{"title":"Multiple centrality assessment of location preferences of retail and services in Petrópolis, Brazil","authors":"F. Antunes, Fahui Wang, M. Fernandes","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2128859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2128859","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the location choices of retail and service activities in Petrópolis, a medium-sized city in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. It uses the Multiple Centrality Assessment (MCA) method to measure centrality indices such as closeness, betweenness, and straightness, which capture the location advantage for each node being how close to all other nodes, being how often traversed by the shortest paths connecting all pairs of nodes, and deviating how much from the straight-line connections in the street network, respectively. The kernel density estimation (KDE) is then used to convert both business locations and MCA values at nodes to raster pixels to facilitate the Pearson correlation analysis. Results indicate that all business types are associated with the three centrality indices with statistical significance, but the association strengths vary across business types. Among the 17 business types, auto mechanical shop, car sales and food retail are most competitive in the locations with the highest centrality measures, and especially in closeness. For other businesses, they tend to value betweenness more than the other two centralities.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"2 4 1","pages":"136 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91190745","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":"A Socio-Economic Analysis of Polling Booth Catchments at the 2019 Australian Federal Election","authors":"S. Baum","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2121174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2121174","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Within the Australian political geography literature, a growing body of work has aimed to understand the distinctive socio-economic and demographic patterns that characterize the Australian federal political landscape. Using results from the last two federal elections (2016 and 2019), this paper analyses polling booth catchments in the context of stability and change in voter support. Polling booths are assigned to four possible types-stable Coalition, stable Labor, change to Coalition and change to Labor-depending on outcomes between 2016 and 2019. The polling booths are then given a unique spatially defined catchment which is then compared across a range of socioeconomic and demographic variables. The results suggest significant differences in polling booth catchments across several key indicators. These differences can be used to understand Australia’s political geography’s distinct and changing nature and add an important component to the existing literature.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"4 1","pages":"104 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75560541","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}
João Guerrero, E. V. Escobar-Silva, M. Chaves, G. Mataveli, Luiz Eduardo Moschini
{"title":"Detecting Multitemporal Land Use Changes and Environmental Fragility in a Heterogeneous Brazilian Landscape","authors":"João Guerrero, E. V. Escobar-Silva, M. Chaves, G. Mataveli, Luiz Eduardo Moschini","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2117565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2117565","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Land Use and Land Cover changes (LULCC) are considered the main drivers that modify the natural environment. Thus, understanding the structure of a landscape, the anthropic actions that affect it, and proposing planning strategies are essential tools for sustainable development. In this context, this work aimed to propose territorial planning for Brotas, Brazil. We assessed 20 years (1999–2019) of land use and applied techniques of potential environmental fragility—PEF (natural) and emergent fragility—EF (influenced by human activities). Our results showed that Brotas’ landscape has been strongly altered, which directly impacted the local environmental fragility, especially with sugarcane advancing over the areas that once was occupied by natural vegetation. On the other hand, naturally fragile areas are mainly where the pedological substrate is of sandy origin and covers areas with greater slope. Naturally fragile areas combined with intense processes of human intervention without studies to guide them may be the main cause of degradation processes in Brotas. Lastly, our findings (i) reinforce that spatializing the landscape fragility can strengthen the planning process and contribute to public management, and (ii) encourage the application of the same model to other areas with landscape heterogeneity and land use conflicts.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"312 1","pages":"89 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76500064","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":"The Impact of Foreign-Trade Zones on County Level Development: A Temporal Analysis","authors":"Jesse M. Lane, Zhi-jun Liu","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2110846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2110846","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1934, the Foreign-Trade Zone Act was passed in order to ease restrictions on internationally traded goods, provide domestic firms with a competitive advantage over foreign companies, boost jobs in import/export businesses, increase exports, and promote economic development. The growth in the number of foreign-trade zones (FTZs) across the United States since 1934 has resulted in the ever-expanding reach of the zone program across the landscape. Even with the growth of FTZs, these zones have remained largely obscure to academia and the public at-large. While various scholars have analyzed the impact of FTZs on exports and trade volumes, few have focused on spatial and temporal impacts on neighboring communities. This study analyzed short- and long-term percentage changes in median household income, unemployment rates, number of manufacturing firms, and manufacturing employment after FTZs were added to a county. Results indicate a significant long-term increase in manufacturing employment in counties adding an FTZ but a significant increase in unemployment rates and decline in manufacturing firms in neighboring counties. These findings suggest FTZs may provide manufacturing employment benefits for a county in the long-term but costs on overall employment and number of firms in neighboring counties may outweigh these benefits.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"40 6 1","pages":"452 - 467"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73087582","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":"Pandemic Shopping Behavior: Did Voluntary Behavioral Changes during the COVID-19 Pandemic Increase the Competition between Online Retailers and Physical Retail Locations?","authors":"T. Wieland","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2106581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2106581","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Online retailing both challenges and endangers physical retail locations, especially city centers. Since 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has substantially impacted the retail landscape. Apart from consumer behavior changes resulting from government-imposed restrictions, some studies have also shown voluntary changes in individual mobility behavior to avoid infections. The present study seeks to analyze the impact of such behavior changes on shopping decisions, specifically the impact of a) fear of infection and b) perceived inconvenience of face masks in retail shops on the likelihood of online shopping. A quantitative channel choice model based on individual shopping decisions is utilized and includes socio-demographic, geographic, and psychographic characteristics of consumers. To account for the impact of the pandemic, this model also includes 1) behavioral variables inferred from the psychological Perceived Vulnerability to Disease (PVD) scale reflecting fear of infection, and 2) a variable reflecting acceptance of mandatory face masks in retailing. The empirical basis is a representative consumer survey in three German regions. Findings demonstrate that fear of infection and the obligation to wear a mask are of secondary importance when choosing a shopping channel. In contrast, age, shopping attitudes, and, partially, the accessibility of shops are of great importance.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"3 1","pages":"70 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86171156","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":"Delivery by Drone: Estimating Market Potential and Access to Consumers from Existing Amazon Infrastruture","authors":"Joseph Tokosh, Xuwei Chen","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2105167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2105167","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Is drone delivery feasible? There has been plenty of discussion and investigation into this topic, and with the rising prominence of technology into society, the realization that drones can be used to deliver goods to consumers is growing. This study investigates this issue by analyzing Amazon Fulfillment Centers to uncover their suitability in serving as potential drone launching facility. Geoprocessing and multi-level buffer analysis are used to help investigate the feasibility of drone delivery in different areas of the United States.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"7 1","pages":"414 - 433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85257817","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":"On the Geographic Balance of Risk and Amenity: Changes in Evacuation Zones and Their Ripples in Housing Prices in Pinellas County, FL","authors":"John D. Morgan, Thomas H. Douthat, Li Lin","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2100225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2100225","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study considers the balance of amenities and coastal hazards on housing prices between 2000 and 2015. We test whether risk communication via hurricane evacuation zone (a proxy for storm-surge risk and coastal flooding) affects sales price while controlling for relevant property characteristics, beach frontage, flood zones, and proximity to the coast. Additionally, we employ a difference-in-difference technique to test whether two highly publicized updates to evacuation zone maps, which changed the status of many homes in the county, led to price penalties for homes. We focus our study on areas of the new evacuation zone maps that reclassified parcels into zones associated with higher coastal surge exposure. This approach allows us to isolate the effects of risk communication about a property independent of changes to its insurance premiums or actual hazard exposure. We find that amenities are associated with significant bonuses and hazard variables correlated with price penalties, and homes in areas reclassified “up” in hazard zone classification have lost value. Our findings shed light on how information changes about hazards may affect coastal real estate markets as concerns about coastal hazards and exposure to storm-related surges increase along with climate change.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"1 1","pages":"49 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88689900","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":"Spatiotemporal Shifts in Tornadic Activity of 1958–2017 in the Central United States","authors":"Trevor Krainz, Shunfu Hu","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2083979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2083979","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Research in the last several years has revealed a number of interesting trends, such as a eastward shift in tornadic activity away from ‘Tornado Alley’ southeast into ‘Dixie Alley’ and a decrease in the number of tornado days paired with an increase in the sizes of tornado outbreaks. The purpose of this study seeks to reaffirm some of those findings. It accomplishes this by aggregating the tornado records of 1958–2017 into multiple time periods and finding the centroid of the tornado distributions during each of those time periods and compares them to one another. In doing so, this study reaffirms the significant eastward shifts in tornadic activity found by the literature, finds little consistent evidence of a northward shift in tornadic activity, and reveals interesting monthly and annual differences in the total variability of tornadoes that has not been substantially discussed within the literature thus far.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"31 1","pages":"468 - 482"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81284025","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":"Analyzing the Influence of Climate Variables on Native Pasture Phenology in the Fitzroy Basin, Australia","authors":"Mohammad Irvan Aditya","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2081815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2081815","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Remote-sensing-based approaches to determining phenological parameters can help ascertain growing seasonality parameters and provide valuable insights into the growth dynamics of vegetation. Using native pastures as the vegetation type, this study aims to analyze variations and trends in the timing of the start of season (SOS) and the end of season (EOS), using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer data. The Fitzroy Basin in Queensland was selected as eleven-year case study, with the 2009 through 2020 period used for data acquisition and analysis. Four climatic variables—rainfall, temperature, humidity, and solar radiance data sources from climatic stations—were used to analyze the relationship between SOS and EOS. Sensitivity analysis based on multilayer perceptron neural network models was carried out to reveal the relative influence of climatic variables on SOS and EOS. Findings show that SOS and EOS trends are insignificant for most areas. Both of the phenological metrics are highly sensitive to rainfall. Fluctuation of rainfall has influence on the timing of seasonal parameters. Humidity and solar radiance, however, also appear to be a major influence for EOS. These findings can assist in providing information pertaining to pasture management strategies in anticipation of extreme climate conditions.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"21 1","pages":"434 - 451"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76047723","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":"Natural Disaster Risk Inequalities in Central America","authors":"A. Quesada-Román, D. Campos-Durán","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2081814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2081814","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Central America is affected by geological and hydrometeorological hazards that, together with its high exposure and vulnerability, comprise risky scenarios for disasters. This region presents a significant number of casualties and economic losses due to disasters every year. We present an analysis of the origin of extensive risks (high-frequency-low-magnitude hazards occurrences) and intensive (low-frequency-high magnitude hazard occurrences) in Central America from 1990 to 2015 using the disaster databases EM-DAT and DesInventar. Findings reveal that Costa Rica reported the greatest number of both intensive and extensive risks (disaster occurrences) whereas El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras experienced the highest number of casualties in terms of injuries and lost, as well as highest number of damaged or destroyed houses by extensive and intensive risks. Disaster databases, like the ones employed in this research, provide useful data for risk assessment, land use planning, and risk management in developing countries. This study stresses the need for exhaustive risk assessment at the local, regional, and national scales.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"77 1","pages":"36 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79984140","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}