Showing papers in "Applied Geography in 2019"

TL;DR: In this article, a study has been conducted to assess the vulnerabilities of the coastal region of Bangladesh by considering the IPCC framework of vulnerability studies and using multivariate statistical techniques and a total of 31 indicators have been used of which 24 are socio-economic and 7 are natural (exposure) indicators and these indicators were retrieved from the secondary source.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the trends of land use/land cover change and its drivers in Western Ethiopia using Landsat images of MSS (1978), TM (1986, 1991 and 2010), ETM+ (1999) and OLI (2013 and 2016) to study the dynamics of LU/LCC.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated the land eco-security situation of the reservoir in 1996, 2006 and 2016, using spatial principal component analysis (sPCA) to comprehensively consider different effect factors and avoid subjectivity in the appraisals to obtain the weights and correlations between different assessment indicators.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used management information from farmers and published information on soils collected in Can Tho, a centrally-located province in the Mekong Delta, along with projected mid-century (2040-2069) climate data for the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, to project future rice paddy yields using the CERES-Rice model.

TL;DR: Using the city belt along the Yellow River in Ningxia, northwestern China, as a case study, this article quantified the spatial distribution of six ecosystem services (ESs) (food production, carbon sequestration, carbon storage, nutrient retention, sand fixation and recreational opportunity), analyzed the synergy and trade-off relations among them through correlation analysis, classified ES bundles through a self-organizing map method (SOM), explored the impacts of socio-ecological factors on the ESs through Ordinary Least Square regression (OLS) and Geo-detector analysis,

TL;DR: In this article, the point densities of point clouds acquired photogrammetrically under leaf-off and leaf-on conditions were compared to those acquired under leafon conditions and uniformly covered ground of the entire study area.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the question: are vulnerable communities digitally left behind in social responses to natural disasters and observe that physically vulnerable communities had more intense social responses while socially vulnerable communities were left behind.

TL;DR: Overall, the distribution of urbanization in China will retain the southeast-northwest pattern of the Hu Line in 2015–2035, and the new impacts that the Belt and Road Initiative may bring to the domestic regions are concretized and coupled with cellular automata.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether the amount of greenspace within a radius of individuals' homes was associated with mental wellbeing, testing the government guideline that greenspace should be available within 300m of homes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used simulation modeling to map and characterize the composition of the source landscapes (firesheds) and recipient communities in terms of fuels, fire behavior and forest management suitability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied a clustering method for identification of traffic crash hotspots to the rural parts of primary roads in the Czech road network (3,933 km) where 55,296 traffic crashes occurred over 2010-2018.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on four upland districts along a pioneer front of Northwestern Cambodia and analyzed historical trajectories of land use/cover changes using a chronological series of Landsat data from 1976 to 2016.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantify the global land changes within this timeframe and also to predict the future land change by 2050 in order to gain a global picture of our future planet, which is a timely objective since more than ever scientists, environmentalist, and governors require to know how our future will look like and how they can achieve the goals of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify potential sites for artificial groundwater recharge in selected watersheds of the Mount Makiling Forest Reserve (MMFR) that can enhance sustainable yield and promote conservation and storage of excess water.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a usability testing experiment with 30 participants, who were presented with various map editing tasks that were to be completed using a mock internet participatory mapping platform that was designed to mimic real-life applications.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored two scenarios projected for the time horizon of 2025 based on farmers' LUCC intentions: A0 - current social and economic trend; and B0 - increasing demand for urban development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the spatiotemporal pattern of county economy and investigated the multi-mechanism process of regional inequality in rural China and found that the spatial pattern of the county economy is highly imbalanced and spatial agglomeration of counties is self-reinforcing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used GPS data from 29,928 individuals representing 421,247 individual hikes, jogs, and runs on trails in and around Salt Lake City, Utah for an entire year between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the spatial variation in travel behaviour and built environment interactions using Geographically Weighted Logistic Regression (GWLR) and at the same time accounting for the individual attributes of commuters (e.g., demographic and socioeconomic characteristics).

TL;DR: The Integrated Scaled Drought Index (ISDI) as mentioned in this paper is a new monthly agricultural-based drought index that incorporates important components controlling agricultural drought, particularly soil moisture, for which there are limited in-situ observations through time and across space.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the richness and composition of tree species among community forests, irregularly harvested community forests and protected area and national forests in sub-tropical forested landscape of Nepal using tree species inventory and assessment of key environmental variables.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used social media data from the photosharing platform Flickr to explore the experience of tranquillity in Scotland and found no relation between potential quiet areas and the locations where people uploaded photographs with tranquil tags.

TL;DR: In this paper, the CLUMondo model was employed to predict future land use change trajectories for the period 2010-2030 under three different scenarios, and the results indicated that land system changes varied notably under different land management strategies and exhibited large locational discrepancies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that common-pool resources (community capitals) should be differentiated from private goods (household capitals) as they operate under different dynamics of decision-making and management.

TL;DR: This article explored how firm heterogeneity affects the geographic agglomeration and location choice of foreign direct investment (FDI) based on micro-evidence from 3558 new foreign manufacturing firms in the Pearl River Delta, China.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of the UNESCO Geopark De Hondsrug (the Netherlands) is presented, where a composite overlap mapping of mental maps drawn by inhabitants shows that the geopark incorporates an area that is substantially larger than the area interpreted by the inhabitants as constituting the hondsrug, providing a starting point for improving the community's support for the region's brand.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the association between land use conversions and variations in severe crashes in urban China and found that urban residential, commercial and business and mixed residential-commercial land uses had the highest risk exposure levels.

TL;DR: In this article, the first Amazon-scale integrated spatial analysis was performed, quantifying interactions between oil operations, protected areas, and indigenous territories, and focusing on the issue of leaving fossil fuels untapped.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a set of generalized linear models to explain how landscape properties and accessibility are related to revealed outdoor recreation demand (i.e., number of day trips received by Swiss municipalities), and which variables are most important to predict demand for outdoor recreation day trips on a national scale.