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Identification of conservation priority areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by integrating ecosystem features and service to enhance conservation benefits 结合生态系统特征和服务功能,确定青藏高原保护重点区域,提高保护效益
IF 5.4 2区 地球科学
Applied Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103929
Da Lü , Yujie Liu , Yihe Lü
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Human settlement dynamics of the Arctic: insights from remote sensing and census observations 北极人类定居动态:来自遥感和人口普查观测的见解
IF 5.4 2区 地球科学
Applied Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103922
Alessandra Carioli , Johannes H. Uhl , Luca Maffenini , Marcello Schiavina , Katarzyna Krasnodębska , Martino Pesaresi , Pietro Florio , Michele Melchiorri , Thomas Kemper
{"title":"Human settlement dynamics of the Arctic: insights from remote sensing and census observations","authors":"Alessandra Carioli ,&nbsp;Johannes H. Uhl ,&nbsp;Luca Maffenini ,&nbsp;Marcello Schiavina ,&nbsp;Katarzyna Krasnodębska ,&nbsp;Martino Pesaresi ,&nbsp;Pietro Florio ,&nbsp;Michele Melchiorri ,&nbsp;Thomas Kemper","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103922","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103922","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, the Arctic region has garnered attention due to its geo-political and strategic importance: as a reserve for natural resources, commercial routes, climate, and social activism. Understanding human settlements and their evolution across scales and over time is key to informing policy makers on relevant dynamics. This article leverages the novel Arctic edition of the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL-Arctic) and aims to investigate recent settlement patterns in the Arctic, providing an in-depth analysis over five decades (1975–2030) by jointly assessing the evolution of both built-up areas and population, at fine grid-scale of 100m. The contribution of this article is two-fold: 1) we provide a long-term trend analysis of spatio-temporal variables in the dataset, characterizing physical and human-centered changes in the Arctic, and 2) evaluate data quality of GHSL-Arctic and demonstrate its usefulness. We find that Arctic population numbers, although seemingly stable across the past half century, hide a sustained decline and overall demographic crisis of the Russian Arctic population and an increase in nearly all the other territories investigated. Even though the Arctic population is mostly urban, 37% of the inhabitants reside in rural areas and smaller hamlets, highlighting the need for reliable detection of small settlements as demonstrated in this study. Additionally, our findings show that settlements tend to cluster along the coastline or far inland, following accessibility of communication and economic pursuits. The GHSL-Arctic dataset underlying this study is openly available.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"189 ","pages":"Article 103922"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146175207","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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Infrastructuring care in digitally mediated cities: Comparative insights from Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei 数字媒介城市的基础设施护理:来自首尔、新加坡和台北的比较见解
IF 5.4 2区 地球科学
Applied Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103928
Si Jie Ivin Yeo , Sangwon Chae , Ying-Chun (Nancy) Hou
{"title":"Infrastructuring care in digitally mediated cities: Comparative insights from Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei","authors":"Si Jie Ivin Yeo ,&nbsp;Sangwon Chae ,&nbsp;Ying-Chun (Nancy) Hou","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103928","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103928","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how everyday care is framed and enacted through digital urban infrastructures in times of crisis. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as a framing, the paper unpacks the ways digital technologies are deployed as care infrastructures to enrol bodies into systems of governance, monitoring, and intervention. We mobilise a thematic and comparative analysis of examples from Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei to address this aim, illuminating the embodied processes through which care practices and relations are shaped by the co-constitution of digital technologies and diverse urban actors under crisis conditions. By casting attention to the digital mediation of bodies and infrastructures in crisis-ridden cities, we develop a nuanced account of care as a constantly emerging and non-teleological phenomenon, manifesting variously as control, solidarity, interdependency, and social connectedness, to name a few, with respect to the use of digital technologies across different urban spaces and temporal contexts. Such an understanding of digitally mediated care helps to foreground the spatiotemporal (re)production and circulation of specific types of bodies and subjectivities in response to urban crises. More pragmatically, thinking comparatively about the digital infrastructuring of care in cities in the context of the global health crisis offers insights into how and why certain cities, such as Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei, have been lauded by popular media as “success stories” in pandemic management and crisis resilience. Our analysis thus addresses critical questions about the infrastructuring of urban populations and the potential reconfiguration of care provision in digitally mediated cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"189 ","pages":"Article 103928"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146122684","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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Estimating and mapping cultural ecosystem services in Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon National Park using MLLMs and the SolVES model 基于MLLMs和求解模型的雅鲁藏布江大峡谷国家公园文化生态系统服务功能估算与制图
IF 5.4 2区 地球科学
Applied Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103937
Mandi Zhang , Mengyu Fan , Yining Chen , Jiaying Wang
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Opportunities or challenges? Upgrading of periphery space with the rise of platform urbanism: Live streaming commerce in Yangtze River Delta, China 机遇还是挑战?平台都市主义兴起下的周边空间升级:中国长三角的直播商业
IF 5.4 2区 地球科学
Applied Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103918
Lin Zou , Yiwen Zhu , Simin Yan
{"title":"Opportunities or challenges? Upgrading of periphery space with the rise of platform urbanism: Live streaming commerce in Yangtze River Delta, China","authors":"Lin Zou ,&nbsp;Yiwen Zhu ,&nbsp;Simin Yan","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103918","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103918","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The interplay between digital and physical space has been widely discussed with the rise of platform urbanism. The mechanisms by which digital platforms reshape the urban system, particularly peripheral ones within metropolitan regions, are not yet fully discussed. Building on the concept of platform urbanism, we integrate virtual-based urban positions and inter-city functions into the analysis of the live-streaming commerce (LSC) urban system. We combine both physical (spatial-based) and virtual (platform-based) dimensions, applying a dual core-periphery framework to categorize cities into four possible positions. Furthermore, we identify three typical modes of inter-city interaction named centripetal complementarity, reciprocal intermediation, and hierarchical bridging that capture the functional dynamics of metropolitan regions. Empirically, using unique LSC data from Alibaba and field interviews in the Yangtze River Delta, we move beyond position identification to show how peripheral cities engage in diverse interaction modes. We find that structural agglomeration, place-based policy, talent concentration, urban context, and geographical proximity jointly shape these linkages. Overall, we indicate that digital platforms reshape both the positional form and relational function of urban systems in metropolitan regions, offering new insights into peripheral upgrading and regional governance in the digital era.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"189 ","pages":"Article 103918"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146175196","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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Unveiling latent frontiers of urban and rural sustainability: a semi-automatic overview with LDA topic model 揭示城乡可持续发展的潜在前沿:基于LDA主题模型的半自动概述
IF 5.4 2区 地球科学
Applied Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103956
Jiawei Pan , Yue Shen
{"title":"Unveiling latent frontiers of urban and rural sustainability: a semi-automatic overview with LDA topic model","authors":"Jiawei Pan ,&nbsp;Yue Shen","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103956","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103956","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on urban and rural sustainability seeks to address the uncertainties and complexities faced by urban and rural systems and has attracted increasing scholarly attention. Clarifying the evolution of urban and rural sustainability research and identifying potential frontiers enablescan help researchers pinpoint key issues, while providing theoretical support for government agencies and academic institutions to promote more effective urban and rural governance. However, few studies have systematically explored the evolution of research frontiers in this field. This study combines machine learning-based topic modeling algorithms, statistical analysis, and qualitative methods to examine the evolution of research frontiers and emerging trends in urban and rural sustainability, using data from the Web of Science Core Collection (2013-2024). Results identify nine research frontiers spanning the theoretical, methodological, and practical dimensions of urban and rural sustainability, including land use transformation, energy transition, water and food security, environmental risks, and social equity. The findings further suggest that simulation-based forecasting for urban-rural sustainability, resilience enhancement, and the development of collaborative governance mechanisms for sustainable urban and rural development are likely to become key directions for future research. Overall, this study provides a theoretical basis and practical insights for developing long-term sustainability mechanisms in urban and rural areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"189 ","pages":"Article 103956"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147385439","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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Bayesian modeling approach for detecting local determinants of the spatial distribution of immigrant communities in large cities: The case of Barcelona 检测大城市移民社区空间分布的局部决定因素的贝叶斯建模方法:以巴塞罗那为例
IF 5.4 2区 地球科学
Applied Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103942
Gergely Buda , Xavier Puig , Oscar Claveria
{"title":"Bayesian modeling approach for detecting local determinants of the spatial distribution of immigrant communities in large cities: The case of Barcelona","authors":"Gergely Buda ,&nbsp;Xavier Puig ,&nbsp;Oscar Claveria","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103942","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103942","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents a novel approach to identify local determinants of the spatial distribution of international immigrants in big cities. The methodology is based on Bayesian spatial analysis, and it is applied to assess the association of a wide range of variables with the location of the main migrant groups in the Barcelona County. The proposed Bayesian modeling strategy allows addressing spatial dependency and feature selection. Overall, the analysis suggests that factors such as distance from the city center, the proportion of rental housing, and access to public transportation account for much of the variation in location choice. However, these factors exhibit varying effects across different immigrant groups, underscoring the heterogeneous nature of settlement patterns. The findings offer valuable insights for urban policymakers seeking to address the challenges posed by immigration in big cities and to design effective integration strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"189 ","pages":"Article 103942"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147385446","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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An integrated perspective: How morphology and function jointly shape China's urban green growth efficiency 综合视角:形态与功能如何共同塑造中国城市绿色增长效率
IF 5.4 2区 地球科学
Applied Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103921
Qingsong He , Haitong Chen , Linzi Zheng , Lin Zhou
{"title":"An integrated perspective: How morphology and function jointly shape China's urban green growth efficiency","authors":"Qingsong He ,&nbsp;Haitong Chen ,&nbsp;Linzi Zheng ,&nbsp;Lin Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103921","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103921","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Low-carbon transformation in cities is essential for sustainable development. However, relevant studies often separate urban expansion's external morphology and internal functions, overlooking their combined effect on green growth efficiency (GGE). This study develops a “morphology-function” framework to evaluate GGE in 82,539 newly added construction land patches in China using an undesirable SBM model. The key findings are as follows: (1) Both morphology and function have significant independent effects. Infilling expansion outperforms edge and outlying expansions in GGE by 27.8%-29.1%, and functionally growing patches outperform shrinking ones; (2) Interactive effects show that functional growth can mitigate the negative impacts of outlying expansion, meaning functionally active outlying areas can perform better than functionally declining edge areas; (3) Spatial differentiation is significant, especially in the Yangtze River Delta, where functionally shrinking patches show higher GGE than growing patches, highlighting regional development stages. This study offers valuable support for territorial spatial planning that integrates morphology, function, and regional context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"189 ","pages":"Article 103921"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146175204","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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Plant hardiness zone mapping for the conterminous USA using the Empirical Bayesian Kriging Regression Prediction method 基于经验贝叶斯Kriging回归预测方法的美国连片地区植物抗寒带制图
IF 5.4 2区 地球科学
Applied Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103927
Daniel Donkor, Toby Dogwiler, Jun Luo, Asif Ishtiaque
{"title":"Plant hardiness zone mapping for the conterminous USA using the Empirical Bayesian Kriging Regression Prediction method","authors":"Daniel Donkor,&nbsp;Toby Dogwiler,&nbsp;Jun Luo,&nbsp;Asif Ishtiaque","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103927","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103927","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mapping plant hardiness zones (PHZs) is crucial for understanding and predicting the spatial distribution of plants in response to climatic conditions. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed the plant hardiness zones for 2012 and 2023 based on the average of annual extreme minimum temperatures using the Parameter elevation Regression on Independent Slope Model (PRISM). While the USDA's 2012 and 2023 PHZ maps remain standard references, they offer limited geostatistical transparency. This study applies the Empirical Bayesian Kriging Regression Prediction (EBKRP) method, using elevation as the only explanatory variable, to generate alternative PHZ maps for the conterminous United States, aiming to improve spatial prediction and facilitate methodological reproducibility. We applied EBKRP to generate PHZ maps for 2012 and 2023 and validated the outputs using five standard metrics: mean error, average standard error, root mean square error (RMSE), Continuous Rank Probability Scores (CRPS), and R<sup>2</sup>. The results demonstrate high model accuracy, with RMSEs under 2°C and R<sup>2</sup> values above 0.96 for both years. Confusion matrix analyses show strong agreement with USDA's PHZ classifications, achieving overall accuracies of 88.2% (2012) and 87.0% (2023). Spatial change analysis between 2012 and 2023 revealed a distinct warming pattern: approximately 800,000 square miles (26% of the conterminous USA) transitioned into warmer PHZs, particularly in the central and southeastern U.S., while only about 66,000 square miles shifted into cooler zones, primarily in portions of the western US. Overall, this study demonstrates that EBKRP provides a robust, spatially detailed, and replicable approach for PHZ mapping, offering a complementary alternative to PRISM.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"189 ","pages":"Article 103927"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146175197","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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Addressing spatial imbalance and alleviation strategies in the water–land–food nexus across China 中国水-陆-粮关系空间失衡及其缓解策略
IF 5.4 2区 地球科学
Applied Geography Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103940
Naliang Guo , Chenchen Shi , Feng Wu
{"title":"Addressing spatial imbalance and alleviation strategies in the water–land–food nexus across China","authors":"Naliang Guo ,&nbsp;Chenchen Shi ,&nbsp;Feng Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103940","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103940","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>China faces a critical spatial imbalance between its agricultural water/land resources and food production, threatening national food security. To address this, this study analyzes available agricultural water-land resources and food production data from 335 prefecture-level Chinese cities (2000-2020) to measure spatial imbalance and explore its underlying drivers. Panel regression models are employed to examine the determinants of water-food and land-food imbalance. Results show that over 20 years, available agricultural water and land declined by 9.96% and 19.39%, respectively. Notably, 46.76% of cities improved their water-food imbalance, while 35% improved their land-food imbalance. Regression results indicate that higher grain yield, yield per unit area, and agricultural employment exacerbate imbalance, whereas mechanization and urbanization alleviate them. The positive association between water-food imbalance and land-food imbalance suggests a mutually reinforcing effect that may accelerate systemic spatial imbalance within the water-land-food nexus. This study provides a novel prefecture-level agricultural water-land dataset and offers evidence for region-specific policies to optimize resource allocation and strengthen China's food security.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"189 ","pages":"Article 103940"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146175206","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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