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{"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}

{"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}