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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 REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0114.v1

The Critical Nexus and Implications of Smallholder Tobacco Production as a Livelihood Strategy to Forest Landscapes in Zimbabwe

Tariro Kamuti

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: tobacco; forest resources; deforestation; livelihoods; institutions; governance; landscape; land degradation; climate change

Online: 10 April 2018 (08:04:02 CEST)

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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:10.3390/sci1010014.v1

Perspectives on Agricultural Land Use Conversion and Food Security in Rural Ghana

Divine Odame Appiah, Felix Asante, Bernice Nketiah

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: agriculture land use; conversion; peri-urbanization; food security; Asante-Akim South; Ghana

Online: 18 March 2019 (00:00:00 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201706.0037.v1

Public Perceptions and Practices of Recycling in the City of Laramie in Wyoming

Upendra B. Bom, Shashidhar Belbase, Reni Bibriven Lila

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: recycling; public participation; public perception; recycling behavior; environment

Online: 6 June 2017 (09:35:32 CEST)

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Preprint COMMENT | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0166.v1

Regional Inequality in Underdeveloped Areas: A Case Study of Guizhou Province in China

Wei Sun, Xiaona Lin, Yutian Liang, Lu Li

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Regional inequality; Multilevel regression; Markov chain; Guizhou Province

Online: 17 August 2016 (12:58:58 CEST)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints201609.0040.v1

The Challenging Shift to a Circular Economy: The Relevance of Social Ecology in Effective Transition

Saleem H. Ali

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: circular economy; social ecology; consumerism; dialectical naturalism; mining

Online: 12 September 2016 (09:55:09 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0172.v1

The Political Ecology of Chinese Large Dams in Cambodia: Implications, Challenges and Lessons Learnt from the Kamchay Dam

Giuseppina Siciliano, Frauke Urban, May Tan-Mullins, Lonn Pichdara, Sour Kim

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: hydropower; political ecology; social and environmental impacts; Cambodia; China

Online: 18 August 2016 (05:47:15 CEST)

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Preprint CASE REPORT | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0105.v1

Blending Science and Community Voices for Multi-Scale Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Resilience: A Participatory Scenario Planning Approach

Alebachew Adem Nurye

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Climate change; disaster risk reduction; participatory scenario planning; pastoralism; Ethiopia

Online: 10 August 2016 (10:14:00 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0183.v3

Creole Hens and Ranga-Ranga: Campesino Foodways and Biocultural Resource-Based Development in the Central Valley of Tarija, Bolivia

Katherine L. Turner, Iain J. Davidson-Hunt, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, Ian Hudson

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: biocultural resources; biocultural design; alternative food networks; sustainable rural development; local food systems; Bolivia

Online: 8 September 2016 (10:19:43 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201607.0091.v1

Quantifying the spatiotemporal patterns of urbanization along urban-rural gradient with a roadscape transect approach: a case study in Shanghai, China

Zhonghao Zhang, Yao-Jen Tu, Xin Li

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: urban-rural gradient; spatiotemporal patterns; landscape metrics; a roadscape transect approach; rapid urbanization; Shanghai

Online: 29 July 2016 (08:06:50 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201612.0001.v1

Sustaining Regional Advantages in Manufacturing: Skill Accumulation of Rural-Urban Migrant Workers in the Coastal Area of China

Huasheng Zhu, Junwei Feng, Maojun Wang, Fan Xu

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: skill accumulation; regional advantages; rural-urban migrant workers; global production networks; upgrading

Online: 1 December 2016 (09:42:02 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0173.v1

Technologies and Applications Concomitant with Web-Based GIS

Sadiq Mukhtar

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: web-based GIS; application; architectures; technology

Online: 18 August 2016 (06:07:05 CEST)

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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/preprints201703.0165.v1

Effectiveness Regulation of Construction Land: Does Plan Matter?

Guan Li, Cifang Wu, Yuefei Zhuo, Xinhua Tong, Yanfei Wei, Rucheng Lu

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Regulation Effectiveness; Land Use Plan; Construction Land; China

Online: 20 March 2017 (18:42:46 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0301.v1

Geostatistics and Digital Social Networks—A Study of Tourism Dynamics in “Alta and University of Coimbra” (UNESCO world Heritage Site)

José Gomes dos Santos, Liliana Raquel Simões de Azevedo, Joaquim António Saraiva Patriarca, Luis Carlos Roseiro Leitão

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: geostatistics; spatial modeling; KDE; OHSA; IDW; tourism; Coimbra

Online: 30 January 2019 (05:21:59 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0027.v2

Remote Sensing Image Registration Using Multiple Image Features

Kun Yang, Anning Pan, Yang Yang, Su Zhang, Sim Heng Ong, Haolin Tang

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: remote sensing; image registration; multiple image features; different viewpoint; non-rigid distortion

Online: 13 June 2017 (09:52:10 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0084.v1

Spatial Movement of Urban Beggars in Denpasar City

Putu Indra Christiawan, I Gede Astra Wesnawa, Aprilia Riszi Indah Dewi Shara

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: urban beggars; spatial movement; socio-religious

Online: 9 May 2017 (11:04:35 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201908.0066.v1

Rethinking Sustainable Development Using Deep Ecology and Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems: Implications for Protected Areas Management

Kofi Akamani

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Anthropocene; resilience; social-ecological systems; sustainability; transitions; wilderness

Online: 6 August 2019 (03:36:20 CEST)

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Since the late 1980s the idea of sustainable development has been gaining widespread recognition as a guiding framework for policies on development and the environment. However, the concept of sustainable development has received a number of criticisms, including its over-emphasis on meeting human needs through economic growth, as well as its failure to recognize dynamic human-environment interactions. In response to these shortfalls, the concepts of resilience and adaptive governance have emerged as alternative perspectives for pursuing sustainable development. Resilience in social-ecological systems emphasizes the capacity of coupled human-environment systems to deal with change while continuing to develop. Adaptive governance relies on diverse and nested institutional mechanisms for connecting actors across multiple scales to manage conflicts and uncertainties in ecosystem management processes. However, the ethical dimensions of resilience and adaptive governance have not received enough attention. A promising ethical perspective for guiding policies on human-environment interactions is the philosophy of deep ecology which highlights the need for recognition of the intrinsic values of all living things, as well as the nurturing of ecological and cultural diversity. We argue that an integration of the principles of deep ecology and adaptive governance provides a complementary set of ethical principles and institutional attributes that offers better prospects for pursuing sustainable development in the era of the Anthropocene. The implications of this integrative agenda include: adoption of a holistic conception of dynamic human-environment interactions; recognition of diverse knowledge systems through an anti-reductionist approach to knowledge; promotion of long term sustainability through respect for ecological and cultural diversity; and embracing decentralization and local autonomy. We further illustrate this integrative agenda using the management of protected areas as a case study.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201702.0104.v1

Towards a Rural Sustainable Development? Contributions of the EAFRD 2007-2013 in Low Demographic Density Territories. The case of Extremadura (SW Spain)

Gema Cárdenas Alonso, Ana Nieto Masot

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Sustainable rural development; EAFRD; LEADER Approach; GIS; Principal Component Analysis

Online: 28 February 2017 (12:16:38 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201703.0154.v1

The Assessment of Sustainability Indicators in the Villagers’ Lives in Iran with Emphasis on Natural Hazards: A Case Study

Beniamino Murgante, Mohamad Salmani, Mohamad Molaei Qelichi, Mehdi Hajiloo

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: sustainability indicators, natural hazards, earthquake, ELECTRE

Online: 20 March 2017 (09:13:28 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0027.v1

Different Viewpoints Image Registration for Remote Sensing Based on Multiple Image Features

Kun Yang, Anning Pan, Yang Yang, Su Zhang, Sim Heng Ong

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: remote sensing; image registration; multiple image features; different viewpoints; non-rigid distortion

Online: 3 May 2017 (09:00:42 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 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 ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201902.0087.v1

NoiseModelling: An Open Source GIS Based Tool to Produce Environmental Noise Maps

Erwan Bocher, Gwenaël Guillaume, Judicaël Picaut, Gwendall Petit, Nicolas Fortin

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Noise mapping; END directive; GIS; open source; standards, road traffic; population exposure

Online: 11 February 2019 (09:48:53 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201611.0050.v1

Road Trip in China: The Mediation Effect of Perceived Value and Tourist Satisfaction on the Relationship between Destination Image and Loyalty

Bin Wang, Zhaoping Yang, Fang Han, Hui Shi

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Road trip; Destination image; Perceived value; Tourist satisfaction; Destination loyalty; China

Online: 9 November 2016 (09:43:58 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201707.0067.v1

A Risk Management Assessment of Rural Villages in Abhar County, Iran Using Spatial Analysis and Disaster Readiness Surveys

Mehdi Hajilo, Lori Pennington-Gray, Vahid Riahi, Amir Talkhab

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: spatial analysis; risk taking; preparedness of local population; the City of Abhar

Online: 24 July 2017 (12:40:30 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/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/preprints201704.0008.v1

A Preliminary Study on Connectivity and Perceived Values of Community Landscapes

Sohyun Park

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Ecological sustainability; Landscape connectivity, Green spaces, Resident perception, Master-planned community, Phoenix

Online: 3 April 2017 (17:03:32 CEST)

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Green spaces in residential community is important, yet understudied, feature as an urban ecological system. While large urban parks and remnant wildlands in urban areas tend to receive a public attention from conservation and management perspectives, less is known for the importance of spatial and ecological characteristics of the community-scale landscapes. This study investigates natural elements in four planned communities in Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona, two of which represent conventional type of neighborhood and the other two exemplify the community development with a proclaimed vision of sustainability. These distinct type of communities, which capture variations in age, location, open space type, and a cross-section of housing density, are compared with regard to landscape connectivity as a means of gauging ecological condition for community sustainability. Using Geographical Information System and landscape connectivity indices, each community’s landscape features including size, physical connectedness and ecological potential were examined. Furthermore, a questionnaire survey was performed to examine the perceptional differences between the two types of community residents. The findings demonstrate that the green spaces in conventional communities are more physically connected than the counterparts, but the naturalness and ecological quality manifested by the amount of the land that may serve as potential urban desert habitats were higher in the sustainable communities. The results of the survey indicated that the respondents inhabiting in sustainable communities possess a higher level of satisfaction than the people in conventional type of community due mainly to the amount of, easy access to, and perceived ecological values of, green spaces in their neighborhoods and surrounding areas. The study concludes that careful community design with ecological consideration can help create sustainable communities which can benefit both site-scale ecosystems and perceived human well-being.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0207.v1

Are spatial planning objectives reflected in the evolution of urban landscape patterns? A framework for the evaluation of spatial planning outcomes

Simona Raluca Gradinaru, Cristian Ioan Ioja, Ileana Pătru Stupariu, Anna M. Hersperger

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: planning evaluation, spatial planning objectives, urban landscape, spatial multi-criteria analysis, romania, switzerland

Online: 30 May 2017 (06:24:58 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0232.v1

Cadastre-Land Registry Coordination in Spain: Application of Law 13/2015 and Its Effects

Carmen Femenia-Ribera, Gaspar Mora-Navarro

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: cadastre; land registry; notary; cartography; geomatic; coordination; GML; land surveyors

Online: 28 March 2018 (04:45:38 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0174.v1

An Agent-Based Modeling Framework for Simulating Human Exposure to Environmental Stresses in Urban Areas

Liang Emlyn Yang, Peter Hoffmann, Jürgen Scheffran, Sven Rühe, Jana Fischereit, Ingenuin Gasser

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: environmental stress; human exposure; agent-based model; air pollution; urban heat wave; exposure modeling; climate change

Online: 27 February 2018 (05:12:24 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0183.v2

Creole Hens and Ranga-Ranga: Campesino Foodways and Biocultural Resource-Based Development in the Central Valley of Tarija, Bolivia

Katherine L. Turner, Iain J. Davidson-Hunt, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, Ian Hudson

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: biocultural resources; biocultural design; alternative food networks; sustainable rural development; local food systems; Bolivia

Online: 25 August 2016 (08:16:15 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0183.v1

Creole hens and ranga-ranga: Campesino foodways and biocultural resource-based development in the Central Valley of Tarija, Bolivia

Katherine L. Turner, Iain J. Davidson-Hunt, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, Ian Hudson

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: biocultural resources; biocultural design; alternative food networks; sustainable rural development; local food systems; Bolivia

Online: 20 August 2016 (05:27:26 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0187.v1

Impacts of Urbanization of Mountainous Areas on Resources and Environment: Based on Ecological Footprint Model

Yu Ding, Jian Peng

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: mountainous areas; urbanization; ecological footprint; Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture

Online: 19 January 2018 (14:46:38 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201706.0070.v1

An Exploratory Assessment of Significant Tourism Sustainability Indicators for a Montane-Based Route in the Drakensberg Mountains

Sarudzai Mutana, Geoffrey Mukwada

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Tourism sustainability; Indicators; mountain tourism; route tourism; Drakensberg Mountains

Online: 15 June 2017 (18:36:11 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0085.v1

Principles and Applications of the Global Human Settlement Layer as Baseline for the Land Use Efficiency Indicator –SDG 11.3.1

Michele Melchiorri, Martino Pesaresi, Aneta J. Florczyk, Christina Corbane, Thomas Kemper

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: SDG11; Land Use Efficiency; Open Data, GHSL; Landsat; Urbanization; Urban expansion; Population mapping

Online: 4 October 2018 (15:35:06 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201703.0154.v2

A Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Approach to Evaluate the Sustainability Indicators in the Villagers’ Lives in Iran with Emphasis on Earthquake Hazard: A Case Study

Beniamino Murgante, Mohamad Salmani, Mohamad Molaei Qelichi, Mehdi Hajilo

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: sustainability indicators; natural hazards; earthquake; ELECTRE

Online: 24 August 2017 (12:37:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0179.v1

Effects of Commercial Activities by Type on Social Bonding and Place Attachment in Neighborhoods

Byungsuk Kim, Jina Park

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: place attachment; commercial type; commercial activities; social bonding, physical activities

Online: 20 March 2018 (11:08:30 CET)

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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/preprints201709.0139.v1

Coupling Uncertainties with Accuracy Assessment in Object-based Slum Detections, Case Study: Jakarta, Indonesia

Jati Pratomo, Monika Kuffer, Javier Martinez, Divyani Kohli

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Accuracy; Uncertainties; Object-Based; Slums; Jakarta

Online: 27 September 2017 (16:45:25 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0064.v1

Restoration Experience Measurement Methods in Contact with Green Open Spaces

Fahimeh Malekinezhad, Hasanuddin bin Lamit

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: restoration experience; Biophilia Hypothesis; Stress Recovery Theory (SRT); Attention Restoration Theory (ART); Supportive Environment Theory (SET)

Online: 8 January 2018 (10:58:02 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 ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201903.0255.v1

Spatialities of Dog Theft: A Critical Perspective

Daniel Allen, Adam Peacock, Jamie Arathoon

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: dog theft; pet theft; dogs; pets, crime; animal geography; GIS

Online: 28 March 2019 (06:40:57 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0192.v1

Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Social and Environmental Changes Affecting Everglades National Park in South Florida, U.S.A

Michael A. Schuett, Yunseon Choe, David Matarrita-Cascante

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Everglades National Park; stakeholders’ perceptions; social and environmental changes; sustainable management

Online: 11 July 2018 (06:23:56 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201907.0014.v1

Synergies and Trade-offs in the Sustainable Development Goals – the Implications of the Icelandic Tourism Sector

David Cook, Nína Saviolidis, Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir, Lára Jóhannsdóttir, Snjólfur Ólafsson

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: decision-making; tourism; sustainable development goals; Iceland; synergies; trade-offs

Online: 1 July 2019 (12:10:11 CEST)

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The development of major economic sectors can provide the bedrock on which long-lasting national economic prosperity is formed. Iceland’s tourism sector is an example of a rapidly expanded industry in recent years, to the extent that it has become the largest sectoral contributor to the nation’s economy. The growth of the sector has led to a number of sustainability impacts, thus presenting opportunities and challenges in terms of meeting the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. Using the case study of Iceland, this paper aims to advance conceptual understanding of the synergies and trade-offs between a nation’s tourism sector and performance across the 169 targets of the SDGs. Empirical results were derived from four theme-based focus groups, comprised of expert participants, who were tasked with completing scoresheets concerning their perception of the extent of synergies and trade-offs for each target. The majority (126 in number) of the mean scoresheet outcomes for the SDG targets revealed neither synergies nor trade-offs. However, 32 synergies and 11 trade-offs were identified. Many of the target synergies related to new economic opportunities, such as jobs, employment and training for young people. Target trade-offs tended to be environmental and social. In particular, concern was voiced about the greenhouse gas emissions of the Icelandic tourism sector, which derives from international aviation, cruise ships and rental car usage. The outcomes of this study are of particular relevance to tourism companies, policy-makers and governance institutes, all of whom are increasingly endeavouring to link their activities with the fulfilment of the SDGs, maximising synergies, mitigating the extent of any potential trade-offs, and potentially transforming trade-offs into synergies. Furthermore, the results are likely of interest to academics focused on researching the broad sustainability impacts of economic sectors and their contribution to meeting the visionary goals of the SDGs.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0032.v1

What do Users Really Want? Participatory Development of Decision Support Tools for Environmental Management based on Outcomes.

Richard J. Hewitt, C.J.A. Macleod

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Environmental decision support systems; applications; outcome-based approach; adaptive management; user requirements; environmental management; participatory land planning

Online: 6 October 2017 (08:51:07 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/preprints201801.0103.v1

How Manufacturing Affects the Development of World City: A Case Study of Guangzhou in China

Wei Li, Desheng Xue, Xu Huang

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: manufacturing; world city; sustainable development; Guangzhou China

Online: 11 January 2018 (16:16:02 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0399.v1

Beyond Bioproductivity: Engaging Local Perspectives in Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment

Stefanie Herrmann, Abdoul Aziz Diouf, Ibrahima Sall

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: land degradation; participatory methods; photo elicitation; Sahel; local knowledge; remote sensing

Online: 28 May 2018 (10:40:11 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0196.v1

What Do Global Metrics Tell Us About The World?

John Rennie Short, Justin Vélez-Hagan, Leah Dubots

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: global indices, global metrics, global society, new global geographies, principal components analysis.

Online: 11 September 2018 (12:05:12 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 ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0255.v1

Agricultural Land Conversion, Land Economic Value, and Sustainable Agriculture: A Case Study from East Java, Indonesia

Mohammad Rondhi, Pravita A. Pratiwi, Vivi T. Handini, Aryo F. Sunartomo, Subhan A. Budiman

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: agricultural land conversion; land economic value; urbanization; land rent

Online: 12 October 2018 (05:18:09 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0296.v1

Linking Synthetic Populations to Household Geolocations: A Demonstration in Namibia

Dana R. Thomson, Lieke Kools, Warren C. Jochem

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: simulation; census; simpop; LMIC

Online: 19 June 2018 (11:13:23 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0165.v1

Measuring Subjective Flood Resilience in Suburban Dakar: a before-after Evaluation of the “Live with Water” Project

Patrick Bottazzi, Mirko Winkler, Sebastien Boillat, Mashoudou Maman Chabi Sika, Arsène Kpangon, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Urban resilience, flood resilience programme, robust evaluation, subjective resilience, Senegal, Africa, BACI

Online: 11 June 2018 (16:52:35 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/preprints201908.0262.v1

Landscape Changes and their Impacts on Land Surface Temperature in Tropical Hill Stations in South Asia: A Case Study of Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka

Manjula Ranagalage, Yuji Murayama, DMSLB Dissanayake, Matamyo Simwanda

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: land use and cover; land surface temperature; built-up land; agricultural land; gradient analysis; Nuwara Eliya; Sri Lanka

Online: 26 August 2019 (05:07:33 CEST)

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Although urbanization has contributed to improving living conditions, it has had negative impacts on the natural environment in the urbanized areas. Urbanization has changed the urban landscape and resulted in increasing land surface temperature (LST). Thus, studies related to LST in various urban environments have become a popular research topic. However, few LST studies focusing on the mountain landscapes (i.e. hill stations) have been carried out. The primary objective of this study is to investigate changes in the landscape and their impacts on LST intensity (LSTI) in the tropical mountain city of Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. The study utilized annual median temperatures extracted from Landsat data collected from 1996 to 2017 based on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) interface. The fractions of built-up (BL), forest (FL), and agricultural (AL) land were calculated using land use and cover maps based on the urban-rural zone (URZ) analysis. The urban-rural margin was demarcated based on the fraction of BL (<10%) and LSTI was measured using the mean LST difference in the urban-rural zone. In addition, the mixture of land use types was calculated using the AL/FL and BL/FL fraction ratios, and grid-based density analysis. The result shows that the BL in all URZ rapidly developed, while AL decreased during the period 1996 to 2017. There was minimal change in the forest area of the Nuwara Eliya owing to the government forest preservation policies. The fraction of the BL increased from 32.4% in 1996 to 58.7% in 2017 in the city center zone (URZ₁) resulting in increased mean LST by 4.7 °C. Furthermore, the increase of the BL/FL fraction ratio and the decrease of the AL/FL fraction ratio were positively correlated with the mean LST. Grid-based analysis showed an increasing positive relationship between mean LST and density of BL. This indicated that BL density has been a crucial element in increasing LST in the study area. The results of this study will be a useful indicator to introduce improved landscape and urban planning in the future to minimize the negative impact of LST on urban sustainability.

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/preprints201810.0431.v1

Urban Resilience Discourse Analysis: Towards a Multi-Level Approach to Cities

Mikhail Rogov, Celine Rozenblat

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: urban resilience; regional resilience; sustainability; cities; multi-level approach; complex systems; panarchy; adaptive cycles

Online: 19 October 2018 (04:16:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201906.0222.v1

Water Metabolism in Tourist Destinations in Coastal Towns in Alicante (Spain): Actions to Increase Resilience to Drought

Carlos Baños, María Hernández, Antonio M. Rico, Jorge Olcina

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: water consumption; water metabolism; tourism destination; resilience; non-conventional water resources; sustainable tourism; overtourism; shortage; Spain

Online: 22 June 2019 (11:52:42 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0298.v1

The Impact of the Comprehensive Rural Village Development Project on Rural Sustainability in Korea

Jaehee Hwang, Jonghoon Park, Seongwoo Lee

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: policy evaluation; sustainable rural policy; spatial econometrics model; decomposition method; South Korea

Online: 22 May 2018 (10:53:25 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0114.v1

Urban Chickens as a Pathway for Human Illness? An Examination of Knowledge, Behavior, and Risk

Stella Capoccia, Michael Masters, Scott Risser

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: urban chickens; poultry; disease transmission; food security; risk; exposure; locavore; urban agriculture

Online: 17 February 2018 (13:01:41 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201902.0188.v1

Territorial Competitiveness Revisited from the Resource-Based View: A Comparative Study in the Wind Energy Sector on Islands

Francisco Santana-Sarmiento, Francisca Rosa Álamo-Vera, Petra De Saá-Pérez

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Resource-based view, regional competitiveness, renewable energy, wind power, island

Online: 20 February 2019 (10:59:22 CET)

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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 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/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/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.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201907.0053.v1

Sustainability, Innovation and Rural Development: The Case of Parmigiano-Reggiano Pdo

Filippo Arfini, Federico Antonioli, Elena Cozzi, Michele Donati, Marianna Guareschi, Maria cecilia Mancini, Mario Veneziani

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: sustainability, innovation, local agri-food system, rural development

Online: 3 July 2019 (09:09:02 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/preprints201906.0049.v1

An Agent-Based Model Simulation of Human Mobility Based on Mobile Phone Data: How Commuting Relates to Congestion

Hao Wu, Lingbo Liu, Yang Yu, Zhenghong Peng, Hongzan Jiao, Qiang Niu

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: mobile phone data; residents commuting behavior; agent-based model; urban planning; traffic congestion

Online: 6 June 2019 (11:31:48 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 REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0226.v1

How is Australia Adapting to Climate Change Based on a Systematic Review?

Tristan Pearce, Evelyn H. Rodríguez, David Fawcett, James D. Ford

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: adaptation; adaptive capacity; adaptation tracking; climate change; systematic review; vulnerability; developed nation; Australia

Online: 13 August 2018 (10:13:42 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0029.v1

Mapping Agricultural Ecosystem Services across Scales

Shubhechchha Sharma, Jennifer Hodbod, Emma Tebbs, Kristofer Chan

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: ecosystem services; agricultural systems; mapping; values; cross-scale; participatory; local

Online: 3 July 2018 (08:16:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201906.0230.v1

Seysmic Vulnerability and the Old Towns: A Cost-Based Programming Model

Salvatore Giuffrida, Valentina Macca, Chiara Circo, Margherita Giuffrè, Maria Rosa Trovato, Vittoria Ventura

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: urban fabrics; seismic vulnerability; critic analysis; cost modelling; Urban preservation programming; building works programming

Online: 23 June 2019 (14:08:14 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201908.0070.v1

Globalization of Russian Cities: Towards a Construction of Large Urban Regions

Mikhail Rogov, Céline Rozenblat

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: city; large urban regions; Russia; globalization; open database

Online: 6 August 2019 (08:33:24 CEST)

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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/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/preprints201804.0122.v1

Hydrological Response of Precipitation and Human Activities—A Case Study in the Zuli River Basin, China

Chenlu Huang, Qinke Yang, Weidong Huang, Junlong Zhang, Yuru Li

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: the Zuli River Basin; precipitation; runoff; sediment discharge; soil conservation measure

Online: 10 April 2018 (09:31:07 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0610.v1

Spatio-Temporal Changes and Dependencies of Land Price Development: A Case Study of the City of Olomouc

Jaroslav Burian, Karel Macků, Jarmila Zimmermannová, Barbora Kočvarová

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: land price map; land use development; GIS; spatio-temporal changes; sustainability; Olomouc

Online: 25 October 2018 (14:23:11 CEST)

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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/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/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/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/preprints201808.0135.v1

Responding to Climate Change in Countries Emerging from Armed Conflicts: Harnessing Climate Finance to Deliver Forest Conservation, Peacebuilding, and Sustainable Food

Augusto Castro-Nunez

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: climate finance; REDD+; forest conservation; peacebuilding; sustainable food systems

Online: 7 August 2018 (07:42:05 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0181.v1

Connoisseur Consumers, Dynamics Capabilities and Sustainability of Indonesian Single Origin Coffee Consumption

Mangku Purnomo, Pardamean daulay, Sugeng Riyanto, Medea Utomo, Fenna Otten, Faust Heiko

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: coffee shop, single origin, connoisseur consumers, sustainable consumption, dynamics capabilities

Online: 17 December 2018 (09:33:49 CET)

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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.

Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0599.v1

Taming Disruption? Pervasive Data Analytics, Uncertainty, and Policy Intervention in Disruptive Technology and Its Geographic Spread

Roger C. Brackin, Michael J. Jackson, Andrew Leyshon, Jeremy G. Morley

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: geographies of disruption; data analytics; policy intervention; Uber; disruptive technology; disruptive innovation; path dependency; platform development; platform economics

Online: 27 November 2018 (06:52:38 CET)

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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/preprints201805.0314.v1

Who and Where: A Socio-Spatial integrated Approach for Community-Based Health Research

Jeanne-Marie R. Stacciarini, Raffaele Vacca, Liang Mao

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: community health; rural Latino immigrants; mental well-being; network analysis; spatial statistics; intervention

Online: 23 May 2018 (07:40:58 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0200.v1

Impact of Farmland Change on Soybean Production Potential in Recent 40 Years: a Case Study in Western Jilin, China

Luoman Pu, Shuwen Zhang, Fei Li, Ranghu Wang, Jiuchun Yang, Liping Chang

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: farmland change; soybean; production potential; GAEZ; Western Jilin

Online: 12 June 2018 (16:01:54 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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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/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/preprints201808.0389.v1

Measurement of Opportunity Cost of Travel Time for Predicting Future Residential Mobility Based on the Smart Card Data of Public Transportation

Takashi Nicholas Maeda, Junichiro Mori, Masanao Ochi, Tetsuo Sakimoto, Ichiro Sakata

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: human mobility; residential mobility; smart card; public transportation; opportunity cost of travel time

Online: 22 August 2018 (04:42:05 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0214.v1

Care, Indifference and Anxiety—Attitudes toward Location Data in Everyday Life

Michal Rzeszewski, Piotr Luczys

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: location-based services; geosurveillance; social media; location data; geoprivacy; attitude; geolocation; geotagging

Online: 12 July 2018 (08:15:03 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 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 ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0661.v1

Valuing Our National Parks: An Ecological Economics Perspective

Paul C. Sutton, Sophia L. Duncan, Sharolyn J. Anderson

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: national parks; ecosystem service value; natural infrastructure; natural capital

Online: 29 October 2018 (07:11:30 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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