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{"title":"Anchored in place, driven by risk: How place attachment amplifies the household flood adaptation","authors":"Sungju Han","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103547","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103547","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rising flood risks present significant threats to communities globally. This study examines the influence of risk perception and place attachment on the adoption of household adaptive behaviors in flood-prone regions of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The study employed latent profile analysis on data from 304 households, revealing four distinct profiles categorized by risk perception and levels of place attachment. The findings reveal that place attachment acts as an amplifier of adaptive behaviors, particularly when combined with high risk perception. Even in contexts of low risk perception, place attachment encouraged certain adaptive behaviors like insurance adoption. However, its effectiveness varied across socioeconomic contexts and types of adaptive measures, with the strongest effects observed for structural adaptation measures. The study demonstrates that combining strong place attachment with high risk perception is particularly effective in motivating costly protective actions. These findings suggest that flood risk management strategies should incorporate place-based elements alongside traditional risk communication approaches to better promote community resilience. This research contributes to understanding how such emotional connections to place can enhance flood adaptation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103547"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143349787","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":"Mapping large-scale brand networks: A consumers’ foot traffic-based approach","authors":"Debjani Das,&nbsp;Liang Mao","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103546","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103546","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Commercial brands are increasingly interconnected, forming a complex network. Analyzing brand networks is crucial to understanding brand interactions and developing data-driven marketing strategies. Traditional methods utilize consumer behavior surveys and social media databases to construct brand networks, but few have considered consumers' spatial mobility - their movements between brand points of interest (POIs). We proposed a novel method to connect brands through massive POI foot traffic data. We demonstrated this method using SafeGraph's POI dataset in Florida, USA, comprising approximately 270 thousand POIs (of 4976 unique brands) over 44 weeks. By deriving common visitors between any two brands, we constructed four brand networks with two types of links (directed and undirected) and at two temporal scales (daily and weekly). We identified influential brands, brand pairs, and subgroups in these networks, and examined how these network properties changed over different temporal scales. We also found that these network properties exhibited only minor shifts during COVID-19 pandemic as compared to the pre-pandemic period, suggesting a resilient underlying network of brand connections. Finally, we proposed mobility-based marketing strategies to leverage brand network properties and foster a sustainable economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103546"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143240128","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":"Exploring socio-spatial differentiation in bike-sharing: A daily activity space analysis of cyclists across different socioeconomic statuses","authors":"Caigang Zhuang ,&nbsp;Shaoying Li ,&nbsp;Xiaoping Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103536","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103536","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Existing studies underscore the significance of traditional public transportation systems (e.g., buses and metros) in shaping residents' daily mobility patterns and social interactions. However, limited research has examined the spatiotemporal interaction patterns among users of dockless bike-sharing (DBS), an emerging low-carbon mode of public transportation. To address this gap, we investigate the daily spatiotemporal interaction patterns and disparities among bike-sharing users across different socioeconomic statuses (SES) in Shenzhen, China. Leveraging massive DBS trip datasets with user IDs, we delineate the individual daily activity spaces of frequent users across different SES groups. Taking into account spatiotemporal proximity and distance decay effects, we compute multiple activity-space-based differentiation indices, followed by comprehensive analyses. The results reveal that middle-SES users experience the greatest diversity in interactions with users from different socioeconomic backgrounds during daily cycling activities, followed by high-SES users, while low-SES users exhibit the least interaction. Furthermore, the activity-space-based differentiation for each SES group follows a consistent periodic temporal pattern, characterized by two alternating peaks and troughs throughout the day. Peaks emerge in midday and late-night hours, whereas troughs align with the morning and evening commuting periods. The degree of activity-space-based differentiation is strongly associated with proximity to central city and land-use functions. These findings provide valuable implications for promoting social integration and promoting equity in non-motorized and sustainable transportation services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 103536"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143240129","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":"Spatialities of remote work across the EU regions in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic: Regional change, factors, interlinkages","authors":"Nikos Kapitsinis","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103531","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103531","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>One of the most important implications of Covid-19 pertains to increasing trends of remote work, due to lockdown measures, mainly in knowledge-intensive sectors, that have changed work-life balance. These changes unfold unevenly among countries and regions, since, for instance, urban areas have a larger share of jobs that could be performed remotely. This paper studies how and why remote work unfolds unevenly across space in the context of Covid-19, thus enriching our understanding of shifting spatial organization of work after the pandemic arose. Particularly, using secondary figures from Eurostat and adopts fixed-effects and spatial error regression analysis in 217 EU NUTS2 regions with remote work rate in 2020 and the annual change between 2019 and 2020 as dependent variables. The paper then in-depth discusses and integrates the results into the regional socio-economic environment through two regions case-studies to better contextualize the findings. The results highlight the geographically uneven changes in the organization of work and the regional variation in remote working across the EU in the context of Covid-19. The regional industrial structure, policies to contain Covid-19, regional structural elements and demographics proved to be key factors of the spatialities of remote work.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 103531"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143346215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Linking ecosystem services trade-offs, human preferences and future scenario simulations to ecological security patterns: A novel methodology for reconciling conflicting ecological functions","authors":"Qing Wu ,&nbsp;Yu Cao ,&nbsp;Yangjian Zhang ,&nbsp;Dan Su ,&nbsp;Xiaoqian Fang","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103534","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103534","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ecological security patterns (ESPs) are critical for identifying priority protection areas, enhancing ecological flows, and supporting cross-regional sustainable development. However, traditional ESP frameworks often neglect ecosystem service (ES) trade-offs and human preferences, leading to conflicts among ecological functions and unsustainable spatial patterns. This study proposes a novel OWA-ESP-PLUS framework to optimize ecological protection areas by integrating ES trade-offs and human preferences. The ordered weighted averaging (OWA) model, coupled with GIS, simulated the spatial distribution of priority protected areas under varying decision-making risks. The optimal scenario, with the highest average protection efficiency and low human trade-offs was selected. Ecological sources, corridors and pinch points were then identified to establish a cross-regional ESP. To assess its adaptability for future ecological security, the PLUS model simulated three 2030 scenarios: business as usual (BAU), priority economic development (PED), and priority ecological protection (PEP). Results showed that priority protection areas in the optimal scenario promoted 55.9% conservation efficiency while maintaining a balanced spatial configuration. The ESP, consisting of 24 ecological sources, 51 ecological corridors, and 25 pinch points, enhanced landscape connectivity, reduces fragmentation, and minimizes disturbance risk. This framework bridges ES conservation with sustainable spatial management, offering a transferable methodology for ecological planning worldwide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 103534"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143360308","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":"Topographic change associated with floodplain mining activities in the Amite River, Louisiana","authors":"Maram Alrehaili ,&nbsp;Joann Mossa","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103491","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103491","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Human activities, including mining, have altered landscapes for millenia. A location showing appreciable anthropogenic change is the middle Amite River and floodplain in southeastern Louisiana. Because of regional demand for construction and lack of other aggregate resources, gravel and sand mining began in the 1930s and has generally increased over the past century. Countless geomorphological alterations have occurred, including the creation of pits and ponds of diverse sizes and shapes. In this paper, we employed numerical methods to analyze changes in mining topology within the Middle Amite floodplain. Specifically, we utilized the Level Set Method (LSM), a numerical approach developed by Osher and Sethian in 1998, to assess surface curvature and shape. Additionally, the Localized Contour Tree (LCT) was applied to delineate mining depressions. Using LiDAR DEMs from 2005 to 2018, in a floodplain area of 9.6 km², the results indicate a marked increase in the number of pit depressions, rising from 163 to 289 and expanding of the depressions total area from 845.6 ha to 952.3 ha, with the most substantial growth observed in Reach D. , with notably, increase in the mean elevation ranges, particularly in Reach B, which saw depths grow from 1.3 m to 4.23 m. However, the volume storage showed an overall decline from ∼28.6 million m³ to ∼26.7 million m³, driven largely by a significant reduction in Reach E. The decrease in the storage capacities could be explained by the filling of the sedimentation of the pits over time, changes in the mining practices that may involve intentionally reducing pit volume capacity, other interactions within the floodplain environment such as pit captures contributing to the observed decrease in volume storage, or water level changes between the LiDAR imagery. implications of this study include the massive anthropogenic change in 13 years and decreases in floodplain water storage capacity, emphasizing the need for adaptive flood management strategies. These findings also provide practical guidance for environmental management and policy formulation, as the current state sand and gravel mining BMPs and buffer zones were inadequate to prevent pit captures the potential application of these methods elsewhere.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 103491"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143229627","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":"On the evidence of contextually large fires in Europe based on return period functions","authors":"Andrea Duane ,&nbsp;Aymen Moghli ,&nbsp;Lluís Coll ,&nbsp;Cristina Vega","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103539","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103539","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Very large wildfire events represent substantial social and ecological disturbances globally, with recent occurrences suggesting unprecedented scale and impact. What constitutes a large fire event in each territory varies regionally depending on biophysical attributes and fire management response. Despite the efforts made to provide standardized metrics across ecosystems, there remains a need for new methods to identify and evaluate fires that are contextually large. Here, we propose a framework to evaluate contextually large fires in Europe, considering them as fires larger than expected based on return period functions. Utilizing 23 years of data from the European Forest Fires Information System, we applied extreme value theory to compute fire return periods at the regional level (administrative units of approximately 17,600 km2). Results identified 115 regions out of 330 (35%) that experienced at least one contextually large fire, primarily in southern Europe, but also dispersed across the temperate and Atlantic biomes. While 32 contextually large fires were larger than 10,000 ha, 104 were smaller than 500 ha. The occurrence of contextually large fires shows a positive trend along the study period. This dataset provided valuable insights for assessing extreme wildfires, their distribution and their probabilities, facilitating effective risk mitigation strategies in Europe.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 103539"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143346340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reverse estimation of urban mobility patterns during pandemics using agent-based modeling","authors":"Moongi Choi ,&nbsp;Alexander Hohl","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103492","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103492","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In addressing pandemics like COVID-19, there is a crucial focus on proactive response research, predicting disease cases, and identifying risk areas. However, challenges arise due to limited human mobility data and methodological constraints in predicting travel patterns. To tackle this, our study introduces an Agent-Based Travel Scheduler (ABTS) model, simulating individual travel patterns using aggregated data sources. This model decomposes and forecasts travel behaviors by various criteria, such as age, weekdays/weekends, and trip purpose. The findings uncover varied travel behaviors across pandemic periods and demographic groups, highlighting complex movement patterns linked to infection risks. Moreover, the results show how different age groups adapt travel during pandemics, offering insights for targeted disease control strategies. By examining past pandemic-associated travel patterns, this study provides valuable insights for formulating effective proactive responses in future pandemics, guiding policy decisions to mitigate the spread of infectious diseases.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 103492"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143229631","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":"Exploring cooperative and competitive relations in a Chinese intercity innovation network","authors":"Weiyang Zhang ,&nbsp;Yuxin Qian ,&nbsp;Jinyue Tang ,&nbsp;Xingjian Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103508","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103508","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While the relevance of intercity networks for innovation has long been highlighted in the literature, how such interactions may constitute both competition and cooperation between cities is less researched. This paper compares potential intercity competitive and cooperative relations in co-patent activities between Chinese cities. The results point to different patterns of competition and cooperation, especially regarding differentiated relevance of city size, political hierarchies and (geographical) distance. Specifically, cities may be likely to have competitive relations with others at same administrative levels and with similar sizes. Distance decay is evident in potential intercity cooperation but not in competitive relations. This research not only compares competitive and cooperative intercity relations in innovation activities but also highlights policy implications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 103508"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143230034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spaces of collaboration? Geography and functionality of coworking spaces in China","authors":"Xu Zhang,&nbsp;Hao Liang,&nbsp;Zhangcai Yin","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103507","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103507","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global expansion of coworking spaces (CSs) has attracted extensive attention. However, the suitability of the dominant CS model, which originates from the Global North, for the development realities of CSs in the Global South requires further investigation. Using an innovative dataset containing location information and user-generated comments of CSs obtained from a major Chinese online review portal, this study conducts a systematic analysis of the agglomerative pattern and functionality—namely the facilities and services offered to users and the activities undertaken in these spaces—of CSs on China's mainland. Our purpose is to offer new insights into the (spatial) development of CSs beyond the centers of the Global North and to advance understanding of users' experiences and perceptions regarding the functionality of CSs. The analysis demonstrates that the geography of CSs shaped by the intervention of the Chinese state exhibits a dual pattern of diffusion and agglomeration, reflecting the hybrid impacts of market and political forces. The functionality of CSs in China also differs from the idealized Western-centric CS concept, which emphasizes their business-supporting and knowledge-sharing functions. The perception of CSs as empowering, socializing sites supporting the development of knowledge economy cannot yet be supported in the Chinese context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"175 ","pages":"Article 103507"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143229279","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}