J. Ahmed, Engdawork Assefa Tilahun, Tesfaye Zeleke Italemahu, Eskinder Gidey Sintayehu, S. M. Said
{"title":"Analyzing Trends and Drivers of Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics in Drought-Prone Livelihood Zones of the Northwestern Escarpment of the Ethiopian Rift Valley","authors":"J. Ahmed, Engdawork Assefa Tilahun, Tesfaye Zeleke Italemahu, Eskinder Gidey Sintayehu, S. M. Said","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2074304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2074304","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The current study looked at the patterns and causes of land use and land cover (LULC) dynamics from 1985 to 2019 in three drought-prone areas of the Ethiopian Rift Valley’s Northwestern Escarpment. Spatial data, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews were used to study the trends and causes of LULC dynamics. For Landsat image processing, ERDAS Imagine 2015 was used, and for LULC change analysis, ArcGIS 10.8 was employed. From the result, fast LULC exchange occurred in all study LZs throughout the study years. Raya Valley LZ (RVLZ) is, however, more highly shifted than Allagie Ofla LZ (ALOFLZ) and Tsirare catchment LZ (TCLZ). From the total area, only 17.7, 28.3, and 23.2 percent of RVLZ, ALOFLZ, and TCLZ persisted over the study years, respectively. The LULC change in the studied LZs was driven by population pressure and recurrent droughts. The research area’s local ecosystem services have been disrupted by these changes, which have impacted the livelihood system of the local community. Consequently, the government should reform the appropriate land use policy, which benefits local farmers and their ecosystems. In addition, farm activities must be environmentally friendly to increase farmland productivity.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"158 1","pages":"230 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83504237","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}
Joseph M. Aversa, R. Shaker, E. Cleave, Navdeep Salooja
{"title":"Determinants of Bank Closures: Exploring the Relationship between Neighborhood Characteristics and Bank Branch Locations","authors":"Joseph M. Aversa, R. Shaker, E. Cleave, Navdeep Salooja","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2072232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2072232","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Retail Banking in Canada has experienced significant changes perpetuated by both digital trends in retail and changes in consumer demand. These changes have resulted in significant decreases in client interactions with physical branches in favor of digital platforms (online, mobile, phone banking). As the “Big Five” Canadian banks pursue network optimization strategies focused on reinvesting savings into their digital channels, branch closures will accelerate, resulting in market gaps. Thus, the central aim of this study is to understand the relationship between neighborhood characteristics (built environment and socio-economic) and bank branch locations. Using the city of Toronto as a case study, this research addresses three objectives: (i) to identify neighborhoods underserviced by the “Big Five” Canadian banks; (ii) to examine the spatial relationship between neighborhood characteristics and branch locations; and (iii) to quantify the key neighborhood characteristics linked to branch locations. This study finds that financial exclusion continues to be associated with local dynamics of physical topography, road network, demographics, and socio-economic status. While financial exclusion is becoming a growing area of concern for policy makers, this research finds that access to affordable financial services still proves to be an issue that requires attention.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"79 1","pages":"393 - 413"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81413700","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":"Modeling the Vulnerability of Livelihood Systems to Drought along Livelihood Zones in the Northwestern Escarpment of the Ethiopian Rift Valley","authors":"J. Ahmed, Engdawork Assefa Tilahun, Tesfaye Zeleke Italemahu, Eskinder Gidey Sintayehu, Befikadu Esayas Amphune","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2068352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2068352","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Drought is becoming a common problem for farmers in the Northwestern Escarpment Ethiopian Rift Valley’s three studied livelihood zones (LZs). Droughts wreaked havoc on the community’s livelihood systems regularly. It lefts the community food insure and repeatedly disturbs their ecosystems. As a result, the current study used meteorological, spatial, and socioeconomic data from the area to assess the community’s drought vulnerability. Each variable of drought vulnerability was normalized as proxy indicators to calculate exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity indexes. From the results, the Raya valley livelihood zone (RVLZ) is relatively more drought vulnerable (0.65) than the Tsirare catchment livelihood zone (TCLZ) (0.63) and Alagie-Ofla livelihood zones (ALOFLZ) (0.60). The RVLZ has a less adaptive capacity than ALOFLZ but more susceptibility and higher exposures to drought risks than the two LZs. Besides, the TCLZ has less adaptive capacity than the two livelihood zones, with more vulnerability and exposure to drought risks than ALOFLZ. The highest levels of exposition and susceptibility synergy with low resilience have aggravated the vulnerability to drought in all study LZs. Livelihood zone-based interventions and climate-smart farming are thus necessary for all LZs to reduce possible drought risks and transfer vulnerable communities into high adaptive capacities.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"7 1","pages":"1 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87195917","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 Effect of COVID-19 on Leisure Related Public Space Use in Turkey","authors":"Hatice Buse Bingöl, Fatih Terzi","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2068156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2068156","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has created radical changes in all aspects of daily life associated with public space. This paper aims to ascertain the effect of COVID-19 on the use of leisure-related public spaces in Turkey. This study investigates how public space usage differs for various socio-demographic groups and how information and communication technologies (ICT) affect changes in public space use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using purposive and snowball sampling methods, a nationwide online survey was conducted between September and October of 2020. The answers obtained from 531 participants were included in the analysis of the variance and path analysis. The analyses revealed that the frequency of urban public spaces usage during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased significantly as expected, in particular the use of internal public/quasi-public spaces and shopping malls. The use of external public spaces was relatively less affected by the pandemic. However, the use of virtual space increased significantly. The results also showed that the changes in the use of internal public/quasi-public spaces, shopping malls, and virtual space differ according to socio-demographic characteristics. It was concluded that ICT had statistically significant effects on changes in public space usage during COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"90 1","pages":"377 - 392"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80343393","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":"Spatio-Temporal Change Detection of Built-up Areas in Ilorin Metropolis and Implications for Green Space Conservation","authors":"Abdulraheem Maimuna Orire, Xiao Huang, Orire Ismaila Oloyede, Babalola Ayo, Wakeel Adeyemi Raheem, Michaelmary Chukwu","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2062574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2062574","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Urbanization is a leading driver of green space depletion, and accurate land cover mapping is an essential, cost-effective technique for monitoring this phenomenon. In this study, we analyzed the spatio-temporal changes (1986 to 2020) of built-up areas in the city of Ilorin- Nigeria, and discussed the findings’ implications for green spaces. A supervised pixel-based SVM algorithm was adopted for image classification to produce the land cover maps with multi-temporal Landsat images. The analyzed post-classification result yielded an overall accuracy (OA) of 99.87 percent and a Kappa coefficient (KA) of 0.998. The change metrics showed that built-up areas witnessed a decadal increase in spatial extent from 1986 to 2020. Whereas, vegetation land cover witnessed a decadal decline during these periods. The net-growth rate (%) for built-up areas and vegetation land cover between 1986 to 1996, 1996 to 2006 and 2016 to 2020 were +11.67, +5.04, +6.647, +0.06, and −14.1, −36.52, +25.81, −0.10 respectively. Meanwhile, the trend forecast predicted a decline in vegetation of 9510 hectares by the year 2030 if the current land use pattern continues unabated. The land consumption ratio (LCR) and land absorption coefficient (LAC) results were both positive, indicating a rise in the urban population correlating with larger consumption of new land areas over time.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"10 1","pages":"357 - 374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89858857","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":"Identifying Suitable Location for Surface Rainwater Harvesting Using GIS and Analytical Hierarchy Process","authors":"Sarbeswar Haldar, A. Majumder","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2051196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2051196","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Rainwater harvesting is old but auspicious technology of sustainable water resource management. In general, the immediate barriers for installing rainwater harvesting techniques is a universal problem which includes the availability of suitable place, initial cost, lack of desired, sound technology etc. The present paper mainly focuses on finding suitable locations for surface rainwater harvesting structures, validation and characterization of these areas using GIS and AHP methods. For validation and characterization of the location google earth and associated thematic layers have been used. The identification of appropriate locations for RWH structures for the Asansol Urban Area in Paschim Burdwan district of West Bengal has been made by utilizing eight different thematic layers in GIS environment. Different GIS layers such as surface elevation, land-use/land-cover, drainage, depression, geology, slope, rainfall and lineament have been used for identifying the suitable location. The result of the study depicts that most of the identified locations as high (10.62%) and very high (4.12%) are suitable for constructing any kind of natural or manmade RWH structure. The present method is comparatively cost effective and time saving which may be convenient for sustainable water resource management planning across the water scarce area in the world.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"17 1","pages":"339 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76913265","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}
M. Libório, J. F. de Abreu, O. D. S. Martinuci, P. Ekel, R. D. M. Lyrio, V. A. L. Camacho, E. S. Melazzo
{"title":"Uncertainty Analysis Applied to the Representation of Multidimensional Social Phenomena","authors":"M. Libório, J. F. de Abreu, O. D. S. Martinuci, P. Ekel, R. D. M. Lyrio, V. A. L. Camacho, E. S. Melazzo","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2022.2035799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2022.2035799","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The representation of social phenomena has been associated with substantial conceptual and operational difficulties. Social phenomena have a complex multidimensional nature that leads to different conceptualizations and measurements. This problem makes it difficult to choose the subindicators to be considered in the composite indicator of the phenomenon. In addition, subindicators can be normalized, weighted, and aggregated in different ways. There is no answer in the literature about which combination of methods is most appropriate to represent a given phenomenon. This research aims to answer which normalization and aggregation methods combination offers the best representation of the social exclusion process considering its multidimensionality. Fifteen subindicators of social exclusion were aggregated and normalized by different methods, generating thirty-one composite indicators. Three criteria measured the performance of the composite indicators: external validity with the average household income indicator, the actual conditions of the environment observed by the urban landscape analysis, and the prediction errors of the composite indicator. The results show significant differences in the capacity of a composite indicator to represent situations of social exclusion. It is possible, however, to represent social exclusion more consistently from subindicators normalized by the min–max technique and aggregated by the geometric mean.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"45 1","pages":"315 - 338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80256483","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 Bibliometric Review of Publication Trends in the Application of Landscape Metrics in Urban and Regional Planning","authors":"Susan Cyriac, M. Firoz C.","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2021.2018025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2021.2018025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Landscape metrics have been gaining popularity in urban and regional planning since the early 2000s. Primarily used to assess landscapes’ ecological composition and configuration, the field has expanded to include studies on the environment, land use studies, ecosystem services, spatiotemporal changes in land uses, perception studies, and peri-urban studies. However, a summarization and review of published literature in landscape metrics and its application in urban and regional planning is missing. The present study proposes to familiarize researchers with an overview of the publications in the field. Hence, the review aims at identifying the most prominent authors, papers, journals, keywords, and countries conducting studies in the subject domain. The Web of Science database was selected owing to the broader coverage. The selected articles from the Web of Science database are analyzed using Bibliometrix and Vosviewer software to gather relevant publication trends and identify the most significant networks. The present paper is limited to bibliometric analysis and has identified advances in using landscape metrics in urban and regional planning. The paper also indicates the potential future research areas.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"31 1","pages":"297 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74478402","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}
Kimlin Tam Ashing, Gaole Song, Timothy O'Connor, Udochukwu Obodo, Faith Abuan, Christyl T Dawson, Brian Tiep, Jonjon Macalintal, Sophia Yeung, Bin Xie, Ming-Hsiang Tsou
{"title":"Spatial and Descriptive Analysis of Smoke and Vape Shop Locations Focusing on A Cancer Center Neighboring Catchment Area.","authors":"Kimlin Tam Ashing, Gaole Song, Timothy O'Connor, Udochukwu Obodo, Faith Abuan, Christyl T Dawson, Brian Tiep, Jonjon Macalintal, Sophia Yeung, Bin Xie, Ming-Hsiang Tsou","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2021.1947354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2021.1947354","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tobacco products cause about 1 in 5 deaths premature deaths each year. With increased retailing of both tobacco and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) products, cancer centers such as City of Hope are prioritizing tobacco and ENDS control. Therefore, we conducted formative geospatial analyses of dedicated smoke and vape shops linked to neighborhood demographic characteristics. The objective of the study was to analyze local data on smoke and vaping shop locations by age, socio-economic status, and racial/ethnic group. Our geospatial analysis used aggregate data from the U.S. Census, Google Maps, and Yelp. Geospatial maps were created using ArcGIS Pro with American Community Survey and U.S. Census 2010. The distributions of exclusive tobacco and vaping shop locations data were overlaid with data from the U.S. Census 2010 to generate maps of the relative geographic distributions of shops across varying area demographic characteristics. Results showed that a higher concentration of exclusive smoke and vaping shops were in areas with a higher concentration of ethnic minorities and lower income and lower status neighborhoods. These findings suggest that laws and licensing should be evaluated to regulate the placement of these shops to reduce and even prevent targeting of minorities and other vulnerable populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"8 1","pages":"61-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23754931.2021.1947354","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10450519","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":"Calculating Mexico City’s Food Supply: Methodological Insights for Regionalizing Food Data at the Urban Scale","authors":"Louise Guibrunet, Esperanza Arnés","doi":"10.1080/23754931.2021.2006758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2021.2006758","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Tackling the environmental impacts of food systems can play a crucial role in achieving urban sustainability. Robust accounts of urban food supply must inform policymaking. Current research on urban food supply often relies on extrapolating national data sets to the urban scale, obscuring the diversity of food consumption patterns across regions and across the urban–rural divide within countries. One illustration of this is the case of Mexico, where biocultural diversity has shaped diverse diets across the country. In this article, we present a method to estimate urban food supply in the data-scarce context of Mexico City. We combine national data on food supply with food consumption data from a spatially explicit food questionnaire to estimate urban food supply. We estimate the food supply for the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, breaking it down by food group, and present key differences with national-scale data. In particular, consumption of animal products (meat and milk) is higher than the national average, and corn consumption is lower. We conclude that it is crucial to produce precise accounts of urban diets to enable robust analyses of the environmental impacts of urban food supply, and reflect on the limitations and opportunities of our method.","PeriodicalId":36897,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Applied Geography","volume":"11 1","pages":"282 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84090792","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}