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{"title":"Geostatistical analysis of quality of life (QoL) with particular emphasis on the basic amenities and services in urban West Bengal, India","authors":"Avishek Bhunia,&nbsp;Amalendu Sahoo,&nbsp;Uday Chatterjee","doi":"10.1007/s41685-023-00277-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-023-00277-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Quality of life is said to be intimately interlinked with the process of urbanization and development because urbanization is regarded as a manifestation of economic development. ‘Quality of life’ refers to an individual’s or society’s overall well-being, whereas ‘basic amenities’ are things required for each person and have an evident relationship to QoL. City centers are regarded as the engines of society, so the current paper examines the quality of life with regard to levels of selected essential amenities in West Bengal’s urban centers for the year 2011. Seven key basic amenities are considered. Data were obtained from secondary sources such as the <i>Houselisting and Housing Census</i>, Census of West Bengal 2011, and the <i>Primary Census Abstract</i>, Census of West Bengal, 2011 (both in electronic formats). <i>Coefficient of Variation, Correlation Coefficient</i>, and <i>One-way ANOVA</i> techniques were used to analyze the data. According to the results of the study, there are differences in civic facilities across the whole range of urban hierarchy (size class and civic status category-wise). Additionally, a noticeable difference is found between Census Towns (CTs) and Statutory Towns (STs). The availability and persistent scarcity of fundamental services in urban areas largely depends on rapid urbanization, rapid immigration from rural areas, economic foundation, competence and development of the urban centers where the city or town is located. Additionally, more than 500 new towns incorporated in the most recent census, majority of which are small towns and considered Census Towns, report decreased accessibility to essential facilities. Therefore, instead of implementing different strategies throughout time, a considerable disparity in the provision of amenities in the state’s urban centers is a key barrier to urban holistic development. This circumstance encourages the use of the concept of co-production in the planning process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"7 3","pages":"807 - 843"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45073409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An econometric evaluation of the effects of economic growth, energy use, and agricultural value added on carbon dioxide emissions in Vietnam","authors":"Asif Raihan","doi":"10.1007/s41685-023-00278-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-023-00278-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Global climate change caused by Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), particularly carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, poses incomparable threats to the environment, development and sustainability. Vietnam is experiencing continuous economic growth and agricultural advancement, which causes higher energy consumption and CO₂ emissions. Understanding Vietnam’s sensitivity to climate change is becoming more crucial for governments trying to reconcile climate change mitigation and sustainable development. Analyzing pollution-development trade-offs can help minimize environmental degradation in Vietnam. Therefore, the present study empirically investigated the nexus between economic growth, energy use, agricultural added value and CO₂ emissions in Vietnam. To investigate the short-run and long-run relationships between the variables, this study employed the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique and the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) using the time series data from 1984 to 2020 for Vietnam. The empirical findings indicated that economic growth and energy use trigger environmental degradation by increasing CO₂ emissions, whereas enhancing agricultural added value improves Vietnam’s environmental quality by reducing CO₂ emissions in both the long-run and short-run. The estimated results are robust compared with alternative estimators such as dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS), fully modified least squares (FMOLS), and canonical cointegrating regression (CCR). This research contributes to the existing literature by shedding light on the potential of agricultural added value to reduce emissions in Vietnam and provides policy recommendations in areas of low-carbon economy, promoting renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture that can reduce CO₂ emissions in Vietnam.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"7 3","pages":"665 - 696"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46830237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"North–South discrepancy and gender role attitudes: evidence from Vietnam","authors":"Trang Thu Do,&nbsp;Kien Nguyen-Trung,&nbsp;Chau Hai Le","doi":"10.1007/s41685-023-00276-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-023-00276-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In Vietnam, it is commonly believed that gender norms, sex labour segregation, and structural organization of social institutions often favour male dominance while restricting women’s roles in domestic spheres. However, there is a scant literature of Vietnamese scholarship on the determinants of gender role attitudes, especially geographical disparities. This paper aims to fill this void by using a nationally representative survey with 8288 respondents. Our findings suggested that age, marital status, religion, education, living area, region, ethnicity, and personal monthly income are the factors that predicted gender attitudes. In terms of regional disparities, we found that Northerners were more permissive in their gender attitudes than Southerners, which may be explained by distinct historical and political trajectories in Northern and Southern Vietnam during the last century. There were, however, inconsistent patterns among different age cohorts whereby region significantly impacted the attitudes of women born before the end of the French War in 1954, men born after the Reunification in 1975, as well as both men and women born between 1954 and 1975.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"159 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41685-023-00276-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45257206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Imperial Manila syndrome in poverty reduction: a province-level spatial distribution analysis","authors":"Mitsuhiko Kataoka,&nbsp;Al-Ikram Taupan Darangina","doi":"10.1007/s41685-023-00275-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-023-00275-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Philippines is an insular geography stretching nearly 2000 km from north to south, and has been beset with serious spatial poverty imbalances since its independence. This study comprehensively examined the provincial-level spatial poverty distribution for the years 2000–2018 by applying various spatial distribution analysis methods. Our conventional inequality measures showed an average significant poverty reduction and substantial inter-provincial poverty reduction gaps for the study period. The growth incidence curve revealed that the poverty gap increase was mainly attributable to the provinces with less (more) serious poverty, experiencing more (less) poverty reduction. Considering the island-province hierarchical regional structure, the one-stage Theil decomposition analysis indicated a substantial increase in inter-island components playing a major role in influencing the overall inter-provincial poverty gaps. This result differs from the findings of many existing regional income inequality studies that show the inter-group component plays a minor role. Our club convergence analysis identified six clubs and showed the provinces with higher poverty incidences are in the Mindanao Island, especially in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. Whereas the lower poverty incidences are in the Luzon Island, especially Manila and its neighboring cities and provinces. This core–periphery structure infers capital city bias, referred to as the “Imperial Manila Syndrome” (IMS). We verified that the IMS structure became more serious during the study period. Therefore, region-specific government interventions and inter-governmental coordination are needed for balanced poverty reduction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"1 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41685-023-00275-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43000711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Geographies of vulnerability to climate change: empirical evidences from the Indian Himalayan foothills","authors":"Manoranjan Ghosh,&nbsp;Somnath Ghosal","doi":"10.1007/s41685-022-00273-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-022-00273-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In India, there is a need for field survey-based vulnerability studies to overcome the uncertainties that exist in regional model-based climate vulnerability assessments. Therefore, the present study explored the regional patterns and their associated determinant factors of climate change vulnerability in the Himalayan Foothills of West Bengal to determine which regions are more vulnerable in the same geographical space. The research was conducted in the 13 Community Development Blocks (CD Blocks) of the Himalayan Foothills of West Bengal, India. The Socio-Economic Vulnerability Index (SEVI) was proposed to fulfill the above objectives. The present SEVI was comprised of seven subdimensions of climate change vulnerability: namely, climate variability, natural disaster risk, socio-demographic profile, livelihood strategy, environment profile, livelihood security, and accessibility of basic infrastructure covering three major vulnerability components, exposure, adaptive capacity, and sensitivity. The primary field survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire for data collection comprised of 22 indicators covering seven significant dimensions. The results suggest that Alipurduar-II, Jalpaiguri, and Mal, which are highly exposed to climate variability and natural disaster risk at the same time, have low adaptive capacities. The livelihood strategy, socio-demographic, and environmental profile were the determining factors of regional vulnerability in the study area. The CD blocks Falakata, Dhupguri, and Rajganj showed a higher adaptive capacity and were less sensitive to climate change vulnerability, even though exposure to climate change was the same in the entire area. The survey findings indicate that adaptive capacity is high in Falakata and Rajganj and these areas are less susceptible to climate change vulnerability. Finally, the appropriate recommendation is to develop a basic physical infrastructure, including bridges over the rivers and concrete village roads in all the flood-prone villages in the entire Himalayan Foothills of West Bengal for better connectivity. Also, household food availability should be secured through public distribution systems that develop the coping capacity of the region as a whole.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"7 2","pages":"405 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42636826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identification of crop suitable land using geospatial techniques and assessment with socio-economic factors—case study from India","authors":"Suddhasil Bose,&nbsp;Subhra Halder","doi":"10.1007/s41685-023-00274-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-023-00274-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Crop suitability analyses produce optimal utilisation of existing land resources for sustainable agricultural productivity. This study identified suitable locations for the main crops of West Bengal, India; rice, maize, oilseeds, pulses, wheat, barley, potatoes and vegetables using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). AHP is a multi-decision-criteria approach that requires parameters regarding the crop suitability analysis. Ideal parameters such as slope, elevation, rainfall, soil, land use and land cover (LULC), net sown area, river and road networks, have been selected for the specific study areas. We determined that approximately 55% of lands are under very high to moderate crop suitable zones and some districts in the north and central areas have the maximum amount of highly suitable land as compared to the other districts. The western area showed low suitability due to undulating terrain, rainfall deficiency and infertile soil. The resultant suitability data justified with secondary datasets using the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) method showed an 11% error. Our results also correlated the socio-economic factors, agricultural productivity and agricultural labourer, with the crop suitability zones showing a positive relationship of approximately 82% and 72%, respectively. Suitability maps of the study area and their correlations with allied agricultural factors can help decision makers and planners find appropriate zones for crop production.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"229 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41685-023-00274-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44038160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Clustering potential of organized industrial zones in Türkiye","authors":"Adem Sakarya","doi":"10.1007/s41685-022-00272-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-022-00272-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article analyzes the clustering potentials of organized industrial zones (OIZs) in Türkiye. Studies related to cluster identification first identify the related industries and then analyze the spatial agglomerations of the related industries. To define the clustering potential of OIZs, first the related industries are identified using an input–output table showing the inter-industry trade relations and a formula is suggested to calculate the clustering potential coefficient. This coefficient is an original contribution to the literature. Also, this study is the first to analyze all OIZs in Türkiye using clustering potentials. Of the 347 organized industrial zones in Türkiye, 193 were analyzed. The results show the OIZs are agglomerated in specific regions and the OIZs located in populous and industrialized regions have higher occupancy rates. Also, OIZs clustering potential varies with production type. Specialized OIZs have a greater potential than mixed OIZs. Also, OIZs with greater clustering potential do not agglomerate but are spread across the country.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"255 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42419007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender based political violence against women in Mexico from a regional perspective","authors":"Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald","doi":"10.1007/s41685-022-00271-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-022-00271-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Gender Based Political Violence Against Women (GBPVAW) is one main form of political discrimination. It violently affects women, obstructs social justice (economic redistribution, sociocultural recognition and political representation) for all and hinders parity democracy. In April 2020, the federal law of GBPVAW was approved in Mexico. From September 7th, 2020 until June 6th, 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the biggest and most complex electoral process in Mexico took place, including 95 million registered voters with 21,368 elected positions in dispute and elections in almost half of the states that make up the republic. For the first time in history, gender parity was established by a strict quota system at municipal, state and federal levels. This exacerbated all forms of political violence, political violence against women and gender-based political violence against women. GBPVAW is one of the least researched emerging topics in the social sciences and is mostly absent in regional science debates. This article presents the results of an in-depth study, encompassing a research team of 26 academics, primarily developed and led by the presenting author. Results of a triangulated multidisciplinary research model with a transversal social justice and regional lens includes historical and juridical harmonization indicators, the creation of two quantitative regional indexes, qualitative indicators resulting from over 150 in-depth interviews of experts and female politicians, socio-digital media and a resilience study. Regarding the Mexican case study, the Reform Decree of April 13th, 2020 typifying GBPVAW is celebrated, providing the country with the second most advanced legislation worldwide. However, this research documented that there are still multiple areas of opportunity linked to affirmative action, substantive equality and transversal parity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"135 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41311460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Community perceptions of the impacts of desertification as related to adaptive capacity in drylands of South Punjab, Pakistan","authors":"Nausheen Mazhar,&nbsp;Safdar Ali Shirazi","doi":"10.1007/s41685-022-00270-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-022-00270-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Anthropogenic activities and climatic variations continue to aggravate desertification in the drylands of the world. This study is aimed to explore the perceptions of local residents in the drylands of Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan and Rajanpur districts, lying in the drylands of South Punjab, regarding the impacts of desertification on humans, finances, animals and the environment of the study area. In addition, we explored possible relations between these impacts and adaptive capacity of the local population. Primary data was collected from 399 respondents in a survey conducted during Feb–July 2019 using disproportionate stratified random sampling techniques. The Rajanpur District suffered the most in terms of human and environmental impacts, while Rahim Yar Khan experienced the lowest financial and human impacts, but most severe livestock impacts due to desertification. We also found that increases in water scarcity of surface water bodies and decline in groundwater levels, along with an increase in unemployment and delayed repayment of loans, all led to reduced adaptive capacity of the respondents. These results are helpful for policy makers to plan desertification control policies, that are region specific and focus on the main impacts being faced by each district.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"7 2","pages":"549 - 568"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41685-022-00270-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48665400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does financial inclusion control corruption in upper-middle and lower-middle income countries?","authors":"Rajesh Barik,&nbsp;Sanjaya Kumar Lenka","doi":"10.1007/s41685-022-00269-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41685-022-00269-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Presence of corruption in a system is always a path breaker for transparent distribution of public services in the economy. Therefore, controlling corruption is a high priority for progress of a country’s growth. The main objective of this study was to empirically examine the impacts of financial inclusion on control of corruption in selected upper-middle and lower-middle income countries. Using cross-country annual data from 2004 to 2018, the study applied fixed effect, random effect, panel corrected standard errors, feasible general least square and 2SLS (two-stage least-squares regression) models to evaluate the impacts of financial inclusion on control of corruption across all samples from upper-middle and lower-middle income countries. The results from the upper-middle income (UMI) countries demonstrated that a basic level of financial inclusion has no impact on the control of corruption, whereas higher intensification of financial inclusion beyond the basic level positively impacts it. Similarly, the findings from lower-middle-income (LMI) countries indicated that financial inclusion up to a certain threshold level helps to control corruption, whereas financial inclusion above the threshold level negatively impacts the control of corruption. These empirical findings suggest that in the overall sample, financial inclusion plays an important role to control corruption.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36164,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"69 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43725093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}