Small property rights (SPR) housing is an informal way to provide housing for residents in Chinese cities. In this paper, we examine the institutional framework and development of SPR properties in China. Using survey data collected in Beijing, we investigate perceived tenure security and the relationship between legal title and investment in home improvements. We consider both the importance and the limitations of the legal dimension, as well as de facto situations of urban land uses, in order to gain a better understanding of property rights and urban development issues. Our results reveal that the characteristics of buildings and residents in SPR communities are not much different from those of commercial housing properties. The residents have a fairly high degree of tenure security even when their properties are not formally recognized by the state. Nevertheless, our results indicate that the absence of a legal title is effective to discourage the owners of SPR housing properties to invest in their properties. 相似文献
A proper mathematical representation of uncertainties is indispensable for reliability analysis of a practical engineering structural system. A general uncertainty analysis approach is probability bounds analysis (PBA), which propagates constraints on a distribution function through mathematical operations. The uncertainty about a probability distribution is represented by the set of cumulative distribution functions lying entirely within a pair of bounding distribution functions, which is called a P-box. Interval analysis as a special case of PBA is useful when there is no or less probabilistic information. It is common sense that great efforts must be paid to get enough probabilistic information used for probabilistic analysis of large and complex engineering structural systems. Even if there is no or less probabilistic information; the interval of possible values of probability of an event can be easily specified, such as the interval value of each element’s reliability of an engineering structural system.
This paper aims to introduce the concept of system reliability and its relationship to the reliability of its individual elements in an interval form. In terms of extension principle, interval arithmetic and possibility degree formula (PDF) for ranking interval numbers, basic properties of system reliability in interval form are investigated. The conclusion is that relationships between point reliability (point reliability used to describe a precise value of probability reliability is distinct with interval reliability) of some typical systems, such as series system, parallel system, series–parallel system, parallel–series system and r/n(G) system, etc., and point reliability of their individual elements are maintained in their interval forms. This is called quasi-consistency in this paper. A simple review of order relations of interval numbers, which will play an important role in interval reliability analysis, is given. The proposed quasi-consistency establishes the foundations for interval reliability analysis of a complex engineering structural system. 相似文献