Xia, Yongxia
Selected IT Systems Designed and Programmed
Peer Reviewed Publications
Skadberg, Y. X. and A. Skadberg. Web-based market analysis system for rural and small tourism businesses: The Tourism Market Match approach. Submitted to Information Technology & Tourism. In revision.
Skadberg, Y. X., T. Jamal and A. Skadberg. 2005. An IT and GIS exploration of web-based nature tourism enterprises in the rural agricultural sector in Texas. International Journal of Service Technology and Management, Vol 6(2).
Skadberg, A., Y. X. Skadberg. Developing online resources to address the needs of landowners and communities interested in nature tourism as an economic diversification strategy. Journal of Extension. (In press).
Skadberg, Y. X. and J. R. Kimmel. 2005. Visitors’ optimal experience while browsing a tourism web site. Information Technology & Tourism. Vol. 7, No. 3-4, pp. 147-156.
Skadberg, Y. X. and J. R. Kimmel. 2004. Visitors' flow experience while browsing a Web site: Its measurement, contributing factors and consequences. Computers in Human Behavior, 20, pp.403-422.
Xia, Y. 1994. Research on a comprehensive land resource use planning of Chengde. In Research on ecological environment and the ecological planning in Kangxi Summer Palace, ed. Benjin Yang. Beijing: Chinese Environmental Science Press.
Wang, Jiaji and Y. Xia.1996. Landscape ecology assessment in tourist city planning--a case study in Nantian, Hainan Island. Research on Environmental Sciences, 1996(1).
Book Review
Xia, Y. 1997. Land Degradation (Book Review). By Douglas L. Johnson and Laurence A. Lewis. Social Science Quarterly, Vol 78, No. 4.
Book
Xia, Y. and Y. Gao 1996 (Eds). Environmental Management on Import/Export of Chemicals. Beijing: Chinese Environmental Science Press.
Professional Reports
Xia, Y. and Y. Gao. Technical guidance on reporting for the Inventory of the Existing Chemical Substances in China. State Environmental Protection Administration of China, February 1996.
Xia, Y. and Y. Gao. Detailed on Implementing the Registration of the Environmental Management on the First Import of Chemicals and the Import/Export of Toxic Chemicals. Chemical Registration Center, State Environmental Protection Administration of China, February 1995.
Grants & Contracts
Principle Investigator :: Blanco River Watershed Land Use Change and Its Impact Decision Support System, $200,000.
Principle Investigator :: Renewable Resource Extension Act, USDA CREES Grant, $7,000. Development of three online GIS courses: GIS for Natural and Cultural Resource Management, GIS for Tourism Management and Planning, andGIS for Community and Regional Tourism.
Principle Investigator :: Texas A&M University, Technology Assisted Learning, $6000. Development of an online course entitled “Tourism and Online Technology”.
Principle Investigator :: Renewable Resource Extension Act, USDA CREES Grant, $7,400. Tourism Market Match.
Co-PI :: Renewable Resource Extension Act, USDA CREES Grant, $8,000. Texas INFRONT.
Co-PI :: Renewable Resource Extension Act, USDA CREES Grant, $7,700. Development of CD-ROM/Web-based Texas Friendly training
Co-PI :: Texas Department of Transportation, $44,344. Texas Travel Kiosk Information System – TexBox.
Principle Investigator :: State Environmental Protection Administration of China. $2,500 (RMB 20,000). Technical guidance on reporting for the Inventory of the Existing Chemical Substances in China.
Co-PI :: State Environmental Protection Administration of China, $48,000 (RMB 400,000). Compilation of the "Inventory of the Existing Chemicals in China.
Principle Investigator :: British Council and Liverpool University, UK. Land Resource Evaluation for Chengde City, China.
Co-PI :: State Science Committee, $6000 (RMB 50,000). Land Evaluation and Restoration Plan of Tangshan, China.