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{"title":"Human activities unevenly disturbed climatic impacts on vegetation dynamics across natural-anthropogenic-integrated ecosystem types in China","authors":"Dazhi Yang ,&nbsp;Yaqun Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103451","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103451","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Terrestrial ecosystems have experienced profound changes due to the combined influence of climate change and human activities, leading to local degradation of vegetation and ecosystem services. However, the contributions of climatic factors and human activities to vegetation dynamics and their differences among ecosystem types remain largely unknown, compromising the scientific basis for type-differentiated sustainable management. To this end, we mapped annual kNDVI to quantify vegetation dynamics, employed a partial derivative function to decompose the relative contributions of climate and human activities to kNDVI changes, and analyzed their differences across natural-anthropogenic-integrated ecosystem types in China from 2001 to 2022. The results show that China's average kNDVI exhibited an overall increasing trend of 0.16%/a, with 4.7% of the area showing degradation. Among different ecosystem types, urban/township and cultivated land ecosystems had larger degraded areas (19.1% and 3.2%), while mixed farmland/forestland and mixed farmland/pastureland ecosystems had larger greening areas (81.1% and 78.0%), respectively. The kNDVI trends were positively correlated with temperature for all ecosystem types but differentially correlated with precipitation and solar radiation. Precipitation and human activities were the dominant factors influencing kNDVI changes, with contribution rates of more than 40% and 25% respectively, and a total contribution of more than 80%. However, contributions of temperature and solar radiation to kNDVI changes were generally below 10% across all ecosystems. Along with human footprint increased, the impacts of climate changes on kNDVI in artificial or semi-artificial ecosystems were more stable than that in natural ecosystems, which indicates that natural ecosystems are more vulnerable to human disturbance. As human activities have unevenly altered climatic impacts on vegetation dynamics across ecosystem types, sustainable ecosystem management strategies such as ecological protection and restoration and protected area construction should pay more attention to type- and regional-differentiated underlying mechanisms, especially for more fragile natural ecosystems. In terms of specific measures, we suggest optimizing the layout of nature reserves, integrating ecological projects and promoting public participation to enhance the effectiveness of ecosystem vegetation protection.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103451"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How does intra-city spatial structure influence green economic efficiency? A nonlinear and spatial spillover perspective","authors":"Siqi Yan,&nbsp;Qun Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103455","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103455","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is an increasing interest among policymakers and planners worldwide to promote optimization of urban spatial structure (USS) through planning instruments, so as to generate more favorable environmental and economic outcomes. However, attention is mainly devoted to linear effect of USS on green economic efficiency (GEE) in previous research, and the potential nonlinear relationship has been relatively neglected. In addition, relatively few studies have examined spatial spillover impact of USS on GEE. This paper uses LandScan global population datasets to characterize USS, and investigates the nonlinear impacts of USS on GEE, spatial spillover effect and related mechanisms of influence, using spatial panel data models and data for the cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) in China. The results suggest that the impacts that extent of centralization and extent of polycentricity exert on GEE exhibits an inverted U-shaped pattern. USS exerts significant spatial spillover impacts on GEE in neighboring cities. The analysis of mechanisms of influence suggests that USS impacts on GEE by affecting the infrastructure level and the level of green innovation outputs. The findings have significant policy implications for facilitating optimization of USS and enhancing improvement in GEE.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103455"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144139570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Influence of ecological civilization pilot policy on double dividend of industrial enterprises","authors":"Sai Yuan ,&nbsp;Xiongfeng Pan","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103454","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103454","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ecological civilization pilot policy (<em>ECPP</em>) is an important instrument for constructing a new harmonious development pattern between human beings and nature. Nevertheless, available research has paid little attention to analyzing the influence of the <em>ECPP</em> on the double dividend (i.e., economic and environmental dividends) of industrial enterprises, especially its spillover effects. Based on industrial enterprises in China from 2012 to 2023, this study empirically tests the effects of <em>ECPP</em> on the double dividend of industrial enterprises by utilizing <em>ECPP</em> as a quasi-natural experiment. The results show that the <em>ECPP</em> achieves environmental and economic dividends for industrial enterprises. Meanwhile, the <em>ECPP</em> has a positive spatial spillover effect on the double dividend of industrial enterprises, and the spatial spillover effect is stronger than the direct effect. From three dimensions of green innovation efficiency, green organization construction, and green financial environment, our study further reveals that the <em>ECPP</em> realizes the environmental dividend of industrial enterprises by improving their green R&amp;D efficiency, promoting corporate green transformation, and expanding green credit scale. Simultaneously, the <em>ECPP</em> also achieves the economic dividend of industrial enterprises by boosting their green achievement transformation, expanding the green investment scale, and enlarging the scale of carbon, energy, and emission trading. Our conclusions enrich the effects of <em>ECPP</em> from the double dividend and spatial spillover perspectives and guide for exploring ecological policy implementation effects and adjustment directions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103454"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144135012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Land consumption and urbanization in rural areas. Understanding the dynamics of land take and demographic changes in rural municipalities in Catalonia, Spain","authors":"Rodrigo d’Avila ,&nbsp;Melisa Pesoa ,&nbsp;Gonzalo García ,&nbsp;Javier Rocamonde","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103443","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103443","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Several international organizations agree that land consumption is in a critical situation, yet demand for urbanized spaces persists, even in declining populations. This phenomenon has been primarily applied to large urban agglomerations, so the dynamics of land take in non-urban areas, particularly those situated far from large metropolises, should not be overlooked. The central question of this article is whether increased land consumption in rural areas corresponds to population dynamics. By examining different remote sensing datasets regarding small municipalities in Catalonia (Spain), together with the population census, it seeks to ascertain whether there is a correlation between soil imperviousness, as an indicator of urbanization processes, and demographic changes in rural context. The study provides a comprehensive examination of land consumption for 2009–2018, following the real estate crisis, in Catalonia’s rural municipalities, elucidating the complexities of achieving sustainable land use in the context of population decline. The results of the study indicate that even after the 2008 crisis, rural towns continued to grow in size, generating more land consumption, even without population growth. This stands in contrast to the post-crisis dynamics observed in Spain’s major cities. The findings underscore the importance of analyzing regional dynamics in functional areas rather than by individual municipalities, to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the process. These findings are vital for the development of future regional planning policies, ensuring the optimal allocation of resources and the provision of necessary support to municipalities for the sustainable management of their growth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103443"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144123963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The humanization of urban neighborhoods; the case of Al-Falah project in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia","authors":"Faisal Alosaimi ,&nbsp;Mohamed Fageir ,&nbsp;Sultan Alfraidi ,&nbsp;Ahmed Elsayed ,&nbsp;Rami Zeinelabdein","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103433","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103433","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the recent efforts for humanizing urban neighborhoods, focusing on the case of Al-Falah neighborhood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The city has rapidly expanded over the past few decades resulting in urban sprawl and standardized urban areas that lack identity and quality. Acknowledging the role of the neighborhoods in improving the quality of life, the city has recently embarked on an ambitious program for neighborhood humanization, <em>\"Ansana\"</em>. The program focuses on improving the physical environment through the reconsideration of the human dimension in the design of urban spaces. Al-Falah neighborhood served as the pilot project for this initiative. This study aims to examine the impact of the humanization project on Al-Falah neighborhood from residents’ perspective. Six focus groups with locals were conducted, followed by interviews with experts. The findings reveal a significant improvement in walkability, sense of community, attachment to the place, and the overall neighborhood image, resulting in the transformation of Al-Falah from a typical residential area into a thriving neighborhood. However, the study highlights three critical considerations to avoid treating humanization as a replicable formula. The considerations are the value of adhering to high-quality, human-centered urban design; the need for context-sensitive planning; and the pivotal role of community participation. The study concludes that humanization should be understood as a dynamic, participatory process that requires tailored approaches to local context and community needs. The study findings emphasize the potential of humanization to create more sustainable, livable, and inclusive urban environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103433"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144105729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating the impacts of whole-region comprehensive land consolidation on the optimization of rural production-living-ecological spaces in China","authors":"Chen Liang ,&nbsp;Yang Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103438","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103438","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>China's rapid urbanization and industrialization over the past four decades have profoundly transformed patterns of rural land use. Effectively optimizing rural land resources remains a critical challenge for the government. To address this challenge, China launched the whole-region land consolidation (WCLC) initiative in 2019; but systematic and quantitative evaluations of its outcomes have been scarce. Here, we establish a framework to evaluate production–living–ecological spaces (PLES) by calculating the PLES index (PLESI) based on high-resolution remote sensing data covering Chinese townships from 2010 to 2023. We assess the effects of WCLC through spatial analysis techniques and the Difference-in-Differences (DID) model. The results confirm that WCLC has significantly optimized PLES in rural China, leading to a 3.65 % increase in the PLESI of pilot towns. The production space index (PI) and living space index (LI) rose by 3.83 % and 7.51 %, respectively. However, the effects of WCLC on rural PLES vary significantly across regions: eastern areas show enhanced production and living functions, while less developed regions exhibit improvements in production and ecological functions. In the short term, WCLC may accelerate the fragmentation of ecological landscapes. Over 80 % of respondents believe WCLC has been effective and are satisfied with the outcomes. Our findings offer valuable insights for China and other developing countries in comprehensively advancing urban-rural land planning to optimize their territorial spaces.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103438"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144105730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating global and local goals: Decoding dynamic evolution and influencing factors of rural settlement sustainable development","authors":"Xiaozhen Dong ,&nbsp;Guanghui Jiang ,&nbsp;Yuqi Xing ,&nbsp;Tianqian Chen ,&nbsp;Yanbo Qu","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103435","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103435","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global challenges of rural decline have raised increasing attention to rural settlement sustainable development (RSSD). Effective local governance actions are expected to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in rural areas. Here we integrated global SDGs with China's rural revitalization strategy to develop a stereoscopic theoretical framework for the re-examination of RSSD. Systematic methods were applied to analyze the spatio-temporal evolution and driving mechanism of RSSD. We found that: China's RSSD have made significant progress from 2005 to 2020, particularly in the central region, yet internal dimensions remained a relationship of barely coordination. While governance's support for RSSD have increased, obstacle degrees of social, economic, and ecological dimensions escalated over time. Notable differences in RSSD were observed between the eastern and western regions. Although inertia existed in spatio-temporal transition of RSSD, provinces of LL type possessed the potential to escape from the low-level trap. The phased change of dominant drivers indicated a shift from terrain to land use pattern. RSSD could be better explained by the interaction of land use pattern, resource endowments, and regional connection factors. Necessary measures of regional networked development and rural land use planning will facilitate the achievement of ambitious prospects for RSSD.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103435"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144098973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"News sentiment and housing market dynamics: Evidence from wavelet analysis","authors":"Jin Shao ,&nbsp;Jingke Hong ,&nbsp;Xianzhu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103441","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103441","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the time-varying relationships between news sentiment and housing market dynamics in China. By using the natural language processing (NLP) model, the News Sentiment Index (NSI) is constructed through the textual content of over 54,000 news narratives from January 2011 to May 2024. Wavelet analysis is employed to explore the co-movement between NSI and the housing market from the frequency domain. The empirical results reveal that: 1) The movement of NSI is ahead of house prices but lags behind housing investment and demand for the short term, while driving both for the mid-term period. 2) News narratives are closely related to real estate stocks, with daily NSI exhibits a leading relationship with real estate stocks over the long run. 3) House prices in second-tier, third-tier, and western cities show greater sensitivity to NSI compared to other regions. 4) Negative sentiment index plays a leading role to house prices during the whole period, the asymmetric effects of sentiment are confirmed. These findings may serve as fresh evidence that could contribute to the discussion of the power of news narratives for the housing market.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103441"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144098972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dilemmas for regional inequality in talent aggregation through environmental amenities: Re-examine China's hukou puzzle","authors":"Zhihao Zhao ,&nbsp;Hengyu Gu ,&nbsp;Ping Lei ,&nbsp;Xin Lao","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103440","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103440","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The recognition that poor environmental amenities can lead to brain drain and cause a decline in urban innovation has become commonplace. However, in the Chinese context, previous studies rarely address the inequalities created by institutional constraints when discussing amenity-driven migration. This also highlights the lack of careful examination of the application of amenities theory to real institutions in China. When China's <em>hukou</em> institutional constraints are included in the analysis, it is necessary to revisit the effect of air environmental amenities on talent aggregation. The paper confirms that air pollution significantly reduces cities' talent scale. Subtle differences within talent groups suggest that when considering air environmental amenities alone, talent with a junior college degree is more likely to avoid pollution than talent with a bachelor's degree or higher. More importantly, the quantity and quality of public services constrained by <em>hukou</em> in a city reveal a potential threshold effect: a structural change in which the better the public services, the less negative the impact of air pollution on the talent scale. In promoting sustainable development, the effectiveness of urban amenities will benefit from a combination of improved environmental quality and increased accessibility to public services. The paper critically reflects on the application of Western amenities theory in Chinese cases.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103440"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144090028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does the rural homestead titling program promote the citizenization of rural migrants in China?","authors":"Yiyi Yu ,&nbsp;Shuyi Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103431","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103431","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The citizenization of rural migrants (CRM) is crucial for advancing the urbanization process and bridging the urban–rural gap in developing countries. In recent years, the Chinese government has initiated the rural homestead titling program to legally grant rural households’ property rights over their homesteads and housing, which may influence the process of CRM. Considering the reality of the citizenization process, this study classifies CRM into two dimensions: explicit CRM, characterized by social security participation and hukou transfer, and implicit CRM, reflected in urban life adaptation. Utilizing data from the 2016 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS2016), this study examines the impact of rural homestead titling on both explicit and implicit CRM. The results show that homestead titling promotes implicit CRM but hampers explicit CRM. Mechanism analysis reveals that the security effect alleviates concerns about land disputes among rural migrants, thereby supporting implicit and explicit CRM. While the allocation effect increases the willingness and capacity of rural migrants to engage in urban social security and transfer hukou, the equity effect encourages return migration, thereby hindering the transition to explicit CRM. The study also reveals significant heterogeneity in the impact of homestead titling on CRM, along with differences in work regions, generations and education levels. These findings provide new perspectives for understanding the interaction between rural land systems and CRM in developing countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 103431"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144072658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}