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Exploring the impact of streetscapes on waterlogging risk from a 15-minute walkability perspective 从15分钟步行的角度探讨街道景观对内涝风险的影响

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103699

Bin Li , Changxiu Cheng , Kaixuan Dai

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Spatial accessibility to healthy food in context: Adapting current conceptualizations to a Latin American city 健康食品的空间可达性：适应拉丁美洲城市的当前概念

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103709

Leticia Vidal , Gerónimo Brunet , Diego Hernández , Florencia Alcaire , Lucía Bonilla , María Costa , María Rosa Curutchet , Fernanda Risso , Sofía Verdier , Gastón Ares

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The death of neighborhood food outlets: Untangling spatial determinants of food retail environment vulnerability via interpretable machine learning 邻里食品店的死亡：通过可解释的机器学习解开食品零售环境脆弱性的空间决定因素

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103700

Yinxu Liang , Zhigang Li , Ke Peng , Zilin Wang

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Can innovation-driven productivity mitigate infrastructure spatial inequality? Evidence from 282 prefecture-level cities in China 创新驱动的生产力能否缓解基础设施空间不平等？来自中国282个地级市的证据

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103710

Wencang Shen, Weilong Kong, Zhengfeng Zhang

{"title":"Can innovation-driven productivity mitigate infrastructure spatial inequality? Evidence from 282 prefecture-level cities in China","authors":"Wencang Shen, Weilong Kong, Zhengfeng Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103710","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103710","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Spatial inequality in infrastructure remains prominent under China's urban-rural dualism and regional imbalances during high-quality development. This study investigates whether innovation-driven productivity (IDP) - a core socioeconomic driver for shared prosperity - can mitigate infrastructure disparities. Employing TOPSIS modeling, inequality indices, and two-way fixed-effects analyses across 282 Chinese prefecture-level cities, we reveal: (1) National IDP levels show sustained growth, with eastern regions maintaining leadership in both magnitude and growth pace. (2) Infrastructure spatial inequality (ISI) follows an initial increase then decline, featuring pronounced early-stage regional disparities characterized by a “high in the north, low in the south” spatial pattern. (3) IDP development exhibits a significant inverted U-shaped relationship with ISI, initially exacerbating then alleviating disparities. (4) Heterogeneity analysis identifies distinct impact mechanisms across developmental stages and geographic regions. By demonstrating how IDP's effects vary spatiotemporally, this research provides practical guidance for optimizing land and space resource allocation, enhancing spatial fairness and justice, and promoting regional coordinated development. The findings inform targeted policy strategies that harness innovation dynamics to reduce urban-rural divides, support phased infrastructure investments, and ultimately advance shared prosperity through spatially adaptive governance approaches.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 103710"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144518636","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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Mapping the stage-specific interactions in rural human settlements: A pathway to understanding rural objective well-being 绘制农村人类住区特定阶段的相互作用：了解农村客观福祉的途径

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103713

Yaofu Huang , Zheng Li , Xinhui Wu , Yutian Liang , Xun Li

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Species as placemakers: the role of species in place attachment 物种作为场所制造者：物种在场所依恋中的作用

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103697

Edith Shum , Vanessa M. Adams , Georgina G. Gurney

{"title":"Species as placemakers: the role of species in place attachment","authors":"Edith Shum , Vanessa M. Adams , Georgina G. Gurney","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103697","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103697","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Our connections to places are formed on the basis of bonding routes defined by the meanings and values that shape our own identity. In the context of global environmental change, the meanings and role of specific features of a place - such as the species living there - are shifting and redefining people-place relationships. Here we conduct a systematic review to explore the current literature on the interplay between people, species, and place attachment. Our review identified 30 peer-reviewed studies which suggests this is an emergent area of research. Drawing from our findings, we illustrate the relationship explored between species and place attachment and highlight its connection to the multidimensional construct of place attachment. Based on the person-process-place framework, we describe six roles that species played in place attachment evident in the literature: 1) identification, 2) association, 3) interaction, 4) knowledge, 5) kinship, and 6) actors. With foreseeable impacts of environmental change, we call for place attachment scholars to consider the changing role of species in people-place relationships. By using species as a focal point in conservation strategies, the six roles described builds on existing frameworks and highlights important processes in shaping intentional behaviours in management practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 103697"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144510835","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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Regional entrepreneurial spirit and global value chains participation in Chinese cities: the moderating role of digital transformation signals 中国城市的区域创业精神与全球价值链参与：数字化转型信号的调节作用

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103698

Liang Xu , Cassandra C. Wang , Guangping Chen , Tingting Pan

{"title":"Regional entrepreneurial spirit and global value chains participation in Chinese cities: the moderating role of digital transformation signals","authors":"Liang Xu , Cassandra C. Wang , Guangping Chen , Tingting Pan","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103698","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103698","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous studies have focused on the impact of factor endowments, market size, geography, institutional quality, and new technologies on participation in the Global Value Chains (GVCs). However, the role of regional entrepreneurial spirit, which reflects local agency in arbitrage and innovation, has been largely ignored in shaping value-related economic activities. At the same time, new digital technologies provide the “opportunity window” for both firms and regions in the era of the digital economy. The issue of how regional entrepreneurial spirit exerts influence on global economic participation under the context of digitalization is worthy of further investigation. Thus, this study attempts to investigate the impacts of regional entrepreneurial spirit on local GVCs participation in China as well as the moderating role of digital transformation signals. With a big dataset matching from diversified sources, we find that regional entrepreneurial spirit has a significantly positive influence on local GVCs participation, which is moderated by the digital transformation signals from leading firms and local governments. In the early stages, the positive moderating effect from local governments is more stable and reliable, while leading firms' signals become more crucial in the latter stages. Furthermore, this moderating effect is more pronounced in cities with higher level of inclusiveness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 103698"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144489696","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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Development and validation of a Geospatial eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (GeoXAI) framework for mapping mosquito density in metropolitans 大都市蚊密度地理空间可解释人工智能（GeoXAI）框架的开发与验证

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103685

Xu Guang , Lanbin Xiang , Yifei He , Ning Zhang , Junyao Zheng , Yanmin Qin , Dongfeng Kong , Haidong Wang , Liangqiang Lin , Bin Zhu

{"title":"Development and validation of a Geospatial eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (GeoXAI) framework for mapping mosquito density in metropolitans","authors":"Xu Guang , Lanbin Xiang , Yifei He , Ning Zhang , Junyao Zheng , Yanmin Qin , Dongfeng Kong , Haidong Wang , Liangqiang Lin , Bin Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103685","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103685","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Accurately predicting mosquito density in metropolitans is challenging due to the nonlinear, spatially non-stationary relationships between explanatory variables and <em>in situ</em> monitoring data. These challenges are further exacerbated by the limited interpretability of traditional statistical and artificial intelligence models. To overcome existing limitations, we integrated the Shapley additive explanation (SHAP) method and geographically neural network weighted regression kriging (GNNWRK) model to develop the GNNWRK-SHAP framework for predicting mosquito density in Shenzhen and Central Guangzhou (C-Guangzhou), China. GNNWR is an enhanced spatial model derived from GWR, which combines ordinary least squares and spatial weighted neural network to capture spatial non-stationarity and complex nonlinearity. Our results demonstrated that the GNNWRK-SHAP framework achieved the lowest mean absolute error (1.72 in Shenzhen, 3.22 in C-Guangzhou), root mean square error (2.05 & 3.76), and mean absolute percentage error (42.48 % & 62.95 %) compared to alternative models. By integrating the SHAP, the framework quantified variable contributions, identifying precipitation and temperature as dominant explanatory variables shaping mosquito distributions. Moreover, spatial SHAP values highlighted the spatially varying impacts of these, offering site-specific decision support for mosquito density control. This study provides a novel framework for high-precision mapping while maintaining spatial interpretability, providing new insights for mosquito monitoring and management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"181 ","pages":"Article 103685"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144470138","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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Revealing the spatiotemporal pattern of urban vibrancy at the urban agglomeration scale: Evidence from the Pearl River Delta, China 城市群尺度下城市活力的时空格局——以珠三角为例

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103694

Yuxiao Jiang , Zongyao Sun , Di Wei , Pengjun Zhao , Linchuan Yang , Yi Lu

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Contextualizing smart urbanism: Emergent geography of smartness and happiness in a digitalizing world 智慧城市主义的语境化：数字化世界中智慧与幸福的新兴地理

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Applied Geography Pub Date : 2025-06-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103695

Vinci Y.J. Cheung, George C.S. Lin

{"title":"Contextualizing smart urbanism: Emergent geography of smartness and happiness in a digitalizing world","authors":"Vinci Y.J. Cheung, George C.S. Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103695","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103695","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The prevalent smart urbanism narratives commonly rest on the premise that the growth of smart cities through ubiquitous technologies is inevitable and decontextualized, with increased smartness improving efficiency and happiness. This study examines the spatial smartness-happiness variation among 113 cities worldwide, revealing patterns deviating from normal expectations. Our regression analysis of city-level data reveals diverse smartness-happiness relationships contingent upon varying regional conditions, with a stronger and positive correlation observed from the cities of the Global North and a weaker and non-linear pattern identified in the Global South including a negative association found from South America. Further analysis explores the impact of specific components of urban smartness on urban happiness, identifying urban structural characteristics, such as urban infrastructure conditions and service provision, as a significant positive predictor. Contrary to popular belief, technology displays an overall negative correlation with happiness with significant regional variations. Smart cities—universally promulgated as the banner and embodiment of state governmentality for place promotion—remain deeply embedded in place-specific regional conditions, implying the need to go beyond a technologically deterministic mentality and take on board seriously cities’ locality and human-centered considerations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"181 ","pages":"Article 103695"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144330674","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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