Land Use PolicyPub Date : 2025-09-05DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107745
Quang Cuong Doan , Xiaohu Zhang
{"title":"A systematic review of urban vitality studies: Trends and research opportunities","authors":"Quang Cuong Doan , Xiaohu Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107745","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107745","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban vitality serves as a crucial indicator of sustainable city development. However, little is known about trends and potential research opportunities in urban vitality. Thus, this paper systematically reviews urban vitality studies to synthesize research themes and identify key research directions. Specifically, we provide an overview of the main topics, methods, and data in related studies, summarizing findings and pinpointing areas for further investigation. Employing the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method, we identified 191 relevant studies from 941 peer-reviewed articles. Results revealed that Southern Europe and East Asia emerged as the most extensively researched geographic regions, with China featuring prominently in the number of urban vitality studies. Our review identifies urban vitality measurement (35.6 %) and its associated factors (64.4 %) as primary research themes. It also highlights a tendency in current studies to overlook assessment biases stemming from urban functions and seasonal variations. While the relationship between urban vitality and the built environment receives ample attention, the impacts of urban vitality on sustainability (environmental, social, and economic issues) remain less elucidated. Furthermore, we observe that previous studies of influencing factors on urban vitality often rely on linear models, neglecting nonlinearity, interactions among factors, and causality. We also note a shift from traditional data sources to big data, allowing scholars to assess urban vitality more comprehensively. We thus discussed potential research directions for future studies. This paper advances understanding of urban vitality research by delineating trends, gaps and identifying avenues for future studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"158 ","pages":"Article 107745"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144996360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jus Cogens and Reparations: Can We Just End the Separation?","authors":"Dire Tladi","doi":"10.1017/ajil.2025.10079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2025.10079","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The relationship between international law on reparations and <span>jus cogens</span> is an uneasy one. The law on reparations is a settled part of classical international law, with roots so deep that its place in international law is taken for granted.<span>1</span> The oft-quoted dictum in the 1928 <span>Chorzów Factory</span> case which sets out the requirement for reparation to “as far as possible, wipe out all the consequences of [an] illegal act and re-establish the situation” which would have existed but for the unlawful act was said, at the time, to be based on “international practice and … decisions of arbitral tribunals.”<span>2</span> The same is not true of <span>jus cogens</span>, a relatively new entrant to the mainstream of international law, whose pedigree in the system is less assured, and whose <span>application,</span> as opposed to mere references, by international courts is almost non-existent.<span>3</span> Yet, at the same time, at the heart of both reparations and <span>jus cogens</span>, is the notion of justice. The idea of undoing the effects of a wrongful act is intrinsically about (re)balancing the scales, while the notion of <span>jus cogens</span> seeks to infuse the system of international law with community values and a spirit of justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":47841,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of International Law","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Tsouroufli , A. Tambe , O. Filippakou , S. Shankar
{"title":"Voice, silence and privilege in the neoliberal university: The ‘irresponsibility’ of Gender and Women's Studies pedagogies in higher education in India","authors":"Maria Tsouroufli , A. Tambe , O. Filippakou , S. Shankar","doi":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103198","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper we focus on the Indian higher education context, where expansion of Gender and Women's Studies (GWS), as well as institutional and national gender equality policies have not resulted in unsettling intersectional injustices in educational participation and practice. We draw on qualitative data (interviews with staff and focus groups with students) from a mixed-methods study aiming to advance gender equality. Gender and Women's Studies pedagogies were imbued with professionalizing gender, depoliticising criticality and individualising gender equality. Gender sensitising rather than engaging with the affective dimensions of hegemonic power and knowledge, and silencing mechanisms against marginalized groups, implicated in classroom and institutional politics, affirmed privileged subjectivities and diverted from a pedagogical ethic of speaking, listening and participating responsibly in education and society. A shift to pedagogies of discomfort and for democratic citizenship might facilitate intellectual and political activism and alleviate some of the ‘irresponsibility’ of neo-liberalised Gender and Women's Studies in India.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47940,"journal":{"name":"Womens Studies International Forum","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144996514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guestworker Schemes in Pacific Island Countries: Triple Wins but Social Costs?","authors":"Kirstie Petrou, John Connell","doi":"10.1111/imig.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Guestworker schemes have increased in geographical extent and numerical importance in the twenty-first century. In the southern hemisphere, Australia and New Zealand developed schemes primarily drawing workers from small Pacific island states to meet horticultural needs. Proponents of guestwork pointed to a triple win for farmers, workers and source countries, couched in economic terms. In small Pacific states, such economic gains were less evident at workers' household level, while growing numbers of participants created increased social problems for workers' households and source countries, evident especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Increased demand for workers in destination states and new geopolitical tensions in the region enabled Pacific states to demand structural changes to the schemes that would remedy social costs. However, Antipodean schemes retained the structural problems of guestworker schemes elsewhere, but emphasised by skill losses, a permanently temporary precariat, and impacts affecting the entirety of small states that challenge the simplicity and ubiquity of ‘Triple win’ discourses.</p>","PeriodicalId":48011,"journal":{"name":"International Migration","volume":"63 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/imig.70085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144990658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Achieving regulatory alignment for E2E autonomous driving in China: A framework for tort liability and data governance","authors":"Chuyi Wei , Jingchen Zhao , Li Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.clsr.2025.106192","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clsr.2025.106192","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>China’s advancement in End-to-End Autonomous Driving (E2E AD) presents profound legal and regulatory challenges due to its “black box” nature and data dependency, rendering traditional frameworks inadequate. This paper argues for a tiered liability system, shifting responsibility to manufacturers with increasing vehicle autonomy. Additionally, it proposes an adaptive, multi-tiered, risk-stratified data governance model. Underpinning these proposals, robust transparency and explainability (XAI) are crucial for ensuring accountability and achieving effective regulatory alignment. These proposed frameworks offer critical insights for China and provide a practical and theoretical basis for other nations navigating AI governance in autonomous mobility.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51516,"journal":{"name":"Computer Law & Security Review","volume":"59 ","pages":"Article 106192"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching Sexual Consent With a Narrative-Based Card Game.","authors":"Caleb Probst","doi":"10.1177/10778012251372554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251372554","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Women in college experience alarming rates of sexual violence, despite universities' attempts to teach consent. Students often find the teaching unrealistic, believing it violates everyday sexual narratives. This case study of 27 students at a large American university playing and discussing <i>The Hook Up Game</i>, considers the possibilities for narrative-based card games to provide authentic consent learning. A narrative analysis compared the stories generated through gameplay to established sexual scripts, and collaborative discourse analysis examined the learning opportunities afforded by the game. Findings illustrate the capacity of narrative-based card games to create space for exploring the concept of sexual consent.</p>","PeriodicalId":23606,"journal":{"name":"Violence Against Women","volume":" ","pages":"10778012251372554"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145001091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transforming the World with Reparations?","authors":"Ingrid Brunk, Monica Hakimi","doi":"10.1017/ajil.2025.10095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2025.10095","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This special issue of the <span>American Journal of International Law</span>—devoted entirely to reparations in international law—offers a range of perspectives on reparations for large-scale harms relating to colonialism, slavery, industrialization, and transboundary pollution. As the symposium authors describe, the gap between the reparations that justice might demand and the ones that international law provides is enormous. The international law for reparations does not come close to remedying such harms and is not poised to do so anytime soon.</p>","PeriodicalId":47841,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of International Law","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race, Reparations, and International Law","authors":"E. Tendayi Achiume","doi":"10.1017/ajil.2025.10088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2025.10088","url":null,"abstract":"<p><span>Mr. President, we remain resolute in our commitment to combating all forms of racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia and related intolerance whether that be at home or abroad…. Nonetheless, we have a number of concerns with this text….</span></p>","PeriodicalId":47841,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of International Law","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicholas J. Moy, Hannah R. Ceasar, Christopher Tracey, Ryan G. Valdez
{"title":"Empowering National Park Landscape Conservation by Connecting Science and Advocacy","authors":"Nicholas J. Moy, Hannah R. Ceasar, Christopher Tracey, Ryan G. Valdez","doi":"10.1080/24694452.2025.2542180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2025.2542180","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47874,"journal":{"name":"Annals of the American Association of Geographers","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145002990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agree to disagree: How life satisfaction (in)congruence links to resilience in grandchild–grandparent dyads of Chinese left-behind families","authors":"Qiong Hu , Qiong Zhang , Yanlin Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108561","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108561","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Chinese left-behind families (CLBF) are households where parents migrate for work, leaving their children in rural areas under the care of grandparents. This arrangement often strengthens intergenerational bonds but can also create incongruence in life experiences and perceptions among family members. While previous research has highlighted the interdependence of life satisfaction and resilience within these grandchild<strong>–</strong>grandparent dyads, it remains unclear how perceptual agreement or disagreement in life satisfaction relates to dyadic resilience. This study examines the associations between congruence and incongruence in life satisfaction and resilience at the dyadic level. A total of 237 grandchild<strong>–</strong>grandparent dyads from CLBF completed self-reported measures of life satisfaction and resilience. Using polynomial regression and response surface analyses, we found that higher congruence in high life satisfaction was associated with higher resilience for both grandchildren and grandparents. However, incongruence showed distinct patterns in resilience for the two generations: greater incongruence—regardless of direction—was linked to lower resilience for grandchildren but higher resilience for grandparents. These findings provide nuanced insights into the intergenerational dynamics in CLBF, highlighting that congruence in higher life satisfaction promotes dyadic resilience, while incongruence challenges resilience in grandchildren but benefits grandparents. Future qualitative studies may provide deeper insights into these divergent effects, and longitudinal studies could better capture the dynamics over time. Intergenerational communication about life satisfaction and shared dialogues are encouraged to enhance resilience for both grandchildren and grandparents in CLBF.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"178 ","pages":"Article 108561"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144996717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}