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{"title":"Environmental issues in the food and beverage sector: A multivariate regional analysis","authors":"Isabel Gallego-Álvarez , Víctor Amor-Esteban , Eugenio Martín-Gallego","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103566","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103566","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Environmental issues have now become of primary concern for businesses and society alike. Indeed, many companies have been held to account for their negative impact on the environment rather than being appreciated for their technological and financial performance. It therefore stands to reason that companies are interested in proving to society that they are also concerned about environmental wellbeing, and to do so they are resorting to eco-reporting.</div><div>This disclosure involves the qualitative and quantitative data that measure, calculate, and estimate the environmental impact of a company's operations. At the same time, stakeholders are increasingly lobbying companies to make major efforts in eco-responsibility in the form of environmental reports, disclosing aspects related to the organisation's public image and its eco-related activities and aspirations.</div><div>This research analyses environmental reporting practices involving companies in the food & beverage sector across different countries and continents to identify possible differences and similarities between them. This provides us with a greater and more robust understanding of organisations and the environment in diverse institutional settings. The target population consists of companies in developed economies such as the USA, Australia, Canada, and the EU, and developing ones such as China, India, Brazil, and Mexico. To facilitate the interpretation of the results, the countries have been grouped by continents: Europe, Africa, Asia, America, and Oceania. Food & beverage is the sector of choice because it provides an essential service for people's sustenance and has attracted the attention of scholars in the fields of the environment and sustainability. Moreover, prior evidence shows that the food & beverage sector depends largely on natural resources, with a far-reaching impact on the environment. The methodology used involves multivariate techniques that enable us to analyse the joint behaviour of several variables and provide an insight into how the different environmental indicators perform, as they can be identified by countries and continents.</div><div>Beginning with the 19 environmental variables belonging to the dimension of resource use, the results obtained by applying logistic biplot reveal a significant increase over the entire period in question, with changes in priorities across these variables. Resource reduction policy (RRP) and policy energy efficiency (PEE) are the two most highly valued approaches by companies in the food & beverage sector. As regards the dimension of emissions, the trend has been similar to the one involving resource use, with significant growth over time and changes in the priorities of businesses in this sector, with their preferences being policy emissions (PE), waste reduction initiatives (WRI), and target emissions (TE). The highlights in the dimension of innovation involve the following group of variables ","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103566"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438174","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}

{"title":"Analyzing the effectiveness of China's national protected areas at resisting cropland expansion pressure","authors":"Shengyuan Xu ,&nbsp;Ziqi Meng ,&nbsp;Yu Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103568","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103568","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Protected areas (PAs) are increasingly acknowledged as crucial tools for preserving biodiversity. Recent studies have highlighted the challenges faced by global PAs due to cropland expansion, however, the effectiveness of China's national protected areas (NPAs) has received little attention. Therefore, utilizing high-resolution cropland data (30 m) and counterfactual matching methods, this research assessed NPAs performance at resisting cropland expansion pressure from 2000 to 2019 and explored the impact of this performance on the extinction risk of endangered species, as well as the factors associated with NPAs' effectiveness. Results showed that while NPAs have somewhat alleviated pressures from cropland expansion, they have not completely eliminated the issue. The cropland area within China's NPAs increased from 1.93 million hectares in 2000 to 2.34 million hectares in 2019, highlighting a concerning trend that poses a significant threat to species diversity. Furthermore, our analysis indicated total food output was the most significant factor correlating with cropland expansion within China's NPAs, surpassing GDP and population. These findings emphasize the need to address agricultural pressures within PAs to safeguard the long-term sustainability of biodiversity conservation efforts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103568"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143429401","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}

{"title":"Discovering structure and influencing factors of Chinese city directed network (CCDN) from web search engine data","authors":"Yuanquan Xu ,&nbsp;Chaogui Kang ,&nbsp;Wei Jiao ,&nbsp;Yanhong Jia","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103564","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103564","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Numerous studies have addressed city network structures and their influencing factors; however, few have explored the dynamics of directed city networks in the cyberspace. We leverage web search engine big data to analyze structural characteristics of the Chinese City Directed Network (CCDN) and their influencing factors from a cyberspace perspective. The findings are as follows: (1) the CCDN is the mildly disassortative network in cyberspace, the spatial distribution of city interaction follows a \"high in the east, low in the west\" pattern along the Hu Line; (2) The CCDN contains seven distinct communities, whose boundaries generally correspond with provincial administrative divisions, national city agglomerations, and regional cultural zones; (3) There is a difference between regional and national hub cities, with most hub cities being provincial capitals or prominent tourist cities. In particular, Chengdu surpasses Beijing in both regional and national hubness; (4) Economic growth, investment in science and technology, number of students in secondary vocational schools, and the number of subscribers of internet services are positively correlated with city hubness index, while the proportions of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries are negatively correlated. These factors display significant spatial variability. The results not only suggest novel strategies for city managers to enhance city images and attractivity in the digital era but also contributes new perspectives to the discourse on sustainable city development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103564"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143429402","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}

{"title":"Assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of sustainable development goals on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau","authors":"Yanjie Yang ,&nbsp;Wenwu Zhao ,&nbsp;Ting Hua ,&nbsp;Caichun Yin ,&nbsp;Paulo Pereira","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103557","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103557","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Assessing SDGs offers critical insights into the challenges of sustainable development. However, the lack of detailed and up-to-date information constrains our comprehensive understanding of SDG progress on the QTP. To bridge this gap, we integrate multi-source data to produce high-resolution SDG mappings from 2000 to 2020, examining the dynamics of SDGs and their evolving interactions across the QTP. The SDG scores exhibit a declining gradient from southeast to northwest, with high-value regions concentrated in major urban centers and the southern and southeastern areas of the QTP. Over the past two decades, SDG scores have steadily improved, particularly in the eastern, southeastern, and northeastern regions. The proportion of the population residing in areas with SDG scores exceeding 50 surged from 38.68% to 90%. SDG performance across varying altitudes and slopes improved, with the most significant progress observed in low-altitude and low-slope areas. Moreover, the interaction intensities of SDG1, SDG4, and SDG9 increased across multiple scales, while synergies involving SDG1 expanded significantly. To achieve balanced regional development, future strategies should prioritize SDGs exhibiting declining trends, as well as SDG pairs with weakened synergies or intensified trade-offs, and implement targeted measures to address these challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103557"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143429400","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}

{"title":"Urbanization-driven and intercity interaction-induced warming effects in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration: A comparison of heatwave and non-heatwave scenarios","authors":"Zhi Qiao ,&nbsp;Qikun Wei ,&nbsp;Huan Gao ,&nbsp;Luo Liu ,&nbsp;Xinliang Xu ,&nbsp;Dongrui Han","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103561","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103561","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urbanization-driven land use and cover change exacerbates urban warming and amplifies the effects of global climate change, particularly in interconnected urban agglomerations. This study utilized the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model coupled with an Urban Canopy Model (UCM) to investigate how urbanization and intercity interactions influence urban warming during the summer season in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) urban agglomeration, with a specific emphasis on whether the warming effect of urbanization exacerbates under heatwave scenarios. The results showed that from 2010 to 2020, the expansion of urban areas in the BTH urban agglomeration from 2259.81 to 3964.80 km² led to a 0.406 °C increase in 2-m temperatures (T2) in typical summer. Heatwave further exacerbated the warming effects in the urban agglomeration, with T2 rising by 0.648 °C during heatwave periods compared to 0.308 °C during non-heatwave periods. Major cities like Beijing and Tianjin significantly contributed to the warming of the entire urban agglomeration and other specific cities during heatwave periods. These findings underscore the need for collaborative urban planning to mitigate heat-related risks and manage compounded effects of urbanization and heatwave.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103561"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143420984","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}

{"title":"Unveiling dynamics: A comprehensive analysis of spatial integration in the Mexican food market","authors":"Héctor M. Núñez","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103544","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103544","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research aims to enhance our understanding of spatial integration within regional food markets, as measured by the Mexican Consumer Price Index, particularly by the degree of processing. In the initial phase, we employ a pairwise approach to examine the convergence of price differentials for each item across all city pairs included in the analysis. In the subsequent stage, we explore the factors – such as geographical and economic variables – that influence the likelihood of price convergence. Our findings reveal several key insights: (1) Our findings reveal several key insights: (1) there is no evidence supporting the hypothesis of market divergence across all three food processing categories; (2) unprocessed items demonstrate the highest level of integration and the shortest average half-life in terms of speed of adjustment; (3) the proportion of integrated price pairs for unprocessed food items remains relatively consistent across regions nationwide; and (4) geographical proximity, road infrastructure, and similarity in the number of stores significantly accelerate the convergence of market prices towards long-run equilibrium.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103544"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143388287","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}

{"title":"Is life green on the other half? Linking urban green infrastructure to socio-economic inequality and spatial segregation in Tehran, Iran","authors":"Babak Badakhshan ,&nbsp;Ayyoob Sharifi ,&nbsp;Tajeddin Karami","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103562","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103562","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban Green Infrastructure provides a wide range of ecosystem services that promote overall quality of life. However, these benefits are not always distributed equally across the urban regions or among different population groups. The present study highlights urban green infrastructure inequality in the divided city of Tehran using occupation status data and open-source high-resolution satellite imagery. Our results reveal that high-income occupation groups live separately from the bottom occupational groups in the city, with a clear north-south division reflected in the urban spatial structure. The top occupation groups residing in the north benefit from both high vegetation density and tree canopy cover in private spaces and public street verges and live closer to urban parks, whereas the bottom occupation groups in the south suffer from the uneven provision and distribution of urban nature advantages. The average proportion of bottom occupation groups in census tracts with &gt;300 m distance from public parks is almost double that of top occupation groups. The persistent historical north-south divide and environmental injustice further indicate that, over the decades, poorer citizens have been excluded from urban greening initiatives. Therefore, they should be brought back into the formal urban planning agenda to help rebuild an inclusive and sustainable city. We also highlight the potential of remote sensing techniques and occupation status data for studying environmental inequality across cities worldwide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103562"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143388289","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}

{"title":"Can state-led urban regeneration occur without gentrification?","authors":"Yang Xiao ,&nbsp;Hong Li ,&nbsp;Xing Huang ,&nbsp;Jiang Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103560","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103560","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the ongoing wave of globalization and neoliberalism, urban regeneration is increasingly linked to gentrification. Previous studies have emphasized the growing importance of the state's role in regeneration and its effect on gentrification. However, empirical research on how different types of state and market involvement in urban regeneration relate to gentrification remains limited. This study investigates the association between urban regeneration and gentrification in Shanghai by utilizing housing transaction and building rooftop data. A key novelty of this study is to consider three involvement types of regeneration actors. The state-led regeneration in China gradually encompasses multiple goals, moving beyond a purely government-sponsored development model. It was surprising to find that urban regeneration with solely government involvement was not necessarily accompanied by gentrification, whereas regeneration driven solely by the market or by multi-actor (i.e., government and market) promoted gentrification. These findings confirmed that China's urban development model has evolved to a phase of refined governance, where gentrification can be mitigated by increasing government involvement in urban regeneration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103560"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143378384","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}

{"title":"Estimating and mapping the value of cultural ecosystem services in an urban landscape context","authors":"Mampi Adhikary,&nbsp;Dibyendu Ghosh,&nbsp;Biplab Mandal,&nbsp;Somen Das","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103556","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103556","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the postmodern urbanized society, the cultural ecosystem services (CES) supplied by different sites of an urban environment play an important role in facilitating and preserving the well-being of urban individuals. This study introduces an innovative, non-monetary framework to assess and map CES across urban environments, providing a fresh approach to understanding their spatial distribution and significance. The study utilized a structured questionnaire to collect 1309 responses from 171 sites within the Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC) in the Paschim Bardhaman district of West Bengal, India. The study uses empirical tools (e.g., box-whisker plot, simple column chart) and maps to show how different services behave and how they are connected. Unlike conventional monetary evaluations, this study employs a GIS-based technique combined with 24 subjective well-being indicators to assess CES such as aesthetics, social value, sense of place, recreation, spirituality, and health and wellness benefits. This methodology identifies some spatial hotspots of CES in densely populated areas. The result highlights higher values for spiritual and recreational, and lower values for sense of place, health and wellness services. The results offer several valuable insights for urban planners and policymakers, which can guide sustainable urban development, improve public spaces, and enhance community well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103556"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143378268","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}

{"title":"The effects of green apartment living, neighborhood greenspace exposures and greenspace exposures in activity space on residents’ walking behaviors and mental health in China","authors":"Hong Hu ,&nbsp;Hanxiao Zhou ,&nbsp;Jiaqi Cheng ,&nbsp;Tianyuan Shu","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103545","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103545","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many evidences have proved that residents' health outcomes are influenced by their overall living environments. However, existing literature mainly stresses the effects of outdoor greenspace exposures on health and little is known about the compound effects of indoor and outdoor, static and dynamic, and over-head and eye-level greenspace exposures. This study aims to make multi-scale comparison into relationships between greenspace exposures and health by incorporating the geographical contexts of indoor green apartment living, static greenspace exposure within neighborhood, dynamic greenspace exposure in daily activity space, and the perceived greenspace exposure in general in Nanjing China. We conducted a cross-sectional survey among 132 green apartment occupants and 170 conventional apartment occupants aged 18 years old and over from March to June 2018 in Nanjing with rich resources of greenspace and green building developments. Respondent's walking behavior was assessed by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire. Respondent's mental health status was acquired from the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale. This study employed multi-sourced greenspace assessments based on remote sense data, digital map data, street view image data, and machine learning interpretation methods. Partial least square structural equation modeling was chosen to analyze the pathways underlying the greenspace exposure-health associations. Results show that green apartment living does not exert much influence on residents' walking activities and mental health. People choose to live in green residential buildings does not mean that they choose to lead a green life. It is the outdoor objective and subjective greenspace exposures influencing residents' outdoor activities and mental health. After controlling for neighborhood exposure and perception indicators, greenspace exposure in activity space influenced physical activity intensity and health. Residents who enjoy good visibility and diversity of outdoor greenspace in their mobility path could show better health performance. The effects of activity space green exposures on health were bigger for the elderly and female than for the non-elderly and male respectively. The results could shed light on comprehensive green community design and green city planning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103545"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143349786","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}