Responses to the pandemic in India’s slums, Brazil’s favelas and Africa’s marketplaces show that networks play a crucial part in making cities more resilient. Let’s enhance and empower them. Responses to the pandemic in India’s slums, Brazil’s favelas and Africa’s marketplaces show that networks play a crucial part in making cities more resilient. Let’s enhance and empower them.

Abstract. In recent years, Arctic glaciers have gradually melted due to the global warming, which makes the exploitation of Arctic and its seabed resources possible. Though numerous disagreements and potentials over Arctic maritime jurisdiction still exist, the surround-Arctic nations have agreed the United Nations' Convention on the Law of the Sea to divide the Arctic Ocean into zones that can be regulated and exploited. The IBRU of Durham University has mapped the known claims, agreed boundaries and potential claims of the surround-Arctic nations in the Arctic to clear the maritime jurisdiction in the region. However, different countries may have different requirements within their jurisdictional areas. Clarifying these requirements is essential for Arctic Navigation of investigation ships and merchant ships for their route planning.In this paper, based on the map of maritime jurisdiction and boundaries in Arctic region (IBRU), we analysed the international conventions and relevant laws of the surround-Arctic nations to find out the rights and obligations of ships in different zones. The limitations on activities and recommendations on navigation planning are marked for different zones according to different purposes, i.e. science or commerce. The map could not only provide navigational guidance for the activities in the Arctic Ocean, but offer references for the countries not surrounding the Arctic in the formulation of the Arctic strategies.

Compared to common data presentation methods such as tables and diagrams, thematic maps have the advantage of directly presenting complex, multidimensional spatial data. In this study, over 500 thematic maps are planned that present pesticide residue data from the inspection of fruit and vegetable samples. The data contain information on the samples, pesticides, sampling locations, maximum residue limits and inspection. Different calculation strategies are used to transform the original data into highly integrated data for cartography based on the demand investigation. During the map design process, standardized design should be used to ensure rigorous and consistent display of cartographic symbols. Two of the maps are used as examples to explain the data processing and map design procedures. The process can be used on all maps in this study and on more complex data.

Site selection for the Antarctic research station is of great importance and necessary for Antarctic expedition, affecting both scientific investigations and service life of the station. This study was conducted to identify suitable sites for an Antarctic research station, by Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP). Considering the natural environment and built environment in the study area, fifteen criteria were proposed as multiple evaluation sub-criteria and were grouped into four main criteria: scientific interest, environment, accessibility and topography. Weights of all the sub-criteria and main criteria were calculated through the FAHP. The weights were then multiplied with the suitability scores for each grid on raster maps of criteria in GIS software to produce the suitability maps in a hierarchical way. All the suitability maps in different levels were aggregated to allocate the most suitable areas for Chinese new Antarctic research station. Further, comparisons were also made between predicted suitable areas and existing stations and camps in Antarctica to show the fitness-for-use of the modeling results. After considering the locations of existing Chinese stations, the scientific interest of Chinese Antarctic expedition and relationships with stations of other countries, we suggested the candidate site for Chinese new Antarctic research station in the range of 166.53°167.16°E, 77.699°77.847°S and gave the final mapping.