Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2019.1701506
Tuen-Man Ng, Chung-Shing Chan
ABSTRACT More and more tourism destinations have begun to utilize the increasing influence of Asian pop entertainment media, in an attempt to diversify their products and tourists’ experiences. This paper investigates Korean TV dramas as the determinant of film-induced tourism using a survey of a sample of Hong Kong young adults (n = 220). The study confirms a moderate correlation between the characteristics of Korean TV drama and the behavioral intention to travel to these film destinations. The results show a moderate level of interest and a small potential market among the respondents only, which is not sufficiently strong according to the relatively low ratings, and the respondents show less inclination to realize their motivations to be a “travel action.” Two motivational factors are identified, namely inner conception and outer attributes, to mobilize the respondents to film-induced travel. Specifically, the respondents consider character fantasy, relaxation and romance, and vicarious experience as the strongest determinants in inducing more travel to film destinations in Korea. More respondents perceive themselves to be general or serendipitous film tourists, who regard filming site visitation to only constitute one part of their entire trip’s activities and travel experiences, and novelty and prestige as the main motivators. A relatively small group of specific film tourists focus on vicarious experiences, along with the romantic feelings of film characters and scenes. These results provide film destination planners and marketers with useful information about product and experience diversification, as well as an opportunity for market segmentation.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2019.1701507
H. Son, A. Kingsbury
ABSTRACT Vietnam is highly vulnerable to climate change, and those most severely affected tend to be members of ethnic minority groups living in poverty in marginalized areas. This paper focuses on the Tay, Dao, and Hmong ethnic minorities the Northern Mountainous Region (NMR) of the country, and employs a mixed-method qualitative approach to assess their adaptation to a changing climate in the region as a case study. The NMR is the poorest area of Vietnam, and each of these ethnic minority groups was found to be both vulnerable and adapt in different ways. Results show that adaptation strategies faced considerable barriers, often directly influenced by gender, age, ethnicity, wealth, and location. Many locally-employed coping strategies were also found to be conditional on the strength and foresight (or futility and the lack of foresight) of institutions and policymakers on the local, regional, and central levels. While local knowledge and social capital did ease pressures, policy failures more typically led to mal-adaptation and welfare dependence. Improving not only the quality but also the focus of and access to government resources would considerably enhance the capacity for communities to adapt to the impacts of a changing climate.
{"title":"Community adaptation and climate change in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam: A case study of ethnic minority people in Bac Kan Province","authors":"H. Son, A. Kingsbury","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2019.1701507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2019.1701507","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Vietnam is highly vulnerable to climate change, and those most severely affected tend to be members of ethnic minority groups living in poverty in marginalized areas. This paper focuses on the Tay, Dao, and Hmong ethnic minorities the Northern Mountainous Region (NMR) of the country, and employs a mixed-method qualitative approach to assess their adaptation to a changing climate in the region as a case study. The NMR is the poorest area of Vietnam, and each of these ethnic minority groups was found to be both vulnerable and adapt in different ways. Results show that adaptation strategies faced considerable barriers, often directly influenced by gender, age, ethnicity, wealth, and location. Many locally-employed coping strategies were also found to be conditional on the strength and foresight (or futility and the lack of foresight) of institutions and policymakers on the local, regional, and central levels. While local knowledge and social capital did ease pressures, policy failures more typically led to mal-adaptation and welfare dependence. Improving not only the quality but also the focus of and access to government resources would considerably enhance the capacity for communities to adapt to the impacts of a changing climate.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":"37 1","pages":"33 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2019.1701507","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47874580","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}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2019.1666015
Jingxian Li, Jinbao Li, Teng Li, Tsun Fung Au
ABSTRACT The reduced sensitivity of tree growth to temperature in recent decades, commonly known as the tree-ring “divergence problem”, has been observed in many places of the world, which challenges the validity of dendroclimatic reconstructions. The manifestation and specific causes of the divergence vary in different environments, yet few studies have attempted to investigate its occurrence on the Tibetan Plateau. Here we report two temperature-sensitive ring-width chronologies of Abies georgei Orr and Sabina tibetica in the Gongga Mountains, southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Significant positive correlations were detected between tree-rings and minimum temperatures, in particular in the prior winter (previous December to current March). Pronounced warming of local temperature was identified in the late twentieth century, with the minimum temperature increasing more rapidly than the mean and maximum temperatures. Concurrently, the tree-ring divergence problem was observed after 2003 at our sampling sites. A loss of sensitivity to winter temperature is coincident with a strengthening of positive (negative) response to the current (previous) growing season temperatures, indicating the complexity and possible multi-causality of the divergence at our sites.
{"title":"Tree growth divergence from winter temperature in the Gongga Mountains, southeastern Tibetan Plateau","authors":"Jingxian Li, Jinbao Li, Teng Li, Tsun Fung Au","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2019.1666015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2019.1666015","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The reduced sensitivity of tree growth to temperature in recent decades, commonly known as the tree-ring “divergence problem”, has been observed in many places of the world, which challenges the validity of dendroclimatic reconstructions. The manifestation and specific causes of the divergence vary in different environments, yet few studies have attempted to investigate its occurrence on the Tibetan Plateau. Here we report two temperature-sensitive ring-width chronologies of Abies georgei Orr and Sabina tibetica in the Gongga Mountains, southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Significant positive correlations were detected between tree-rings and minimum temperatures, in particular in the prior winter (previous December to current March). Pronounced warming of local temperature was identified in the late twentieth century, with the minimum temperature increasing more rapidly than the mean and maximum temperatures. Concurrently, the tree-ring divergence problem was observed after 2003 at our sampling sites. A loss of sensitivity to winter temperature is coincident with a strengthening of positive (negative) response to the current (previous) growing season temperatures, indicating the complexity and possible multi-causality of the divergence at our sites.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":"37 1","pages":"1 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2019.1666015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44788648","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}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2019.1678045
Sumedha Bajar
ABSTRACT The dramatic decline in the share of agriculture in India’s gross domestic product from 52 percent in 1950–1951 to less than 17 percent in 2017–2018 necessarily implies a decline in the amount of labor this sector can employ. However, agriculture continues to be the largest employer in the country. Even when workers move out of the agricultural sector, they do not always leave rural areas. The movement from an agrarian economy to a non-agrarian one in India has not been matched by the expected shift from rural areas to urban areas. The macro scenario facing the country is that of low agricultural productivity, slow urbanization rates, and huge surplus labor in rural areas. But within this overall national picture, are there variations in terms of movement of labor away from agriculture? Are there more than one rural transition patterns being observed in the country? Are there contiguous areas in the country with a specific transition pattern which is common for a region? To answer these questions, this paper first takes a closer look at different types of transitions observed in the country. It then goes on to map the regions where workers have moved into agriculture, moved out of agriculture but remain in rural areas, and left the rural areas altogether respectively, in addition to regions with a prominent place for marginal workers.
{"title":"Regional variation in rural transition in India","authors":"Sumedha Bajar","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2019.1678045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2019.1678045","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The dramatic decline in the share of agriculture in India’s gross domestic product from 52 percent in 1950–1951 to less than 17 percent in 2017–2018 necessarily implies a decline in the amount of labor this sector can employ. However, agriculture continues to be the largest employer in the country. Even when workers move out of the agricultural sector, they do not always leave rural areas. The movement from an agrarian economy to a non-agrarian one in India has not been matched by the expected shift from rural areas to urban areas. The macro scenario facing the country is that of low agricultural productivity, slow urbanization rates, and huge surplus labor in rural areas. But within this overall national picture, are there variations in terms of movement of labor away from agriculture? Are there more than one rural transition patterns being observed in the country? Are there contiguous areas in the country with a specific transition pattern which is common for a region? To answer these questions, this paper first takes a closer look at different types of transitions observed in the country. It then goes on to map the regions where workers have moved into agriculture, moved out of agriculture but remain in rural areas, and left the rural areas altogether respectively, in addition to regions with a prominent place for marginal workers.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":"37 1","pages":"75 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2019.1678045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47901435","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}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2019.1678046
Connor Y. H. Wu, H. Lee, Hua Liu
ABSTRACT Previous climate-crime studies are primarily grounded on conventional statistical methods, leaving the possible non-linear nature of the climate-crime association insufficiently explored. In the present study, we employed both multiple linear regression and wavelet analyses and compared their results to detect and verify the possible non-linear effect of temperature and precipitation change on crimes in an urban setting. Nine types of crimes in Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA during 1973–2009 were analyzed. Results show that temperature was the significant determinant of crimes in both of the analyses. Wavelet coherency analysis demonstrates that temperature and crimes exhibited common modes of oscillation in ∼1-year periodicity, which may be attributable to the seasonality of crimes. We further found that the seasonality of crimes was determined by the seasonal change of temperature rather than that of precipitation. In parallel, precipitation and crimes exhibited common modes of oscillation in ∼11-year periodicity, revealing their association at the decadal scale. Our results indicate that temperature and precipitation determine crime rates at different time scales. Nonetheless, when the crests of the temperature-crime and the precipitation-crime cycles overlap, crime rates may be reinforced to their greatest extent. The above findings may help inform and prepare necessary security arrangements in advance. Further research could be conducted to see whether the above findings could be applied to the metropolitan regions with the similar geographic settings of Hampton Roads, such as the Jing-Jin-Ji (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei) region in northern China.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-26DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2019.1634110
Alice S. Y. Chow, Shuwen Liu, L. T. Cheung
ABSTRACT Developing tourism in rural areas is an important approach to offering revitalization opportunities for many rural areas. A successful tourism development plan can offer economic benefits to rural communities through enhancing business and job opportunities. Our study in a popular rural tourism destination in Hong Kong intended to test the importance of residents’ satisfaction, which may lead to their support for future tourism development in their community. The results of structural equation modeling suggested that residents’ perceived impacts were not significantly associated with their support for future tourism development. In contrast, residents’ satisfaction was significantly associated with their support for such development, implying that local residents’ satisfaction with existing tourism development can be an important predictor for their further support of such development. As an important predicator influencing community support, residents’ satisfaction with tourism deserves more attention not only from academic researchers but also from government and the tourism industry.
{"title":"Importance of residents’ satisfaction for supporting future tourism development in rural areas of Hong Kong","authors":"Alice S. Y. Chow, Shuwen Liu, L. T. Cheung","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2019.1634110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2019.1634110","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Developing tourism in rural areas is an important approach to offering revitalization opportunities for many rural areas. A successful tourism development plan can offer economic benefits to rural communities through enhancing business and job opportunities. Our study in a popular rural tourism destination in Hong Kong intended to test the importance of residents’ satisfaction, which may lead to their support for future tourism development in their community. The results of structural equation modeling suggested that residents’ perceived impacts were not significantly associated with their support for future tourism development. In contrast, residents’ satisfaction was significantly associated with their support for such development, implying that local residents’ satisfaction with existing tourism development can be an important predictor for their further support of such development. As an important predicator influencing community support, residents’ satisfaction with tourism deserves more attention not only from academic researchers but also from government and the tourism industry.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":"36 1","pages":"185 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2019.1634110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44528538","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}
ABSTRACT Drastic changes in land use pattern in recent times has translated into severe alteration of urban surface temperatures, whereby the increase in impervious surfaces results in modification of the thermal structure of the city and consequently leads to the problem of Urban Heat Island. Conversely, creation of green surface within the city reduces the temperature and forms a cooling effect. The present study investigates the impact of the shape, pattern, and configuration of the two dominant land use/land cover classes (built-up and green surface) on the Land Surface Temperature (LST) of Hyderabad city. Different class-level landscape metrics at neighborhood level have been employed to evaluate the spatial variation of LST. Significant Moran’s I cluster value indicates spatial dependencies of landscape metrics and LST. The local Geographical Weightage Regression (GWR) model has also been executed to examine the relative importance of land use pattern on LST. Results reveal that during 2002 and 2015, the increasing fragmentation of built-up and LSI have positively influenced the LST, whereas, urban green surface, the PLAND, and IJI have negatively affected the LST. The estimated LST is found to be highly sensitive to the configuration and changes in land-use pattern. The spatial regression result suggests that with the expansion of built-up in the neighborhood, there is a discernible increase in the LST. Similarly, fragmented green cover reduces the neighboring temperature. The outcome of this study may enable planners to obtain insight into where urban management and green surface planning is necessary for mitigating the surface temperature.
{"title":"Assessing the dynamic relationship among land use pattern and land surface temperature: A spatial regression approach","authors":"Suman Chakraborti, Anushna Banerjee, S. Sannigrahi, Suvamoy Pramanik, Arabinda Maiti, Shouvik Jha","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2019.1623054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2019.1623054","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drastic changes in land use pattern in recent times has translated into severe alteration of urban surface temperatures, whereby the increase in impervious surfaces results in modification of the thermal structure of the city and consequently leads to the problem of Urban Heat Island. Conversely, creation of green surface within the city reduces the temperature and forms a cooling effect. The present study investigates the impact of the shape, pattern, and configuration of the two dominant land use/land cover classes (built-up and green surface) on the Land Surface Temperature (LST) of Hyderabad city. Different class-level landscape metrics at neighborhood level have been employed to evaluate the spatial variation of LST. Significant Moran’s I cluster value indicates spatial dependencies of landscape metrics and LST. The local Geographical Weightage Regression (GWR) model has also been executed to examine the relative importance of land use pattern on LST. Results reveal that during 2002 and 2015, the increasing fragmentation of built-up and LSI have positively influenced the LST, whereas, urban green surface, the PLAND, and IJI have negatively affected the LST. The estimated LST is found to be highly sensitive to the configuration and changes in land-use pattern. The spatial regression result suggests that with the expansion of built-up in the neighborhood, there is a discernible increase in the LST. Similarly, fragmented green cover reduces the neighboring temperature. The outcome of this study may enable planners to obtain insight into where urban management and green surface planning is necessary for mitigating the surface temperature.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":"36 1","pages":"116 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2019.1623054","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47818406","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}
Pub Date : 2019-06-07DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2019.1621187
K. Reardon, R. Padfield, H. Salim
ABSTRACT In the past decade, palm oil has become the most produced and consumed vegetable oil globally. In view of the growing global demand for palm oil, promoting consumption of the most “sustainable” form of palm oil is necessary to mitigate the known environmental and social impacts of unsustainable production. In this study, we compare consumer awareness, knowledge, and perceptions of palm oil and its sustainability amongst consumers from three countries: Malaysia, Singapore and the UK. Employing a combination of an online survey, interviews and focus groups and building on consumer behavior theories, we found a number of key differences and similarities between the three nationalities. Malaysians were more aware of palm oil and held more positive views compared to the other two nationalities, while all were relatively unfamiliar with the concept of “sustainable palm oil”. Only a small proportion of respondents from each country ruled out purchasing sustainably certified palm oil products. However, price was a determining factor and most respondents from the three countries were unwilling to pay more for “green” products. Considering the disconnect felt by consumers towards the realities of palm oil production, we argue for improved consumer-facing information on the socio, economic and environmental impacts of their consumption patterns. Finally, the study highlights the importance of place in shaping consumer views of palm oil and thus a need to better understand how positive information campaigns about the benefits of sustainable production can sit alongside localized information flows of palm oil.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-07DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1563797
Vivian H. Y. Chu, Anna Ka-yin Lee
ABSTRACT Air pollution was placed very low on China's policy agenda in the 1990s. Sharing the PRD's Southern border, Hong Kong became increasingly concerned with the pollution originating from their rapidly developing neighbors. This paper offers an explanatory study for the implementation of a trans-boundary air quality monitoring network in 2005 which was, in many ways, considered a breakthrough in environmental cooperation in this region. Empirical evidence demonstrates that extended efforts from a Hong Kong official had eventually triggered the Guangdong provincial government and the Hong Kong government to undertake a range of collaborative measures to improve regional air quality, including the establishment of the Pearl River Delta regional air quality monitoring network in 2005. Building upon the concept of “policy entrepreneurship,” this study discovers that the policy entrepreneur's political rank endowed him with direct access to the formal cross-border institution, through which he was able to build a close professional relationship with his mainland counterparts and enables him to be a transfer agent. This case illustrates that state actors are well-placed in this region's trans-boundary platforms to initiate the transfer of policy innovations to neighboring governments, which prompts the formulation of cooperative projects. Nonetheless, this paper also cautions that effective cross-border collaboration is still largely dependent upon the contextual framework of the authoritarian governance regime whereby the interactions between policymakers and implementers are fundamentally shaped by institutional design and incentives.
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