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Residential differentiation characteristics based on “socio-spatial” coupling: A case study of Zhengzhou Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Shuyun Hu, Zihan Zhang, Dazhuan Ge, Xiaobiao Lin, Yuqi Lu
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Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 ChengHe Guan, Meizi You, Ying Li, Junjie Tan, Christina Jenq
This study examines the effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods, focusing on the Q-line extension in Manhattan, New York City. Utilizing synthetic controls and treatment effects estimators, distinct pricing trends across property types are revealed, particularly condominiums. The observed pricing dynamics deviate from the assumption that increasing supplies are
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A spatial analysis of risk factors associated with road collisions in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and using a geographically weighted regression approach Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Vladimir Hernández
This study examined changes in the spatial patterns and determinants of road collisions in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in 2019 and 2020, encompassing the initial period of COVID-19 mobility restrictions. Kernel density estimation and local indicators of spatial association were used to compare collision distributions and identify significant clusters between years. A geographically weighted negative binomial
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Built environment and airbnb spatial distribution in Hong Kong: A case study considering the spatial heterogeneity and multiscale effects Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Xiji Jiang, Dan Ye, Kaiming Li, Rundong Feng, Ying Wu, Tianren Yang
As a new form of tourist accommodation, Airbnb has gained widespread popularity worldwide in Hong Kong. Considering the spatial heterogeneity and multiscale effects, this study employs the Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR) approach to reveal the impact of the built environment on Airbnb distribution in Hong Kong. The main findings are as follows: i) The density of hotels, cultural
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The rich-poor divide: Unravelling the spatial complexities and determinants of wealth inequality in India Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Subham Roy, Suranjan Majumder, Arghadeep Bose, Indrajit Roy Chowdhury
This study presents the first in-depth analysis of spatial differences and factors influencing wealth distribution among households in India. It uses data from the latest National Family Health Survey, covering 707 districts. Techniques like the Lorenz curve, Gini coefficient, Location Quotient, Morans statistics, and Univariate and Bivariate LISA methods explore inequalities, concentration, and clustering
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Spatial data uncertainty for location modeling: Ghost blocks and their implications Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Tony H. Grubesic, Ran Wei, Edward Helderop
Census blocks are administrative units that serve as statistical areas for the decennial Census in the United States. Visible and nonvisible features bound blocks, including roads, railroads, streams, property lines, and city boundaries. The Census Bureau builds blocks using the Master Address File (MAF), which includes field-verified geographic information about the location of housing unit addresses
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The Russia-Ukraine war, energy poverty, and social conflict: An analysis based on global liquified natural gas maritime shipping Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Sheng Zhang, Liehui Wang
To understand the mechanisms behind the relationship between energy trade and conflict occurrence, this study employed automatic identification system (AIS) ship data as a proxy indicator for global liquified natural gas (LNG) flows and explored the temporal, spatial, and quantitative relationships between ship transportation and different conflict types in the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data
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Exploring interactive and nonlinear effects of key factors on intercity travel mode choice using XGBoost Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Xiaowei Li, Lanxin Shi, Yang Shi, Junqing Tang, Pengjun Zhao, Yuting Wang, Jun Chen
Unraveling the complex relationships between intercity travel mode choices and their determinants is valuable for transport planning and development. However, a better understanding of the key influential factors shaping passengers' comprehensive mode choices for intercity travel, as well as the interactive and nonlinear effect between these two, is still needed. By conducting field surveys in Xi'an
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Housing burden across Chinese cities: Spatio-temporal patterns and influential factors Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Yonghua Zou, Ni Zhong, Hong Chen, Chengyan Pu
Over the past several decades, the issue of housing burden has emerged as a critical global challenge, with China serving as a pivotal case study amid its urbanization surge. Previous research has mainly focused on the purchasing aspects of housing burden within isolated urban contexts, often overlooking the significance of rental burden. Employing a panel dataset of 270 Chinese cities from 2014 to
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The non-linear dynamics of South Australian regional housing markets: A machine learning approach Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Ali Soltani, Chyi Lin Lee
Traditional linear models often struggle to capture regional housing markets' complex, non-linear dynamics. This study addresses this gap by developing and applying advanced machine learning algorithms to unlock unique insights into South Australian housing price behavior. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset of over 10,000 regional house sales from 2010 to 2021, we explore the non-linear relationships
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How does cultural distance affect tourism destination choice? Evidence from the correlation between regional culture and tourism flow Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Zihan Li, Haiping Zhang, Yushu Xu, Tianyao Fang, Haoran Wang, Guo’An Tang
Culture and cultural difference are widely discussed as factors influencing tourists’ destination choices. However, whether or not this effect varies and exhibits a general pattern depending on the distance between origin and destination remains unknown. Therefore, based on travel motivation theory and assuming that the effect of cultural differences on destination choice varies across different travel
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Evaluating the representativeness of mobile big data: A comparative analysis between China's mobile big data and census data at the county level Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Xiaoyan Mu, Xiaohu Zhang, Anthony Gar-On Yeh, Jiejing Wang
Mobile big data has emerged as an essential tool for various scientific research fields. However, the credibility of mobile big data and the extent to which it can represent the real-world population remain unclear. This study evaluated the representativeness of mobile big data by comparing it to the most recent census data at the county level in China. Using power-law and multiple linear regression
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Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Jonathan Corcoran, Ying Lu, Chloe Keel, Rebecca Wickes, Danielle Reynald, Christopher Browning
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Burned area occurrence in agrarian reform settlement projects in the Matopiba region, Brazil Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Gisele Milare, Angélica Giarolla, Maria Isabel Sobral Escada
Wildfires have been causing negative effects on ecosystems and rural communities. Among rural communities, the agrarian reform settlement projects have registered fires resulting from agricultural management inside and outside their areas. In this context, our objective was to analyze 821 settlement projects in the Matopiba region to explore the spatial-temporal dynamics of burned area occurrences
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Recognizing urban shrinkage and growth patterns from a global perspective Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Yujie Sun, Limin Jiao, Yunqi Guo, Zhibang Xu
The incongruous patterns of urban growth often give rise to a myriad of issues, notably urban sprawl and urban shrinkage. These challenges frequently coexist and interact, presenting formidable obstacles to achieving sustainable city development. Therefore, investigations that endeavor to scrutinize both urban expansion and shrinkage in concert from a comprehensive perspective are essential. Present
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From fun to function: PPGIS unlocks the power of play in cities Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Soran Mansournia, Frans J. Sijtsma, Claire Freeman, Christina Ergler, Rezan Naqshbandi, Azadeh Pirzadeh, Femke Niekerk, Omid Vakili Ch
Spaces for play in children's daily-life are essential for their development. However, planning in most cities is limitedly aware of children's needs for playable-spaces. This study explores a PPGIS-approach to identify the “” of a city, offering insights for planners. Our approach involved 416 children in Mariwan\Iran. Using polygons instead of the conventional pinning-points, children digitally mapped
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Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jie Huang, Meicheng Xiong, Jiaoe Wang, Long Cheng, Haoran Yang
As population aging has been an issue worldwide, the mobility of older people have attracted the attention of scholars from urban planning, transport geography, and social science. However, few have investigated socio-spatial differentiation among mobility groups, considering their daily needs and activity spaces. To fill this research gap, we conducted a comparative analysis of socio-spatial differentiation
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Satellite-based Machine Learning modelling of Ecosystem Services indicators: A review and meta-analysis Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Bruna Almeida, João David, Felipe S. Campos, Pedro Cabral
Satellite-based Machine Learning (ML) modelling has emerged as a powerful tool to understand and quantify spatial relationships between landscape dynamics, biophysical variables and natural stocks. Ecosystem Services indicators (ESi) provide qualitative and quantitative information aiding the assessment of ecosystems’ status. Through a systematic meta-analysis following the PRISMA guidelines, studies
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The preservation of old forests in southwest China is closely linked to the presence of ethnic minorities Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Qian Li, Yuemin Yue, Martin Brandt, Zhengchao Chen, Xiaowei Tong, Siyu Liu, Fei Yang, Xiangming Xiao, Kelin Wang
Sacred forests are increasingly disappearing due to increasing land pressure and a decline in cultural values. Protecting the remaining sacred forests plays a crucial role in preserving biodiversity. The existence of remaining old forests often related to local people and their culture, but this relationship has rarely been quantified at large regional scales. This study analyzes the relationship between
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A GIS-based assessment of pedestrian accessibility to urban parks in the city of Constanța, Romania Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 George-Marius Cracu, Andrei Schvab, Zoia Prefac, Marius Popescu, Igor Sîrodoev
Green space accessibility is an important component of life quality, due to the many benefits it brings to human communities. This aspect is especially relevant in urban environments, which are characterized by a high density of residential and commercial buildings, as well as by higher levels of pollution (especially air and noise pollution) caused mainly by transportation or industrial activities
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The dichotomous world of sanitation management: ‘Matter out of place’ in Urban India Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 V.S. Saravanan
The paper examines the dichotomous world of sanitation management in Coimbatore, India. Sanitation management is a process of safely managing and disposing human excreta and wastewater. As it flows from the private sphere to the public, many actors have social aspirations and discriminate according to class, thus maintaining a dichotomous world – the purity (clean, orderly, simple, and aesthetically
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Unveiling spatial dependencies in walking travel choices Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Paulo Júnio Moura Rosa, Cassiano Augusto Isler
Travel behavior analyses through traditional discrete choice models offer insights into the factors that influence individual choices. However, the literature often neglects the spatial interactions between individuals and attributes in the context of walking trips. This paper investigates the spatial dependencies in walking travel choices with a case study in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. We compared
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You are where you live? Evaluating the racial and ethnic (mis)representation in geodemographic classification Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Yue Lin
Geodemographic classification, a process of categorizing neighborhoods into distinct groups based on their demographic, social, and economic characteristics to create summary profiles, has significantly expanded its applications over the last forty years, from its origins in urban sociology to fields such as health, transportation, and public policy. However, a fundamental issue associated with this
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Mapping open spaces in Swiss mountain regions through consensus-building and machine learning Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Matteo Riva, Felix Kienast, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
The rapid expansion of tourism, transportation, energy, and agricultural infrastructure in mountain areas raises concerns about landscape fragmentation and impacts on aesthetic values. Effective delineation of these areas relies on negotiating various qualities that define them. In our study, we developed a collaborative consensus-building process with experts to map open spaces. Rather than collecting
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Store network expansion in the era of online consumption: Evidence from the Suning Appliance retail chain in China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Lei Zhou, Shuguang Wang, Han Li
The advent of online consumption has significantly transformed the operation strategies and store deployment of offline retailers. This paper investigates the store network expansion of Suning Appliance, one of China's most prominent appliance retailers, utilizing GIS spatial analysis and geographically weighted regression. We found that contraction and expansion coexist in an alternating pattern in
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Social ties and talent migration: Considering the intentions of migrants to permanently settle in Chinese cities Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Yue Gong, Zhiqiang Cao, De Tong
As the knowledge economy has characterized this era, the intentions of skilled migrants to settle have drawn increasing scholarly attention. In the literature, the role of economic incentives, urban amenities, and political factors has usually been considered to drive talent migration, but little attention has been given to its social driver. Through a quantitative study of domestic migrants in Chinese
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How rural community resilience evolves after a disaster? A case study of the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Huizhen Su, Xueyan Zhao, Lucang Wang, Yuheng Li
Frequent occurrence of natural disasters has become one of the most serious challenges to human society. As rural communities are the forefront of disasters, enhancing the resilience of rural community is crucial to mitigate the impact of natural disasters and seek rapid recovery. This paper provides an analytical framework for changing trajectories of the resilience of rural communities after disasters
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High-resolution modelling of island exposure to natural hazards tested with real disasters Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Nicolás Ferrer, Gustavo Herrera
Oceanic islands are multi-risk territories but statistical aggregation of socio-economic exposure data is often a constraint for high-resolution risk modelling and hazard prevention. This work presents a downscaling procedure to obtain a complete high-resolution cartographic base on the distribution of main socio-economic variables in the Canary Islands (Spain). For this purpose, a new dasymetric procedure
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Insight into China's water pollution and sustainable water utilization from an integrated view Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Yupeng Fan, Chuanglin Fang
Water pollution and scarcity pose significant challenges to sustainability in China. Grey water footprint (GWF) can assess water pollution degree since it represents the freshwater needed to dilute the pollutants load to meet surrounding water quality standard. We detect the real water pollution and sustainable water use situation in China based on GWF and a proposed composite framework during 2000–2020
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Do “banking deserts” even exist? Examining access to brick-and-mortar financial institutions in the continental United States Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Andrew J. Van Leuven, Dayton Lambert, Tessa Conroy, Kelsey L. Thomas
This study compares competing definitions of “banking deserts” and their applicability in characterizing access to physical financial institutions such as banks, credit unions, or farm credit lenders. Geostatistical techniques are used to locate and spatially analyze financial institutions in census tracts across the lower 48 United States. Logistic regression is used to identify the demographic, economic
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The uneven distribution of medical resources for severe diseases in China: An analysis of the disparity in inter-city patient mobility Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Xiangnan Wang, Xuanyi Nie
The uneven distribution of medical resources in China has been a persistent concern. This is particularly evident among patients with severe diseases, who often seek better medical resources, resulting in inter-city patient mobility. This research aims to analyze the uneven distribution of medical resources for these patients in China, focusing on their inter-city mobility patterns. Using patients'
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Mapping energy inequality between urban and rural China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Yu Yang, Jiashun Xue, Junxi Qian, Xiaoying Qian
Energy use between urban and rural areas is very important in the context of the global energy transition and climate change. However, it is difficult to measure the differences and inequalities in energy consumption due to data limitations. In this paper, a dataset distinguishing urban-rural energy consumption has been generated. We construct an energy inequality index (EI) to assess the difference
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What North American retail food environment indices miss in Guatemala: Cultural considerations for the study of place and health Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Yulia E. Chuvileva, Arie Manangan, Aiken Chew, George Rutherford, Marcela Barillas-Basterrechea, Joaquín Barnoya, Patrick N. Breysse, Heidi Blanck, Leandris Liburd
We evaluated the cross-context validity and equivalence of the US- and Canada-originated Retail Food Environment Index (RFEI) and modified RFEI (mRFEI) against a retail food environment dataset from the indigenous-majority city of Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala. The RFEI/mRFEI failed to identify 77% of retailers and misclassified the healthiness of 42% of the remaining retailers in Xela, inaccurately
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Summer electricity consumption and its drivers in urban areas Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Feng Gao, Zhenzhi Jiao, Shunyi Liao, Rui Liu, Zhisai Hu, Yang Liu, Hongbao Li, Wangyang Chen, Xin Chen, Guanyao Li
The issue of energy consumption is receiving increasing attention due to the growth of the global population and urbanization rate. This study comprehensively analyzed the independent effects, spatial varying effects, and interactive effects of potential factors on summer electricity consumption (EC) by using the geographical detector and geographically weighted regression model. Finally, the study
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Associations between urban greenspace and depressive symptoms in Mexico's cities using different greenspace metrics Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Maryia Bakhtsiyarava, Yang Ju, Mika Moran, Daniel A. Rodríguez, Iryna Dronova, Xavier Delclòs-Alió, Kari Moore, Marianela Castillo-Riquelme, Cecilia Anza-Ramirez
Greenspace has been shown to be positively associated with mental wellbeing, but studies from the global South have been scarce. We advance the understanding of the relationship between greenspace and depressive symptoms by using multiple clearly defined metrics describing neighborhood greenness and urban parks in an understudied region with rapid urban growth. We linked individual-level health survey
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Heatwave exposure inequality: An urban-rural comparison of environmental justice Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Bardia Mashhoodi, Dena Kasraian
The rapid growth of heatwaves' severity have increasingly endangered citizens’ health in the last decade. Evidence points to the environmental injustice of heatwaves: inequal heatwave exposure among socioeconomic groups. Failing to use an adequate indicator of thermal comfort at a large scale, the previous studies have not adequately scrutinized the environmental justice of heatwaves and their variations
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Trends and attributions of the long-term thermal comfort across the urban–rural gradient in major Chinese cities Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Xu Wang, Boyu Li, Yingying Liu, Yi Yang, Xuecheng Fu, Ruihua Shen, Wentian Xu, Lei Yao
Improving the understanding of ambient thermal comfort (TC) is a crucial prerequisite for addressing heat-related issues. Thus, this study is conducted to explore the dynamic signatures and potential drivers of TC (indicated by summertime physiological equivalent temperature, PET) in 101 Chinese cities along their urban-rural gradients (urban core area, UCA; urban expansion area, UEA; and rural area
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Mobilities and the flexible boundaries of the neighbourhood. A test with crime data in Barcelona Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Riccardo Valente, Juan José Medina-Ariza, Juan Carlos Pérez-Pintor, José Antonio Gutiérrez-Gallego
This paper incorporates an explicit mobility dimension into the definition of the neighbourhood and explores its possible implications for the study of spatially distributed phenomena. We analysed the distribution of robbery and theft in Barcelona, Spain, as a testing application. Crime data were aggregated to nonoverlapping units (census tracts) and to a new measure of overlapping neighbourhoods,
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Core-periphery disparity in community vitality in Chongqing, China: Nonlinear explanation based on mobile phone data and multi-scale factors Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Yujia Ming, Yong Liu, Yingpeng Li, Wenze Yue
Community vitality is essential to human health and quality of life through promoting various human activities. However, many Chinese cities witnessed declining vitality during massive suburbanization. Exploring community vitality is an effective way to measure the attractiveness and cohesion of community development towards better governance and planning design. However, extant literature overlooks
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Flooding and inequality: A multilevel analysis of exposure to floods and poverty in French cities Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Kenji Fujiki, Olivier Finance, Joanne Hirtzel, Christophe Enaux
While floods represent the most damaging hazard in France, this study focuses on flooding exposure and the spatial distribution of poverty and home ownership in French cities. Based on the combination of high-resolution topographic and socio-demographic data with flood-risk maps, this study highlights the extensive flooding exposure of French cities, with approximately 2.5 million residents exposed
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Market relatedness and local export dynamics: Evidence from China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Peifeng Zhang, Canfei He, Hantian Sheng
The evolutionary economic geography literature explores the patterns of regional product evolution from the perspective of supply-side relatedness, leaving behind the role of demand-side relatedness. Using China's international trade data, this paper measures product-scale market relatedness and explores the impact of market relatedness on two-fold export dynamics, that is the entry of new products
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Exploring the nexus between perceived ecosystem services and well-being of rural residents in a mountainous area, China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Ying Wang, Jialiang Sun, Chongchong Liu, Linghua Liu
Understanding stakeholders' perception about local ecosystem services (ES) and its nexus with their objective and subjective well-being is essential for designing efficient ecosystem management and policy interventions to enhance local residents' overall welfare. Despite the widespread agreement upon the linkages between ES and human well-being (HWB), less studies have empirically tested their relationship
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Modelling the suitability of multiple launch rocket system in the war in Ukraine Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 T. Edwin Chow, Dustin Paul Sanchez, Prawan Amatya, Md Tousif Tanzir
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How can landscape visual assessment inform landscape planning and management? – Alto Douro Wine region case study, Portugal Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Ana Medeiros, Cláudia Fernandes, João F. Gonçalves, Paulo Farinha-Marques, Isabel Martinho Da Silva
Upon significant land-use changes, understanding how to measure the visual quality is crucial for landscape monitoring, and policymaking. This study aims to apply an expert protocol to the Alto Douro Wine Region (ADWR), an evolving and living cultural landscape classified by UNESCO. Six visual basins representative of the heterogeneity of ADWR were evaluated: three subjected to monitoring since 2001
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From Western centralism to decentralization: Trends, breakthroughs and limitations in the world city network based on the winter olympic games Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Yubin Ou, Gengzhi Huang, Rui Chen, Hua Chen, Anan Xie, Desheng Xue
This paper contributes to the cultural world city networks (WCNs) study by examining a Winter Olympics Games (WOGs)-based city network with the enhanced intercity connection framework that highlights the role of multiple actors and their mutual influences in formatting WCNs based on international sports events (ISEs). Drawing upon the data of six WOGs from 2002 to 2022, it reveals the variability and
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Spatial and moderating effects of greenspace on the association between air pollution and lung cancer incidence Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Zhe Pang, Bo Xie, Zihao An, Lan Wang
Lung cancer remains the primary cause of death globally. Studies have increasingly explored the role of greenspace in mitigating lung cancer risks, yet research gaps persist. First, while the direct spatial effect of greenspace has received attention, its potential spillover effects, driven by human mobility and air pollution dispersion, remain underexamined. Second, despite prevalent assertions of
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Deciphering the evolving trajectories of China's megaregions from 1992 to 2020: A novel morphological approach based on global land cover products Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Haojie Cao, Yu Li, Min Weng, Shiliang Su, Mengjun Kang
The monitoring of megaregion boundaries (MBs) is of vital importance for optimizing land use decision-making. However, the morphological structure of megaregions is currently insufficiently identified due to the nontransparent proprietary or inherent deficiency data sources. Thus, this study utilized land cover products integrated with morphological approaches to delineate the evolving trajectories
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Can polycentric cities provide more and higher-order consumer amenities? Evidence from shopping malls in China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Yixiao Wang, Bindong Sun, Tinglin Zhang, Mengying Yu
It remains unclear whether a polycentric city can support more and higher-order consumer amenities. This paper presents new evidence from shopping malls in China and includes the effect of urban spatial structure on the order of consumer amenities and the moderating effect of transportation infrastructure, both of which have been neglected in previous empirical studies. We find that a monocentric city
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Effects of new transit lines on commuting: Evidence from restricted-use Census Bureau microdata Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Wei Li, Haotian Zhong, Marlon G. Boarnet
Urban planners face challenges in justifying the behavioral impacts of public transit investments with causal evidence. In this study, we take a cost-effective approach to data collection by utilizing restricted-use Census Bureau microdata that provide rich individual characteristics and fine-geographical-resolution block information, and then construct a natural experiment. We evaluate the impacts
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Dynamic equity in urban amenities distribution: An accessibility-driven assessment Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Fajle Rabbi Ashik, Md Saiful Islam, Md Saiful Alam, Nusrat Jahan Tabassum, Kevin Manaugh
The continual challenges exist in attaining an equitable allocation of urban amenities. In order to render this objective attainable as well as practical in real-world scenarios, it is imperative to transition from a static conceptualization of equity to a dynamic notion of equity. To assess dynamic equity in the context of Dhaka, we collected data for two distinct time periods, 2005 and 2018, and
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Mapping liveability: The “15-min city” concept for car-dependent districts in Auckland, New Zealand Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Jing Jiang, Weijie Qiao, I-Ting Chuang, Yan Li, Tianyi Wang, Lee Beattie
This research explores the feasibility of aligning cities with post-COVID realities by retrofitting the emerging 15-min city model into the current urban setup. COVID-19's lasting global effects on trans-territorial mobility, particularly in car-dependent cities, prompt a rethinking of urban models and infrastructure for heightened resilience and post-pandemic liveability. Using network analysis and
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Economic benefits of urban streetscapes: Analyzing the interrelationships between visual street environments and single-family property values in Seoul, Korea Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ayoung Woo, Jaewon Han, Hyungsup Shin, Sugie Lee
Policymakers and planners often face questions about whether the creation of walkable environments can positively affect nearby housing prices. In response to this situation, numerous previous studies have examined the relationships between neighborhood-scale walkable environments and neighboring property values. However, it remains unknown if micro-scale visual streetscapes significantly affect nearby
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Incorporating spatial heterogeneity to model spontaneous and self-organized urban growth Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Bin Zhang, Shougeng Hu, Haijun Wang, Jianxin Yang, Zhenzhen Wang
Contemporary investigations into cellular automata (CA) modeling often neglect the considerable influence of spatial heterogeneity on both spontaneous and self-organized processes of urban growth. In this research, we combined a partitioned quantity control strategy, the geographically weighted artificial neural network (GWANN), and a neighborhood size-adaptive approach to formulate a CA framework
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Exploring local perspectives on flood risk: A participatory GIS approach for bridging the gap between modelled and perceived flood risk zones Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 James Bullen, Andrew Miles
As cities continue to expand and climate change exacerbates flooding, development within flood risk zones becomes an increasingly pressing concern. Engineered solutions alone cannot fully address the risks to individuals and communities, especially when local officials and residents have conflicting understanding of the risk. Participatory GIS (PGIS) offers a unique opportunity to bridge this gap by
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Re-thinking rurality: Towards a new research approach and rural-urban spatial gradient establishment in Serbia Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Marija Drobnjaković, Annett Steinfürer
The research on the rural-urban gradient in Serbia has been reinvigorated following the debate on rural bias. Rural-urban classification is essential in observing spatial, demographic, socio-economic, and environmental processes. There is no consensus regarding the definition of rural and rurality and it should not be observed separately from urban issues. In Serbia, it is still a matter of dispute
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Investigating the diurnal effects of on-street population and streetscape physical environment on street theft crime: A machine learning and negative binomial regression approach using street view images Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Han Yue, Lin Liu, Chong Xu, Guangwen Song, Jianguo Chen, Li He, Lian Duan
Street theft crime remains a significant public safety concern in China and a central focus of urban crime prevention initiatives. Recent studies have combined street view images and deep learning networks to detect on-street population and streetscape physical environment features, highlighting their significance in comprehending the occurrence of street crime. However, the question of whether on-street
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Beyond regional endogenous and firm-centric accounts: Contextualizing multiple and multiscalar industrial branching mechanisms for the emergence of biotechnology industries in Guangzhou, China Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Jili Xu, Gengzhi Huang, Desheng Xue, Yuyao Ye
Industrial branching proposed by evolutionary economic geographers exhibits robustness in illustrating the spatial emergence of new industries in regions. However, extant studies are primarily confined to a single type of industrial branching mechanism, such as spin-off or firm diversification, and biasedly equate them as regional endogenous and firm-centric processes, regardless of wider contextual
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Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach Appl. Geogr. (IF 4.732) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Xiang Yan, Shenjing He
Hospital size distribution, i.e., the uneven allocation of healthcare resources between hospitals of different size classes, significantly impacts healthcare equality and efficiency and challenges healthcare governance. Yet, its variation is inadequately explained by two prevalent approaches to size distribution – the statistical approach merely works on statistical patterns, while the economic approach