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Mapping the distribution of pedestrian exposure to air pollution on urban road segments based on mobile monitoring and street view images 基于移动监测和街景图像绘制城市路段行人暴露于空气污染的分布

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103644

Xujing Yu , Jun Ma

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Living alone and electoral behavior. A contextual approach looking at single-person households in southern Europe 独居和选举行为。对南欧单人家庭的背景分析

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103639

Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual , Teodoro Alcántara-Dormido , Raymond Lagonigro

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Carbon emissions and government interventions in urban agglomerations of China: An integrated GWR and neural network approach 中国城市群碳排放与政府干预：基于GWR和神经网络的综合分析

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103645

Yang Xu , Feng Xu , Guangqing Chi , Ziqiang Gong

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Delineating and refining the equity of revealed accessibility of express service amenities: A case study of Guangzhou 快递服务设施可达性公平性的界定与细化——以广州市为例

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103642

Yankai Wang , Quanyu Liu , Tao Mei , Haochen Shi , Miaoxi Zhao , Binbin Sun

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Urban-rural disparities in the ecological impact of built-up land expansion: A comprehensive assessment from China 建成区扩张生态影响的城乡差异：来自中国的综合评价

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103618

Guoqiang Cheng , Chuntian Pan , Yang Zhou

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Developing a taxonomy framework for assessing human capital provision: A case study of Southern Italian municipalities 开发评估人力资本提供的分类框架：意大利南部城市的案例研究

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103640

Beniamino Murgante , Alfonso Annunziata , Marj Tonini

{"title":"Developing a taxonomy framework for assessing human capital provision: A case study of Southern Italian municipalities","authors":"Beniamino Murgante , Alfonso Annunziata , Marj Tonini","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103640","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103640","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The decline of rural areas emerges as a central aspect of European and national policies. Decline manifests itself in distinct forms, resulting from the interaction among exogenous and local factors. Understanding the different socio-economic trends and tangible and intangible conditions of rural areas, defined as the intra-rural divide, is central to the definition of priorities of public policies. Within this framework, the proposed study focuses on the notion of Territorial Capital (TC) with a particular focus on Human Capital (HC) as a conceptual frame for investigating the intra-rural divide. Different unsupervised learning methods have been employed to identify clusters of similar administrative units in terms of HC provision using a set of 12 input indicators, enabling a deeper understanding of the intra-rural divide. The study area consists of six southern Italian regions, specifically chosen due to their pronounced disparities. The present work contributes to the discipline of regional and urban studies by developing a novel taxonomy framework specifically for assessing HC disparities at a detailed local level, thereby making the concept of the intra-rural divide measurable and analyzable and enabling the definition of targeted policies respondent to individual areas’ needs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103640"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143868982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Excess mortality, COVID deaths, and spatial accessibility to health care services in the conterminous United States 美国相邻地区的高死亡率、COVID死亡和卫生保健服务的空间可及性

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103633

Xuwei Chen

{"title":"Excess mortality, COVID deaths, and spatial accessibility to health care services in the conterminous United States","authors":"Xuwei Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103633","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103633","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since the onset of COVID 19, the pandemic has put extra burden on mortality in the United States. This study aims to investigate the regional variations of death rates and the associations between excess deaths and the underlying population characteristic and spatial access to medical services during the pandemic. To this end, this study estimated the excess deaths in 2020 and the travel times to the nearest healthcare facilities, PCP ratios, and medical facility to population ratios at the county level in the conterminous United States. Coupling the death data with population characteristics, socio-economic factors, health factors and access to healthcare facilities, this study employed spatial statistical methods, including global and local spatial autocorrelation analyses, bivariate spatial analysis and geographically weighted generalized linear regression to investigate their relationships. The results revealed that the impact of COVID varied across the country. The South, particularly the Deep South, was hit the hardest. Compared to the spatially varying relationship between COVID deaths, unemployment, minority, smoking rates and excess deaths, poverty was the primary factor linked to excess deaths nationally. While the access to healthcare services was not associated with excess deaths in general, it did vary significantly between counties with high/low death rates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103633"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143864770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Systemic planning vs. individual Choice: The optimal matching for urban Healthcare Facilities and patient population 系统规划与个人选择：城市医疗设施与患者群体的最佳匹配

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103641

Lepeng Huang , Kexun Zhang , Qiyang Zheng , Yu Zhou , Jianling Li , Guoqiang Shen

{"title":"Systemic planning vs. individual Choice: The optimal matching for urban Healthcare Facilities and patient population","authors":"Lepeng Huang , Kexun Zhang , Qiyang Zheng , Yu Zhou , Jianling Li , Guoqiang Shen","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103641","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103641","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban healthcare facilities planning faces a challenge that patient population tend to bypass lower-level for higher-level healthcare facilities despite increased distance and cost along with overcrowding at high-level facilities and underutilization at low-level ones. This phenomenon and its challenges are presumably influenced by individual behaviors of patients and urban healthcare facilities planning by local governments. This paper examines this phenomenon through optimal matching of patient population to healthcare facilities in two approaches representing top-down planning and bottom-up individual choice. More specifically, planning matching spatially assigns the patients to the closest facilities and choice matching, including multinomial logit matching or game theoretic matching, optimally selects facilities based on patient choices. Using Hangzhou, China as a test bed with 194 healthcare facilities and 588 residential communities, this research has found that: (1) the inconsistency between planning and individual choice leads to population bypassing certain facilities; (2) the trade-offs between healthcare service level and community-facility distance are consistent across matchings; (3) systemic planning outperforms individual choice concerning distance and actual utility while the reverse holds true for service level and indirect utility; (4) certain thresholds exist beyond which neither approach excels, suggesting a mix of the two approaches.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103641"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143855445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The effect of urban rail station area development on the vulnerability of city blocks to infectious disease spread 城市轨道交通站区建设对城市街区传染病传播脆弱性的影响

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103638

Weitao Zhang , Chun Zhang , Li Zhang

{"title":"The effect of urban rail station area development on the vulnerability of city blocks to infectious disease spread","authors":"Weitao Zhang , Chun Zhang , Li Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103638","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103638","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban rail transit-oriented development (TOD) always promotes the economic, ecological and social sustainability of wider areas by developing rail station areas (RSAs). However, less is focused on its influence on the safety, especially facing epidemic threats. This study explored the significance and heterogeneity of RSA development influencing the vulnerability of city-blocks to the spread of infectious diseases, using Beijing (China) case and applying the statistical analysis of ‘disordered multiple logistic regression model’ and the visualization method of ArcGIS. We found distributions of city-blocks’ population vulnerability (PV) and built environmental vulnerability (EV) are typically associated with the rail network. Blocks with a large RSA coverage are more likely to show high PV but different EV, blocks with a high RSA rail interchange level are more likely to exhibit low EV but different PV. The effect of the RSA commercial service level is insignificant. This study verified the growth and decline in the PV and EV of blocks are probably due to ‘temporal difference’ and ‘spatial difference’ of RSA development, highlighting the need to be vigilant in different scenarios of RSA development. The results will contribute to risk identification, containment decisions and integrative planning for safety and development in areas with RSAs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103638"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143860071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ripples of blue: Unveiling the influence of urban blue spaces on public happiness through social networking sites 蓝色涟漪通过社交网站揭示城市蓝色空间对公众幸福感的影响

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103632

Ming Gao , Congying Fang

{"title":"Ripples of blue: Unveiling the influence of urban blue spaces on public happiness through social networking sites","authors":"Ming Gao , Congying Fang","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103632","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103632","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The high density and rapid pace characteristic of urban environments pose significant challenges to human health. While an expanding corpus of research underscores the mitigating effects of natural environments on these adverse impacts, the empirical evidence pertaining to the benefits of urban blue spaces remains relatively sparse, particularly in terms of their potential to bolster happiness. This study innovatively applied a BERT-based sentiment analysis model to geotagged social media data, offering a novel approach to quantify public happiness expressions in urban blue spaces. We utilize three happiness indices—Happiness Probability Index (HPI), Happiness Intensity Index (HII), and Happiness Evenness Index (HEI)—to explore the spatial effects of blue spaces on well-being. The results indicate that different types of blue spaces exert distinct influences on happiness, with urban rivers showing a stronger effect on happiness probability and evenness compared to lakes, ponds, and artificial water features. Regression analysis further reveals that proximity to blue spaces significantly enhances happiness within both 400m and 800m buffer zones, and that spatial organization and morphological characteristics are closely linked to happiness intensity. These findings provide evidence-based recommendations for designing and planning urban blue spaces to optimize their benefits for public health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"179 ","pages":"Article 103632"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143855444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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