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Closely and deeply divided: Purple counties in the 2016 presidential election Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 Chad Kinsella; Colleen McTague; Kevin Raleigh
The depth and degree of geographic polarization in American politics are key arguments that reside within the larger political polarization debate. Evidence used to argue against the significance of geographic polarization is the prevalence of “purple” counties. It is argued that when the aggregate voting results within counties for candidates from the two major political parties are close enough and
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Terrain units, land use and land cover, and gross primary productivity of the largest fluvial basin in the Brazilian Amazonia/Cerrado ecotone: The Araguaia River basin Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 Pedro R. Martins; Edson E. Sano; Eder S. Martins; Ludgero C.G. Vieira; Luiz F. Salemi; Vinicius Vasconcelos; Antônio F. Couto Júnior
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Rethinking coastal cliff protection zones for landscape planning. What limits are enough? Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 S.B. Pena; M.M. Abreu; M.R. Magalhães
The coastal ecosystems are a key subject of contemporary research concerning coastline position changes, climate change effects, hazard assessment, and ecosystem services. The population density in the coastal areas accelerates the natural morphogenetic processes of these ecosystems. The land-use planning strategies can have a vital role in achieving coastal ecosystem stability and providing resilience
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Exploring urban tree diversity and carbon stocks in Zaria Metropolis, North Western Nigeria Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Murtala Dangulla; Latifah Abd Manaf; Mohammad Firuz Ramli; Mohd Rusli Yacob; Sanusi Namadi
Urbanization is a pressing issue of concern especially in Africa where it is expected to continue and increasingly, threaten the efficiency of natural carbon sinks and sustainability of cities. This paper assessed the diversity and carbon storage of trees in Zaria metropolis, North-western Nigeria through fieldwork and allometric equations. A total of 200 assessment plots were randomly generated using
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Exploring spatially varying relationships between Lyme disease and land cover with geographically weighted regression Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Katherine Ballard; Christopher Bone
Understanding environmental variables responsible for the spatial distribution of Lyme disease is essential for determining disease risk and directing control and prevention efforts. This study provides a novel application of geographically weighted regression to explore how the relationship between Lyme disease and land cover varies across the Midwest and Northeast regions of the United States. Results
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Mapping bicycling exposure and safety risk using Strava Metro Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Colin Ferster; Trisalyn Nelson; Karen Laberee; Meghan Winters
Overcoming concerns about bicycling safety is critical to increasing the health benefits of bicycling for transportation. While exposure measures are critical for monitoring and understanding bike safety, lack of spatially and temporally detailed bike counts makes it challenging to conduct robust bicycling safety studies. Crowdsourced data from smartphone apps like Strava provide counts for nearly
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Spatial stratified heterogeneity of fertility and its association with socio-economic determinants using Geographical Detector: The case study of Crete Island, Greece Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2021-01-05 Christos Polykretis; Dimitrios D. Alexakis
Research efforts related to better understanding and capture of the fertility trends over the time are considered to be of significant interest in the fields of demography and social sciences. In Greece, the overall relationships between fertility and numerous determinants that influence it have been explored at national level. However, the possible spatial heterogeneity in these relationships has
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Measuring the accessibility of public green spaces in urban areas using web map services Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-12-24 Jiamin Zhang; Wenze Yue; Peilei Fan; Jiabin Gao
The important ecological and recreational functions of public green spaces for metropolitan regions have been increasingly recognized, especially in the last few decades in developing countries that experienced rapid urbanization at the cost of ecological land. This study developed a green accessibility index (GAI) that quantifies the efficiency of accessing different levels of public green spaces
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Developing a geospatial data-driven solution for rapid natural wildfire risk assessment Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-12-25 Bishrant Adhikari; Chen Xu; Paddington Hodza; Thomas Minckley
Computational natural wildfire simulation is a computing-intensive process. The process is also challenging because of the need to integrate data with wide spatial and temporal variability. Our study sought to simulate rapidly spreading natural wildfire with fidelity and quality through computational realization. We developed a novel probabilistic wildfire risk assessment tool whose operation was driven
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Patterns of land system change in a Southeast Asian biodiversity hotspot Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Marc Schmid; Andreas Heinimann; Julie G. Zaehringer
Growing demand for agricultural commodities like rubber or oil palm is causing rapid change in Southeast Asia's biodiversity-rich forested landscapes. This change is particularly pronounced in Myanmar, whose economy is developing at great speed after the end of decades-long economic and political isolation and armed conflicts. Interventions are needed to ensure that development is sustainable. Designing
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Regionalization for infection control: An algorithm for delineating containment zones considering the regularity of human mobility Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-12-09 Fei-Ying Kuo; Tzai-Hung Wen
Restricting human movement to decrease contact probability and frequency helps mitigate large-scale epidemics. Movement-based zoning can be implemented to delineate the boundaries for movement restrictions. Previous studies used network community detection methods, which capture cohesive within-region movements, to delineate containment zones. However, most people usually travel and spend most of their
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Intersecting RUSLE modelled and farmers perceived soil erosion risk in the conservation domain on mountain Elgon in Uganda Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Yazidhi Bamutaze; Paul Mukwaya; Shuichi Oyama; Daniel Nadhomi; Peter Nsemire
This study investigated the intersection between empirically derived and farmers perceived soil erosion risk in a medium-sized catchment on the Ugandan side of mountain Elgon. We postulated that farmers' perception of soil erosion risk was high and this influenced their employment of Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) measures on their land. An adapted Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) was
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Disaster resilience in Pakistan: A comprehensive multi-dimensional spatial profiling Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-11-21 Muhammad Sajjad
Building disaster-resilient communities require operative resilience frameworks enabling factual decision-making and resource allocation at national and sub-national scales. While Pakistan is frequently hit by several natural hazards (i.e., floods, droughts, earthquakes, and extreme heatwaves) resulting in devastating impacts, no national-level higher-resolution disaster resilience information is available
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A country comparison of place-based activity response to COVID-19 policies Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-10-31 Grant McKenzie; Benjamin Adams
The emergence of the novel Coronavirus Disease in late 2019 (COVID-19) and subsequent pandemic led to an immense disruption in the daily lives of almost everyone on the planet. Faced with the consequences of inaction, most national governments responded with policies that restricted the activities conducted by their inhabitants. As schools and businesses shuttered, the mobility of these people decreased
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Spatial variability of total fertility rate and crude birth rate in a low-fertility country: Patterns and trends in regional and local scale heterogeneity across Italy, 2002–2018 Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Luca Salvati; Federico Benassi; Sara Miccoli; Hamidreza Rabiei-Dastjerdi; Stephen A. Matthews
Fertility is a key process shaping long-term population dynamics. Distinctive fertility trends have characterized demographic transitions, exhibiting sequential periods of spatial convergence and divergence. This descriptive study investigates the spatiotemporal evolution of Total Fertility Rate (TFR) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR) at different geographical scales in Italy between 2002 and 2018. Descriptive
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Evaluation of UAV and satellite-derived NDVI to map maritime Antarctic vegetation Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Maria E. Sotille; Ulisses F. Bremer; Gonçalo Vieira; Luiz F. Velho; Carina Petsch; Jefferson C. Simões
Expansion of Antarctic vegetation in ice-free areas underlines the need for effective remote sensing techniques to properly monitor the changes. Detection and mapping of vegetation remains limited in the Antarctic environment given the complexity of its surface coverage. Some cryptogamic species exhibit low reflectance in the near-infrared region and are not easily detected by vegetation indices, such
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Identifying county-level factors for female breast cancer incidence rate through a large-scale population study Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-23 Tingting Zhao; Zihan Cui; Mary Grace McClellan; Disa Yu; Qing-Xiang Amy Sang; Jinfeng Zhang
Female breast cancer (FBC) incidence rate (IR) varies greatly across counties in the United States (US). Factors contributing to these geographic disparities have not been fully understood at the population level. In this study, we investigated the relationships between the county-level FBC IR and a diverse set of variables in demographics, socioeconomics, life style, health care accessibility, and
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Mapping natural resource collection areas from household survey data in Southern Africa Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Karen M. Bailey; Michael D. Drake; Jon Salerno; Lin Cassidy; Andrea E. Gaughan; Forrest R. Stevens; Narcisa G. Pricope; Kyle D. Woodward; Henry Maseka Luwaya; Joel Hartter
As conservation landscapes are threatened by global change, there is a growing need to understand relationships between human livelihoods and environmental processes. This often involves integrating multiple data sources capturing different scales of measurement. Participatory methods have emerged as a means to accomplish this, but are hampered by a wide range of challenges associated with data collection
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Explaining mobility using the Community Capital Framework and Place Attachment concepts: A case study of riverbank erosion in the Lower Meghna Estuary, Bangladesh Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-18 Bimal Kanti Paul; Munshi Khaledur Rahman; Thomas Crawford; Scott Curtis; Md Giashuddin Miah; M. Rafiqul Islam; Md Sariful Islam
Information collected from Focus Group Meetings (FGMs) and key informant interviews (KIIs) from Ramgati Upazilla of Lakshmipur District, Bangladesh, shows that once household members have lost their homes to riverbank erosion, they rarely migrate to distant places and stay in their immediate vicinity. The overwhelming majority of the victims rebuild their homes in nearby places on the lands of their
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Assessing physical accessibility conditions to tourist attractions. The case of Maspalomas Costa Canaria urban area (Gran Canaria, Spain) Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-17 Sara Beatriz Santana-Santana; Carolina Peña-Alonso; Emma Pérez-Chacón Espino
In this research, a methodology for the analysis of accessibility conditions for people with physical disabilities was developed. The analysis is based on an assessment of the sidewalk network in two tourist areas located in Maspalomas Costa Canaria (Gran Canaria, Spain). ArcMap's Network Analyst was used, and Spanish regulations on accessibility in urbanized public spaces, as well as the points of
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Trans-boundary land cover changes and its influences on water crisis: Case study of the Aras River Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Mohsen Mirzaei, Ali Jafari, Jochem Verrlest, Mohammad Haghighi, Amir Hossein Zargarnia, Sajad Khoshnoodmotlagh, Hossein Azadi, Jürgen Scheffran
In a watershed, disturbing land covers (LCs) are one of the most important factors in the balance and flow rate of water. This study aimed to monitor and model LC changes in the upstream of the Aras River Basin in Turkey over 1984, 2002, 2010 and 2016. The main ground to conduct such an analysis was to mitigate severe economic, social and ecological consequences driven by agricultural activities and
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Urban food accessibility and diversity: Exploring the role of small non-chain grocers Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Katharine Yang Bao, Daoqin Tong, David A. Plane, Stephanie Buechler
Access to a variety of affordable and healthy food has been a critical component in sustainable food-system planning. Research on food accessibility and food deserts (low-income areas with no or limited access to healthy food) can have important policy implications for alleviating health disparities. In the existing food access literature, supermarkets or large chain grocery stores have typically been
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Quantifying the impact of industrialization on blue carbon storage in the coastal area of Metropolitan Semarang, Indonesia Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Anang Wahyu Sejati, Imam Buchori, Siti Kurniawati, Yako C. Brana, Tiara I. Fariha
This study investigated the impact of the coastal industrialization policy which began in 2015 in Indonesia. Because this policy has effected physical change on the environment, it requires quantification to determine its driving factors, and to formulate solutions to its problems. In doing so, this research used remote sensing and machine learning techniques. Satellite data from Sentinel-2A were acquired
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The intra-metropolitan distribution of airport accessibility, employment density, and labor productivity: Spatial strategy for economic development in Tokyo Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Jin Murakami, Hironori Kato
This research describes the intra-metropolitan distribution patterns of airport accessibility, employment density, and labor productivity using municipality-level datasets from the Tokyo metropolitan region. The geographic data analyses present that inner-city bayfront airport accessibility and cross-industrial employment density are high in municipalities with the designation of urban regeneration
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A spatial multilevel analysis of the impacts of housing conditions on county-level life expectancy at birth in China Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-06 Lijuan Gu, Mark Rosenberg, Linsheng Yang, Jiangping Yu, Binggan Wei
Housing and health studies rarely concentrate on aggregate health indicators. There is a need for more research to disentangle the complexity within housing types and between housing and socioeconomic development as they influence health. To enhance the evidence base for the understanding of the association between housing and health, from a geographic perspective, we applied spatial multilevel analyses
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Geography of broadband faults explored with a Bayesian spatio-temporal statistical model Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-06 Guanpeng Dong, Thomas Statham
Broadband service providers readily use time-series models to forecast broadband related to minimise disruptions to customers but also from an operational perspective. Within a competitive market, minimizing future broadband faults is important for customer retention. Whilst broadband faults happen at the household level, broadband service providers typically forecast broadband faults at the regional
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Spatial equity of park green space using KD2SFCA and web map API: A case study of zhengzhou, China Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-04 Zhicheng Zheng, Wei Shen, Yang Li, Yaochen Qin, Lu Wang
In our review of the research on PGS (park green space) spatial equity, little consideration has been given to the impacts of small spatial scales and measurement accuracy on spatial equity assessments. Based on the web map API open data platform (including location and navigation data, etc.), this study established a fine-scaled evaluation framework of spatial equity from the aspects of sensitivity
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Quantifying the relationship between land use features and intra-surface urban heat island effect: Study on downtown Shanghai Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-04 Hao Zhang, Tian-Tian Li, Jie-Jie Han
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Understanding noise exposure, noise annoyance, and psychological stress: Incorporating individual mobility and the temporality of the exposure-effect relationship Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-03 Yinhua Tao, Yanwei Chai, Lirong Kou, Mei-Po Kwan
Noise is a pervasive environmental stressor that has adverse impacts on people's mental health. However, past studies on the relationship between individuals' chronic noise exposure and psychological stress were inconclusive, partly due to their ignorance of the role of individual mobility and the temporality of the exposure-effect relationship. This study examines how individual mobility and temporality
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The role of space in the business models of microbreweries Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-03 Piotr Pachura
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Vulnerability of populations exposed to seismic risk in the state of Oklahoma Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 Sahar Derakhshan, Michael E. Hodgson, Susan L. Cutter
During the past decade, the number of earthquakes has increased dramatically in the state of Oklahoma, largely attributed to induced seismicity from wastewater injections (hydraulic fracturing). The increased seismic disaster risk in Oklahoma has captured public attention and necessitated actions by decision makers to mediate the consequences. Geospatial modeling to identify the populations exposed
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Integration of social, economic and environmental factors in GIS for land degradation vulnerability assessment in the Pir Panjal Himalaya, Kashmir, India Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 Shakil Ahmad Romshoo, Muzamil Amin, K.L.N. Sastry, Manish Parmar
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Changes in anthropogenic influence on soils across Europe 1990–2018 Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Tibor József Novák, Dániel Balla, Johannes Kamp
Soils have been widely transformed and degraded by human activities. The area occupied by soils that remain unmodified is decreasing, while recent rural outmigration and land abandonment provide new opportunities for soil restauration across larger area.Little is known about the spatial distribution of both near-natural and anthropogenically influenced soils on large scales. We here present a new methodology
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Mining public sentiments and perspectives from geotagged social media data for appraising the post-earthquake recovery of tourism destinations Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Yingwei Yan, Jingfu Chen, Zhiyong Wang
Post-disaster recovery involves interdependent processes of physical and psychological rehabilitations. Over the past few years, researchers have explored geotagged social media data to assist the planning, monitoring, and assessment of the post-disaster recovery of tourism destinations, given its advantages over traditional approaches. Nonetheless, recent studies have mostly focused on quantitatively
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A spatial-temporal analysis of urban growth in melbourne; Were local government areas moving toward compact or sprawl from 2001–2016? Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-31 Mohammad Rahim Rahnama, Ray Wyatt, Lia Shaddel
In most cities, urban growth follows a sprawl pattern. In the Melbourne metropolitan area, the Plan Melbourne (2017–2050) was formulated with the aim of reducing sprawl and encouraging sustainable growth. However, the Internet research has shown that in the metropolitan area of Melbourne, no studies aiming to investigate the urban growth using satellite images and analyzing compact urban growth drivers
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The effect of farmers’ market access on residential property values Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 LaPorchia A. Collins
Improving farmers' market accessibility is increasingly being used as a mechanism to promote healthy food consumption. Previous studies about farmers’ markets largely focused on describing either the demographics of market patrons or the impact of market participation on fruit and vegetable intake. Thus, little empirical research has examined how market accessibility impacts nearby communities. The
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Is ridesourcing more efficient than taxis? Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Hui Kong, Xiaohu Zhang, Jinhua Zhao
Ridesourcing services such as Uber, Lyft, and DiDi are purported to be more efficient than traditional taxis because they can match passengers with drivers more effectively. Previous studies have compared the efficiency of ridesourcing and taxis in several cities. However, gaps still exist regarding the measurement and comparison between the two modes, and the reasons for the higher efficiency of ridesourcing
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The geographies of the dynamic evolution of social networks for the flood disaster response and recovery Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-27 Ananda Y. Karunarathne, Gunhak Lee
Social networks and public supports have been becoming increasingly important in disaster management and mitigation. This paper demonstrates empirical and credible evidence of social network supports and their spatial and temporal dynamics of evolutionary patterns in flood disaster preparedness and recovery, as demonstrated by the case of the 2017 mass-flooding event in rural areas of Sri Lanka. For
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Predicting the joint effects of future climate and land use change on ecosystem health in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-26 Zhenzhen Pan, Jianhua He, Dianfeng Liu, Jianwei Wang
Climate and land use change (CLUC) have a far-reaching influence on the ecosystem. Regional ecosystem health, which is the direct and comprehensive reflection of evaluating regional ecosystem quality, has been significantly affected by these changes. However, existing studies mainly focused on the influences of climate or land use change on ecosystem structure, functions, or services, few studies have
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Poverty trends in villages affected by land-based investments in rural Laos Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-22 Vong Nanhthavong, Michael Epprecht, Cornelia Hett, Julie G. Zaehringer, Peter Messerli
This paper contributes to debates on the implications of land-based investments on local livelihoods in the Global South. Drawing on a comprehensive national dataset on land concessions in Laos, and 2005 and 2015 village-level poverty rates, we examine the association between land-based investments and poverty at the village level in Lao rural areas. Results outline contexts in which land-based investments
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Investigating the association between household firearm ownership and suicide rates in the United States using spatial regression models Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-21 Wei Tu, Hoehun Ha, Weifeng Wang, Liang Liu
Past studies have rather consistently shown a significant positive association between firearm ownership and suicide rates (particularly firearm-related) in the United States. However, the impact of spatial dependence of suicide rates has not been considered in the existing research that took an ecological studies approach. To bridge this gap in the literature, we estimated and compared the association
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Regional inequality, spatial polarization and place mobility in provincial China: A case study of Jiangsu province Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-21 Yehua Dennis Wei, Yangyi Wu, Felix Haifeng Liao, Ling Zhang
This paper investigates regional inequality, spatial polarization, and places mobility in provincial China through a case study of Jiangsu province from a multi-scale and multi-dimensional framework. Based on policy changes and inequality indices, we divide the development trajectory of Jiangsu since the reform into three sub-periods: 1978–1993, 1994–2004, and 2004–2014. The analysis reveals that regional
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Linking Luojia 1-01 nightlight imagery to urban crime Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-21 Lin Liu, Hanlin Zhou, Minxuan Lan, Zengli Wang
Various environmental criminology theories and empirical studies have linked the urban environment to crime. The crime pattern theory, in particular, argues that edges, either social or physical, affect crime. A recent study has combined both social and physical edges to derive composite edges. A composite edge index measured by NPP-VIIRS satellite nightlights at the census tract level is found to
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Understanding rural outmigration and agricultural land use change in the Gandaki Basin, Nepal Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Amina Maharjan, Ishaan Kochhar, Vishwas Sudhir Chitale, Abid Hussain, Giovanna Gioli
This study investigates agricultural land use change in Chitwan, Nuwakot and Lamjung districts of Nepal during 1990 –2017 in relation to rural outmigration. Agriculture in Nepal is characterized by subsistence farming, low productivity, limited access to markets, constraints of terrain, poor economic returns, and vulnerability to natural hazards now exacerbated by climate change. These challenging
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Functional changes in peripheral mountainous areas in east central Europe between 2004 and 2016 as an aspect of rural revival? Kłodzko County case study Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Dominik Sikorski, Agnieszka Latocha, Robert Szmytkie, Katarzyna Kajdanek, Paulina Miodońska, Przemysław Tomczak
The aim of the research was to identify functional changes of villages in peripheral area of Kłodzko County in the Sudetes Mountains in southwestern Poland. The study area has for many decades been classified as a marginal and problem region, mainly due to a substantial trend of long-term depopulation. However, in recent years the signs of economic revival have been observed. The study innovatively
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Spatial analysis of wildlife-train collisions on the Czech rail network Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Vojtěch Nezval, Michal Bíl
Wildlife-train collisions (WTCs), particularly those with large mammals, pose a threat to the safety and continuity of rail operations. In this study, we collected 1,909 WTCs which took place in the Czech Republic between 2011 and 2019, in order to identify the most hazardous WTC locations and their spatial pattern. 208 WTC hotspots were identified using the KDE+ method. They contained 782 collisions
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Footprint of SO2 in China's international trade and the interregional hotspot analysis Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-19 Xiaowei Chuai, Qinli Lu, Jianbao Li
SO2, which is one of key components that can deteriorate the environment, can be relocated by international trade. Based on the EORA, the EDGAR databases and input-output model, this study calculated China's SO2 emissions caused by import and export, and presented a method to exhibit China's export-related SO2 footprint at a high resolution. The results showed that export generated more SO2 emissions
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Housing-industry symbiosis in rural China: A multi-scalar analysis through the lens of land use Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Jinlong Gao, Weixuan Jiang, Jianglong Chen, Yansui Liu
The symbiosis of housing and industry is currently regarded to be the key to implement the national strategy of rural revitalization in China. However, challenges have emerged in portraying the spatial mismatch pattern of housing and industry development in rural regions from the demographic perspectives accompanying the massive rural-urban migration. The measurement of housing-industry symbiosis needs
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Study on evaluation of regional cultivated land quality based on resource-asset-capital attributes and its spatial mechanism Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Yunyang Shi, Wenkai Duan, Luuk Fleskens, Mu Li, Jinmin Hao
In the context of rapid urbanization, changes in human demand and agricultural technology progress have deeply expanded the cultivated land attribute dimensions. Thus, evaluating the regional cultivated land quality with different attributes and studying its spatial mechanism is of great theoretical and practical significance. Based on the analytical framework of resource-asset-capital attributes of
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Differential drivers of rent burden in growing and shrinking cities Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-13 Eric Seymour, K. Arthur Endsley, Rachel S. Franklin
Housing affordability is an issue of increasing importance and interest, particularly in the United States. Much of this interest is due to skyrocketing rents in coastal cities with tight housing markets. Shrinking cities, in contrast, are often characterized as rich in low-cost housing, providing an affordable alternative to superstar cities. This paper compares income and rent dynamics in cities
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Spatial estimation of chronic respiratory diseases based on machine learning procedures—an approach using remote sensing data and environmental variables in quito, Ecuador Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-10 Cesar I. Alvarez-Mendoza, Ana Teodoro, Alberto Freitas, Joao Fonseca
Over the last few years, the use of remote sensing data in different applications such as estimation of air pollution concentration and health applications has become very popular and new. Thus, some studies have established a possible relationship between environmental variables and respiratory health parameters. This study proposes to estimate the prevalence of Chronic Respiratory Diseases, where
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Abandoned cropland: Patterns and determinants within the Guangxi Karst Mountainous Area, China Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-05 Ze Han, Wei Song
Cropland abandonment because of rural depopulation or policy interventions has become a key issue in Chinese mountainous areas. One such region is the Guangxi Karst Mountainous Area (GKMA), a zone where more than 59% of total land area is hilly. Although depopulation and declining agriculture since 2000 within the GKMA have led to vast areas of abandoned cropland, the spatiotemporal distribution that
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Combining GPS tracking and survey data to better understand travel behavior of out-of-bounds skiers Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-05 John Sykes, Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Karl W. Birkeland
Our research seeks to expand existing knowledge of travel behavior and decision-making in avalanche terrain. We have done this by using GPS tracking to observe the travel behavior of out-of-bounds (OB) skiers and collecting survey data to investigate their terrain choices. We sampled participants in the field by distributing hand-held GPS units and surveys along the southern boundary of Bridger Bowl
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Global-local interactions in agrochemical industry: Relating trade regulations in Brazil to environmental and spatial restructuring in China Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-05 Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira, Canfei He, Jiahui Ma
China and Brazil are the world's leading exporter and importer of agrochemicals respectively. We combine quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze global-local interactions in the spatial restructuring of China's agrochemical industry in relation to a 2006 agrochemical import-acceleration policy in Brazil. We synthesize global political ecology and evolutionary economic geography (EEG) research
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Doomed to fail? Why some land-based investment projects fail Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Kerstin Nolte
In recent years, an increased interest in farmland globally has led to the emergence of many land-based investment projects. Although most projects enter the production stage, a significant number also ends in failure. This paper asks why land-based investment projects fail. This is a crucial question as failed investment projects are unlikely to have any positive impacts on the host regions. I develop
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Understanding the role of local knowledge in the spatial dynamics of social values expressed by stakeholders Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-07-29 Carena J. van Riper, Lorraine Foelske, Saachi D. Kuwayama, Rose Keller, Dana Johnson
Understanding the myriad reasons why people value protected areas provides insight on how to align the decisions made by public land management agencies with diverse stakeholder interests. This study drew on survey data collected within the context of Denali National Park and Preserve to better understand the spatial dynamics of social values reported by frontcountry and backcountry recreationists
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Reducing deforestation through value chain interventions in countries emerging from conflict: The case of the Colombian cocoa sector Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Augusto Castro-Nunez, Andres Charry, Fabio Castro-Llanos, Janelle Sylvester, Vincent Bax
Sustainability commitments by private sector actors are emerging as interventions to help reduce global deforestation. Much attention is placed on the forest conservation impact of these interventions in areas where commodity production constitutes a main driver of deforestation. It is, however, less clearly understood what role they could play in areas where the production of commodities is not evidently
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Urban hydrodynamics in the planned township of New Town, West Bengal, India Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-07-25 Deblina Mitra, Suranjana Banerji
Unsustainable urbanisation has radically deteriorated the natural hydrological phenomena within cityscapes of developing countries. Such neo-urban spaces have inadvertently disrupted the hydrological balance both within and around themselves. As a result, tumultuous ‘hydro-dynamism’ is being faced in atmospheric and sub-surface locales of even small planned neo-urban townships like New Town, West Bengal
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Damage assessment using Google Street View: Evidence from Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Florida Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-07-25 Wei Zhai, Zhong-Ren Peng
Assessing damage on the ground is a challenging task for humanitarian organizations and disaster managers due to the limited availability of data and methods for processing. As the most commonly adopted data source, remote sensing imagery can only reflect the damage situation on top of a building and fails to present the damage level from the perspective of the human eye. Recently, an increasing number
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Spaces of market politics: Retailscapes and modernist planning imaginaries in African cities. Appl. Geogr. (IF 3.508) Pub Date : 2020-07-25 Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah,Clifford Amoako,Barbara Kuffuor Asenso
This article interrogates the spatial, economic, and cultural underpinnings of traditional retailscapes in sub-Saharan Africa to understand how they intersect with contemporary urban planning policies. It does so by deploying a multi-step investigation of the issues from four perspectives: transportation corridors, spheres of influence, centrality, and observed spatial patterns – each leading us to
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