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{"title":"Mapping precipitation-triggered landslide risks in global human settlements","authors":"Kechao Wang ,&nbsp;Xiangyuan Wu ,&nbsp;Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen ,&nbsp;Wu Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103886","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103886","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Precipitation-triggered landslides represent a major hazard to human settlements, yet their risks remain unevenly distributed across regions. However, existing studies often lack accurate modeling of precipitation-induced landslide hazards and remain largely hazard-centric, with limited consideration of exposure and socioeconomic vulnerability. This study develops a spatially explicit framework to assess global landslide risks by integrating hazard, exposure, and vulnerability dimensions using multi-source satellite data. Landslide susceptibility was first modeled using extreme precipitation indices, terrain, vegetation, and soil variables within a Max Entropy framework. We then incorporated population density as a measure of exposure, together with indicators of socioeconomic vulnerability, including accessibility to healthcare and transport, economic development, and built-environment quality, to construct an integrated risk index. Results show pronounced spatial disparities: risk hotspots are concentrated in South and Southeast Asia, parts of sub-Saharan Africa, and regions of South America, where rapid urban growth coincides with limited adaptive capacity. In contrast, risks in Europe and North America are characterized by mixed drivers, reflecting both hazard conditions and relatively lower vulnerability. These findings highlight the uneven geography of landslide risks and provide spatial evidence to inform land-use planning, infrastructure investment, and disaster risk reduction strategies. By demonstrating the value of combining hazard, exposure, and vulnerability in a globally consistent framework, this study contributes to the applied geography of natural hazards and offers insights for risk-sensitive planning in diverse settlement contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 103886"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145841629","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":"A multimodal framework for assessing park accessibility and equity from spatial proximity to experiential quality","authors":"Wenting Luo ,&nbsp;Yuting Guo ,&nbsp;Robert Tenzer ,&nbsp;Yang Xu ,&nbsp;Zhongtian Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103893","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2026.103893","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ensuring equal access to urban parks is vital for sustainable city development. However, prevailing assessment of park accessibility, which mainly rely on spatial proximity, offer a limited perspective by overlooking destination appeal and journey quality. Utilizing social media and street view images, this study proposes a novel multimodal framework that advanced the evaluation of park accessibility from spatial proximity to experiential quality. The framework first integrated online public feedback and offline facility quality using the PCA-AHP-TOPSIS method to evaluate park attractiveness. Then a greenery-perceived distance was proposed by integrating street-level visual greenness and travel distance across three modes to model the perceived impedance of journeys. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is tested in the main area of Wuhan, China. The results reveal that the proposed attraction coefficient correlates more strongly with actual park usage (R² = 0.68) than area-based metrics (R² = 0.41). Incorporating GVI significantly improves the explanatory power for visitation frequency, particularly for walking (R² increase from 0.45 to 0.50) and cycling (from 0.44 to 0.48). GVI's influence varies across travel modes: within a 30-min threshold, walking visitation shows a strong positive correlation with GVI while being weakly affected by distance, whereas distance remains the dominant deterrent for cycling and driving. A pronounced spatial disparity is identified, with 45.3 % of walking zones lacking park access within 30 min, highlighting a mismatch between accessibility and population density. This framework provides practical tools for urban planning and public health, contributing meaningfully to the long-term sustainable development of cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 103893"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145927429","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":"Polycentric urban structure identification and spatial‒temporal evolution analysis using a multisource remote sensing composite network","authors":"Zhiwei Xie,&nbsp;Zhenkun Weng,&nbsp;Zhonghua Wang,&nbsp;Lishuang Sun,&nbsp;Mingliang Yuan","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103866","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103866","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>It is essential to comprehend the polycentric urban structure (PUS) in order to facilitate resource allocation, economic development, and social interactions. Current research mostly uses single-source data such as nighttime light data that reflects social characteristics or optical remote sensing data that reflects natural characteristics, without considering that the formation of PUS is the result of the combined action of social and natural factors. In response to this problem, this paper proposes a method for identifying and analyzing the evolution of PUS using a composite urban network. A network construction method utilizing adaptive fusion weights is employed to integrate nighttime light data and optical remote sensing networks into a composite urban network, facilitating multi-source data fusion. The Louvain algorithm is employed to partition the communities of the composite urban network, while the central nodes are identified using a degree centrality measure based on the Comprehensive Strength Index (CSI). Subsequently, polycentric urban regions (PURs) and urban centers (UCs) are derived by mapping the communities and central nodes to optical image objects. The spatial-temporal evolution of PUS indicates urban development. This study focuses on China's regional center cities, such as Wuhan, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Xi'an and Shenyang, utilizing Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite/National Polar-orbiting Partnership (VIIRS/NPP) and Landsat 8 data from 2013 to 2020 as the experimental dataset. The experimental results indicate that the mean accuracy of PURs identification utilizing a composite urban network (CUN) is 81.12 %, surpassing the accuracy achieved with the nighttime light urban network (NUN) by 5.09 % and the optical remote sensing urban network (OUN) by 5.13 %. For UCs identification, the traditional method based solely on weighted degree centrality (WDC) achieved a mean accuracy of 56.29 %, while the proposed Comprehensive Strength Index (CSI) method achieved 73.31 %, representing an improvement of 17.02 percentage points (a relative increase of approximately 30.2 %). The expanse of urban region is positively correlated with GDP, while the increase in the distance of urban center displacement indicates a reinforcement of urban polycentricity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 103866"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145792129","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":"Unraveling the nexus between spatial quality and buzz behavior: Analyzing geo-tagged social media and multisource spatial data using text mining and XGBoost","authors":"Jinliu Chen ,&nbsp;Pengcheng Li ,&nbsp;Yanhui Lei ,&nbsp;Hangyu Li ,&nbsp;Dingjian Zhang ,&nbsp;Bing Chen ,&nbsp;Jian Liu ,&nbsp;Marc Aurel Schnabel","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103858","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103858","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the digital media era, geo-tagged social media (SM) has emerged as a powerful tool for understanding tourist behavior and managing destination image. This study examines how spatial quality influences buzz behavior—rapid, user-driven dissemination of destination information—through the lens of the Feedback, Sympathy, Identification, Participation, and Sharing (FSIPS) framework. Focusing on Suzhou's historic city core, we integrate ridge regression, deep learning-based text mining, and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) to model the relationship between built environment features and SM engagement metrics, including emotional expression and likes. Findings reveal that (1) buzz behavior, driven by emotionally resonant user-generated content, plays a critical role in shaping destination popularity; (2) spatial features such as park and catering density significantly enhance emotional responses and content diffusion; and (3) entertainment density shows a negative association with engagement, suggesting diminishing returns in over-commercialized zones. (4) Furthermore, the analysis uncovers non-linear interaction effects—e.g., the co-presence of green infrastructure and public transport density synergistically boosts perceptual response. This research contributes a theoretically grounded and data-driven framework for decoding the spatial triggers of word-of-mouth dynamics in tourism, offering actionable insights for planners aiming to enhance tourist experiences and manage spatial quality in heritage-rich urban settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103858"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145736594","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":"Manufacturing agglomeration and high-quality economic development: Unveiling nonlinear dynamics and spatial spillovers in China","authors":"Mingtao Yan ,&nbsp;Mingyue Yan ,&nbsp;Jianji Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103833","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103833","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The critical role of manufacturing agglomeration (MA) in promoting high-quality economic development (HED) is widely recognized in both academic and policy discourse. However, the nonlinear effects and spatial spillover mechanisms by which MA affects HED have not been sufficiently addressed in the existing literature. Using panel data from 287 prefecture-level and above cities in China from 2011 to 2023, this study adopts spatiotemporal analysis to trace the evolution of MA and HED, and employs fixed-effects models, mediation analysis, and spatial Durbin models to examine the multidimensional mechanisms linking the two. The results reveal steady improvements in both MA and HED, marked by an east–west gradient and a spatial transition from initial concentration to a more balanced and polycentric structure. A significant U-shaped relationship is identified, indicating that MA initially suppresses but later promotes HED as agglomeration intensity increases. Furthermore, MA indirectly facilitates HED by enhancing urban logistics development, which improves factor allocation and industrial connectivity. Spatial analysis confirms a U-shaped spillover effect on neighboring cities—initially driven by negative externalities such as resource competition and siphoning effects, and subsequently transformed into positive interactions through coordinated specialization and knowledge diffusion. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the impact of MA varies significantly across regions, city tiers, resource endowments, urban agglomeration status, and industry types. This study not only deepens the theoretical understanding of the nexus between MA and HED but also offers valuable insights for other countries seeking to optimize industrial spatial layouts and foster coordinated regional development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103833"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145419312","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":"What are the differences between ecosystem services and residents’ perceptions? Insights from perception gap, heterogeneity, and cross-level driving mechanisms","authors":"Huijuan Zhang ,&nbsp;Li Peng ,&nbsp;Yue Qiu ,&nbsp;Zhonghao Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103808","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103808","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ecosystem services (ES) are vital for human well-being and ecological security. However, current research often separates objective measurement from subjective perception evaluation, rarely considering both aspects simultaneously or analyzing their matching relationship in depth. This study moves beyond the traditional paradigm of objective or subjective dominance and proposes a spatially explicit cognition–ecology feedback conceptual framework. We developed an integrated approach that couples InVEST model outputs with questionnaire survey data to link objective ES supply with subjective perceptions, defining their difference as perception gaps. Taking the typical karst area of Huanjiang County, China, as a case study, we quantified the potential supply and farmers’ perception gaps of five key ES, namely, food provision (FP), water yield (WY), soil retention (SR), carbon sequestration (CS), and habitat quality (HQ). We then used a Hierarchical Linear Model to determine the cross-level driving mechanisms. The findings showed significant service heterogeneity and individual differences among the five ES. Perception gaps for FP and WY were generally positive, reflecting high demand and low supply. Meanwhile, those for CS and HQ services were predominantly negative, indicating low demand and high supply. The formation mechanism of perception gap was jointly driven by environmental values and household types at the individual level, and natural conditions and location factors at the village level. The study emphasizes that differentiated governance strategies are essential to bridge multiple types of perception gaps, thereby fostering a virtuous cycle of cognition and ecological sustainability through enhanced awareness, optimized service provision, and improved policy communication.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103808"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145323218","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":"Land tenure and land use dynamics in the context of pastoral and non-pastoral land use coexistence in Mvomero district, Tanzania","authors":"Werenfrid Michael Tarimo ,&nbsp;Malumbo Chipofya ,&nbsp;Jaap Zevenbergen","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103827","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103827","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pastoral and non-pastoral land use coexistence across time and space has implications for the capacity of communities to sustain themselves. This study employed a mixed-methods approach to characterise the trends of land tenure and land use land cover (LULC) in relation to land use coexistence between pastoralists and non-pastoralists. The study was conducted in the Mvomero district of Tanzania, among the districts with high land use conflicts between pastoralists and non-pastoralists. Results indicate that land tenure transformation occurred mainly from village land tenure to state land tenure, followed by state tenure to private tenure. Village tenure was irreversibly converted to state and private tenures. LULC trend showed agriculture and bushland increased at the expense of forest, which decreased consistently from 1994 to 2024. Many respondents indicated that land use coexistence is happening informally, and arrangements are organised mainly by individuals and village leaders. In conclusion, the district's land tenure and land use transformations prioritize biodiversity conservation and agriculture expansion, and overlook pastoral land use. Also, the transformations promote the separation of land uses and undermine land use coexistence. These perpetuate land use conflicts and impede the progress toward zero hunger, a sustainable development goal. A framework that harmonizes the arrangements to accommodate land use coexistence is necessary.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103827"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145365413","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":"Does the digitalization of hometowns promote return migrants’ entrepreneurship? Empirical evidence from panel data for China","authors":"Jiangbin Yin ,&nbsp;Guixiang Yi ,&nbsp;Ruiguang Ma ,&nbsp;Le Chen ,&nbsp;Shuhan Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103855","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103855","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Increased return migration and digitalization have opened up new opportunities for growth in rural areas and narrowed the urban-rural divide. However, there is still a lack of empirical evidence regarding the effect of regional digitalization on the entrepreneurship among return migrants. Based on the 2010–2018 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) data and regional digitalization data, we explore the impact of digitalization in hometowns on return migrants' entrepreneurial decisions and its internal mechanism by using a panel modelling approach. we find that the level of digitalization in the hometown is significantly associated with an increased likelihood of returnee entrepreneurship, and the findings are robust, which reflect a potential promoting effect based on our causal identification design. Specifically, regional digitalization is linked to a higher entrepreneurial probability mainly through potential channels of promoting internet use and alleviating financing constraints, while the impact of improving government administration is not tested. The study also finds that the impact of digitalization on returnee entrepreneurship varies across individuals and regions. Our findings have important implications for research and practice on rural entrepreneurship in the digital era.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103855"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145684683","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":"Does e-shopping weaken the link between land use and neighborhood shopping behavior? Evidence from large-scale mobile phone data","authors":"Fangyi Ding ,&nbsp;Zhan Zhao ,&nbsp;Yun Han ,&nbsp;Yang Zhou ,&nbsp;Yang Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103809","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103809","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Proximity-based land use planning has traditionally been viewed as a key strategy to manage travel demand and promote sustainable mobility. Yet, the rise of online activities, particularly the spread of e-shopping, may alter this rationale by reducing the need for physical proximity to consumption opportunities and potentially reshaping residents’ interactions with neighborhood facilities. In this study, we draw on a one-month mobile signaling dataset from Shanghai, China, to provide large-scale behavioral evidence on this issue. Leveraging a Spatial Error Model (SEM), we examine whether e-shopping attenuates the influence of neighborhood land use features on shopping travel behaviors. Our findings show that residents in neighborhoods with higher levels of e-shopping engagement tend to make fewer offline shopping trips and travel shorter distances. More importantly, e-shopping moderates — and in many cases attenuates — the effects of key proximity-based features, including proximity to commercial centers, geographical location, road density, and transit accessibility. We also find significant heterogeneity across neighborhood types: communities with a higher share of elderly residents show greater sensitivity to these moderating effects, particularly in terms of shopping trip frequency. Overall, the results suggest that e-shopping may reshape the foundations of proximity-based planning. Our study further demonstrates the value of mobile signaling data in capturing these emerging dynamics, offering new insights for modeling travel demand and informing land use policies in the digital era.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103809"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145365416","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":"Influence of urban park landscape attributes on office workers’ self-rated health: A moderated mediation model","authors":"Xuanxian Chen ,&nbsp;Massoomeh Hedayati Marzbali ,&nbsp;Aldrin Abdullah","doi":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103836","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103836","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite growing recognition of the health benefits provided by urban parks, limited research has explored the role of perceived safety regarding COVID-19 (PS19) within the framework of cultural ecosystem services, particularly for young office workers with low place attachment (PA) who face pandemic-related health challenges. This paper aims to examine the relationships amongst landscape attributes, leisure visitation, PS19, and self-rated health, and the moderating effects of PA and the influence of urban parks across different parental statuses. Data were collected from 411 office workers who visited two urban parks in Baise City, China. Two structural equation models were employed to analyse the interactions amongst the variables. Findings reveal that PS19 enhances the relationship between landscape attributes and leisure visitation with self-rated health. Additionally, PA amplifies the health benefits derived from landscape attributes, including PS19. Notably, landscape attributes and PS19 display a weak negative correlation amongst participants with low PA. This study underscores the variability in urban park benefits across different settings and parental statuses, and contributes to a deeper understanding of the interplay among PA, ecosystem services, attention restoration, and ecological perception theories, whilst supporting Sustainable Development Goal 11.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48396,"journal":{"name":"Applied Geography","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 103836"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145520584","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}