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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202305.1812.v1

Promoting Urban Health through the Green Building Movement in Vietnam: A Transdisciplinary Perspective

Thuy Thi Thu Nguyen, Michael Waibel

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Green building certification; green building movement; health co-benefits; sustainable buildings; transdisciplinary approach; users’ perspectives; urban health; Vietnam

Online: 25 May 2023 (14:13:06 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202305.1177.v1

Landscape Democracy and the Implementation of Renewable Energy Facilities

Finn Arler, Karl Sperling, Kristian Borch

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: renewable energy; wind turbines; PV-plants; energy planning; landscape democracy; landscape quality; citizen participation; green transition; principle of subsidiarity

Online: 17 May 2023 (03:48:10 CEST)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints202305.1149.v1

Crowdsourcing Intangible Heritage for Territorial Development: A Conceptual Framework considering Italian Inner Areas

Luca Tricarico, Edoardo Lorenzetti, Lucio Morettini

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: crowdsourcing; intangible heritage; territorial development; Italian inner areas; socially innovative strategies

Online: 16 May 2023 (10:15:39 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202305.0958.v1

From "Putting the Last First" to "Working With People" in Rural Development Research: A Bibliometric Analysis Using VOS Viewer

Adolfo Cazorla-Montero, Ignacio De los Ríos-Carmenado

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: rural development; sustainable development; planning; working with people

Online: 12 May 2023 (13:48:27 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202305.0800.v1

Calculating and Mapping Naturalness of Peri-Urban Forest Greenways: Gis vs Fieldwork

Aitor Àvila Callau, Yolanda Pérez-Albert, Jesús Vías Martínez

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: naturalness; greenway; trail assessment; peri-urban forests; GIS; fieldwork

Online: 11 May 2023 (05:30:44 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.1263.v1

The Use of GIS and Multicriteria Techniques for the Socio-Spatial Analysis of Urban Areas in Medium-Sized Spanish Cities

Francisco Cebrián Abellán, Gonzalo Andrés López, Carmen Bellet Sanfeliú

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Urban Areas; Medium Cities; Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Online: 30 April 2023 (05:05:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.1248.v1

Three Wind Farm Developments, Three Different Planning Difficulties: Cases from Denmark

Kristian Borch, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Sophie Nyborg

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Wind power planning; community concerns; controversies; overflowing; citizen participation

Online: 30 April 2023 (03:26:01 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.0498.v2

The Future of Fisheries Co-Management in The Context of Sustainable Blue Economy and Green Deal: There Is No Green Without Blue !

Stella Sofia Kyvelou, Dimitrios G. Ierapetritis, Michalis Chiotinis

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP); Green Deal; blue economy; fishing communities; fisheries co-management; climate change; local development; evolutionary governance; commonisation; blue equity; blue justice; Greece

Online: 29 April 2023 (05:06:02 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.0864.v1

Assessment of Economic Sustainability of Cropping Systems in the Salt-Affected Coastal Zone of West Bengal, India

Krishnendu Ray, Suman Mandal, Md. Jahangir Kabir, Sukamal Sarkar, Kalyan Roy, Koushik Brahmachari, Argha Ghosh, Manoj K Nanda, Sanchayeeta Misra, Supriya Ghorui, Rupak Goswami, Mohammed Mainuddin

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: sustainable intensification; rice-based cropping systems; risk analysis; stochastic dominance; economic sustainability

Online: 25 April 2023 (02:31:38 CEST)

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Identifying productive, profitable and less risky cropping systems is important for sustaining farm-based livelihoods in the context of climatic uncertainties and market volatility in many developing nations. Reductionist field crop research identifies the best-bet solutions based on treatment replicates at a single point in time, which may not account for price instability under climatic uncertainties and volatile markets. Keeping this in mind, we estimated productivity, profitability and weather-related risk from eleven different rice-based cropping systems (eight existing and three potential systems) in the coastal region of West Bengal, India. Information on the crop management practices, yield and prices of the component crops of these eleven cropping systems, under ’best,’ ’normal’ and ‘worst’ situations (scenario), were collected through a ques-tionnaire survey on50 farms of Gosaba Block, West Bengal, India. Irrespective of the scenarios, the rice-lathyrus systems, followed by rice-onion and rice-lentil systems recorded the lowest rice-equivalent yields and system yields. However, the highest rice-equivalent yields and system yields were recorded for rice-chilli systems, followed by rice-tomato and rice-potato-green gram systems. Per hectare total paid-out cost (TPC) of rice-tomato systems was higher, followed by rice-chilli, rice-potato-green gram and rice-potato systems. However, irrespective of seasonal conditions (best, normal and worst), rice-chilli systems gave a higher net return followed by rice-tomato and rice-potato-green gram systems. The rice-fallow system recorded the lowest value for both parameters. Under the worst seasonal conditions, the rice-onion system gave a negative net return. Under all the scenarios, the highest B:C ratio was observed for rice-chilli, rice-tomato, rice-potato-green gram and rice-potato systems. The cumulative probability distribution of the rice-tomato system showed first-degree stochastic dominance over other systems and the rice-chilli system showed second-degree stochastic dominance over the rest of the systems. Only the rice-onion system had a small chance (< 1%) of a negative net return, while the rest of the cropping systems were highly likely to get a positive net return. Taking productivity, economics, and risk assessment of different rice-based systems into account, rice-vegetable systems, especially rice-tomato and rice-chilli among the existing systems and rice-potato-green gram system among the potential systems, can be recommended for sustainable intensification in these coastal saline tracts of the region. We also discuss additional socio-economic factors explored by in-depth in-terviews with the farmers, which might influence the adoption and upscaling of these cropping systems in the region.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.0784.v1

Jane Jacobs’s Criteria for Urban Vitality: A Geospatial Analysis of Morphological Conditions in Quito, Ecuador

Nuria Vidal Domper, Gonzalo Hoyos Bucheli, Marta Benages Albert

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: urban vitality index; urban morphology parameters; comparative approach; Andean region; GIS tools

Online: 23 April 2023 (07:34:36 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.0498.v1

The Future of Fisheries Co-Management in The Context of Sustainable Blue Economy and Green Deal: There Is No Green Without Blue !

Stella Sofia Kyvelou, Dimitrios G. Ierapetritis, Michalis Chiotinis

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP); Green Deal; blue economy; fishing communities; fisheries co-management; climate change; local development; evolutionary governance; commonisation; blue equity; blue justice; Greece

Online: 18 April 2023 (07:08:37 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.0249.v1

The Impact of Special Character Areas on Property Values and Homeowners’ Experiences: Cases from Auckland, New Zealand

Lucy Rossiter, Kai Gu

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Special Character Areas; homeowner’s satisfaction; property value analysis; capital value; resource consent

Online: 12 April 2023 (07:23:41 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202303.0195.v1

E-waste Management in Communities: Gaps in the Law and a Review of Existing Policies, Thailand

Amonrat Ammartsena, Sinittha Ditthapan, Papichaya Leenapaesanan

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: E-waste management; environmental impact; environmental sustainability; WEEE

Online: 10 March 2023 (11:36:12 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202303.0137.v1

Review on the Rural Transformation Experiences of South Korea: Main Lessons that Ethiopia has enhanced to take into Considerations Regarding Rural Transformation

Dagim Amare Awoke, Ketemaw Melkamu

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Rural transformation; South Korea; Ethiopia; Rural

Online: 8 March 2023 (02:05:55 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202303.0104.v1

Women-oriented Evaluation of Perceived Safety of Walking Routes Between Home and Mass Transit: A Case Study and Methodology Test in Guangzhou

Qinyu Cui, Pixin Gong, Guang Yang, Shuyu Zhang, Yiting Huang, Shixuan Shen, Bingcai Wei, Yu Chen

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: perceived safety; women; urban science; mobile phone data; street view

Online: 6 March 2023 (13:15:01 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202301.0243.v1

The Expression of the Country’s Modernisation in the Context of Economics Environmental Sustainability: The Case of Lithu-ania

Olga Navickienė, Ieva Meidutė-Kavaliauskienė, Renata Činčikaitė, Mangirdas Morkūnas, Asta Valackienė

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: modernisation; economic sustainability; economic modernisation

Online: 13 January 2023 (08:24:42 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202301.0242.v1

Residents’ Perceptions on Ecosystem Services Provided by the Urban Green Spaces in Malaysia

Tan How Ying, Abu SMG Kibria, Tapan Kumar Nath

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Cities; urban residents; human perception; ecosystem services; nature-based so-lutions

Online: 13 January 2023 (07:56:25 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202212.0510.v1

Unstable Behavioural Pattern of Teesta River and its Impact on Riverine Dwellers: A Case Study of Confluence Area of Teesta and Dharala River, India

Mantu Das, Mst Tania Parveen, Deep Ghosh, Abhisek Sarkar, Jiarul Alam, Snehasish Saha

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: channel migration; riverine landscape; riverine dwellers; livelihood vulnerability index (LVI); river confluence; RS-GIS

Online: 27 December 2022 (06:48:21 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202212.0402.v1

Cultural Space Methodology on Assessment of Authenticity of Indigenous Community Forest and Conservation Area in Indonesia

Rizqi Abdulharis, Susilo Kusdiwanggo, Ida Nurlinda, Gustaff Harriman Iskandar, Angga Dwiartama, Andri Hernandi, Teguh Purnama Sidiq

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: cultural space; indigenous community; Indonesia; methodology

Online: 21 December 2022 (11:53:49 CET)

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Indigenous knowledge is proven to be one of the foundations of sustainable land and marine management. While indigenous knowledge is acknowledged as of important factors on maintenance of biodiversity of the planet, it also ensures the sustenance of social and economic system of indigenous community. To facilitate the application of indigenous knowledge on management of customary forest in Indonesia, since 2012, the Government of Indonesia has been providing formal access for indigenous communities to their forests to maintain forest sustainability and to enhance the welfare of indigenous community. Nonetheless, the achievement of sustainable development goals in the scope of forest and conservation area management is threatened by various competing interests and power imbalance, which mostly leads to conversion of naturally vegetated area, as well as the inability of the community to integrate new economic opportunities to its institution. Moreover, the Government of Indonesia has not been regulating the involvement of indigenous community on the management of conservation area. Most importantly, such a program provides no reference on indigenous community, especially on the assessment of authenticity of indigenous community’s forest. Cultural space methodology may fill the aforementioned gaps. The methodology was developed based on the notion of cultural space and land administration, particularly the people-and-land/marine space relationship. Moreover, such a methodology was also constructed based on the experiences of agricultural and maritime communities in Indonesia on the administration of their territories. The methodology provides a procedure to convert information on the interrelation of indigenous community, its cultural space in forest and conservation area, and indigenous knowledge into geospatial information and data that represent the cultural space unit as a geographic feature. Therefore, such methodology may be utilised to assess the authenticity of a long-existing relationship between a community, especially an indigenous one, and its land, particularly that serves conservational function.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202212.0338.v1

Tourism in Geography Textbooks in Secondary Education and High School. The Case of the Balearic Islands.

Miquel Angel Coll Ramis, Victor Picó Gutiérrez, Antoni Ordinas Garau

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: geography education; tourism education; curriculum; textbook; secondary education

Online: 19 December 2022 (10:09:48 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202211.0287.v1

The Impact of Socio-Economic Activities on the Housing Quality Index (HCI) Of the Urban Axis Network in Romania Case Study: Urban Axis in Bistrita-Nasaud County

Marius Alexandru Tătar, Ioan Bâca

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Housing Conditions Index; , the impact of the socio-economic; urban axis

Online: 15 November 2022 (10:58:16 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202211.0257.v1

The Role of Non-climate Data in Effective Climate Adaptation Planning: Lessons From Small French and American Cities

Elena Lioubimtseva, Charlotte Da Cunha

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: climate change adaptation; adaptation plan; small municipality; France, United States; climate services; information

Online: 14 November 2022 (11:10:35 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202210.0312.v1

From Wooded Savannah to Farmland and Settlement: Population Growth, Drought, Energy Needs and Cotton Price Incentives Driving Changes in Wacoro, Mali

Nagale Dit Mahamadou Sanogo, Sidzabda Djibril Dayamba, Fabrice G. Renaud, Melanie Feurer

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: land use; land cover; drivers; change; Sahel

Online: 20 October 2022 (13:31:37 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202210.0214.v1

How Schools Perceive the Rural Environment in the Iberoamerican Context: An Approach to Sustainability

Diego García Monteagudo, Nancy Palacios Mena, Carlos Fuster García, Liliana Pizzinato

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: rural environment; sustainability; educational projects; representation; school geography.

Online: 14 October 2022 (13:48:13 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202210.0147.v1

The Perception of Tourism Sustainability by Stakeholders. The Case Study of the “Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche” Nature Park, “Sierra Norte de Sevilla” Nature Park and “Sierra de Hornachuelos” Nature Park (Andalusia, Spain)

María Bahamonde-Rodríguez, F. Javier García-Delgado, Giedrė Šadeikaitė

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Protected areas; stakeholders; sustainable tourism; Sierra Morena

Online: 11 October 2022 (08:00:31 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202210.0054.v1

Analysis of the Spatio-temporal Rainfall Variability in Cameroon over the Period 1950 to 2019

Valentin Brice Ebodé

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Cameroon; rainfall; long-term variability; trend tests

Online: 6 October 2022 (08:17:50 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202209.0469.v1

Beyond the Smart or Resilient City: In Search of Sustainability in the Sojan Thirdspace

Philip Cooke

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Resilience; Entropy; Layering; Thirdspace; Unsmart

Online: 29 September 2022 (12:22:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202209.0420.v1

Refugee Appropriation of Inhospitable Urban Terrains: Learning from Jabar-Dakhal Colonies of Kolkata

Shreyasi Pal, Tapas Mitra

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Refugee Self-Settlement; Vulnerability; Post-Partition Kolkata; Jabar-Dakhal colony; Global South; Urban Ecology

Online: 27 September 2022 (10:17:21 CEST)

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Refugee subject position is an evolving topic of contention in the world today with increased migrant and refugee mobilities. Urban refugee spaces are often segregated in the form of colonies, ethnic villages, even ghettos, embodying institutionalised discourses of apathy and violence. These spaces only occupy the cracks and margins of the normative, formal city, as appropriations of inhospitable natural terrains and urban systems. The paper discusses how refugees compete for resources for survival as “bio-political” subjects and are often held summarily responsible for causing ecological stress in host environments. After the 1947 Partition of the Indian subcontinent, millions of Hindu Bengali refugees from East Pakistan flooded the Eastern Indian states of West Bengal, Assam and Tripura. Kolkata particularly drew millions for better livelihood prospects. Facing government apathy and local violence, East-Bengali refugees appropriated the urban fringes of Kolkata and claimed their right to urban space through the political act of squatting or Jabar-Dakhal. The intent of this paper is to investigate and map the spatial distribution of East-Bengali refugee squatters and elaborate on how they transformed the terrain and distributed resources through self-management tactics. This spatial history case-study attempts to uncover locational data from archival government records, existing academic literature and fieldwork to visualise where the 145 pre-1950 and the 123 post-1950 Jabar-Dakhal colonies were located in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. This case of successful refugee self-settlement is qualitatively read in relation to the major areas of ecological stress in Kolkata. One of the UN sustainable development goals is to make cities and human settlements ‘inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’. This paper hopes to encourage further studies of urban refugee self-settlement and local integration as a viable but complex socio-political-environmental process.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202209.0411.v1

Using GEOBIA and Vegetation Indices to Assess Small Urban Green Areas in Two Climatic Regions

Ana Maria Popa, Diana Andreea Onose, Ionut Cosmin Sandric, Evangelos A. Dosiadis, George P. Petropoulos, Athanasios Alexandru Gavrilidis, Antigoni Faka

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: small urban green areas; timeseries; GEOBIA; NDVI; MSAVI2; Planet

Online: 27 September 2022 (03:59:34 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202209.0181.v1

Methodology for Assessing the Tourist Potential of the Nature of the Fergana Valley using GIS Technologies and Experimental Methods

Tobirov Odiljon

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: geographical location; relief; climate; hydrographic; biological; comfort; grid index; 9 assessment; tourist route

Online: 13 September 2022 (13:39:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202209.0136.v1

Non-State Initiatives on Enhancing Counter Trafficking of Rohingya Influx in Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh

Edris Alam, Morshed Hossan Molla, Kamrul Islam, Md Rahman, Jishu Barua

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: human trafficking, counter trafficking, refugees, Rohingya, emergency response

Online: 9 September 2022 (10:07:45 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202208.0524.v1

The Current Development of Cross-Border Tourism Between Vietnam and China: A Perspective from Vietnam

Huy Van Duong, Thuy Thu Bui, Dung Tien Nguyen, Vien Van Vu

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Vietnam; China; Vietnam - China border; tourism; cross-border tourism

Online: 30 August 2022 (11:32:48 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202208.0332.v1

Confront or Comply? Managing Social Risks in China’s Urban Renewal Projects

Yetong Mai, Junzhu Wu, Qianying Zhang, Qiqi Liang, Yingying Ma, Zhuojun Liu

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: social risk; risk management; urban renewal; collectivism; China

Online: 18 August 2022 (07:41:22 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202207.0322.v1

The (big) Role of Family Constellations in Return Migration and Transnationalism

Bresena Kopliku, Elvisa Drishti

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Albania; family; migration; return; transnationalism

Online: 21 July 2022 (10:45:48 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202207.0028.v1

Zoning Strategy for Basin Land Use Optimization for Reducing Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution in Guizhou Karst Watershed

Xu Zhou, Wenbin Zhang, Yu Pei, Xiao Jiang, Shengtian Yang

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Total nitrogen; total phosphorous; land use; topographic slope position; pollution source control zoning

Online: 4 July 2022 (03:57:50 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202206.0347.v1

Commuting Analysis of the Budapest Metropolitan Area using Mobile Network Data

Gergő Pintér, Imre Felde

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: mobile network data; call detail records; data analysis; human mobility; urban mobility; social sensing; urban geography; urban sociology; commuting; sustainability

Online: 27 June 2022 (04:04:09 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202206.0153.v1

Governing Pandemic Waterscapes: Covid-19 and Nairobi Metropolitan Services as Co-Catalysts of Waterscape Changes

Sophie Schramm, Moritz Kasper, Emmanuel Mwenje, Simon Bohlen, Elizabeth Wamuchiru

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Urban waterscape; Covid-19; boreholes; urban governance; Nairobi

Online: 10 June 2022 (08:10:25 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0485.v2

Biodiversity Conservation of National Parks and Nature-protected Areas in West Africa: The Case of Kainji National Park, Nigeria

Xiao-lan Tang, John Adekunle Adesina

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: carbon storage & sequestration; climate change; habitat diversity; Kainji national park; protected areas; air quality

Online: 16 May 2022 (04:33:24 CEST)

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Due to rising global warming and climate change, biodiversity protection has become a critical ecological concern. The rich biodiversity zones are under threat and are deteriorating, necessitating national, regional, and provincial efforts to safeguard these natural areas. The effective conservation of National Parks and Nature-protected Areas helps to improve biodiversity conservation, forest, and urban air quality. The continuous encroachment and abuse of these protected areas have degraded the ecosystem over time. While exploring the geophysical ecology and biodiversity conservation of these areas in West Africa, Kainji National Park was selected for this study because of its notable location, naturalness, rich habitat diversity, topographic uniqueness, and landmass. The conservation of national parks and nature-protected areas is a cornerstone of biodiversity conservation globally. This study is aimed at the target of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13, 2030- Climate Action, targeted at taking urgent action towards combating climate change and its impacts. The study captures both flora and fauna that are dominant in the study area. The 15 identified tree species were selected from over 30 species with 563,500,000 (an average of 3,700,000 in each sample frame) trees for every tree species/type with a total of 63% tree green canopy cover. The study areas divided into three zones were randomly sampled within a stratum of 25x25km frames divided into 150 sample frames for proper analyses using the i-Tree Eco v6.0.23. The following microclimatic data were captured and analyzed; photosynthetically active radiation, rain/precipitation, temperature, transpiration, evaporation, water intercepted by trees, avoided a runoff by trees, potential evaporation by trees, isoprene and monoterpene by trees. This study also further discusses the tree benefits of a green, low carbon, and sustainable environment within the context of biodiversity conservation considering carbon storage, carbon sequestration, hydrology effects, pollution removal, oxygen production, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). There is a quick need for remotely-sensed information about the protected areas at regular intervals and government policies must be strict against illegal poaching, logging activities and other hazardous human impacts.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202205.0048.v1

Sustainable Development Goals and Land Tenure Security in Uganda

Teddy Triza Nakanwagi

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals; SDGs; land conflicts; land tenure security; Uganda

Online: 5 May 2022 (16:03:11 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202102.0492.v3

How Accurate are WorldPop-Global-Unconstrained Gridded Population Data at the Cell-Level?: A Simulation Analysis in Urban Namibia

Dana R. Thomson, Douglas R. Leasure, Tomas Bird, Nikos Tzavidis, Andrew J. Tatem

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: LMIC; Global South; indicator; Random Forrest

Online: 1 April 2022 (06:22:53 CEST)

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Disaggregated population counts are needed to calculate health, economic, and development indicators in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), especially in settings of rapid urbanisation. Censuses are often outdated and inaccurate in LMIC settings, and rarely disaggregated at fine geographic scale. Modelled gridded population datasets derived from census data have become widely used by development researchers and practitioners. These datasets are evaluated for accuracy at the spatial scale of the input data which is often much courser (e.g. administrative units) than the neighbourhood or cell-level scale of many applications. We simulate a realistic "true" 2016 population in Khomas, Namibia, a majority urban region, and introduce realistic levels of outdatedness (over 15 years) and inaccuracy in slum, non-slum, and rural areas. We aggregate these simulated realistic populations by census and administrative boundaries (to mimic census data), and generate 32 gridded population datasets that are typical of a LMIC setting using WorldPop-Global-Unconstrained gridded population approach. We evaluate the cell-level accuracy of these simulated datasets using the original "true" population as a reference. In our simulation, we found large cell-level errors, particularly in slum cells, driven by the use of average population densities in large areal units to determine cell-level population densities. Age, accuracy, and aggregation of the input data also played a role in these errors. We suggest incorporating finer-scale training data into gridded population models generally, and WorldPop-Global-Unconstrained in particular (e.g., from routine household surveys or slum community population counts), and use of new building footprint datasets as a covariate to improve cell-level accuracy. It is important to measure accuracy of gridded population datasets at spatial scales more consistent with how the data are being applied, especially if they are to be used for monitoring key development indicators at neighbourhood scales with relevance to small dense deprived areas within larger administrative units.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0153.v1

Experience Them, Love Them, Protect Them—Has the Pandemic Changed People’s Perception of Urban and Suburban Green Spaces and Their Conservation Targets?

Christian Plecak, Donna Tansil, Karolina Taczanowska, Alexandra Jiricka-Pürrer

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: pandemic; green areas; protected areas; urban planning; visitor management; protected area management

Online: 11 January 2022 (18:23:29 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0437.v1

Determinants of Smallholder Households’ Resilience to Livelihood Insecurity in Goncha District, Northwest Highlands of Ethiopia

Ermias Debie, Amare Wubishet Ayele

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Mixed farming; Household resilience; livelihood insecurity; Diversification; structural equation model

Online: 27 December 2021 (15:51:04 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0412.v1

Assessing Accessibility of Footpath-Level Walkability in Old Core Cities of India for Promoting Universal Mobility through Architectural Planning Research: Case Study of Central Kolkata, India

GAURAB DAS MAHAPATRA, Suguru Mori, Rie Nomura

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Walkability; Central Kolkata; Accessibility, Universal Mobility; Architectural Planning Research; Accessibility Audit

Online: 24 December 2021 (23:22:11 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0121.v1

Agent-Based Modelling of Urban District Energy System Decarbonisation – A Systematic Literature Review

Ardak Akhatova, Lukas Kranzl, Fabian Schipfer, Charitha Buddhika Heendeniya

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: agent-based modelling; agent-based simulation; urban energy system; district energy system; systematic literature review; net-zero energy district; positive energy district

Online: 8 December 2021 (12:06:02 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202111.0534.v1

Research on Regional Differences and Influencing Factors of Chinese Industrial Green Technology Innovation Efficiency Based on Dagum Gini Coefficient Decomposition

Liyuan Zhang, Pengzhen Liu, Heather Tarbert, Qingyu Bu

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Industrial green technology innovation efficiency; Dagum Gini coefficient; spatial econometrics; Regional differences

Online: 29 November 2021 (12:34:49 CET)

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Industrial green technology innovation has become an important content in achieving high-quality economic growth and comprehensively practicing the new development concept in the new era. This paper measures the efficiency of industrial green technology innovation and regional differences based on Chinese provincial panel data from 2005 to 2018, using a combination of the super-efficient SBM model for considering undesirable outputs and the Dagum Gini coefficient method, and discusses and analyses the factors influencing of the industrial green technology innovation efficiency by constructing a spatial econometric model. The results show that: firstly, the industrial green technology innovation efficiency in China shows a relatively stable development trend, going through three stages: " stationary period", " recession period " and "growth period ". However, the efficiency gap between different regions is obvious, specifically in the eastern > central > western regions of China, and the industrial green technology efficiency innovation in the central and western regions is lower than the national average. Secondly, regional differences in the efficiency of industrial green technology innovation in China are evident but tend to narrow overall, with the main reason for the overall difference being regional differences. In terms of intra-regional variation, variation within the eastern region is relatively stable, variation within the central region is relatively low and shows an inverted 'U' shaped trend, and variation within the western region is high and shows a fluctuating downward trend. Thirdly, the firm size, government support, openness to the outside world, environmental regulations and education levels contribute to the efficiency of industrial green technology innovation. In addition, the industrial structure hinders the efficiency of industrial green technology innovation, and each influencing factor has different degrees of spatial spillover effects.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202111.0485.v1

Analysis on Spatio-temporal Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Industrial Green Innovation Efficiency——From the Perspective of Innovation Value Chain

Liyuan Zhang, Pengzhen Liu, Heather Tarbert

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Industrial green innovation efficiency; Innovation value chain perspective; Super-efficient network SBM model; Spatial Dubin model

Online: 25 November 2021 (16:06:00 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202111.0265.v1

Changes of Dynamics in Local Productive Systems Based on the Iberian Pig Transformation Industry in Western Sierra Morena (Spain)

Antonio Pizarro-Gómez, Giedrė Šadeikaitė, F. Javier García-Delgado

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Local Productive Systems; Meat Industries for the Transformation of the Iberian Pig; business processes; territorial processes; labour processes.

Online: 15 November 2021 (13:46:19 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202111.0095.v1

Temporal and Spatial Impacts of Land Transfer on PM2.5 Concentration in 285 Cities of China

Ling Feng Song, Yan Fei Feng

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: PM2.5; GDP; MGWR; land transfer; industrial structure

Online: 4 November 2021 (08:57:00 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202110.0149.v1

Quantifying Land Fragmentation Metrics for Cattle Enterprises in Northern Ireland

Georgina Milne, Andrew Byrne, Emma Campbell, Jordon Graham, John McGrath, Raymond Kirke, Wilma McMaster, Jesko Zimmermann, Adewale Henry Adenuga

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Farm fragmentation; Land fragmentation; cattle farming; agricultural productivity; Northern Ireland

Online: 9 October 2021 (13:47:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0434.v1

The Association between Fast Food Outlets and Overweight in Adolescents Is Confounded by Neighbourhood Deprivation: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study

Mark Green, Matt Hobbs, Ding Ding, Michael Widener, John Murray, Lindsay Reece, Alex Singleton

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: fast food; neighbourhood; deprivation; overweight; obesity; adolesence; confounding

Online: 24 September 2021 (12:51:26 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0282.v1

An Assessment of Storm Surge Risk in Coastal Communities in the Rio Grande Valley

Dean Kyne

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: storm surge; coastal region; flooding risk; Rio Grande Valley

Online: 16 September 2021 (11:52:36 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0382.v1

Crime Prevention Based on the Strategic Mapping of Living Conditions

Nicklas Guldåker, Per-Olof Hallin, Kim Nilvall, Manne Gerell

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: living conditions; crime prevention; crime-exposed areas; strategic mapping; GIS; Police

Online: 18 August 2021 (14:04:19 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0228.v1

Urban Planning, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence: The Theory of Evolution

Anutosh Das

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Urban Planning, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Smart Cities, E-Governance, E-participation and M-participation

Online: 10 August 2021 (10:12:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0206.v1

An Approach to Delineate Potential Groundwater Zones in Kilinochchi District, Sri Lanka, Using GIS Techniques

Vyddiyaratnam Pathmanandakumar, Nadarajapillai Thasarathan, Manjula Ranagalage

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Remote sensing; GIS; AHP; Groundwater potential zone; Weighted overlay analysis; Kilinochchi

Online: 9 August 2021 (16:56:29 CEST)

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The scarcity of surface water resources in the dry season in the Kilinochchi district increases the demand for freshwater. Therefore, the existing groundwater resources should be managed to overcome the situation. Several authors worldwide have published studies on the delineation of potential groundwater zone. However, only a few studies addressed the delineation of potential groundwater zones in the Kilinochchi district. This study aims to delineate potential groundwater zones in Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka using integrated Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems, and Analytic Hierarchy Process techniques. Groundwater potential zones are demarcated for the Kilinochchi district by overlaying thematic layers: geology, geomorphology, land use/land cover, soil types, drainage density, slope, lineament, and rainfall. Saaty's scale was applied to the assigned weights of the chosen thematic layers and their features. The thematic layers were integrated into a Geographic Information System, and a weighted overlay analysis is carried out to delineate groundwater zones. Thus the resultant map is categorized into five different potential zones: very low, low, moderate, high, and very high. It was found that the very high groundwater potential zone is mainly found in the north-eastern part of the study area covering 111.26 km2. The upper north-western, middle, and eastern parts of the study area fall within the high groundwater potential zone covering about 507.74 km2. The moderate groundwater potential zones (309.89 km2) mainly occurred in the western part, and the extreme west part of the study area falls under low (207.78 km2) and very low (59.12 km2) zones. The groundwater potential map was validated with the existing seventy-nine wells, which indicated a good prediction accuracy of 81.8%. This research will help policymakers better manage the Kilinochchi district's groundwater resources and gives scope for further research into groundwater exploration in the area.

Working Paper REVIEW

Machine Learning of Spatial Data

Behnam Nikparvar, Jean-Claude Thill

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: spatial machine learning; spatial dependence; spatial heterogeneity; scale; spatial observation matrix; learning algorithm; deep learning

Online: 6 August 2021 (14:18:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202107.0199.v1

Satellite-Based Human Settlement Datasets Inadequately Detect Refugee Settlements: A Critical Assessment of Area, Accuracy, and Agreement at Thirty Refugee Settlements in Uganda

Jamon Van Den Hoek, Hannah K. Friedrich

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: informal settlements; population; displacement; GHS; WSF; HRSL; GRID3; sub-Saharan Africa

Online: 8 July 2021 (11:48:58 CEST)

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Satellite-based broad-scale (i.e., global and continental) human settlement data offer foundational information for diverse applications spanning climate hazard mitigation, sustainable development monitoring, spatial epidemiology, and demographic modeling. While many human settlement products report exceptional detection accuracies above 85%, there is a substantial blind spot in that product validation is typically centered on large urban areas rather than rural, small-scale settlements that are home to 3.4 billion people. In this study, we make use of a data-rich collection of 30 refugee settlements in Uganda to produce a targeted assessment of small-scale settlement detection by four broad-scale human settlement products: Global Human Settlements Built-Up Sentinel-2 (GHS-BUILT-S2), World Settlement Footprint (WSF), High Resolution Settlement Layer (HRSL), and Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development (GRID3). We measured each product’s areal coverage within refugee settlements, assessed product detection accuracies in comparison to an independent dataset of 317,416 refugee settlement building footprints, and examined agreement between products. For refugee settlements established before 2016, the human settlement products had a low median F1-Score (F1) of 0.24, a high median false alarm rate of 0.59, and tended to only agree at locations of highest building density. Individually, WSF entirely overlooked 8 of the 30 study refugee settlements (median F1=0.17); GHS-BUILT-S2 underestimated the building footprint area by a median 50% (F1=0.15); GRID3 overestimated the building footprint area by a median 280% (F1=0.38); and HRSL underestimated the median area by 7% (F1=0.34). All products suffer from low detection accuracy and high false alarm rates, but GRID3 and HRSL, based on 0.5 meter resolution imagery, offer better detection accuracy than GHS-BUILT S2 and WSF, which are based on 10-30 meter resolution imagery. These results show that human settlement products have far to go in providing an accurate depiction of small-scale refugee settlements and would benefit from incorporating refugee settlements in training and validation of broad-scale human settlement detection.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202105.0410.v1

Developing an Integrative Theoretical Framework for Climate Proofing Spatial Planning Across Sectors, Policy Levels and Planning Areas

Maria Juschten, Florian Reinwald, Roswitha Weichselbaumer, Alexandra Jiricka-Pürrer

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: climate proofing; spatial planning; climate change adaptation; framework; cross-regional; integral; co-benefits

Online: 18 May 2021 (10:21:27 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202102.0492.v2

How accurate are WorldPop-Global-Unconstrained gridded population data at the cell-level?: A simulation analysis in urban Namibia

Dana R. Thomson, Douglas R. Leasure, Tomas Bird, Nikos Tzavidis, Andrew J. Tatem

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: LMIC; Global South; indicator; Random Forrest

Online: 17 May 2021 (15:54:59 CEST)

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Disaggregated population counts are needed to calculate health, economic, and development indicators in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), especially in settings of rapid urbanisation. Censuses are often outdated and inaccurate in LMIC settings, and rarely disaggregated at fine geographic scale. Modelled gridded population datasets derived from census data have become widely used by development researchers and practitioners. These datasets are evaluated for accuracy at the spatial scale of the input data which is often much courser (e.g. administrative units) than the neighbourhood or cell-level scale of many applications. We simulate a realistic "true" 2016 population in Khomas, Namibia, a majority urban region, and introduce realistic levels of outdatedness (over 15 years) and inaccuracy in slum, non-slum, and rural areas. We aggregate these simulated realistic populations by census and administrative boundaries (to mimic census data), and generate 32 gridded population datasets that are typical of a LMIC setting using WorldPop-Global-Unconstrained gridded population approach. We evaluate the cell-level accuracy of these simulated datasets using the original "true" population as a reference. In our simulation, we found large cell-level errors, particularly in slum cells, driven by the use of average population densities in large areal units to determine cell-level population densities. Age, accuracy, and aggregation of the input data also played a role in these errors. We suggest incorporating finer-scale training data into gridded population models generally, and WorldPop-Global-Unconstrained in particular (e.g., from routine household surveys or slum community population counts), and use of new building footprint datasets as a covariate to improve cell-level accuracy. It is important to measure accuracy of gridded population datasets at spatial scales more consistent with how the data are being applied, especially if they are to be used for monitoring key development indicators at neighbourhood scales with relevance to small dense deprived areas within larger administrative units.

Working Paper ARTICLE

Future Shift for ‘Big Things’: From Starchitecture via Agritecture to Parkitecture

Philip Cooke

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: 'Big Things'; Starchitecture; Agritecture; Parkitecture; Urban Prairies

Online: 5 April 2021 (16:02:43 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0150.v1

Assessing Urban Land use Change in New Braunfels, Texas from 2013 to 2020

Mayowa Lasode, Ikechukwu Esobi, Chijioke Anyanwu, Damilola Lasode

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Change detection; NDVI; Landsat; Land cover land use change; Urban environment

Online: 7 December 2020 (12:44:21 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0387.v1

Environmental Diversity Assessment to Enhance Attractineness of Eco-tourism in Asir Region, Saudi Arabia

Jamilah Al Mohaya, Mena Elassal

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: environmental diversity; eco-tourism; Asir region; GIS; RS

Online: 17 September 2020 (08:06:50 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0368.v1

Boom Bust Economy and Social-ecological System Relationship

Xiaohui Liu, Michael Ungar, Jen McRuer, Daniel Blais, Linda Theron, Matthew Schnurr

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Boom bust economy; Resilience; Single industry; Social ecological system; Sustainable development

Online: 17 September 2020 (03:29:07 CEST)

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This paper reports on the changing dynamics of a small town’s social-ecological system (SES) concerning oil and gas industry boom-bust economic cycles and both the vulnerability and resilience of the town over the past 30 years. With the goal to understand how resource-based single industry impact social-ecological systems, we developed indicators of human and environmental well-being and assessed them. Seven indicators include labor force distribution, education, oil price, household income, water quality, air quality, and land cover land use. Over this period, Drayton Valley, Canada quadrupled in size, with more than 20% of the population working in the oil and gas sector. Median income rose to 42% above the national average despite the population lagging national benchmarks for educational attainment. There have also been dramatic fluctuations in levels of fluoride, phosphorus, and other chemicals in water quality samples, implying a correlation with fossil fuel extractive activities over this period. Land cover land use change analysis shows a decreased area of water bodies, wetland, and forests, and increased built capital and agricultural land. While economic boom cycles have led to cash inflows, an exclusive focus on the benefits of the oil and gas industry may leave those dependent on the industry vulnerable to social and environmental risk factors during bust cycles that are beyond their control in the everchanging global oil economy. This phenomenon which has been referred to as the “resource curse” suggests the need to anticipate cyclical (or more sustained) periods of low levels of oil and gas production. These results suggest that single boom-bust economies impact every aspect of social-ecological systems. Therefore, a sustainable development plan that comprehensively considers not only economic growth, but also diversification, environment protection, and strategic land use planning is indispensable to ensure the long-term development of communities that depend upon extractive industries.

Preprint COMMUNICATION | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0359.v1

Land Use Differences Across Socioeconomic Boundaries and Implications for Air Quality

Daniel L. Mendoza

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Land Cover; LIDAR; Sociodemographics; Built Environment; Urban Form; Air Quality; Social Justice; Environmental Justice; Policy; Localized Action.

Online: 16 September 2020 (11:15:01 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0289.v1

Application of Geo-informatics Technology to Access the Surface Temperature Using LANDSAT 8 OLI/TIRS Satellite Data: A Case Study in Ampara District in Sri Lanka

Ibra Lebbe Mohamed Zahir

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: land surface temperature; operational land imager; thermal infrared sensor; normalized difference vegetation Index; geospatial technology

Online: 13 September 2020 (15:28:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0277.v1

Where Do Ecosystem Services Come From? Assessing and Mapping Stakeholder Perceptions on Water Ecosystem Services

Enrica Garau, Josep Vila-Subiros, Josep Pueyo-Ros, Anna Ribas Palom

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: socioecological systems; water ecosystem services; participatory mapping; stakeholder values; spatial analysis; river basin

Online: 13 September 2020 (11:43:38 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0213.v1

Spatial Analysis of Disinformation in COVID-19 Related Tweets

Amir Masoud Forati, Rina Ghose

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: twitter; discourse analysis; Covid-19; Coronavirus; disinformation; misinformation; social media activity; downplay

Online: 10 September 2020 (03:28:01 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0195.v1

Public Participation in Smart-City Governance: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Public Comments in Urban China

Zhe Gao, Siqin Wang, Jiang Gu

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: urban governance; public participation; public comments; web-crawling data; qualitative content analysis; urban China

Online: 9 September 2020 (03:37:38 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0190.v1

Examining the Change of Human Mobility Adherent to Social Restriction Policies and its Effect on COVID-19 Cases in Australia

Siqin Wang, Yan Liu, Tao Hu

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: human mobility; COVID-19 spread; global pandemic; social restriction policy; Australia

Online: 8 September 2020 (11:31:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0087.v1

Supporting Children’s Independent Activities in Smart and Playable Public Places

Chiara Garau, Alfonso Annunziata

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: public space; smart-city; children; affordance; Sardinia

Online: 4 September 2020 (07:41:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0048.v1

Estimating the Impacts of Urban Planning Concepts on Reducing Urban Sprawl Using Certain Spatial Indicators

Bolormaa Batsuuri, Christine Fürst, Buyandelger Myagmarsuren

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: urban planning; land management; urban sprawl; spatial analysis

Online: 3 September 2020 (03:59:55 CEST)

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Numerous cities in our modern world are unfortunately encountering the negative effects of urban sprawl: this includes unrestricted settlement, degradation in the quality of their environment, traffic congestion, sub-standard buildings, and air pollution as well as flooding, swampy areas, landslides, and settlement zones with dilapidated utilities and infrastructures that are not safe for living. The Ulaanbaatar City land management master plan defined the settlement zone area suitable for living as 33,698 hectares. However, due to unrestricted urban sprawl caused by exponential growth of the city’s population, the settlement zone area reached 39,235 hectares, which exceeds the limit by 5,537 hectares. In order to tackle this issue, several urban planning concepts were developed to be implemented within the Ulaanbaatar City urban planning framework. It is, in any case, problematic to choose a single planning concept due to the fact that neither measurements nor analyses are being made of the respective spatial quantitative indicators in urban planning assumptions that are taking the current situation into consideration. One of the prerequisites for identifying an optimal concept in urban planning is an assessment of the current situation, and measuring the impacts against its quantitative data. In the current research, when defining Ulaanbaatar city sprawl, the base year was selected as 1990, the time when the city started to sprawl. Research analyses were made using geographic information systems based on the satellite data 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005 Landsat ТМ-5, 2010 Quickbird, 2015 World View and 2020 Sentinel2, respectively. Based on the results of determining the city sprawl using spatial indicators, the urban planning concepts applied thus far have been analyzed in relation to land use efficiency and land use structural changes. This research paper addresses the issue of reducing unrestricted urban sprawl by increasing the internal density of the city. The research results show that, by applying the concept of a compact city in urban redevelopment planning for 4,604 hectares, and by allocating the settlements in 12,479 hectares, it is possible to reduce the urban expansion threefold and increase land use efficiency accordingly.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0695.v1

Intention of Tourism Practitioners to Behave Actively Prevent COVID-19 in Zhangjiajie

Hongjiu Tang, Zhaoyin Liu

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Tourism livelihood income; prevent COVID-19; protective intention; merged model; local tourism practitioners

Online: 31 August 2020 (04:37:04 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0671.v1

GIS and Remote Sensing Based Physical Land Suitability Analysis for Culitivation OF Selected Cool Weather Cereal Crops, Misha District, Hadiya Zone, South Central Ethiopia

Solomon Abebe

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Land Suitability Analysis; Major crops; Land Management practice

Online: 30 August 2020 (15:07:23 CEST)

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This study to assess the Physical Land Suitability Analysis for Cultivation of Selected Cool Weather Cereal Crops, Misha District, Hadiya Zone, South Central Ethiopia of major cereal crops of barley and teff in Misha district. Each of the criteria was separately reclassified and analyzed for their suitability for supporting barley and teff crops based on the FAO crop requirements specified for them. The major data sources were climatic data, soil, LGP and topographic data as well as key informant interview, questioner observation of crop requirements which have been considered to undertake suitability assessments of the study area. The factor maps like land use /land cover, temperature, rain fall, soil type and altitude were classified based on suitability evaluation methods of FAO and experts’ opinion. At final stage these were reclassified and standardized in GIS software extension tools, which led to the preparation of suitability analysis map of the major crops plant suitability classes. As part of spatial MCDM, AHP pair wise comparison module was used to derive internal and external weights for each individual factors and parameters respectively. Consequently, suitability analysis was done and weighted overlay suitability map was visualized with integration of GIS. The findings show that among total area of land suitability maps for both barley and teff cops were using weighted overlay techniques. The suitability map of teff crop shows that 12,038.22 hectare of the investigated area are highly suitable (S1), 19,646.07 hectare moderately suitable (S2) and 4,501.71 hectare marginally suitable (S3) and 112 hectare not suitable. On the other hand, the suitability map of barley crop shows that 7,898.52 hectare of the investigated area are highly suitable (S1), 22,830.08 hectare moderately suitable (S2), and 5,466.4 hectare marginally suitable (S3) and 103 hectare not suitable for economic reasons (N1). This was done for barley and Teff crops separately. Results of the study revealed that most of the lands in the study area are suitable for the cultivation of the selected crops and other crops. Based on finding, it could be recommended that this work would be used as policy guide for planners; investment could be successful in the District, further suitability research works should be carried out in order to optimize the major crop cultivation and production.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0620.v1

Parks are Critical Urban Infrastructure: Perception and Use of Urban Green Spaces in NYC During COVID-19

Bianca Lopez, Christopher Kennedy, Timon McPhearson

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Urban green space; COVID-19; urban parks; open space; New York City; urban infrastructure; equity

Online: 27 August 2020 (12:33:15 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0579.v1

Suitability Analysis for Moringa Oleifera Tree Production in Ethiopia - A Spatial Modelling Approach

Shimelis Sishah

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: SAHP (Spatial Analytical Hierarchy Process); Moringa Oleifera; multicriteria evaluation; GIS (Geographic Information System)

Online: 26 August 2020 (10:35:37 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0499.v1

Application of NDVI in Environmental Justice, Health and Inequality Studies – Potential and Limitations in Urban Environments

Carsten Juergens, Matthias Fabian Meyer-Heß

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: greenspace; NDVI; environmental justice; greenness; Sentinel; satellite; urban green; health equity

Online: 24 August 2020 (03:07:41 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0487.v1

Extracting Reliable Twitter Data for Flood Risk Communication using Manual Assessment and Google Vision API from Text and Images

Xiaohui Liu, Bandana Kar, Francisco Alejandro Montiel Ishino, Chaoyang Zhang, Faustine Williams

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Twitter; data reliability; risk communication; data mining; Google Cloud Vision API

Online: 22 August 2020 (02:32:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0364.v1

60 Years in 100 Days: How COVID-19 Exposes the Lethality of Social Inequality

Gabriella Emilly Pessoa, Valdir Adilson Steinke

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: coronavirus; urban socio-spatial vulnerability; health inequity; pandemic outbreak

Online: 17 August 2020 (11:42:07 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0480.v1

Emergence Aiming Innovation for Sustainability

Fátima Lanhoso, Denis A. Coelho

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: unsustainabiliy; complex systems; holism; systemic approach; creative emergence; causal emergence; downward causation; macroscale; microscale; synergy

Online: 21 July 2020 (11:43:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0401.v1

21st Century Technology Renascence A Driven Impacting Factor For Future Energy, Economy, Ecommerce, Education, or Any Other E-Technologies

Bahman Zohuri

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Modern Technology; Traditional Technology; Technology Renascence; E-Banking; Ecommerce; Education; Energy; Economy and Other E-Technologies; Artificial Intelligence; Business Intelligence

Online: 17 July 2020 (16:14:26 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0371.v1

The Regional Pattern and Hierarchical Tendencies of Service-Oriented Tourist City Network: A Connectivity Analysis of 63 Cities in China

Hongjiu Tang, Jigang Bao

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: tourism geography; city connectivity; tourism services value; functional role; urban urbanhierarchy; regional pattern

Online: 17 July 2020 (09:09:52 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0270.v1

Volunteered Geographic Information Users Contributions Pattern and its Impact on Information Quality

Amir Masoud Forati, Rina Ghose

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: VGI; Crowdsourcing; data quality; OSM; Volunteered geographic information; user participation; contribution pattern; OpenStreetMap

Online: 12 July 2020 (17:02:31 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0257.v1

The Rio Olympic Games: A Look into City Dynamics through the Lens of Twitter Data

Ana Condeço-Melhorado, Inmaculada Mohino, Borja Moya-Gómez, Juan Carlos García-Palomares

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Twitter; Spatiotemporal analysis; Mega-events; Olympic Games

Online: 12 July 2020 (14:25:23 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0072.v2

Gridded Population Survey Sampling: A Review of the Field and Strategic Research Agenda

Dana R. Thomson, Dale A. Rhoda, Andrew J. Tatem, Marcia C. Castro

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: census; survey design; household survey; LMIC; WorldPop; LandScan

Online: 19 April 2020 (08:09:23 CEST)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0242.v3

Need for an Integrated Deprived Area “Slum” Mapping System (IDeAMapS) in LMICs

Dana Thomson, Monika Kuffer, Gianluca Boo, Beatrice Hati, Tais Grippa, Helen Elsey, Catherine Linard, Ron Mahabir, Catherine Kyobutungi, Joshua Maviti, Dennis Mwaniki, Robert Ndugwa, Jack Makau, Richard Sliuzas, Salome Cheruiyot, Kilion Nyambuga, Nicholus Mboga, Nicera Wanjiru, Joao Porto De Albuquerque, Caroline Kabaria

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: satellite imagery; social indicator; urban; poverty; SDG

Online: 15 April 2020 (10:19:27 CEST)

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Preprint COMMUNICATION | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0445.v1

International Tourism and COVID-19: Recovery Strategies for Tourism Organisations

Wadim Strielkowski

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: international tourism; coronavirus; COVID-19; post-viral tourism; recovery strategies

Online: 31 March 2020 (05:00:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0243.v1

R Script for Classifying Patterns of Urban Growth

Joan Perez, Alexandre Ornon, Hiroyuki Usui

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: classification; morphology; geoprocessing; variography; geostatistics

Online: 15 March 2020 (12:50:52 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0213.v1

Extending the Concept of City for the Delineation of Large Urban Regions (LUR) for the Cities of the World

Celine Rozenblat

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: cities; definition; megalopolis; large urban regions; functional urban regions; urban agglomerations; world; statistical delineation; comparative urban research

Online: 12 March 2020 (13:55:54 CET)

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Working Paper ARTICLE

Land Use and Land Cover Changes in the Centre Region of Cameroon

Tchindjang Mesmin, Saha Frédéric, Voundi Eric, Mbevo Fendoung Philippes, Ngo Makak Rose, Issan Ismaël, Tchoumbou Frédéric Sédric

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: agricultural activities; central region; forest cover depletion; LULC; urbanization

Online: 18 February 2020 (10:54:53 CET)

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Cameroon territory is experiencing significant land use and land cover (LULC) changes since its independence in 1960. But the main relevant impacts are recorded since 1990 due to intensification of agricultural activities and urbanization. LULC effects and dynamics vary from one region to another according to the type of vegetation cover and activities. Using remote sensing, GIS and subsidiary data, this paper attempted to model the land use and land cover (LULC) change in the Centre Region of Cameroon that host Yaoundé metropolis. The rapid expansion of the city of Yaoundé drives to the land conversion with farmland intensification and forest depletion accelerating the rate at which land use and land cover (LULC) transformations take place. This study aims at assessing the impacts of both agriculture and urbanization on the LULC change in the Centre Region of Cameroon. A detailed LULC map from MAPBOX high resolution images and three LULC maps were produced from Landsat TM-OLI images (1984-2015). A maximum likelihood classification techniques using ERDAS Imagine, showed forest decline with a total loss of 54% in thirty years. Also, Landsat and MAPBOX images to which we added 1951 aerial photograph and SPOT 6 (2006) were used to analyse urban growth in the city of Yaoundé. The results show a remarkable urban spatial spread of the metropolis between 1951 and 2015, with a peak in 2000. Images processing enabled us to analyse the long term dynamics of LULC change since the 1950s in this Region using ArcGIS & QGIS software’s. Based on this dynamic, a LULC projection map was produced using Markov model on IDRISI Selva, demonstrating the decrease of the dense forest (45% in 2015 to 0.25% in 2050). It was estimated that by 2050, the entire dense forest can be depleted if nothing is done, while only 12.67% of the secondary forest would remain in the Region. Such a projected map is very useful to decision makers for council development and urban planning. This effective forest depletion ties with the hypothesis that urbanization of Yaoundé and its secondary surrounding satellite cities (within a radius of 30-100km) is a veritable driving force of deforestation.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201912.0292.v1

Analysis of Spatial Interaction between Different Food Cultures in South and North of China — Practices from People's Daily Life

Haiping Zhang, Xingxing Zhou, Yi Huang

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: cultural differences; spatial interaction patterns; emotion analysis; Zhihu topic data; cultural geography

Online: 22 December 2019 (10:05:48 CET)

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As an important research content in cultural geography, the exploration and analysis of the laws of regional cultural differences has great significance for the discovery of distinctive cultures, protection of regional cultures and in-depth understanding of cultural differences. In recent years, with the "spatial turn" of sociology, scholars are paying more and more attention to the implicit spatial information in social media data and the various social phenomena and laws they reflect. One important aspect is to grasp the social cultural phenomena and its spatial distribution characteristics through the text. Using machine learning methods such as the popular natural language processing (NLP), this paper can not only extract hotspot cultural elements from text data but also accurately detect the spatial interaction pattern of some specific cultures and the characteristics of emotions towards non-native cultures. Taking the 6,128 answers to the question “what are the differences between South and North China that you never know” on the Zhihu Q&A Platform as an example, with the help of NLP, this paper has explored the cultural differences between South and North China in people’s mind. This paper probes into people’s feeling and cognition of the cultural differences between South and North China from three aspects, including spatial interaction patterns of hotspot cultural elements, components of hotspot culture and emotional characteristics under the influence of cultural differences between North and South. The study reveals that 1) people from North and South China have great differences in recognizing each other’s culture. 2) Food culture is the most popular among many cultural differences. 3) People tend to show negative attitude towards the food cultures different from their own. All these findings shed light upon the understanding of regional cultural differences and addressing cultural conflicts. In addition, this paper also provides an effective solution to the study from a macro perspective, which have been difficult for new cultural geography.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201912.0268.v1

A Time and a Place for Everything: Aligning Community-Engaged Research to Context

Jonathan K. London, Krista A. Haapanen, Ann Backus, Savannah Mack, Marti Lindsey, Karen Andrade

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: environmental health science; community engagement; community based participatory research; community-university partnerships

Online: 20 December 2019 (07:07:29 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201912.0251.v1

Use of Land Use Change Analysis between 2012–2018 to Assessment of Sustainable Development in Europe

Piotr Gibas, Agnieszka Majorek

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: sustainability development; land use change; Corine Land Cover

Online: 19 December 2019 (07:21:51 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201912.0152.v1

Is Amending Section 25 of the South African Constitution an End to the Land Reform Debate?

Joseph Lekunze, Usapfa Luvhengo

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: land expropriation; intra-racial tension; social cohesion; political and traditional elitism; marginalised landless majority

Online: 11 December 2019 (11:38:36 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201912.0007.v1

Annual Projections of Future Built-Settlement Expansion Using Relative Changes in Projected Small Area Population and Short Time-Series of Built-Extents

Jeremiah J. Nieves, Maksym Bondarenko, Alessandro Sorichetta, Jessica E. Steele, David Kerr, Alessandra Carioli, Forrest R. Stevens, Andrea E. Gaughan, Andrew J. Tatem

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: urban; growth model; forecast; built; settlement; machine learning; time series

Online: 2 December 2019 (05:15:03 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0277.v1

An Ecological Interpretation of the Return of Mom-and-Pop Stores in South Korea: A Sustainable Commercial Format-Enhancing Urban Diversity or Just a Temporary Trend?

Juil Kim

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: urban diversity; commercial landscape; small retail unit; mon-and-pop store

Online: 24 November 2019 (13:21:12 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0187.v1

Strengthening Participation using Interactive Planning Support Systems: A Systematic Review

Johannes Flacke, Rehana Shrestha, Rosa Aguilar

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: maptable; interactive PSS; collaborative planning; PSS; stakeholders; participation

Online: 16 November 2019 (00:49:02 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0072.v1

Gridded Population Survey Sampling: A Review of the Field and Strategic Research Agenda

Dana R. Thomson, Dale A. Rhoda, Andrew J. Tatem, Marcia C. Castro

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: census; survey design; household survey; LMIC; WorldPop; LandScan

Online: 7 November 2019 (04:22:37 CET)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0242.v2

Critical Commentary: Need for an Integrated Deprived Area “Slum” Mapping System (IDeAMapS) in LMICs

Dana Thomson, Monika Kuffer, Gianluca Boo, Beatrice Hati, Tais Grippa, Helen Elsey, Catherine Linard, Ron Mahabir, Catherine Kyobutungi, Joshua Maviti, Dennis Mwaniki, Robert Ndugwa, Jack Makau, Richard Sliuzas, Salome Cheruiyot, Kilion Nyambuga, Nicholus Mboga, Nicera Wanjiru, Joao Porto De Albuquerque, Caroline Kabaria

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: satellite imagery; social indicator; urban; poverty; SDG

Online: 24 October 2019 (10:57:05 CEST)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0242.v1

Critical Commentary: Need for an Integrated Deprived Area “Slum” Mapping System (IDeAMapS) in LMICs

Dana Thomson, Monika Kuffer, Gianluca Boo, Beatrice Hati, Tais Grippa, Helen Elsey, Catherine Linard, Ron Mahabir, Catherine Kyobutungi, Joshua Mulandi, Dennis Mwaniki, Robert Ndugwa, Jack Makau, Richard Sliuzas, Salome Cheruiyot, Kilion Nyambuga, Nicholus Mboga, Nicera Wanjiru, Joao Porto De Albuquerque, Caroline Kabaria

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: satellite imagery; social indicator; urban; poverty; SDG

Online: 21 October 2019 (06:40:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0051.v1

The Character of Urban Japan: Overview of Osaka-Kobe’s Cityscapes

Joan Perez, Alessandro Araldi, Giovanni Fusco, Takashi Fuse

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: urban structure; urban form; urban fabric; Japan; Osaka

Online: 4 October 2019 (11:52:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201909.0320.v1

Water, Livelihoods and Migration in SIDS: Climate Change and Future Prospects for Carriacou, West Indies

Adrian Cashman, David Yawson

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: water; agriculture; migration; caribbean sids; climate change

Online: 29 September 2019 (02:54:00 CEST)

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