Applied Geography

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Exploring vulnerability amplification in regional health inequality: COVID-19 case study in Czechia	90
The obesogenity of restaurant food: Mapping the nutritional foodscape of Franklin County, Ohio using food review images	83
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Urban growth and shrinkage with Chinese characteristics: Evidence from Shandong Province, China	74
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Demystifying hospital size distribution: A geographical approach	64
Revealing the structures of internal migration: A distance and a time-space behaviour perspectives	62
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National ecological conservation versus local development: The triggering effects of forest transition on urban shrinkage	55
Income estimation based on human mobility patterns and machine learning models	55
Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods	53
Effects of climate change on paddy expansion and potential adaption strategies for sustainable agriculture development across Northeast China	51
The geographic disparity of agglomeration economies: Evidence from industrial activities in China's emerging greater bay area	51
Divergent distributions of physicians and healthcare beds in China: Changing patterns, driving forces, and policy implications	50
Can delivery riders act as informal guardians in crime prevention?	47
Traffic safety in relation to multidimensional street network and land use features: A nonlinear analysis with population heterogeneity	46
Uncovering travel communities among older and younger adults using smart card data	46
Investigating socio-spatial differentiation for metro travelers using smart card data: Older people vs. others	43
Understanding regional value chain evolution in peripheral areas through governance interactions – An institutional layering approach	41
Spatial spillover effects of urban decline in Southeast Michigan	41
Crime at train stations: The role of passenger presence	40
Driving spatial network connections in rural settlements: The role of e-commerce	40
National shared responsibility mechanism for carbon reduction: Addressing resource imbalances from interprovincial flows of virtual water-energy-carbon	40
An urban-rural divide? Preferences for autonomous vehicles in small and med-sized metropolitan areas	40

Geospatial analysis of diarrhoea determinants among children under five in Pakistan using Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR)	38
Non-linear impact of the built environment on metro commuter flows before and after the COVID-19 outbreak: A case study in Guangzhou	38
Analyzing multiscale associations and couplings between integrated development and eco-environmental systems: A case study of the central plains urban agglomeration, China	38
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework	38
New ways of working and residing: Towards temporary arrangements in large city regions in Germany	38
Optimizing ecological security patterns in a megacity by enhancing urban-rural connectivity: Insights from Wuhan, China	38
Identifying shrinking cities from a physical city perspective and influencing factors: A case study of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in China	37
Analyzing the effectiveness of China's national protected areas at resisting cropland expansion pressure	37
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning	37
Driving uneven development: The emerging geography of India's electric vehicle transition	37
‘Buzz-and-Pipeline’ dynamics of urban dual innovation: Evidence from China's biomedical industry	36
Exploring urban environmental semantics for air quality prediction using explainable multi-view spatiotemporal graph neural networks	36
Evolving food and beverage landscapes: A multidisciplinary inquiry into technological innovation, policy, and industry structure	35
Exploring spatiotemporal dynamics, seasonality, and time-of-day trends of PM2.5 pollution with a low-cost sensor network: Insights from classic and spatially explicit Markov chains	35
Identification of priority areas for public-access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in metropolitan areas: A case study in Hangzhou, China	35
Effectiveness variation of different census outreach activities: An empirical analysis from the state of Illinois using machine learning and user interface technologies for participatory data collecti	34
Associations between COVID-19 risk, multiple environmental exposures, and housing conditions: A study using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data	34
Blue-space availability, environmental quality and amenity use across contrasting socioeconomic contexts	34
Comparing methods for measuring park access and equity using US census microdata in metropolitan Miami	34
Assessing spatial configuration of barrier-free facilities from the perspective of age-friendliness: A case Study of Beijing, China	33
Daily changes in spatial accessibility to ICU beds and their relationship with the case-fatality ratio of COVID-19 in the state of Texas, USA	33
The impact of relatedness and unrelatedness on breakthrough innovation in China: Examining the role of complementary interregional linkages	33
Access and cost of primary educational services in plateau areas: A case study in Tibet, China	33
Long time-series change characteristics and suitable scale of oasis in arid and semi-arid regions of China	32
Using street view images and a geographical detector to understand how street-level built environment is associated with urban poverty: A case study in Guangzhou	32
Can polycentric cities provide more and higher-order consumer amenities? Evidence from shopping malls in China	31
Recognizing urban shrinkage and growth patterns from a global perspective	31
The impact of embodied land flow in interregional trade on carbon emissions in China	31
Measuring the spatial and size polycentricity: An empirical study of China's urban agglomerations using population distribution data	31
Modelling the Impacts of land finance on urban expansion: Evidence from Chinese cities	30
On framing flood risk communications through maps: Effects on the real estate market	30
The influence of two and three-dimensional spatial characteristics of industrial parks on the emotional well-being of employees: A case study of Shenzhen	29
Mapping local suitability for STEM work-related experiential opportunities in Georgia	29
From fun to function: PPGIS unlocks the power of play in cities	29
Gone with the epidemic? The spatial effects of the Covid-19 on global investment network	29
Characterising cropland fragmentation in post-Soviet Central Asia, using Landsat remote-sensing time series data	28
Bat bio-assisted sampling (BAS) for monitoring urban heat island	28
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Assessing the spatial variability of raising public risk awareness for the intervention performance of COVID-19 voluntary screening: A spatial simulation approach	28
Evaluating the relationship between data resolution and the accuracy of identified helicopter landing zones (HLZs)	28
Refining the scale of the rural-urban landscape: A policy-relevant application to Chile	27
Decadal beach-dune profile monitoring along a 230-km high-energy sandy coast: Aquitaine, southwest France	27
Anchored in place, driven by risk: How place attachment amplifies the household flood adaptation	27
Place attachment and lived values in Western Australian communities	27
Neighborhood externalities modify the nexus between residential land and housing prices: A joint analysis using regression tree models	27
A Planner's quest for identifying spatial (in)justice in local communities: A case study of urban census tracts in North Carolina, USA	27
Effectiveness of nature reserves in China: Human footprint and ecosystem services perspective	27
Developing a taxonomy framework for assessing human capital provision: A case study of Southern Italian municipalities	27
Public participation GIS can help assess multiple dimensions of environmental justice in urban green and blue space planning	27
Social and spatial heterogeneities in COVID-19 impacts on individual's metro use: A big-data driven causality inference	27

Assessing wildfire activity and forest loss in protected areas of the Amazon basin	27
Mapping liveability: The “15-min city” concept for car-dependent districts in Auckland, New Zealand	26
Identifying ecological degradation and restoration zone based on ecosystem quality: A case study of Yangtze River Delta	26
Associations between neighborhood compactness, perceived accessibility to urban amenities, and mental distress of older adults in a high-density city	26
Social and environmental vulnerability to flooding: Investigating cross-scale hypotheses	26
Spatially targeting national-scale afforestation for multiple ecosystem services	26
Maxent modeling for predicting the potential distribution of human-elephant conflict risk in Sri Lanka	25
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Decoding the dynamics and disparities of urban carbon intensity under the influence of land use and demographics from both global and local perspectives	25
Quantifying embodied cultivated land-use change and its socioeconomic driving forces in China	25
Burned area occurrence in agrarian reform settlement projects in the Matopiba region, Brazil	25
Testing an international and interregional inverse size-volatility hypothesis for invention	25
A GIS-based assessment of pedestrian accessibility to urban parks in the city of Constanța, Romania	24
Investigating the spatial clustering of drowning events in the United Kingdom: A geospatial cross-sectional study	24
Distinguishing the effects of land use policies on ecosystem services and their trade-offs based on multi-scenario simulations	24
What are the environmental preferences of runners? Evidence from Guangzhou	24
A multi-level framework for assessing the spatial equity of urban public space towards SDG 11.7.1 - a case study in Beijing	24
Trends and attributions of the long-term thermal comfort across the urban–rural gradient in major Chinese cities	24
Flooding and inequality: A multilevel analysis of exposure to floods and poverty in French cities	24
Mapping forest ecosystem service supply in two case studies in Latvia	24
Exploring the nonlinear effect of population shrinkage on carbon emission intensity in Chinese counties using an interpretable XGBoost model	23
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Variation in child care access across neighborhood types: A two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) approach	23
Space-time relationships between COVID-19 vaccinations and human mobility patterns in the United States	23
Mapping Emotional Attachment as a Measure of Sense of Place to Identify Coastal Restoration Priority Areas	23
Systemic planning vs. individual choice: The optimal matching for urban healthcare facilities and patient population	23
Exploring nonlinear effects of built environment on jogging behavior using random forest	22
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Hidden gateways to digital space—the spatial distribution of Wi-Fi networks in the context of demographic structure in rural areas	22
Trade-offs of landscape connectivity between regional and interregional ecological security patterns in a junction area of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region	22
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Investigating the diurnal effects of on-street population and streetscape physical environment on street theft crime: A machine learning and negative binomial regression approach using street view ima	22
Window Expeditions: A playful approach to crowdsourcing natural language descriptions of everyday lived landscapes	22
Sensing noise exposure and its inequality based on noise complaint data through vision-language hybrid method	22
High spatial resolution data obtained by GNSS and RPAS to assess islets flood-prone scenarios for 2100	22
Built environment and airbnb spatial distribution in Hong Kong: A case study considering the spatial heterogeneity and multiscale effects	22
Dynamic evaluation of cropland degradation risk by combining multi-temporal remote sensing and geographical data in the Black Soil Region of Jilin Province, China	22
Methodological framework for territorial planning of urban areas: Analysis of socio-economic vulnerability and risk associated with flash flood hazards	21
Riding through the heat: Assessing heat health risk of cycling based on diurnal temperature and shared-bike big data	21
Unveiling global energy inequality through the mismatch between embodied energy and value-added transfer	21
Exploring the factors influencing visits to urban parks: A case study of Beijing's central urban area	21
Revealing disparities and driving factors in leisure activity segregation of residents and tourists: A data-driven analysis of smart phone data	21
Exploring factors influencing the agglomeration of implicit consumption space: A comparison with explicit consumption space	21
Colonize the desert vs. retreat to the mountains: The evolution of city-water relationships in the Tarim river basin over the past 2000 years	21
Carbon emissions and government interventions in urban agglomerations of China: An integrated GWR and neural network approach	20
Grain-cropping suitability for evaluating the agricultural land use change in Brazil	20
Understanding the migration of highly and less-educated labourers in post-reform China	20
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Spatio-temporal agglomeration and morphological causes of Shanghai catering clusters	20
Unravelling urban typologies in Latin American cities: Integrating socioeconomic factors and urban configurations across scales	20
The evolution of public participation GIS (PPGIS) barriers in spatial planning practice	20
Artificial neural networks applied to landslide susceptibility: The effect of sampling areas on model capacity for generalization and extrapolation	20
Association between built environment factors and collective walking behavior in peri-urban area: Evidence from Chengdu	20
Mobilities and the flexible boundaries of the neighbourhood. A test with crime data in Barcelona	20
Understanding the role of regional cooperation in mitigating ecological footprint: An empirical analysis of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area	20
How do the characteristics of local officials affect land urbanization bubble? A case study of Hangzhou, China	20
Top-down versus bottom-up: Spatial pattern and human mobility of newly developing industrial towns in Chinese “city-NIT” network	20
Land use change analysis and modeling of its future trajectories in Morogoro Region, Tanzania: Implication for conservation	20
Is Germany experiencing urban or suburban growth? Contrasting long-standing and novel urban gradient classifications	20
Achieving win–win outcomes between urban growth and urban greening: The role of environmental governance	19
New trends in South-South migration: The economic impact of COVID-19 and immigration enforcement	19
Enhancing intercity transportation will improve the equitable distribution of high-quality health care in China	19
Geospatial modelling of housing rents from TOD using MGWR and implications on integrated transportation-land use planning	19
The health-trash nexus in challenging environments: A spatial mixed methods analysis of Accra, Ghana	19
Spatiotemporal differentiation of carbon budget and balance zoning: Insights from the middle reaches of the Yangtze River Urban Agglomeration, China	19
Do railways improve territorial cohesion of the Tibetan Plateau? A case study of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway	19
Have rural settlement changes harmed ecosystem carbon in China?	19
Where drinks and danger meet: Analyzing the spatial link between Bars and crime in Detroit	19
Introducing rational agent access model to enhance scene-to-hospital accessibility of emergency medical services	19
A framework for the optimal deployment of police drones based on street-level crime risk	19
Exploring local perspectives on flood risk: A participatory GIS approach for bridging the gap between modelled and perceived flood risk zones	19
Towards a socially resilient city: Healthcare accessibility and rural migrants’ identity integration in urban China	19
Does place-based policy increase new firm births? Evidence from special economic zones in China	19
Unplanned urban built-up growth creates problem in human adaptability: Evidence from a growing up city in eastern Himalayan foothills	19
Exploring the classification of China's ecosystem service networks and their driving factors based on current status and evolutionary trends	19
From trajectories to network: Delineating the spatial pattern of recreational walking in Guangzhou	19
Accessibility in São Paulo: An individual road to equity?	18
Landscape of multiculturalism in Australia: Tracking ethnic diversity and its relation with neighbourhood features in 2001–2021	18
Modelling locational choices of older adults in China, 2010–2015	18
Contrasting inequalities in collective residence-based and pedestrian-based urban greenery exposure with multi-sourced urban big data and deep learning	18

Heatwave exposure inequality: An urban-rural comparison of environmental justice	18
Spatial dynamics in the urban-rural-natural interface within a social-ecological hotspot	18
Governing regional inequality through regional cooperation? A case study of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay area	18
Effects of cluster plot design parameters on landscape fragmentation estimates: A case study using data from the Swedish national forest inventory	18
The role of Industry-University-Research collaboration in regional technological diversification: An empirical study on the pharmaceutical industry in China	18
Socio-economic vulnerability assessment of shifting cultivators (Jhumias) amidst the changing climate in Mizoram, northeast India	18
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Exploring the relationship between city size and carbon emissions: An integrated population-land framework	18
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Spatial and social heterogeneities of residents’ online shopping behaviors within a large Chinese city: The case of Weifang	17
Assessing the influence of variation in forage availability on spatial patterns of beehive migration using a hybrid modelling approach – B-Agent	17
Social ties and talent migration: Considering the intentions of migrants to permanently settle in Chinese cities	17
From Western centralism to decentralization: Trends, breakthroughs and limitations in the world city network based on the winter olympic games	17
Do carbon sequestration and food security in urban and rural landscapes differ in patterns, relationships, and responses?	17
The spatially and temporally varying association between mental illness and substance use mortality and unemployment: A Bayesian analysis in the contiguous United States, 2001–2014	17
The geography of perceived safety of the neighbourhood: An intersectional intercategorical analysis	17
Assessing the diversity and evenness of ecosystem services as perceived by residents using participatory mapping	17
Measuring cluster interactions through in-between areas in epidemic spatiotemporal dynamics	16
Determining the ecological compensation standards based on willingness to accept (WTA) for intensive agricultural production areas: A case in China	16
Coastal cities in the Southern US floodplains: An evaluation of environmental equity of flood hazards and social vulnerabilities	16
Geographical indications in cheese mountain areas: Opportunity or threat to landscape and environmental conservation? The case of Cabrales (Spain)	16
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Risk assessment of unlined oil pits leaking into groundwater in the Ecuadorian Amazon: A modified GIS-DRASTIC approach	16
Identification of spatial and functional interactions in Beijing based on trajectory data	16
Evaluation of traditional rain-fed agricultural terraces for soil erosion control through UAV observation in the middle mountain of Nepal	16
Beyond regional endogenous and firm-centric accounts: Contextualizing multiple and multiscalar industrial branching mechanisms for the emergence of biotechnology industries in Guangzhou, China	16
Estimating geographic access to healthcare facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa by Degree of Urbanisation	16
The impact of urbanization on urban flood risk of Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand	16
Nonlinear interactive associations between built environments and adults’ mental health in China using a longitudinal design	16
How migrant composition affects attitudes of urban locals in urban China: A two-scale study	16
Does community-based tenure prevent land grabbing? The oil palm case in Mexico	16
Summer electricity consumption and its drivers in urban areas	16
Geospatial evaluation of COVID-19 mortality: Influence of socio-economic status and underlying health conditions in contiguous USA	16
The uneven burden of COVID-19 in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil – Risk analysis from a bottom-up perspective	16
Assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of sustainable development goals on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau	16
Measuring the housing precarity of migrant private tenants and assessing its impact on their life satisfaction - evidence from Guangzhou, China	16
How does cultural distance affect tourism destination choice? Evidence from the correlation between regional culture and tourism flow	16
The rich-poor divide: Unravelling the spatial complexities and determinants of wealth inequality in India	16
Wildfire, evacuation, and cardiovascular events: A spatial exposure approach	16
Spatio-temporal heterogeneity and influencing factors in the synergistic enhancement of urban ecological resilience: Evidence from the Yellow River Basin of China	16
Spatiotemporal dynamics of non-floodplain ponded waterbodies in the upper Yangtze River Basin, China: A hydrological connectivity perspective	16
Measuring spatial mismatch in education capitalization via the housing market: An empirical study based on geographically weighted regression and Geodetector	16
Spatial nonstationarity and the role of environmental metal exposures on COVID-19 mortality in New Mexico	15
Domesticating sustainability transitions: Spatial and temporal variation of industrial eco-efficiency in China	15
Mapping urban emotion from geotagged social media data: Age, gender and spatial heterogeneity	15
Who, where, when: Observer behavior influences spatial and temporal patterns of iNaturalist participation	15
Disamenity effects of displaced villagers’ resettlement community on housing price in China and implication for socio-spatial segregation	15
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Geographical match of objective and subjective measures of well-being at an intra-city scale	15
Spatial and moderating effects of greenspace on the association between air pollution and lung cancer incidence	15
Construction of ecological security pattern adapting to future land use change in Pearl River Delta, China	15
Remapping California's wildland urban interface: A property-level time-space framework, 2000–2020	15
Can innovation-driven productivity mitigate infrastructure spatial inequality? Evidence from 282 prefecture-level cities in China	15
Livelihood changes of migrants due to hydropower construction: A case study from Southwestern China	15
Comparing the impacts of built environment across different objective life neighborhoods on the out-of-home leisure activities of employed people using massive mobile phone data	15
Visitation-based classification of urban parks through mobile phone big data in Tokyo	15
Understanding the structural imbalance in non-grain land Utilization: Insights from China's arable land policy	14
Assessing the conservation effectiveness of national nature reserves in China	14
The geographical aspect of place branding: Interactions between place brands in the spatial hierarchy	14
How transport shapes the landscape of large-format food retail trade? Retail geography in Poland – An interactive measure	14
Core-periphery disparity in community vitality in Chongqing, China: Nonlinear explanation based on mobile phone data and multi-scale factors	14
Corrigendum to “Strong increase in coverage but accelerated fragmentation in China's urban forests under rapid urbanization” [Applied Geography 185 (2025) 103793]	14
Dark kitchens and streetscapes: Exploring the location choices of ‘dark kitchens’ using street view imagery	14
Who you are versus where you are: Revealing the importance of determinants of within-city income inequality in China through an interpretable machine learning approach	14
Urban terrain, mountain landscape, and housing price: A heterogeneous investigation of the amenity effects in a mountainous city (Guiyang) from the vertical dimension	14
Effects of urban environmental factors on heat-related emergency medical services (EMS) response time	14
Modeling and prediction of fire occurrences along an elevational gradient in Western Himalayas	14
Spatial configuration and the Messina Strait question: A discussion on Reggio-Calabria and Messina road-networks linkage	14
From center to outlying areas: Navigating built-up land dynamics along urban-rural gradients in Global South megaregions	14
Regional entrepreneurial spirit and global value chains participation in Chinese cities: the moderating role of digital transformation signals	14
Impacts of land use metrics on urban stream health: Buffalo Creek, North Carolina, USA	14
Dynamic changes of the complex coupling relationships between ecosystem services and socio-ecological factors and the impact of human activities: Insights from network analysis	14
The impact of the built environment on human mobility patterns during Covid-19: A study of New York City's Open Streets Program	14