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Using comparative approaches to model deprivation in Antananarivo, Madagascar: A multidimensional analysis using principal components analysis and weighting system across meso and macro scales

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103359

Fenosoa Nantenaina Ramiaramanana , Jacques Teller , Richard Sliuzas , Monika Kuffer

Rapid population growth and global urbanization pose socio-economic challenges, causing inequalities in Global South (GS) cities, such as the proliferation of deprived areas. This study aims to develop methods for mapping and characterizing urban deprivation in GS cities using the IDEAMAPS framework, focusing on household, area, and area-connect levels. The methodology employs 23 indicators across five domains, with a weighting system applied at macro (agglomeration of Antananarivo) and meso (Urban Commune of Antananarivo - CUA) scales, alongside Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and population-weighted analysis. A variable reduction process assessed the impact of simplifying indicators while retaining explanatory power. Results demonstrated significant spatial contrasts in deprivation between central and peripheral areas and eastern and western neighborhoods. The equal weighting system provided an intuitive overview, showing that 53% of neighborhoods were privileged at the macro scale, while 15% were highly deprived. At the meso scale, 27% of neighborhoods were highly deprived, emphasizing the importance of finer spatial scales to uncover localized disparities. PCA reduced data complexity and identified key deprivation dimensions but remains sensitive to outliers. Population-weighted analysis revealed the misalignment between deprivation level and population density, highlighting the need for targeted interventions in densely populated neighborhoods.

Variable reduction confirmed model robustness but underscored the importance of retaining critical variables. This study highlights the need for accurate, multi-scale assessments to inform policies addressing urban inequalities. Future research should integrate advanced spatial techniques, temporal dynamics, and additional indicators, such as governance and environmental hazards, to refine deprivation analyses and guide inclusive urban policies.

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How does the reconstruction of residential space impact displaced farmers’ post-resettlement adaptation during urbanisation in China? A perspective of spatial production

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103353

Bingqian Zhan , Jieyu Su , Hui Gao , Kexi Xu

Displaced farmers resulting from China's urban expansion face challenges in post-resettlement adaptation (PRA) as their residential spaces undergo significant reconstruction. However, existing research has insufficiently explored the impact of this reconstruction on the PRA of displaced farmers. Drawing on the spatial production theory, this study identifies the features of the reconstruction of residential space (RRS), determines the factors influencing displaced farmers' PRA, and establishes the pathways that influence their adaptation. This study has three primary findings. First, RRS includes the reconstruction of physical, social, and mental spaces. Second, “Formal Institutions” have the greatest impact on displaced farmers' PRA, while “Cultural Customs” have the least. Third, the reconstruction of mental space directly impacts displaced farmers' adaptation, while the reconstruction of physical and social spaces can only take effect by stimulating mental space. Based on the identified pathways, this study proposes governance strategies across three spaces. Specifically, for mental space, emotion-based governance is essential; for physical space, multifunctional spaces that can meet displaced farmers' daily spatial use should be created; for social space, a robust social security and inclusive community management system are crucial. This study not only provides specific pathways to promote displaced farmers' PRA and support their social integration but also offers a theoretical framework and governance strategies for displaced populations' PRA worldwide.

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Understanding the transformation of rural areal system from changes in farmland landscape: A case study of Jiaocun township, Henan province

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103358

Yu Zhao , Xuefeng Yuan , Yansui Liu

Rapid globalization and urbanization are reshaping the urban-rural landscape, driving transformations in rural areas. Exploring this process contributes to understanding the mechanisms of rural transformation, aiding decision-making for rural sustainable development. However, the evidence to capture microscale dynamics of rural transformation still requires innovative observational perspectives. Taking Jiaocun Town, a traditional agricultural region in China, as an example, we detected changes in farmland landscape using satellite data at the plot scale. Combined with interviews, these changes were further traced back to the 1980s. Furthermore, this study revealed the Transformation of Rural Areal System (TRAS) process by interpreting landscape changes and their linkages between population, land, and industry. The results showed that four events dominated the recent transformation: the replacement of fragmented farmland with large fields, the upgrading of old apple orchards to dwarf orchards, the expansion of vineyards, and the expansion of mushroom sheds. Temporally, the development of Jiaocun experienced three stages: the traditional period (pre-1990s), the extensive expansion period (1990s-2016), and the modern diversified period (2016-present). These three stages could be clearly demonstrated through the analysis of the coupling state of population, land, and industries, reflecting the adaptive cycling from primary coupling to under-coupling and then to re-coupling. Finally, policy, theoretical, and practical implications were discussed to deepen the understanding of the rural transformation in China's traditional agricultural region.

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Involution and evolution of the flower industry and their implications for rural revitalization: A case study of Tonghai County, Yunnan Province, China

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103336

Lie You , Huiling Zhou , Jieming Zhu , Chen Chen , Jing Wang

Agricultural development plays a pivotal role in sustaining rural livelihoods and ensuring national security, particularly in developing countries. However, enhancing agricultural production and improving rural livelihoods through agricultural transformation remain significant challenges in rural development. In light of China's national implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, increasing emphasis has been placed on rural industrial development in national and provincial policies. This paper adopts an analytical framework of agricultural involution and expands the theory from the dual structure of land and labor to encompass the entire production factor category. By examining the evolution path of the flower industry in Tonghai County, Yunnan Province, China, this paper aims to expound the involution and evolution processes of industrial agriculture. The findings indicate that since the reform and opening up period, the development of the flower industry in Yunnan Province has passed through four stages: adjustment of agricultural planting structure, reconstruction of organizational modes, and innovation in transaction and planting technologies. Moreover, from the perspective of the involution model of production factor combination, the continuous iterative upgrading of factor combinations has effectively broken through agricultural involution, overcoming the diminishing marginal returns resulting from the superposition and accumulation of individual factors. This paper highlights the importance of countering market monopoly and backward planting technologies-induced involution in the flower industry. It reveals that the flower industry has transitioned from a central place hierarchy to a distributed urban-rural network by utilizing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and innovative logistics technologies. Additionally, by promoting new urbanization, the industry has attracted the return of technically skilled farmers, facilitating breakthroughs in regional industries and fostering sustainable development in urban and rural areas. The paper provides an endogenous analysis framework and reference for promoting rural revitalization centered on industrial prosperity at the county level.

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The impact of anti-fragility on agricultural production under extreme precipitation in China

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-03-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103354

Yuxin Pan , Zuge Xing , Jiapei Wu , Jinming Yan , Fangzhou Xia

Frequent extreme precipitation poses significant challenges to rural systems, underscoring the pivotal role of bolstering resilience against such weather extremes for the sustenance of rural sustainability. Although existing research has analysed the adverse effects of extreme precipitation on rural vulnerability, there remains a dearth of exploration into the potential benefits that rural areas might reap from such events. Drawing on Taleb's theory of anti-fragility, this study constructs a comprehensive measurement index system for the Rural Anti-Fragility Index (RAFI) from three dimensions: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptation. In this work the spatiotemporal dynamics of rural anti-fragility in Chinese county-level rural areas and their impact on agricultural production were analysed. The results indicate that (1) Spanning 2000 to 2018, China's RAFI level continuously increased, with an overall level in the median range, the highest in the Rural Sensitivity Index (RSI), followed by the Rural Exposure Index (REI), and the lowest in the Rural Adaptation Index (RAI). (2) The RAFI exhibited significant spatial clustering characteristics, with high values in the southeast and low values in the northwest. Hotspots of Rural Anti-Fragility (RAF) are mainly concentrated in the Middlelower Yangtze Plain (MYP) and Southern China (SC), while cold spots are distributed in the transitional zones of the central and western regions, as well as Tibet, Xinjiang, and other areas, with the regions of cold and hot spots becoming increasingly significant and expanding continuously. (3) The presence of RAF positively and substantially influences agricultural output in terms of both area and yield, with the greatest effect on wheat, followed by rice and spring maize. The different levels of anti-fragility exhibited strong heterogeneity in their impacts on the production areas of the three crops. We advocate for deliberate and proactive measures to augment RAFI, paramount for the realization of enduring goals in rural sustainability and agricultural progression.

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A review of five books by Pengjun Zhao and team on transport and urban transformation in China

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103356

Becky P.Y. Loo

This is a review of five books in the Springer series on Population, Regional Development and Transport authored by Professor Pengjun Zhao and his team. Each book deals with a key aspect of the interrelationship of transport with a phenomenon which is of great significance in contemporary China. The review outlines the contents of these books, recommends a sequence of reading, and identifies the value and significance of the five books as a collection.

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A novel framework for rural vitality evaluation and revitalization by classification: A case of China

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103361

Chuanyang Pan , Xu Feng , Ming Zhao

As a result of industrialization and urbanization, most countries around the world are facing the problem of declining vitality caused by rural population contraction. Rural vitality offers a valuable policy instrument for identifying key issues in rural development and finding specific responses. However, the extant research on rural vitality lacks sufficient systematicness and comprehensiveness, largely focusing on evaluations and applications at the micro level. In this context, corresponding to the hierarchical transmission of rural space, a novel two-tiered analysis framework of rural vitality is proposed. Then, we conducted a macro-level vitality evaluation from natural, facility, social, agricultural and economic dimensions, and typology identification of 1871 counties in China. The results indicated that rural vitality in China exhibited significant spatial heterogeneity, with a notable decline from the east coast to the center-west and northeast. In the sub-dimensions, except social, agricultural and economic trends were generally higher in the west and lower in the east, the other sub-dimensions exhibited the reverse trend. By employing cluster analysis, the research units were divided into eight categories. The regional policy directions were then proposed based on their respective strengths and weaknesses. In the future, all regions should respect the objective laws of rural transformation and the causes of vitality disparities, and focus on the strengths and characteristics of each sub-dimension to promote sustainable rural development. This study will provide a scientific basis for the diagnosis of rural problems and the implementation of rural revitalization strategies.

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Uncovering the edge urban villages using social media big data: A case study in Beijing, China

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103357

Hubin Wei , Wei Qi , Shenghe Liu , Yu Li , Yue Yin

Spatial inequality in informal settlements has become a crucial issue in the sustainable development of global cities. Urban villages, emblematic of informal settlements in China, serve as focal points where migrant workers establish communities within urban areas. In recent years, the ongoing urban renewal and enhanced connectivity between urban centers and suburban areas have led to the progressive development of peri-urban informal settlements, which function as significant socio-spatial entities in the urban-rural continuum. This study introduces a concept of the Edge Urban Villages (EUVs) and applies it in a case study conducted in Beijing, China. EUVs are informal settlements located outside the physical urban area but serve traditional urban village functions, which play an important and as yet untouched role in serving migrants and sustainable urban development. Using systematic methods for analyzing social media big data, including conditional random field model, integrating natural language processing, geoparsing, and geocoding techniques, the locations and attention received by urban villages are identified. Moreover, the study outlines the spatial characteristics of EUVs based on their functions, utilizing a comprehensive dataset of 33,002 social media posts collected from various sources. The results indicate that: (1) 301 urban villages have been identified in Beijing, with over one third of them situated beyond the confines of the physical urban area, thus earning the designation of EUVs. (2) The proliferation of EUVs can be primarily attributed to the interdependence of their functions, encompassing rental services, public amenities, and transportation. However, the correlation between EUVs and their rural locale, measured by distance from urban centers, affluence levels, and land ownership types, lacks significance. (3) Although China has a strict urban-rural dichotomy in terms of population and land system, the rise of the EUVs identifies the fact that a large number of non-agricultural functions have emerged in the rural areas surrounding the big cities and maintain close functional links with the center cities. More attention should be directed towards EUVs, particularly concerning their emerging spatial inequality-related issues in the urban periphery.

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‘Inter-city cooperation fever’ in China: Its trajectory, mechanisms and adjustment strategy

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103355

Yang Lingfan , Tang Mi , Luo Xiaolong , Li Xiaolong

In the context of re-territoriazation during China's shift towards regionalization, the ‘inter-city cooperation fever’, involving imprudently over-promoted, along with issues such as excessive imbalance in resource allocation, intensification of governance frictions, and imbalance in the distribution of local fiscal interests, have caused severe crises in China's urbanization. Understanding the causes and adjustment mechanisms of these crises in inter-city cooperation fever is crucial to the promotion of sustainable urban development.

Combining the geopolitical concepts in city regionalism and the increasing number of local-led inter-city cooperation efforts with intertwined dilemmas worldwide, this paper proposes a new bottom-up re-territorialization concept of “competitive geopolitics”, to clarify the formation mechanism of the formation, crisis, adjustment, and continuous trajectory of inter-city cooperation. In China's “inter-city cooperation fever”, the competitive relationship among local actors is more obvious. This research conducts an empirical study on the inter-city cooperation zones in Jiangsu Province, China. The research results show that the inter-city cooperation fever is dominated by horizontal territorial politics among regions, involving three aspects: the dynamic territorial redistribution politics in which collaborators jointly adjust the local economic order under the transformation of the economic environment, the flexible administrative divisions that establish and maintain the results of interactive games and their political vulnerability, and the political and economic measures of superior governments and the risk of failure under the construction of policy discourse. In addition, in China, these three mechanisms all follow the government-led regionalism and are regulated by the “promotion-oriented” entrepreneurial spirit of the Chinese government. This paper aims to promote academic discussions on geopolitics in the context of inter-city cooperation in China and, from the perspective of local competitive relationships, provides a method for observing inter-city cooperation projects that are gradually being implemented on a large scale from a long-term perspective.

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Exploring conflicting rationalities in densification policy and informal practices: Insights from two neighbourhoods in Cape Town

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International

Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103340

Mercy Brown-Luthango, Martin Magidi

Housing provision in Cape Town, like in many other African cities, is a highly contested issue. This is because of multiple and often competing demands for the provision of well-located housing and sustainable livelihoods in the context of shrinking natural resources, such as land, as well as environmental concerns. In this context, the need for high-density living environments has been expressed as an urgent policy concern. In this paper, we explore how this policy consideration stacks up against everyday experiences regarding informal practices within two communities in Cape Town and why there is a dissonance between official policy aspirations and communities’ everyday engagement with higher-density living. Using the conflicting rationalities theoretical framework, this paper highlights and shows the various clashes between the perceptions and experiences of densification, not only between the state and communities but also within the state and communities. Based on these cases, it is apparent that even within the same society or a group of comparable socio-economic status, experiences, logics, and perceptions of densification can be very different. We use these two case studies to conclude that a more context-specific, consultative rather than a one-size-fits-all top-down approach is required in designing densification policies, not only in Cape Town but also across many other African cities where the colonial legacy, as well as current planning practices, have produced highly unequal and fragmented cities. The cases also point to the need for a more nuanced and clear understanding of what constitutes density, different forms of densities and the underlying factors and interests which drive and sustain socio-spatial inequalities in cities.

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