ET (evapotranspiration) mapping and to predict hydrologic impacts of LUCC. / The physically-remote-sensing-based Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) was employed to estimate areal actual ET for a large area rather than traditional point measurements . The SEBS was enhanced for application in complex vegetated area. Then the inter-comparison with complimentary ET model and distributed monthly water balance model was made to validate the enhanced SEBS (ESEBS). The application and test of ESEBS show that it has a good accuracy both monthly and annually and can be effectively applied in the East River Basin. The results of ET mapping based on ESEBS demonstrate that actual ET in the East River Basin decreases significantly in the last two decades, which is probably caused by decrease of sunshine duration. / These results are not definitive statements as to what will happen to runoff, ET and soil moisture regimes in the East River Basin, but rather offer an insight into the plausible changes in basin hydrology due to land use change. The integrated model developed in this study and these results have significant implications for integrated water resources management and sustainable development in the East River Basin. / To begin with, in order to evaluate LUCC, understand implications of LUCC and provide boundary condition for the integrated eco-hydrologic modeling, firstly the long-term vegetation dynamics was investigated based on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data, and then LUCC was analyzed with post-classification methods and finally LUCC prediction was conducted based on Markov chain model. The results demonstrate that the vegetation activities decreased significantly in summer over the years. Moreover, there were significant changes in land use/cover over the past two decades. Particularly there was a sharp increase of urban and built-up area and a significant decrease of grassland and cropland. All these indicate that human activities are intensive in the East River Basin and provide valuable information for constructing scenarios for studying hydrologic impacts of LUCC. / Wang, Kai. / "December 2010." / Adviser: Yongqin Chen. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-04, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-227). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.