Family planning has been China’s basic national policy since 1980, but it changed from a one-child policy to a two-child policy at the end of 2015 as which will further stimulate the rapid growth of China’s population and have a profound impact on the population structure and land use in China. Based on the forecast of total population change in national and provincial dimensions after the two -child policy, the paper forecasted the spatial pattern of China's population and provincial differentiation over the next 15 years, and discussed the far-reaching impact on the future urban and rural land use and planning. Conclusions as follows: the two-child policy will achieve rapid population growth in the next 5 years, then there will be a stable growth phase; the peak of China’s population increase will occur in 2030 with a total population of about 1.55 billion people，which will continuethe regional differentiation of urbanization，andurbanization level in southeastern region will remain generally higher than that of the northwest. In addition, population growth brings new demands in urban and rural construction land, therefore, more intensive use of land will be the inevitable choice for the future development for China.
{"title":"The Influence of the Two-child Policy on Urbanization in China","authors":"Kaiyong Wang, Hu Yu","doi":"10.30564/jgr.v1i1.160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/jgr.v1i1.160","url":null,"abstract":"Family planning has been China’s basic national policy since 1980, but it changed from a one-child policy to a two-child policy at the end of 2015 as which will further stimulate the rapid growth of China’s population and have a profound impact on the population structure and land use in China. Based on the forecast of total population change in national and provincial dimensions after the two -child policy, the paper forecasted the spatial pattern of China's population and provincial differentiation over the next 15 years, and discussed the far-reaching impact on the future urban and rural land use and planning. Conclusions as follows: the two-child policy will achieve rapid population growth in the next 5 years, then there will be a stable growth phase; the peak of China’s population increase will occur in 2030 with a total population of about 1.55 billion people，which will continuethe regional differentiation of urbanization，andurbanization level in southeastern region will remain generally higher than that of the northwest. In addition, population growth brings new demands in urban and rural construction land, therefore, more intensive use of land will be the inevitable choice for the future development for China.","PeriodicalId":165093,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geographical Research","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115262341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Usually rural geography has associated the city and the countryside in a binary and unequal way. The city concentrates power and draws the domain in terms of material and representation. In this way urban ruralities have had a minor consideration and have been left in the shadow in the field of rural geography. In the present contribution, three geographic research areas of new urban ruralities are proposed, above all in the global north: individual urban rurality, embedded urban rurality or garden rurality and edge rurality.
{"title":"Urban ruralities. A geographical perspective","authors":"A. Paniagua","doi":"10.30564/JGR.V1I1.187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/JGR.V1I1.187","url":null,"abstract":"Usually rural geography has associated the city and the countryside in a binary and unequal way. The city concentrates power and draws the domain in terms of material and representation. In this way urban ruralities have had a minor consideration and have been left in the shadow in the field of rural geography. In the present contribution, three geographic research areas of new urban ruralities are proposed, above all in the global north: individual urban rurality, embedded urban rurality or garden rurality and edge rurality.","PeriodicalId":165093,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geographical Research","volume":"166 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125973392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Literary geography is a new research literature developed and developedby Chinese scholars. It is also a new method of criticism and research literature. It arises from the study of ancient Chinese literature and develops into the study of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, foreign literature and folk literature. In the discipline construction of literary geography, the collection and collation of local literature can provide many first-hand materials for literary geography, and provide many important cases for literary geography research, thus playing an important role.The cultural, literary and natural geographical elements preserved in the local literature have repeatedly illustrated the natural connection between literature and geography, which strongly argues that geography, is the starting point and foundation of literary development, and is also an important object of literary criticism and literary studies. The local literature also includes first-hand information obtained from field trips and field surveys, including photographs, videos, recordings and objects of natural landscapes and customs in a certain place, which are of great significance forthe study of literary geography.
{"title":"The Expansion of Local Literature and Literary Geography Research","authors":"Jian-hua Zhu","doi":"10.30564/JGR.V1I1.180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/JGR.V1I1.180","url":null,"abstract":"Literary geography is a new research literature developed and developedby Chinese scholars. It is also a new method of criticism and research literature. It arises from the study of ancient Chinese literature and develops into the study of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, foreign literature and folk literature. In the discipline construction of literary geography, the collection and collation of local literature can provide many first-hand materials for literary geography, and provide many important cases for literary geography research, thus playing an important role.The cultural, literary and natural geographical elements preserved in the local literature have repeatedly illustrated the natural connection between literature and geography, which strongly argues that geography, is the starting point and foundation of literary development, and is also an important object of literary criticism and literary studies. The local literature also includes first-hand information obtained from field trips and field surveys, including photographs, videos, recordings and objects of natural landscapes and customs in a certain place, which are of great significance forthe study of literary geography.","PeriodicalId":165093,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geographical Research","volume":"30 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125815513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physical geography is the basic discipline of geography and the cornerstone of comprehensive geography research. Based on the main research progress of physical geography, This paper considered the development direction of natural geography in the new era. Driven by global environmental change, physical geography and its sub-disciplines have gained new development in heritage. The research progress of physical geography in recent years mainly includes the integration and deepening of natural geographical processes, the integration of terrestrial surface systems, land-sea interactions and regional ecological environment management applications. The development of physical geography and its sub-disciplines needs to face the global environmental change and human needs, explore the application of new technologies and methods, conduct multi-factor and multi-process integration research, develop and improve geographic models, simulate and predict environmental change and sustainable development, and serve Major national needs and government decisions. In the process of development, it is urgent to pay attention to the following frontier areas and directions:(1) Geomorphology needs to focus on strengthening the relationship between geomorphology and global environmental change and human activities;(2) Biogeography needs to deepen the frontier fields such as attribute geography and global change biogeography. Exploring the spatial distribution of biogeography and human needs in the context of connection changes;(3) Hydrology needs to carry out comprehensive integration research of multi-element, multi-process and multi-scale, and develop emerging subject areas such as ecological hydrology, social hydrology and hydromorphology;(4) Physical Geography needs to be comprehensively introduced into climate change research’s role in the major international climate change research program, the climate change framework convention, etc;(5) Comprehensive physical geography needs to face the country’s major needs, focusing on the coupling of human and land systems In the areas of resource and environmental carrying capacity evaluation, ecological security pattern and ecological civilization construction, etc.;(6) Physical geography needs to deepen the coupling of natural and human elements and process research ‘establishing and developing complex system simulation model’ analysis and simulation change environment Nature, humanity Su coupling mechanism and the dynamic changes of land surface systems.
{"title":"Thoughts on the Development of Physical Geography in the New Era","authors":"Zhanjun Li","doi":"10.30564/JGR.V1I1.181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/JGR.V1I1.181","url":null,"abstract":"Physical geography is the basic discipline of geography and the cornerstone of comprehensive geography research. Based on the main research progress of physical geography, This paper considered the development direction of natural geography in the new era. Driven by global environmental change, physical geography and its sub-disciplines have gained new development in heritage. The research progress of physical geography in recent years mainly includes the integration and deepening of natural geographical processes, the integration of terrestrial surface systems, land-sea interactions and regional ecological environment management applications. The development of physical geography and its sub-disciplines needs to face the global environmental change and human needs, explore the application of new technologies and methods, conduct multi-factor and multi-process integration research, develop and improve geographic models, simulate and predict environmental change and sustainable development, and serve Major national needs and government decisions. In the process of development, it is urgent to pay attention to the following frontier areas and directions:(1) Geomorphology needs to focus on strengthening the relationship between geomorphology and global environmental change and human activities;(2) Biogeography needs to deepen the frontier fields such as attribute geography and global change biogeography. Exploring the spatial distribution of biogeography and human needs in the context of connection changes;(3) Hydrology needs to carry out comprehensive integration research of multi-element, multi-process and multi-scale, and develop emerging subject areas such as ecological hydrology, social hydrology and hydromorphology;(4) Physical Geography needs to be comprehensively introduced into climate change research’s role in the major international climate change research program, the climate change framework convention, etc;(5) Comprehensive physical geography needs to face the country’s major needs, focusing on the coupling of human and land systems In the areas of resource and environmental carrying capacity evaluation, ecological security pattern and ecological civilization construction, etc.;(6) Physical geography needs to deepen the coupling of natural and human elements and process research ‘establishing and developing complex system simulation model’ analysis and simulation change environment Nature, humanity Su coupling mechanism and the dynamic changes of land surface systems.","PeriodicalId":165093,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geographical Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130333780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
From the humanistic perspective, examining the “space” structure of literature and the “geographical” picture has become a possibility to expand the path of literary research. As a theoretical perspective, literary geography emphasizes the integration and interaction between literature and geography, and further explores the multiple cultural contexts behind literature and geography. Changes in climate and phenology in different regions can trigger the writer’s life consciousness and emotional cognition in many cases. Geography in literature is the eternal spiritual homeland in the soul of the writer. It is also the original driving force of creation. It encourages the writer to carry out the spiritual hometown consciously or unconsciously. This spiritual hometown is presented in the creative process and literary works. Therefore, geospatial is not only the natural environment for the writer’s creative style, but also the source of the writer’s “spiritual hometown”. The influence of geography and cultural traditions on a writer and even a group of writers is both potential and relatively stable.
{"title":"Literary Geography: A Research Paradigm of Time and Space","authors":"Linyu Chen, J. Meng","doi":"10.30564/JGR.V1I1.182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/JGR.V1I1.182","url":null,"abstract":"From the humanistic perspective, examining the “space” structure of literature and the “geographical” picture has become a possibility to expand the path of literary research. As a theoretical perspective, literary geography emphasizes the integration and interaction between literature and geography, and further explores the multiple cultural contexts behind literature and geography. Changes in climate and phenology in different regions can trigger the writer’s life consciousness and emotional cognition in many cases. Geography in literature is the eternal spiritual homeland in the soul of the writer. It is also the original driving force of creation. It encourages the writer to carry out the spiritual hometown consciously or unconsciously. This spiritual hometown is presented in the creative process and literary works. Therefore, geospatial is not only the natural environment for the writer’s creative style, but also the source of the writer’s “spiritual hometown”. The influence of geography and cultural traditions on a writer and even a group of writers is both potential and relatively stable.","PeriodicalId":165093,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geographical Research","volume":"334 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116907133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The information technology represented by computers has brought abouttremendous changes in the development of various disciplines, and the basicdiscipline geography as a scientific research is also deeply influenced by thedevelopment of information technology. The development significance of geography and human geography in the information age lies in guiding the development of geographical practice activities, facilitating the harmonious development of human-land relations, and facilitating the realization of the Chinese Dream. The development of geography and human geography in the information age is reflected in the further expansion of the discipline of geography and human geography, the application of 3S technology, large-area research and big data applications. Future geography and human geography will further expand into digital urban space, behavioral geography, geography response and other fields with the support of information technology.
{"title":"Geography and Human Geography Development in the Information Age","authors":"Ranran Zou, Shenze Liu","doi":"10.30564/JGR.V1I1.179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/JGR.V1I1.179","url":null,"abstract":"The information technology represented by computers has brought abouttremendous changes in the development of various disciplines, and the basicdiscipline geography as a scientific research is also deeply influenced by thedevelopment of information technology. The development significance of geography and human geography in the information age lies in guiding the development of geographical practice activities, facilitating the harmonious development of human-land relations, and facilitating the realization of the Chinese Dream. The development of geography and human geography in the information age is reflected in the further expansion of the discipline of geography and human geography, the application of 3S technology, large-area research and big data applications. Future geography and human geography will further expand into digital urban space, behavioral geography, geography response and other fields with the support of information technology.","PeriodicalId":165093,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geographical Research","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127482600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As an important branch of economic geography, financial geography has important significance for maintaining the stable operation of the financial industry and thus promoting social and economic development. Based on the perspective of geography, we first combed the development history and main research fields of international financial geography. According to the differences of mainstream research methods in a specific period, the development process can be divided into three stages: germination, political economics and economic geography. With the help of literature measurement analysis, the international financial geography research is divided into the classic research field focusing on the financial center, the spatial evolution of financial subjects, the financial network and regional interaction, and the emerging research fields with different scales of financialization. Then it summarizes the progress of China’s financial geography research. Although China’s financial geography started late, there is still a gap between the breadth and depth of research compared to foreign countries, but its institutional background is different from the Western institutional background. It provides a diversified explanation for its own specific financial landscape. Finally, combined with the development status of financial geography at home and abroad, the research prospects of this discipline are prospected.
{"title":"Review and Prospect of Financial Geography Research","authors":"Zhigang Wang","doi":"10.30564/JGR.V1I1.183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/JGR.V1I1.183","url":null,"abstract":" As an important branch of economic geography, financial geography has important significance for maintaining the stable operation of the financial industry and thus promoting social and economic development. Based on the perspective of geography, we first combed the development history and main research fields of international financial geography. According to the differences of mainstream research methods in a specific period, the development process can be divided into three stages: germination, political economics and economic geography. With the help of literature measurement analysis, the international financial geography research is divided into the classic research field focusing on the financial center, the spatial evolution of financial subjects, the financial network and regional interaction, and the emerging research fields with different scales of financialization. Then it summarizes the progress of China’s financial geography research. Although China’s financial geography started late, there is still a gap between the breadth and depth of research compared to foreign countries, but its institutional background is different from the Western institutional background. It provides a diversified explanation for its own specific financial landscape. Finally, combined with the development status of financial geography at home and abroad, the research prospects of this discipline are prospected.","PeriodicalId":165093,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geographical Research","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114911197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study examined the spatial heterogeneity association of HIV incidence and socio-economic factors including poverty severity index,permanently employed females and males, unemployed females, percentage of poor households i.e., poverty prevalence, night lights index, literacy rate,household food security, and Gini index at district level in Zimbabwe.A mix of spatial analysis methods including Poisson model based on original log likelihood ratios (LLR), global Moran’s I, local indicator of spatial association - LISA were employed to determine the HIV hotspots.Geographically Weighted Poisson Regression (GWPR) and semi-parametric GWPR (s-GWPR) were used to determine the spatial association between HIV incidence and socio-economic factors. HIV incidence (number of cases per 1000) ranged from 0.6 (Buhera district) to 13.30 (Mangwe district). Spatial clustering of HIV incidence was observed (Global Moran’s I = - 0.150; Z score 3.038; p-value 0.002). Significant clusters of HIV were observed at district level. HIV incidence and its association with socioeconomic factors varied across the districts except percentage of females unemployed. Intervention programmes to reduce HIV incidence should address the identified socio-economic factors at district level.
本研究考察了津巴布韦艾滋病发病率与贫困严重程度指数、长期就业女性和男性、失业女性、贫困家庭百分比、贫困发生率、夜间照明指数、识字率、家庭粮食安全以及基尼系数等社会经济因素之间的空间异质性关系。采用基于原始对数似然比(LLR)的泊松模型、全局Moran’s I、局部空间关联指标LISA等空间分析方法确定HIV热点。利用地理加权泊松回归(GWPR)和半参数泊松回归(s-GWPR)确定HIV发病率与社会经济因素之间的空间关联关系。艾滋病毒发病率(每1000例病例数)从0.6例(布赫拉县)到13.30例(芒格韦县)不等。HIV发病率呈空间聚类(Global Moran’s I = - 0.150;Z分数3.038;假定值0.002)。在地区一级观察到显著的艾滋病毒聚集。艾滋病毒发病率及其与社会经济因素的关系在各地区有所不同，但女性失业百分比除外。减少艾滋病毒发病率的干预方案应在地区一级处理已查明的社会经济因素。
{"title":"Spatial Heterogeneity Association of HIV Incidence with Socio-economic Factors in Zimbabwe","authors":"T. Manyangadze, M. Chimbari, E. Mavhura","doi":"10.30564/jgr.v4i3.3466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30564/jgr.v4i3.3466","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the spatial heterogeneity association of HIV incidence and socio-economic factors including poverty severity index,permanently employed females and males, unemployed females, percentage of poor households i.e., poverty prevalence, night lights index, literacy rate,household food security, and Gini index at district level in Zimbabwe.A mix of spatial analysis methods including Poisson model based on original log likelihood ratios (LLR), global Moran’s I, local indicator of spatial association - LISA were employed to determine the HIV hotspots.Geographically Weighted Poisson Regression (GWPR) and semi-parametric GWPR (s-GWPR) were used to determine the spatial association between HIV incidence and socio-economic factors. HIV incidence (number of cases per 1000) ranged from 0.6 (Buhera district) to 13.30 (Mangwe district). Spatial clustering of HIV incidence was observed (Global Moran’s I = - 0.150; Z score 3.038; p-value 0.002). Significant clusters of HIV were observed at district level. HIV incidence and its association with socioeconomic factors varied across the districts except percentage of females unemployed. Intervention programmes to reduce HIV incidence should address the identified socio-economic factors at district level.","PeriodicalId":165093,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geographical Research","volume":"8 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120809939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. M. Dos Santos, I. Melendez-Pastor, J. Navarro-Pedreño, I. G. Lucas
A review of vegetation indices as applied to Landsat-TM and ETM+ multispectral data is presented. The review focuses on indices that have been developed to produce biophysical information about vegetation biomass/greenness, moisture and pigments.In addition, a set of biomass/greenness and moisture content indices are tested in a Mediterranean semiarid wetland environment to determine their appropriateness and potential for carrying redundant information.The results indicate that most vegetation indices used for biomass/greenness mapping produce similar information and are statistically well correlated.
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This paper contributes to an in-depth understanding of how the mega-event contributes glurbanization of entrepreneurial city through a case study of Expo 2010 in Shanghai. It argues that spatial-related transformation is central to mega-event approach to glurbanization yet the soft power building is uncertain. It implies that the domestic impacts of mega-events are likely to be more profound than their global influences. This corresponds to the capitalist transformation from Fordist-Keynesianism to neoliberalism, in which mega-events such as Olympic Games and World Exposition have increasingly been incorporated into urban development plan to boost urban agenda. Although the profile of world fairs is reduced and does not have the international impacts that they used to have, Shanghai Expo 2010, the first Expo ever held in a developing country, is pinned hope on as the “Turn to Save the World Expo” and is unusually ambitious to bring opportunities in urban transformation. With a well-developed framework of glurbanization entailed by entrepreneurial city, this research enriches glurbanization theory by a thorough examination of Shanghai Expo. It finds that Expo-led landscape reconfiguration, spatial restructuring, and new sources provision effectively transformed Shanghai, propelling glurbanization in diminutive spatial scale. Yet, it remains powerless to impress the world as the voice of domestic propaganda is limited in the Western mainstream media. In all, the Expo case well exemplifies the power of mega-event approach to advancing local agenda, especially in spatial transformation per se, as well as its constraints in (re)shaping a global discourse.
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