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What makes people satisfied with their Neighbourhoods? Exploring individual characteristics beyond sociodemographics in Scarborough, Ontario 是什么让人们对自己的社区感到满意？在安大略省斯卡伯勒探索超越社会人口统计学的个人特征

IF 5.4 2区地球科学

Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103738

Zehui Yin , Shaila Jamal , Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken , Steven Farber

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Exploring the nonlinear effect of population shrinkage on carbon emission intensity in Chinese counties using an interpretable XGBoost model 基于可解释的XGBoost模型探讨中国县域人口收缩对碳排放强度的非线性影响

IF 5.4 2区地球科学

Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103734

Mingke Xie , Zhangxian Feng , Shijun Wang , Xiajing Liu , Yang Song , Feilong Hao

{"title":"Exploring the nonlinear effect of population shrinkage on carbon emission intensity in Chinese counties using an interpretable XGBoost model","authors":"Mingke Xie , Zhangxian Feng , Shijun Wang , Xiajing Liu , Yang Song , Feilong Hao","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103734","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103734","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding how population shrinkage affects carbon emission intensity aids sustainable regional development and carbon reduction. This study investigates this influence across 1218 Chinese counties using an interpretable Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model, with a focus on regional heterogeneity by analyzing Eastern, Central, Western, and Northeastern China separately. The main findings are: 1) Counties with more significant population shrinkage and higher carbon emission intensity are concentrated in northern and northeastern China, whereas southern counties tend to be less affected on both fronts; 2) Globally, the nonlinear relationship between population shrinkage and carbon emission intensity follows a “V-shaped” pattern, with carbon emission intensity decreasing as shrinkage intensifies from 0 to approximately −0.007, and then rising again when shrinkage exceeds −0.016. Locally, the nature of this nonlinear relationship varies across regions; 3) Population shrinkage interacts nonlinearly with key variables such as government expenditure per capita GDP, land transaction area, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, and number of patents per 10000 people to influence carbon emission intensity, with distinct threshold effects observed. For example, carbon emission intensity peaks at moderate levels of government expenditure per capita GDP (0.10–0.15) during mild shrinkage (−0.005–0), but this interaction weakens as shrinkage intensifies. Notably, these interaction patterns vary considerably across regions in both strength and direction. The results identify clear thresholds, helping policymakers design targeted interventions based on the specific socioeconomic contexts of counties with different levels of population shrinkage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 103734"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144724071","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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Achieving win–win outcomes between urban growth and urban greening: The role of environmental governance 实现城市发展与城市绿化的共赢：环境治理的作用

IF 4 2区地球科学

Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103735

Jie Wang , Weilong Kong , Wenjing Han

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Exploring neighborhood daily activity patterns from the perspective of mobility using location-based services data: A case study of Shanghai 基于位置服务数据的移动视角下社区日常活动模式研究——以上海市为例

IF 4 2区地球科学

Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103733

Runxian Wang , Sihan Liu , Wenzhu Li , Tongyu Sun

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Does urban renewal program increase urban vitality? Causal evidence from Beijing City, China 城市更新计划能增加城市活力吗？来自中国北京市的因果证据

IF 4 2区地球科学

Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103732

Xingfei Cai, Zhichao He, Chaoxiang Wen

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Mapping spatio-temporal patterns of soundscapes in a mountain landscape 山地景观声景观的时空格局映射

IF 4 2区地球科学

Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103722

Uta Schirpke , Manuel Ebner

{"title":"Mapping spatio-temporal patterns of soundscapes in a mountain landscape","authors":"Uta Schirpke , Manuel Ebner","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103722","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103722","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Our understanding of the relationships between soundscapes and human well-being is continuously increasing, emphasizing the need for soundscape management. To effectively improve soundscape quality, knowledge on spatio-temporal patterns of soundscape characteristics is required. This study comprehensively assessed and mapped spatio-temporal patterns of soundscape characteristics in a complex mountain landscape in the Bavarian Alps (Germany), integrating quantitative analyses of audio recordings (n = 41) along gradients of elevation and human activity with human perception on soundscape quality gathered through a participatory mapping survey (pleasant: n = 47, unpleasant: n = 44). Based on an aural inventory to identify major sound sources, our results indicate that soundscapes at the sampling sites were composed by multiple sound sources, though dominated by air traffic, road traffic, birds, and insects, following diurnal cycles of activity. Spatial patterns of sound sources, acoustic indices, and perceived soundscape quality were significantly influenced by human infrastructure (e.g. roads, cable cars), human activity (e.g., agriculture, tourism), topography, and land cover. While anthrophony, biophony, and geophony did not show clear spatial patterns, the forest-based regression model, explaining up to 62 % of the variance, predicted a concentration of technophony on the valley bottom and adjacent hillslopes, emphasizing the impact of technophony on soundscape perceptions. Our findings provide insights into the relationships between landscape and soundscape characteristics supporting soundscape management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 103722"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144703968","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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More vibrant neighborhood, better quality of life? Examining pathways connecting neighborhood liveliness and subjective well-being 更有活力的社区，更好的生活质量？研究连接社区活力和主观幸福感的途径

IF 4 2区地球科学

Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103731

Zheyan Chen , Min Yang

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Urban land-population-economy simulation model: Transitioning from 2D to multidimensional dynamics with cyclic feedback 城市土地-人口-经济模拟模型：从二维动态到多维动态的循环反馈

IF 4 2区地球科学

Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103719

Yunqi Guo , Limin Jiao , Zejin Liu , Jared Vincent Black , Yujie Sun , Haoran Zhang , Bingjie Li , Gang Xu

{"title":"Urban land-population-economy simulation model: Transitioning from 2D to multidimensional dynamics with cyclic feedback","authors":"Yunqi Guo , Limin Jiao , Zejin Liu , Jared Vincent Black , Yujie Sun , Haoran Zhang , Bingjie Li , Gang Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103719","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103719","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban systems are complex, characterized by dynamic interactions between land, population, and economy. Recognizing the need to bridge physical and social spaces in urban simulations, existing research primarily focuses on large-scale regional models but often lacks effective city-level analysis frameworks. To address this gap, we introduce an innovative urban land-population-economy coupling simulation model.</div><div>Specifically, the model integrates XGBoost with an enhanced Cellular Automata (CA) framework to optimize spatial distributions across commercial, residential, industrial, and other land-use types. The Multi-output Gaussian Process (MOGP) algorithm simulates population and GDP distributions, improving accuracy through density mapping. A cyclic feedback mechanism iteratively updates driving factors for land-use development. Furthermore, tailored scenarios for distinct urban growth patterns—natural, compact, and sprawl—demonstrate the model's adaptability, achieving a Kappa value of 0.6947, an OA of 0.9250 and a FoM of 0.1857. Indicators like Local Mean Similarity (LMS) and Spatial Aggregation Index (SAI) further validate the model, establishing its robustness as a tool for urban planning and policy development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 103719"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144665969","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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How do water quality requirements and spatial flows shape the supply-demand balance of water provision ecosystem services? Evidence from the Taihu Lake Basin 水质要求和空间流动如何影响供水生态系统服务的供需平衡？来自太湖盆地的证据

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103723

Xue Ding , Yu Tao , Jinling Luo , Henghui Xi , Qin Tao , Jiman Li , Conghong Huang , Fengyi Du , Weixin Ou

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Attributes of growing and shrinking places within socioeconomic clusters in the United States 美国社会经济集群中增长和萎缩地区的特征

IF 4 2区地球科学

Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103668

Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen , David Karp , Peter Rogerson , Maxwell Hartt

{"title":"Attributes of growing and shrinking places within socioeconomic clusters in the United States","authors":"Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen , David Karp , Peter Rogerson , Maxwell Hartt","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103668","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103668","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Geographical variation in socioeconomic characteristics is examined on a regular basis using typologies. Such typologies are then used to understand processes that may have influenced the outcomes. For example, the outcome of deindustrialization, migration, and internationalization has drawn attention to places that are experiencing population decline and related economic distress. With the rise of suburbanization, a large body of the literature has focused on suburban patterns. Very few studies examine the United States as a whole to understand similarities and differences or what unites and divides the population. Studies note that until recently the suburban gains have been at the expense of rural regions, but rural areas are not always incorporated in the typology of U.S. places. A goal of this paper is to use data at the level of ZIP codes to find distinct socioeconomic clusters. The results show that some clusters have regional patterns but others exist across the nation. Metropolitan areas display distinct arrangements of clusters. We also find distinct patterns <em>within</em> each cluster, with clear distinctions between those areas that are growing and those that are experiencing population decline.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 103668"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144661970","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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