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Greenspace exposure and parental mental well-being: environmental-behavioral mechanisms stratified by gender and health status 绿色空间暴露与父母心理健康:由性别和健康状况分层的环境行为机制
IF 7 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103624
Dengkai Huang , Jianchao Li , Fang He , Zhao Song , Can Jiao
Parenthood increases vulnerability to mental disorders, impacting not only parental wellbeing but also child development. While extensive evidence supports the psychological benefits of greenspace exposure, the differential impacts of distinct greenspace characteristics across population subgroups remain overlooked. Using survey data from 2921 parents and 2731 children in Shenzhen, China, combined with street-view images and remote sensing data, we examined associations between greenspace exposure (i.e. quantity, morphology and satisfaction) and parental mental wellbeing (i.e. general mental health, depression and anxiety). We employed serial structural equation modelling with stratified analyses to investigate environmental (e.g., air pollution) and behavioral pathways (e.g., physical activity, relationship satisfaction, work-related stress and fatigue), incorporating children's mental health as a distal mediator. Results revealed that greenspace satisfaction exerted stronger direct and indirect effects on parental mental wellbeing than quantity or morphology measures, a pattern consistent across health outcomes and subgroups. All five proximal mediators significantly linked greenspace satisfaction to mental wellbeing. Stratified analyses revealed significant disparities: mothers exhibited more complex pathways than fathers, particularly through work-related stress and children's mental health. Parents with higher-baseline mental health showed more numerous associations than their lower-baseline counterparts. Children's mental wellbeing consistently mediated the greenspace-parental wellbeing relationship, except among more anxious parents. Pathways connecting greenspace exposure to depression and anxiety varied significantly. These findings establish greenspace satisfaction as the primary predictor of parental mental health, with effects varying by gender and health status. The results advocate for targeted urban interventions that optimize greenspace quality to support vulnerable parental subgroups.
为人父母会增加精神障碍的易感性,不仅影响父母的幸福,也影响儿童的发展。虽然大量证据支持绿色空间暴露的心理益处,但不同的绿色空间特征在人口亚群中的差异影响仍然被忽视。利用来自中国深圳2921名家长和2731名儿童的调查数据,结合街景图像和遥感数据,我们研究了绿地暴露(即数量、形态和满意度)与父母心理健康(即一般心理健康、抑郁和焦虑)之间的关系。我们采用序列结构方程模型和分层分析来调查环境(如空气污染)和行为途径(如身体活动、关系满意度、工作压力和疲劳),并将儿童的心理健康作为远端中介。结果显示,与数量或形态测量相比,绿地满意度对父母心理健康的直接和间接影响更大,这一模式在健康结果和亚组中是一致的。所有五个近端中介都将绿地满意度与心理健康显著联系起来。分层分析揭示了显著的差异:母亲表现出比父亲更复杂的途径,特别是在工作压力和儿童心理健康方面。心理健康水平较高的父母比心理健康水平较低的父母表现出更多的关联。除了焦虑程度更高的父母,儿童的心理健康一直在调节绿地空间与父母健康的关系。接触绿色空间导致抑郁和焦虑的途径差异很大。这些发现表明,绿地满意度是父母心理健康的主要预测指标,其影响因性别和健康状况而异。研究结果支持有针对性的城市干预措施,优化绿色空间质量,以支持脆弱的父母亚群体。
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Ecological security as the key to sustainable development in mining resource-based cities: A case study from China on evolutionary pattern, influencing factors, and future trends 生态安全是矿业资源型城市可持续发展的关键——以中国为例——演化模式、影响因素及未来趋势
IF 7 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103609
Xiaodan Li , Zhen Liu , Jing liang Li , Haoyu Tao , Jing Li , Zhi ping Liu , Yang yang Wang , Yun ci Guo
Ecological security is an important guarantee for supporting sustainable development, yet research on the ecological security of mining resource-based cities has predominantly focused on static case studies of individual cities, with relatively limited attention to the dynamic interactions and evolutionary trajectories within city clusters. This tendency has left room for further exploration in developing strategies to address the pressing sustainability challenges in extensive resource-based regions.This study examines the mining resource-based city cluster in Northern China as a representative case. To capture the dynamic characteristics of ecological security over time, it introduces a comprehensive evaluation method grounded in the growth effect of indicators, thereby advancing the conventional paradigm of ecological security assessment. This is combined with spatial autocorrelation models, the system generalized method of moments, panel quantile regression, and grey models (GM (1,1)) to determine the evolutionary patterns, influencing factors, and future trends of ecological security in the city cluster. The results show that from 1999 to 2023, the ecological security levels of these cities steadily improved, with the comprehensive ecological security index increasing by 35.23 %. During this period, significant clusters of high−high ecological security emerged in the western part of the city cluster, while notable low−low ecological security clusters appeared in the southern part. Consequently, the gravity center of ecological security shifted approximately 26.3 km westward. Environmental pollution had a more significant negative impact on cities at lower ecological security quantiles, whereas public green spaces, water resources, and economic development exerted more substantial positive impacts on cities at higher ecological security quantiles. The development of the tertiary industry and ecological restoration produced the most noticeable positive impacts on cities at lower ecological security quantiles. Additionally, education levels and average winter sunshine hours positively influenced cities with varying ecological security levels, with minimal differences in their impacts. Looking ahead, by 2031, only 55.6 % of mature cities are expected to reach Ecological Security Level I, while all other types of cities will achieve this level. Based on these findings, strategies and spatial planning to improve ecological security levels are proposed. This study not only provides methodological support for dynamic ecological assessments of resource-based cities globally but also offers a case reference for establishing systematic, comprehensive, and sustainable ecological management models for large-scale resource-based regions.
生态安全是支撑可持续发展的重要保障,但矿业资源型城市的生态安全研究主要集中在单个城市的静态案例研究上,对城市群内部动态互动和演化轨迹的关注相对较少。这一趋势为进一步探索制定战略以应对资源丰富地区紧迫的可持续性挑战留下了空间。本文以中国北方矿业资源型城市群为代表进行了实证研究。为了捕捉生态安全随时间的动态特征,引入了一种基于指标生长效应的综合评价方法,从而推进了传统的生态安全评价范式。结合空间自相关模型、系统广义矩量法、面板分位数回归和灰色模型(GM(1,1)),确定了城市群生态安全的演化模式、影响因素和未来趋势。结果表明:1999 - 2023年,这些城市的生态安全水平稳步提高,综合生态安全指数增长了35.23%;在此期间,城市群西部出现显著的高—高生态安全集群,南部出现显著的低—低生态安全集群。生态安全重心向西移动约26.3 km。环境污染对低生态安全分位数城市的负向影响更为显著,而公共绿地、水资源和经济发展对高生态安全分位数城市的正向影响更为显著。第三产业发展和生态恢复对低生态安全分位数城市的正向影响最为显著。此外,受教育程度和冬季平均日照时数对不同生态安全水平的城市有正向影响,但影响差异很小。展望未来,到2031年,预计只有55.6%的成熟城市达到生态安全一级,而其他类型的城市都将达到这一水平。在此基础上,提出了提高生态安全水平的策略和空间规划。该研究不仅为全球资源型城市动态生态评价提供了方法支持,也为建立大规模资源型城市系统、综合、可持续的生态管理模式提供了案例参考。
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Promoting the realization of ecological product value through ecological compensation: Empirical evidence from the transfer payments for China's National Key Ecological Function Zones 通过生态补偿促进生态产品价值的实现——来自中国国家重点生态功能区转移支付的经验证据
IF 7 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103621
Weifeng Deng , Yaobin Liu , Shuoshuo Li , Chenghao Liu , Guoen Wei
As a representative ecological compensation policy in China, the Transfer Payment for National Key Ecological Function Zones (TPNKEFZ) has been shown to affect both environmental performance and regional economic development. However, the quantitative impact of TPNKEFZ on the realization of ecological product value—as well as its underlying transmission mechanisms—remains underexplored in existing literature. This study evaluates the conversion efficiency of ecological product value (CEEPV) in China's National Key Ecological Function Zones (NKEFZs) from 2001 to 2020, revealing a “decline-then-rise” trend in CEEPV across NKEFZs, with the introduction of TPNKEFZ marking a turning point. The CEEPV of NKEFZs exhibits high-high clustering characteristic, with high CEEPV value are concentrated in Biodiversity Maintenance Zones, while low CEEPV value are found in Windbreak and Sand-Fixation Zones. The CEEPV demonstrates significant positive spatial spillover effects within NKEFZs. TPNKEFZ not only enhances the CEEPV of targeted regions but also benefits neighboring areas. These effects vary across zone types: the most notable improvements occur in Biodiversity Maintenance Zones, while no significant changes are observed in Water Source Conservation Zones or Windbreak and Sand-Fixation Zones. These findings validate the effectiveness of ecological compensation policies and offer targeted strategies for realizing the ecological product value in ecological functional zones. Furthermore, it provides fresh evidence from China for the ongoing global debate on the environmental protection and economic development.
国家重点生态功能区转移支付作为中国具有代表性的生态补偿政策,已被证明对环境绩效和区域经济发展都有影响。然而,现有文献尚未充分探讨TPNKEFZ对生态产品价值实现的定量影响及其潜在的传导机制。通过对2001 - 2020年中国国家重点生态功能区生态产品价值转换效率的研究,揭示了以国家重点生态功能区的引入为转折点的生态产品价值转换效率呈现“先下降后上升”的趋势。生物多样性保护区内CEEPV呈高-高集聚特征,高CEEPV值集中在生物多样性维持区,而低CEEPV值集中在防风林和固沙区。cepv在新经济自由区内表现出显著的正向空间溢出效应。TPNKEFZ不仅提高了目标地区的CEEPV,而且使周边地区受益。这些效应在不同的带类型中有所不同:生物多样性维持带的改善最为显著,而水源涵养区和防风林固沙带的变化不显著。研究结果验证了生态补偿政策的有效性,为实现生态功能区生态产品价值提供了有针对性的策略。此外,它为正在进行的关于环境保护和经济发展的全球辩论提供了来自中国的新证据。
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Global inequalities in building infrastructure: A three-dimensional building perspective based on remote sensing 基础设施建设中的全球不平等:基于遥感的三维建筑视角
IF 7 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103617
Xi Chen , Junfeng Xiong , Xuan Hou , Yuchen Liu , Qingyu Wu , Zhe Zhang , Yuan Yuan
Buildings are a critical part of the built environment, and their three-dimensional structure expands human living and working space. However, the scarcity of easy-to-use and fine-grained three-dimensional building data based on globally consistent methodologies and further refined surveys on multi-scale building infrastructure limits the understanding of the status and gaps in the global building infrastructure, as well as further governance. Here, we accurately estimated global building heights at 10-m resolution by synergistically using satellite imagery and global multi-source building data in conjunction with a globally consistent methodology capable of reducing regional contextual differences. Based on the map, the global situation of building infrastructure at functional urban area (FUA) and national levels was further analyzed. The results show that the building volume per capita (BVPC) in the Global South and North is 793.58 and 2423.35 m3 respectively, a difference of about three times. The Global South has an absolute deficit in housing and building infrastructure, as well as extreme inequality within the Global South, with an average Gini for BVPC as high as 0.52. Overall, the Global South faces overcrowding or inequality, or both, of building space at the national and FUA levels and remains far behind the Global North. The contribution of this study is to alleviate the global need for data related three-dimensional building information and to quantitatively shed new light on the global inequalities and gaps in building infrastructure at multiple levels, which are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represented by SDGs 10 and 11.
建筑是建筑环境的重要组成部分,它的立体结构扩展了人类的生活和工作空间。然而,基于全球一致的方法和对多尺度建筑基础设施的进一步细化调查,缺乏易于使用和细粒度的三维建筑数据,限制了对全球建筑基础设施现状和差距的理解,以及进一步的治理。在这里,我们通过协同使用卫星图像和全球多源建筑数据,结合能够减少区域上下文差异的全球一致方法,准确地估计了10米分辨率的全球建筑高度。在此基础上,进一步分析了全球功能城区和国家层面基础设施建设的现状。结果表明:全球南方和北方的人均建筑体积(BVPC)分别为793.58和2423.35 m3,相差约3倍;全球发展中国家在住房和基础设施建设方面存在绝对赤字,而且在全球发展中国家内部存在极端不平等,其平均基尼系数高达0.52。总体而言,全球南方在国家和FUA层面的建筑空间方面面临过度拥挤或不平等,或两者兼而有之,远远落后于全球北方。本研究的贡献在于缓解全球对三维建筑信息相关数据的需求,并定量地揭示全球多层次基础设施建设中的不平等和差距,这对于实现以可持续发展目标10和11为代表的可持续发展目标(sdg)至关重要。
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Shadows behind “land finance”: A perspective from Chinese LGFV debt structures “土地财政”背后的阴影:来自中国地方政府融资平台债务结构的视角
IF 7 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-10-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103612
Xiao Hu , Ye Jin , Zhengjie Wang , Jize Yang
The Chinese local governments have long relied on local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) as quasi-fiscal entities to invest infrastructure, expand public services, and stimulate economic growth. However, it has also contributed to rising local debts and mounting systemic risks. Within a unique “land-based finance, finance-supported land” cycle, the land operations of local governments are deeply intertwined with affiliated LGFV debt accumulation process. From a novel and meaningful perspective of debt structures, using data on Chinese LGFVs from 2018 to 2021, we find that greater local government land finance dependence initially increases, then decreases, the proportion of non-standard debt (NSD) in LGFV liabilities. In addition, land finance exerts a consistently positive effect on LGFVs’ short-term debt ratio. These impacts operate through the dual effect of subjective LGFV risk preference and objective regional debt constraint intensity, and are more pronounced among LGFVs with lower administrative ranking, greater social function burdens, weaker fiscal backing, or higher external guarantee exposure. Our findings deepen the understanding of how land finance shapes quasi-fiscal borrowing behavior in China, and offer policy insights for subnational debt management and fiscal reform.
长期以来,中国地方政府一直依赖地方政府融资平台(lgfv)作为准财政实体来投资基础设施、扩大公共服务和刺激经济增长。然而,这也加剧了地方债务的增加和系统性风险的增加。在独特的“以土地为基础的金融,金融支持的土地”周期中,地方政府的土地经营与相关的地方政府融资平台债务积累过程紧密交织在一起。从一个新颖而有意义的债务结构视角出发,利用2018 - 2021年中国地方政府融资平台的数据,我们发现地方政府土地财政依赖程度越高,地方政府融资平台债务中非标准债务的比例先上升后下降。此外,土地财政对地方政府融资平台的短期负债率具有持续的正向影响。这些影响是通过主观的地方政府融资平台风险偏好和客观的区域债务约束强度的双重作用来运行的,并且在行政级别较低、社会功能负担较大、财政支持较弱或外部担保敞口较大的地方政府融资平台中更为明显。我们的研究结果加深了对中国土地财政如何影响准财政借贷行为的理解,并为地方债务管理和财政改革提供了政策见解。
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Spatiotemporal inequality in green urban transition: Socioeconomic drivers and differentiated impacts of cities in China 绿色城市转型的时空不平等:中国城市的社会经济驱动因素及差异化影响
IF 7 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-10-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103618
Xuerong Zhang , Zhe Liu , Jesse Rodenbiker , Xiaolei Tao , Tongtong Liu
As green urban initiatives in China are increasingly localized, understanding intra-provincial disparities becomes essential for effective regionally differentiated governance. To address the lack of conceptual cohesion and quantitative analysis in green urban transition (GUT) research, this study constructs a multi-dimensional efficiency evaluation model covering resource input, green production, green consumption, and resource recycling. Employing city-level panel data (2004–2021), we apply the Williamson coefficient, Theil's T index and its decomposition to track GUT inequality and quantify city-level contributions to provincial inequality. We further integrate machine learning (LightGBM) with the spatiotemporal geographically weighted regression (GTWR) model to identify and analyze key drivers and their spatial-temporal heterogeneity. Findings reveal: (1) Intra-regional inequality is the main contributor to national GUT inequality, with eastern region exhibiting the highest contribution rates, though internal disparities are greater in the west. (2) A pronounced “capital city siphoning effect” emerges over time, concentrating responsibility for provincial GUT inequality increasingly within provincial capitals. (3) Socioeconomic drivers show distinct spatiotemporal effects: industrialization generally reduces cities' inequality contributions, while higher education exacerbates them, and infrastructure construction reduces coastal cities' contributions but intensifies roles of inland cities; (4) Technological innovation, population density, foreign trade, and fiscal expenditure show significant intra-provincial divergence and temporal variation, intensifying inequality in underdeveloped western cities. These findings demonstrate that effective GUT governance requires shifting focus from inter-regional coordination to province-specific, city-differentiated policies that address the capital city siphoning effect and the divergent impacts of socioeconomic drivers, particularly in mitigating intra-provincial disparities within eastern and key western provinces.
随着中国的绿色城市倡议日益本地化,了解省内差异对于有效的区域差异化治理至关重要。针对绿色城市转型研究缺乏概念衔接和定量分析的问题,构建了涵盖资源投入、绿色生产、绿色消费和资源回收的多维效率评价模型。采用2004-2021年的城市层面面板数据,我们应用Williamson系数、Theil’s T指数及其分解来跟踪GUT不平等,并量化城市层面对省级不平等的贡献。我们进一步将机器学习(LightGBM)与时空地理加权回归(GTWR)模型相结合,以识别和分析关键驱动因素及其时空异质性。结果表明:(1)区域内不平等是造成全国城乡总产值不平等的主要因素,东部地区的贡献率最高,西部地区的内部差异更大;(2)随着时间的推移,“省会城市虹吸效应”明显,省级政府间总支出不平等的责任日益向省会城市集中。③社会经济驱动因素表现出明显的时空效应:工业化总体上降低了城市不平等贡献,而高等教育加剧了城市不平等贡献;基础设施建设降低了沿海城市的贡献,但强化了内陆城市的贡献;(4)技术创新、人口密度、对外贸易和财政支出呈现出显著的省际差异和时间变异,加剧了西部欠发达城市的不平等。这些研究结果表明,有效的政府间合作治理需要将重点从区域间协调转向针对具体省份、城市的差异化政策,以解决省会城市的虹吸效应和社会经济驱动因素的不同影响,特别是在缓解东部和西部重点省份之间的省内差异方面。
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Dwelling size as a socio-spatial proxy. Planning-deficient urbanism, tourism-led gentrification, and macro-driven commodification in Athens 住宅大小作为社会空间代理。雅典缺乏规划的城市主义、旅游主导的中产阶级化和宏观驱动的商品化
IF 7 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-10-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103614
Ioannis Vardopoulos , Alessandro Muolo , Ioannis Konaxis , Luca Salvati
Assuming heightened volatility in Mediterranean building cycles due to recurring external shocks, this study provides a long-term perspective (1977–2019) on the increasingly diverse housing trajectories observed in urban Greece. Metropolitan Athens, characterized by successive periods of economic expansion and contraction over the past four decades, serves as the empirical setting for examining the extent to which dwelling size reflects patterns of urban and suburban (sustainable) development. Drawing on an official dataset of issued residential building permits for newly authorized units (used as a forward-looking indicator of the formal new-build supply margin) the analysis investigates the mechanisms underpinning the emergence and intensification of socio-spatial disparities across multiple territorial scales. Particular attention is given to the influence of spatial planning practices, and the persistent absence of an integrated urban policy framework, on poverty and economic inequality in the region. The dataset consists of annual municipal-level records of newly authorized dwellings, providing a consistent tracer of the formal supply margin, compiled by the (Hellenic) Statistical Authority and supplemented with publicly available data from Greek and European authorities/sources, including Eurostat. Adopting a multivariate and exploratory analytical approach, the study relates trends in dwelling size to key phases of economic growth and recession in Athens. Dwelling size is conceptualized as a theoretically grounded and operationally meaningful indicator of metropolitan transformation, with relevance for both urban research and regional science. Empirical results demonstrate that spatial variation in dwelling size closely mirrored building cycle dynamics, bearing an increase during the 'golden Olympic decade' (1998–2007), and contracting sharply during the subsequent crisis. Overall, dwelling size in newly authorized projects emerges as a robust and spatially explicit proxy for interpreting (new-build dynamics in) urban change(s), one that is intimately linked to real estate fluctuations, financial cycles, and evolving forms of gentrification, tourism development, and localized urban shrinkage in contemporary European capitals.
假设地中海建筑周期由于反复出现的外部冲击而波动加剧,本研究为希腊城市观察到的日益多样化的住房轨迹提供了一个长期视角(1977-2019)。在过去的四十年中,雅典大都会的特点是连续的经济扩张和收缩时期,作为检验住宅规模反映城市和郊区(可持续)发展模式的程度的经验背景。利用新授权单位已颁发的住宅建筑许可的官方数据集(用作正式新建供应边际的前瞻性指标),该分析调查了跨多个地域尺度的社会空间差异出现和加剧的机制。特别注意空间规划做法的影响,以及持续缺乏综合城市政策框架对该区域贫穷和经济不平等的影响。该数据集包括新批准住宅的年度市级记录,提供正式供应边际的一致追踪,由(希腊)统计局编制,并辅以希腊和欧洲当局/来源(包括欧盟统计局)的公开数据。该研究采用多元探索性分析方法,将住宅规模的趋势与雅典经济增长和衰退的关键阶段联系起来。住宅大小被定义为大都市转型的理论基础和操作意义指标,与城市研究和区域科学相关。实证结果表明,住宅面积的空间变化与建筑周期动态密切相关,在“黄金奥运十年”(1998-2007)期间有所增加,在随后的危机期间急剧收缩。总体而言,新批准项目中的住宅尺寸是解释城市变化(新建动态)的一个强大和空间明确的代理,它与当代欧洲首都的房地产波动、金融周期、中产阶级化、旅游发展和局部城市萎缩的演变形式密切相关。
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Journeys of joy: Investigating the subjective well-being of China's urban-to-urban migrants 快乐之旅:调查中国城市移民的主观幸福感
IF 7 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-10-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103620
Rui Qi , Yiwen Shangguan
Constrained by factors such as social network disruption, labor market discrimination, and low cultural identity, migrants often exhibit lower subjective well-being (SWB). In recent years, China has experienced a surge in urban-to-urban migration, characterized by distinct features. Whether these migrants display different levels of SWB post-migration merits further exploration. Using data from the 2018 China General Social Survey, we demonstrate that urban-to-urban migrants report significantly higher SWB compared to rural-to-urban migrants, while their SWB advantage over urban natives is statistically insignificant. These findings can be attributed to enhanced social status, improved emotional health, and a heightened perception of social fairness. We find that this effect is more pronounced among permanent, intra-provincial, older, and male migrants, and is more significant in southern and eastern regions. Additionally, urban-to-urban migrants exert no negative spillover effects on the SWB of natives. Our study not only enriches theories of migrant SWB but also provides new insights into China's evolving migration patterns.
受社会网络中断、劳动力市场歧视和低文化认同等因素的制约,移民往往表现出较低的主观幸福感(SWB)。近年来,中国经历了一场由城市向城市迁移的浪潮,其特点十分明显。这些移民在移民后是否表现出不同程度的SWB,值得进一步探讨。利用2018年中国综合社会调查的数据,我们证明,与农村到城市的移民相比,城市到城市的移民报告的幸福感显著更高,而他们的幸福感相对于城市本地人的优势在统计上不显著。这些发现可以归因于社会地位的提高、情绪健康的改善和对社会公平的高度感知。我们发现,这种影响在常住人口、省内人口、老年人口和男性流动人口中更为明显,在南部和东部地区更为显著。此外,城市移民对本地居民的SWB没有负面溢出效应。我们的研究不仅丰富了移民主观幸福感的理论,而且为研究中国不断演变的移民模式提供了新的视角。
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Unpacking the practice of participation in participatory slum upgrading: Critical insights from Ghanaian informal settlements 剖析参与式贫民窟改造的实践:来自加纳非正式住区的重要见解
IF 7 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103611
Gideon Abagna Azunre
The movement to democratize informal settlement policies has culminated in a unanimous agreement to pursue upgrading over evictions. Yet, research on participatory slum upgrading often laser focuses on quantifiable tangible outcomes (e.g., mileage of roads constructed) rather than intangible processes. Consequently, the primary objective of this paper is to nuance our understanding of the process of participation in the context of internationally financed programs. The paper empirically focuses on the World Bank GARID upgrading program being implemented in three neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana's capital and most populous city. A qualitative research design is adopted to collect data via surveys, interviews, and focus group discussions. Drawing on Luyet et al.’s participation framework and Steven Lukes' three faces of power, results reveal that diverse formal and informal techniques were deployed to operationalize genuine participation: community meetings, surveys, discussions in churches and mosques, social media, and community development committees. Despite these extensive strategies, the majority (62%) of household respondents were opposed to categorizing their involvement as ‘participation.’ Some factors accounting for this were 1) token engagement in lower rungs of information and consultation, 2) fatigue and burnout due to long community meetings and project delays, 3) high participation costs, 4) everyday local politics, and 5) the ‘yes-man’ syndrome emerging from a fear of the World Bank's power. The paper concludes by calling for the reimagination of the dialectical dynamics of power in the practice of genuine participation in informal contexts. Based on the findings, some recommendations are provided to advance inclusive participation for all.
使非正式住区政策民主化的运动最终达成一致,即追求升级而不是驱逐。然而,关于参与式贫民窟改造的研究往往主要关注可量化的有形成果(例如,修建的道路里程),而不是无形的过程。因此,本文的主要目的是使我们对参与国际资助项目过程的理解有细微差别。本文的实证研究重点是在加纳首都、人口最多的城市阿克拉的三个街区实施的世界银行GARID升级项目。采用定性研究设计,通过调查、访谈和焦点小组讨论收集数据。根据Luyet等人的参与框架和Steven Lukes的权力三面论,研究结果显示,为了实现真正的参与,采用了多种正式和非正式的技术:社区会议、调查、教堂和清真寺的讨论、社交媒体和社区发展委员会。尽管有这些广泛的策略,大多数(62%)家庭受访者反对将他们的参与归类为“参与”。“造成这种情况的一些因素是:1)在较低的信息和咨询级别象征性地参与;2)由于长时间的社区会议和项目延误而产生的疲劳和倦怠;3)高参与成本;4)日常的地方政治;5)由于对世界银行权力的恐惧而出现的‘应声者’综合症。”最后,本文呼吁对非正式语境中真正参与实践中的权力辩证动态进行重新想象。根据调查结果,提出了一些建议,以促进所有人的包容性参与。
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Navigating intra-regional unevenness in China: engaging secondary cities towards coordinated mega-regionalization 应对中国区域内的不平衡:促使二级城市走向协调的大区域化
IF 7 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103619
Yizhao Du, Rodrigo V. Cardoso, Roberto Rocco
The mega-regional unevenness, namely the development gap between cores and smaller cities, has increasingly become a key obstacle for inter-city coordination in China. Scholars tend to focus more on the leading role of the cores in responding to this problem. When the smaller cities are mentioned, their endogenous characteristics and weaknesses are often highlighted, rather than being valued as important nodes embedded in the regional network and the inter-city relations. This paper conceptualizes these smaller players in mega-regional system as “secondary cities” to emphasize their interconnectedness to the cores and embeddedness in the inter-city relations. Based on this, we firstly examine the (trans)formation trends of the core-secondary relations in Chinese mega-regionalization. In this way, we focus on the role of secondary cities by exploring the functional and political positioning in the dynamic regional system. Building on such conceptualization of secondary cities, we construct an indicator system to measure changes of core-secondary unevenness from 2006 to 2023. We find that although mega-regionalization aims to rebalance inter-city relations, secondary cities are still facing challenges of polarization and peripheralization. Finally, we conduct a clustering analysis based on the differences between core and secondary cities regarding economic structure, aiming to explore the differentiated vulnerabilities of various types of secondary cities when confronted with polarization and peripheralization. This paper expands the theoretical scope of secondary cities to provide an innovative analytical perspective for understanding the mega-regional unevenness problems in China. Meanwhile, we also emphasize the potential and value of core-secondary relations in addressing the challenges of secondary cities with the expectation of more targeted policy and planning actions.
大区域不平衡,即核心城市与小城市之间的发展差距,日益成为中国城市间协调的主要障碍。在应对这一问题时,学者们更倾向于关注核心的主导作用。当提到小城市时,往往会强调其内在的特点和弱点,而不是将其视为嵌入区域网络和城际关系的重要节点。本文将大区域系统中这些较小的参与者定义为“次要城市”,以强调它们与核心城市的相互联系和城市间关系的嵌入性。在此基础上,我们首先考察了中国大区域化中核心-次要关系的转变趋势。这样,我们通过探索在动态区域系统中的功能定位和政治定位来关注二级城市的作用。在此基础上,本文构建了2006 - 2023年我国核心-次要城市不均衡变化的测度指标体系。研究发现,虽然大区域化旨在重新平衡城市间关系,但二级城市仍面临两极分化和外围化的挑战。最后,基于核心城市和二级城市经济结构差异进行聚类分析,探讨不同类型二级城市在极化和外围化背景下的差异性脆弱性。本文拓展了二级城市的理论范围,为理解中国大区域不均衡问题提供了一个创新的分析视角。同时,我们也强调核心-次要城市关系在应对次要城市挑战方面的潜力和价值,并期望采取更有针对性的政策和规划行动。
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