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.
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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":null,"pages":null},"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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Pub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1476255
M. A. Z. Mughal
ABSTRACT Rural urbanization is taking place rapidly in most areas of Pakistani Punjab. Although agriculture remains the backbone of Pakistan’s economy, many rural people have abandoned agriculture to adopt different occupations as a consequence of rural urbanization. This paper discusses the changing use of, and attitude toward, land in the rural areas of Pakistani Punjab in the context of rural urbanization. It offers a case study from Southern Punjab as an evidence of the effects of rural urbanization on rural social organization with regard to land and agriculture.
{"title":"Rural urbanization, land, and agriculture in Pakistan","authors":"M. A. Z. Mughal","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2018.1476255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2018.1476255","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Rural urbanization is taking place rapidly in most areas of Pakistani Punjab. Although agriculture remains the backbone of Pakistan’s economy, many rural people have abandoned agriculture to adopt different occupations as a consequence of rural urbanization. This paper discusses the changing use of, and attitude toward, land in the rural areas of Pakistani Punjab in the context of rural urbanization. It offers a case study from Southern Punjab as an evidence of the effects of rural urbanization on rural social organization with regard to land and agriculture.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2018.1476255","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44222997","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 : 2018-11-17DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1547201
Natalie W. M. Wong
ABSTRACT Growing the volume of solid waste disposal has been generating numerous social conflicts in recent years, and challenging the transitional societies like Guangzhou and Taipei. This essay compares the dynamics between two cities in the greater China region in reaching a consensus on changing solid waste management policy following anti-incinerator protests in Taipei, Taiwan, and Guangzhou, mainland China by exploring several related questions: How does environmental activism alter changes in the environmental policies of two cases with different political systems? What are the conditions for emerging environmental activism and policy changes? How has the changing coalition opportunity structure changed environmental activism and affected the change in policy? Finally, to what extent do environmental activism and policy change reinforce the process of political transition among these political systems? Through the lens of an advocacy coalition framework (ACF), drawing on the formation of political coalitions and interactions among policy actors are the variables that affect policy change related to incinerator construction in Guangzhou and Taipei, to explore the larger issue about the political transformation of environmental management in these transitional societies, and revisit the application of ACF in transitional societies.
{"title":"Environmental policy change in two transitional societies: a comparative study on anti-incinerator construction in Guangzhou and Taipei","authors":"Natalie W. M. Wong","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2018.1547201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2018.1547201","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Growing the volume of solid waste disposal has been generating numerous social conflicts in recent years, and challenging the transitional societies like Guangzhou and Taipei. This essay compares the dynamics between two cities in the greater China region in reaching a consensus on changing solid waste management policy following anti-incinerator protests in Taipei, Taiwan, and Guangzhou, mainland China by exploring several related questions: How does environmental activism alter changes in the environmental policies of two cases with different political systems? What are the conditions for emerging environmental activism and policy changes? How has the changing coalition opportunity structure changed environmental activism and affected the change in policy? Finally, to what extent do environmental activism and policy change reinforce the process of political transition among these political systems? Through the lens of an advocacy coalition framework (ACF), drawing on the formation of political coalitions and interactions among policy actors are the variables that affect policy change related to incinerator construction in Guangzhou and Taipei, to explore the larger issue about the political transformation of environmental management in these transitional societies, and revisit the application of ACF in transitional societies.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10225706.2018.1547201","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42043501","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 : 2018-11-07DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1544085
H. Lee, D. Zhang, Peter Brecke, Qing Pei
ABSTRACT Recent studies show that wars were more prevalent during colder periods in human history. Nevertheless, the temporal consistency of the climate-war correlation in Europe over extended period has rarely been examined systematically. In this study, we extended the European violent conflict record in the Conflict Catalog [Brecke 1999. “Violent conflicts 1400 A.D. to the present in different regions of the world.” Paper presented at the 1999 Meeting of the Peace Science Society (International), Ann Arbor, MI, 8–10 October 1999] back to the year AD900, and examined quantitatively the climate-war consistency in Europe in AD900–1999. The period covers the Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age, and twentieth-century warming. Grounded on a total number of 2309 recorded violent conflicts in Europe over the last 1100 years, our statistical results were: (1) the negative temperature-war correlation was significant in terms of multi-decadal cycles; (2) in the second half of the period (AD1450–1999): the climate-war relationship was more apparent during longer cycles; a large spatial extent of slight cooling was more pertinent than a small spatial extent of severe cooling in affecting social stability in Europe; and the overall temperature-war correlation was stronger; and (3) the climate-war association was temporarily distorted when population pressure was drastically reduced. The association became significant again once the population system pushed against its Malthusian constraints. In sum, the climate-war association in Europe was statistically significant at the multi-decadal timescale. Yet, its strength varied across different periods and was contingent upon population pressure during the time. The findings in this study may provide some hints in assessing the effectiveness of human adaptations to climate change in the long-term.
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Pub Date : 2018-09-25DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1527237
H. Lee, Margherita Boccalatte
ABSTRACT Food safety crises have constituted a persistent challenge for the Chinese government and people. Because of international trade, consumers’ concern regarding the safety of food products imported from China is increasing in many countries. Yet, no systematic investigation has examined the perception of Western respondents regarding the safety of food imports coming from China. This study, based on an online survey (n = 289) between April and May 2017, is an initial attempt to investigate the perception of consumers in Europe and North America regarding different food safety issues and regulations in the People’s Republic of China and their attitudes towards food products imported from China. Our results show that socioeconomic and demographic characteristics and the influence of different types of media were not related to the perceptions and attitudes towards food safety. But, we found a strong relationship between the perception of the food safety regulations in China and the personal consumption of food products imported from China. In addition, a positive relationship was discovered between having been to China and the purchase of food products imported from China. Our findings suggest that investments in the promotion of the knowledge of food safety regulations implementation in China would lead to an increase in the export of food products. Also, the positive relationship between having been to China and the purchase of food products imported from China should be further investigated to consider the implications for tourism and food trade in China.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1527236
I. Morley
ABSTRACT Baguio is a medium-sized city situated in the north of the Philippines. Developed as the American colonial summer capital, its centrally located roads, public spaces, and buildings are arranged in accordance with a grand plan composed in 1905 by American architect-planner, Daniel Burnham. Given this actuality the urban fabric has a disposition that contrasts from other settlements in the country: the city’s configuration is anchored to a large-sized green space (Burnham Park). In recent decades Baguio’s rapid urban growth has led to the manufacture of a number of worrying environmental predicaments. These include unplanned suburban districts being formed on steep hillsides, urban density in the inner quarters being increased/greenery being removed, plus traffic congestion and air pollution increasing to such a degree that the city’s air quality is now amongst the worst in the Philippines. To manage this situation the city government, headed by Mayor Mauricio Domogan, has since the 2009 Burnham Park Development Master Plan repeatedly advised that Burnham Park be utilized as a site for parking substantial numbers of motor vehicles. Notwithstanding the park being protected by heritage law, the city government stating its commitment to sustainable development, and in 2017 Baguio being the first Philippine city to receive UNESCO Creative City status, it is feared that should the city council go ahead with its intention to build multi-storey car parking structures within Burnham Park not only will the space’s character be irretrievably affected but the ongoing process of environmental degradation in Baguio amplified.
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