Showing papers in "Asian geographer in 2020"

TL;DR: In this article, a geographically-informed preliminary assessment of the diverse and uneven immediate impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic is presented, and an agenda for geographical studies of the impact of the pandemic can be found.

TL;DR: In this article, a variety of rural lands that benefit the suburbanization process in social, environmental, economic, and social welfare are discussed in regard to its negative impacts, while urban sprawl has been mainly discussed in terms of its negative impact.

TL;DR: More and more tourism destinations have begun to utilize the increasing influence of Asian pop entertainment media, in an attempt to diversify their products and tourists' experiences as discussed by the authors, in order to increase tourists' experience.

TL;DR: The authors argued that climate change caused wars in pre-industrial societies, but did climate change cause wars in history, while a growing number of quantitative studies (particularly in the field of geography) illustrate the climate-war nexus in preindustrial societies.

TL;DR: The authors explored the possible non-linear nature of the climate-crime association and found that the nonlinearity of the relationship between climate change and climate crime was not explored in previous climate crime studies.

TL;DR: Recently, many untoward incidents have happened in middle Himalaya either due to natural calamities or human errors, and large casualties which were avoidable, occurred due to unregulated tourism as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the vulnerability of ethnic minority groups living in poverty in marginalized areas to climate change, and those most severely affected tend to be members of minority groups.

TL;DR: The reduced sensitivity of tree growth to temperature in recent decades, commonly known as the tree-ring "divergence problem" has been observed in many places of the world, which challenge...

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how local residents' senses of place of tourism site and involvement in tourism could influence their attitude toward tourism, which eventually affected their support for tourism, and find that their sense of place and involvement influenced their attitudes toward tourism.

TL;DR: The authors deconstructs Japanese media discourses of Japan's territorial disputes in selected newspapers in English, namely The Asahi Shimbun, The Japan News and The Japan Times from 2002 to 2018.

TL;DR: A coastal port and fishing city in Miyagi Prefecture, Kesennuma was one of the hardest hit cities in the 2011 Japanese earthquake as discussed by the authors, which was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in that country.

TL;DR: For the last few decades, the development of mega-infrastructure projects has been high on the agendas of policymakers in Southeast Asia as discussed by the authors. But despite the potential benefits of such projects, there are...

TL;DR: In this article, the evolution of land surface temperatures (LSTs) within the Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR) was examined with respect to patterns of urbanization from 2000 to 2019.

TL;DR: In this article, a time-use perspective is used to promote active ageing in urban planning and policy-making in Hong Kong, using Hong Kong as a reference point for the study.

TL;DR: The dramatic decline in the share of agriculture in India's gross domestic product from 52 percent in 1950-1951 to less than 17 percent in 2017-2018 implies a decrease in the amount of l... as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors put emphasis on a literature review of current theoretical strands in two major fields: food security and rural-urban linkage, and critically evaluated the relation between these two fields and evaluated the relationship between them.

TL;DR: The toponymic system of India is one of the most complex and diverse in the world as mentioned in this paper, as a result of perplexing ancient legacies encrypted in cultural landscapes as an unimaginable amalgam of language.