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  • Theoretical Frontiers
    QIN Kun, ZHOU Yang, HUANG Jing, LIU Juan, YU Xuesong, GAO Muhan, LIU Donghai, GAO Xieqing
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(1): 36-50. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202301004

    Earth System Model (ESM) is a set of important tools to understand the mechanism of historical climate change and environment evolution, to forecast the future potential global change, and it is an important platform to integrate related researches about geosciences. The research object of geographic information science is developing from the traditional earth surface to the entire earth system. This paper summarizes and analyzes the theories and key technologies of the earth system model from the perspective of geographic information science. It includes basic concepts of the earth system model and their component relationships, the key technologies of the earth system model (including numerical model and solving methods, parametrization methods, high performance parallel computation methods, data storage methods for mass data, and so on), critical data of the earth system model (including the reanalysis data from the United States, Europe, Japan, and China), and the forecast methods of the earth system model (including ensemble forecast, multiscale forecast, intelligent forecast, high spatiotemporal resolution forecast). Finally, the paper prospects the future development trend and application prospect of the earth system model research.

  • Theoretical Frontiers
    GU Chaolin, CHEN Lelin, GU Jiang, GAO Zhe, SU Hefang, GUO Li
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(2): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202302001

    Rapid urbanization and climate change are rapidly changing earth and the earth systems. This paper explores the new tasks and new frontiers of Chinese geography from the perspective of the Anthropocene. As a crucial discipline within earth sciences, geography spans the natural and social sciences and is poised to become the most promising field in the era of Anthropocene. It is a new mission of geography to define the spatiotemporal structure of anthroposphere, rebuild the framework of the human-environment relationships, conduct research on topology of the human geography, return to research on sustainable development based on the unified geography. Human geography, as the most important branch of geography, will be reshaped for rapid world urbanization, climate change and sustainable issues. For historical geography, it needs to pay greater attention to the impact of human activities, such as the history of prehistoric marine civilization and continental civilization, as well as the history of the modern environmental pollution. For economic geography, it could be on finance-trade-globalization, global value chains-global production chains-global industrial chains, of course the "global South"will be becoming a hot spot and of focus. Due to the collectivization of western countries centered on the United States, the trend of deglobalization and the increasing risk of the new cold war, political geography is in urgent development need. It could be shifting from geopolitics to global governance, rebuilt an effective global institution for cooperation that belong fields of unconventional and new energy technologies. For social geography, it would prioritize social issues on the global perspective, especially as rapid world urbanization and global climate change have inequalities of race, gender, class and some other social groups. Information technology and the Internet have given Cultural Geography new connotations and new opportunities for development. It is necessary to pay special attention to the significance of human beings' use of various words and semiotics tools to the planet and its place where human being live, and explore more effective countermeasures to intervene in rapid earth change. In response to the accelerated processes of urbanization, climate and earth changes, Urban Geography should swiftly transition from a traditional framework focused on "urbanization-urban systems-internal urban structures" to a new framework focusing on modernization based on green growth. It is very likely that Anthropocene geography will give geographers some new disciplines to develop imaginary fields, such as deep sea and deep space exploration, planetary geography, interstellar colonization and migration.

  • Application Studies
    DING Dan, LIU Xiaoping, XU Xiaocong
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(2): 39-50. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202302004

    With the acceleration of urbanization, urban expansion gradually tends to develop medium and high-rise buildings in the vertical direction from low-density development in the horizontal direction. It is very important to establish a dynamic three-dimensional model for simulating urban expansion to correctly explore the evolution process of urban three-dimensional space. However, the current model research on 3D urban expansion is very limited, and some of the existing 3D model studies still use the 2D land use area as the demand constraint condition, which is inconsistent with the actual 3D expansion simulation idea. Based on the above background, this paper takes Shenzhen as the research object, and proposes a 3D urban expansion simulation model mining the transformation rules that combine horizontal expansion and vertical growth,which is based on the two-dimensional FLUS model and the building mass in different shared socioeconomic paths (SSPs) scenarios as the constrained demand. It solves the problem of separation of horizontal and vertical simulation processes in previous studies. The research shows that in the simulation of urban land in the horizontal direction, the FoM index is 0.34, the Kappa coefficient is 0.887 9, and the overall accuracy is 95.14%. The relative error of each building volume in the vertical direction is less than or equal to 10%, and the fitting error is low. Moreover, the 3D-FLUS model predicts the three-dimensional urban expansion results of Shenzhen under different SSP scenarios in the future, which is of great significance for future urban planning.

  • Theoretical Frontiers
    AN Ning, FENG Yaxin, SONG Chongyan
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(3): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202303001

    Based on the attention to the geography of body and the hot debate on "infrastructure turn" in recent years, there has been quite a large number of scholars who are quietly reflecting on the traditional understanding of infrastructure, both ontologically and methodologically. This paper therefore attempts to systematically review the concept of "bodies as infrastructure" and frontier issues related to this theme in the discipline of geography. It is found that, in geography, the study of "bodies as infrastructure" has been mainly carried out from three core dimensions. The first is to think of the body as a "flowing" infrastructure. This aspect requires attention to the practice of embodied flow of the human bodies, especially its key role in reflecting the complex social spatial power relations. Meanwhile, in this aspect, it is also required to pay attention to the social spatial impact of human body flows. The second is to view the human bodies as the daily infrastructure of the city. In this regard, the body can be seen to some extent as a way to negotiate and fight against social power, so as to cope with the infrastructure violence these human bodies have been facing and to challenge the existing urban spatial order. Moreover, from this lens, the body also becomes a temporary infrastructurual "flexible configuration" to support the operation of the urban social spatial system. Third, through the introduction of a feminist perspective, the existence of the body as a kind of social care infrastructure is discussed. In this respect, it focuses on how the bodies of women and other marginalized groups help to build, develop, and sustain the functioning of society through their embodied everyday practices. The introduction of the concept of "bodies as infrastructure" not only broadens the ontological understanding of "infrastructure", but also helps deepen the understanding of how the body is shaped by social and environmental factors, so that it can be better applied to future research.

  • Geographical Education
    DING Hu, YUAN Yajuan, SUN Caige, FU Yingchun, ZHAO Yaolong
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(2): 93-98. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202302009

    Curriculum ideological and political education is not only the key measure to realize the strategic goal of 'Three-wide Education', but also an important means to carry out the fundamental task of 'establishing morality and cultivating people', and an effective way to promote the reform of ideological and political education. Digital Elevation Model and Terrain Analysis, as the advanced course of geographic information science with both theory and practice, plays an important role in cultivating students' professional knowledge and ability. In this paper, under the pattern of 'General ideological and political education', based on the teaching thought of 'classroom teaching as the basis, scientific research as the lead, and discipline competition as the engine', points for ideological and political education in the course are explored from the following aspects:teaching target, teaching content, teaching method, learning, and teaching reflection. The aim of this article is to provide reference and experience for the curriculum construction of geographic information science.

  • Social & Cultural Geography
    LIN Zhe, LI Gang, DU Mengjia, XIA Hai, YANG Zhuo
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(2): 71-83. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202302007

    Since 2020, waves of COVID-19 have dramatically changed community life. Delivery points in the form of Community-Group-Buying (CGB) have developed in China, challenging the traditional retail industry. Earlier research focused on economics and management, while there was a relative lack of research on the spatial perspective of geography. This paper explored relying targets, operation model, multi-scale spatial distributions, and influencing factors of Community-Group-Buying from the perspective of logistics geography and Community-Life-Circle planning based on 8580 point of interest (POI) data in Wuhan City. Text analysis, spatial analysis, and Geodetector were applied in the study. The results indicated that: the primary relying target of the Community-Group-Buying was community commercial outlets, and multiple types co-existed, with large differences in the operating conditions. The spatial distribution was uneven, with a central-peripheral structure of central concentration and external balance, and a symmetrical distribution in the direction of "northeast-southwest"; in the middle view, it showed "L+O" belt-like clustering; in the micro view, it was as close as possible to the entrances and exits of the community, and basically could be achieved within 5-minute walking distance. The percentage of regional primary industry, gross agricultural output value, road network density, and population density were key influencing factors of the density of CGB self-pickup points, and the explanatory power of regional GDP and population density increased significantly after interacting with other socio-economic factors, over 90%. Finally, suggestions were proposed for the development optimization of Community-Group-Buying in the future and an outlook on further research was provided.

  • Social & Cultural Geography
    CHEN Yitao
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(2): 84-92. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202302008

    The governance of Hehuang in the Ming and Qing dynasties both showed the characteristics of governing according to customs, which has a high reference value for the implementation of policies in ethnic areas today. In the Ming Dynasty, under the idea of "more seals for public construction and more monks for use", Hehuang Tibetan Buddhist monasteries were given political and economic privileges, which had a great impact on the spatial distribution order of Hehuang Buddhist monasteries and was dominated by the state power. Although the Qing Dynasty advocated the promotion of Huangjiao, in fact, the various privileges of most monasteries were transferred to the local government after the conversion of Hehuang to Inner Mongolia during the Yongzheng period, so the distribution and development of Buddhist monasteries mainly depended on their own strength, which was intrinsic. By restoring the spatial distribution of different types of monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism in Hehuang in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the corresponding dynamic process of reshaping the distribution order of Buddhist monasteries is constructed, so as to have a more systematically understanding of the thought of border control embodied in the continuous exchange and interaction between the Central Plains Dynasty and Tibetan Buddhism.

  • Application Studies
    CHEN Kanglin, CHEN Sikai, GONG Jianzhou
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(3): 10-24. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202303002

    The coast of Pearl River estuary is one of the most densely populated, economically active, and resource-intensive large-scale estuarine coastal zone in China and the world. It is facing many problems such as excessive reclamation, functional degradation, and resource attenuation, which poses a serious threat to regional ecological balance and high-quality development. Due to the limited load of traditional remote sensing processing platform, the consistency of image processing in medium and large scale areas is poor, resulting in low accuracy of ground object classification results. Based on the Google Earth Engine(GEE) cloud platform, five periods of land use type data were obtained from 2000 to 2020, with the total accuracy ranging from 86.27% to 90.15%. Secondly, land use transfer matrix and dynamic degree are used to describe the temporal and spatial characteristics of land use transition in the coast of Pearl River Estuary. Finally, the influence mechanism of landscape evolution in the Pearl River Estuary is quantitatively revealed by using the optimal parameter geographic detector the geographic detector. The results are as follows: (1) The coastal landscape pattern of the Pearl River Estuary altered frequently over the past twenty years, with the comprehensive dynamic degree ranging from 2.66% to 3.62%. The dramatically shift between forest and cultivated land was observed in the western coast of the Pearl River Estuary, while the strong growth of construction land was mainly detected in the eastern coast of the Pearl River Estuary. (2) The optimal parameters of geographic detection of coastal landscape evolution in the Pearl River Estuary could be divided into 9~15 categories, and the optimal spatial scale threshold of geographical detection of impact factors was 90 m×90 m. (3) The coastal landscape evolution pattern of the Pearl River Estuary suffered from both natural and anthropogenic factors at different periods. The driving force of the two-factor interaction was significantly higher than that of the single-factor driving force, showing a two-factor enhancement effect or nonlinear enhancement. And the interaction between GDP variation and temperature variation, with a q value of 0.345, contributed the most to the change of mangrove forest from 2000 to 2005. The study revealed that future resource planning and utilization and comprehensive management of the Pearl River Estuary coastal zone should be paid enough attention to the scale effect of landscape patches. In addition, quantitative detection of interaction between GDP and other factors was in the primary determinants of land use change. To balance the coordination relationship between the rapid economic growth and the regional ecological environment, and promote the high-quality development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

  • Human Geography
    WANG Fenglong, CAI Chunyan, YAN Zexuan, HAO Shixiao, Kadierguli
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(2): 64-76. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202402007

    "Scholars" provide a core perspective to study academic history. Through scholars' lineage relationships, we can describe the formation of disciplines, the evolution of academic schools, the inheritance of academic thoughts, and even the internal factional disputes within the discipline. However, discussions on intellectual lineage relationships and their impacts have been overlooked in the study of the history of geographical thought. This paper takes the lineage relationships of prominent human geography scholars in the Chinese Republican era as an example. Based on the lineage relationships of representative scholars, it analyzes the formation and development of modern Chinese human geography as a discipline, explores the influence of lineage networks on the formation and inheritance of academic schools and the integration of Western and Chinese geographical thoughts, and discusses the political issues within the discipline triggered by lineage relationships. Finally, this paper systematically discusses the inspiration of the perspective of lineage relationships on the study of the history of geographical thought.

  • Geographical Education
    LI Xiaoyan, CHENG Tongwei, ZHAO Jian
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(2): 88-94. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202402009

    Taking the geography teacher education major of a local university in Shaanxi as an example, this paper addresses the common issues in the talent training of normal education and proposes to reshape "educational belief" and establish a lifelong teaching conviction; to implement "student-centeredness" and create a local educational paradigm; to enhance "teacher education flavor" and establish a high-quality educational ecosystem. Through evidence-based practice, the article proposes to take the reshaping of educational belief as the core task, to strengthen educational ideals and beliefs, and to use the three-dimensional educational goals of "ideological and political guidance + subject foundation + teacher education enhancement" as the guideline. By reconstructing teaching content that directly hits the indicators of teacher graduate requirements and innovating teaching forms with a demonstrative effect, the paper advocates for a dual-engine approach. It also suggests leveraging a community-based learning approach among teachers and students to create an atmosphere conducive to teacher education and a favorable ecosystem for the growth of teacher education students. This approach aims to create a "one core, two wings, three dimensions" model for talent training in local universities, thereby enhancing the service consciousness of local teacher education and improving the quality of talent training and its alignment with the job market.

  • Physical Geography
    LU Wei, YI Shunmin
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(3): 81-91. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202303007

    According to the survey data of geological disasters, karst collapse has become one of the main geological disasters that restrict the social and economic development of Guangzhou city. More than 700 karst collapses and related data in Guangzhou city over the past 50 years are statistically analyzed by the Guangzhou city geological disaster investigation and risk assessment Project. Based on the analysis of the spatial distribution of soluble rock and karst, the distribution, morphology and controlling factors of karst collapse in Guangzhou city are systematically studied. The results show that the development of karst collapse in Guangzhou city is mainly controlled by the degree of karst development, the structure of the cover lying geotechnical body, geological structure, hydrogeological environment and the intensity of human engineering activities. The direct triggering factors of karst collapse mainly include drainage of groundwater by mining and foundation engineering construction, excessive exploitation of karst groundwater, drilling construction, ground vibration loading, water and mud inrush from mining tunnel, heavy rainfall infiltration, and alternating effects of drought and flood. The research results provide an informative geological basis for the prevention and control of karst collapse in Guangzhou city.

  • Book Review and Memory of Academic Career
    WU Di, LIU Yi
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(1): 80-82. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202401008

    Currently, in human geography, theories tend to stand alone, without sufficient dialogues with each other. It lacks a common base on which different sub-disciplines, theories and approaches could engage with each other and jointly discuss how to develop better theories for the whole discipline. Against this backdrop, Professor Henry Wai-Chung Yeung's new book Theory and Explanation in Geography offers a systematic review and a critical reflection of mainstream critical theories in human geography, and points to the direction for future theory advancement.

  • Book Review and Memory of Academic Career
    WANG Fenglong
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(1): 83-87. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202401009

    The recently published book, "Innovation Pattern and Path of Urban Agglomeration in China" by Haitao Ma, provides a comprehensive exploration of the concepts, theories, and patterns of innovation within Chinese urban agglomerations. It contributes to a nuanced understanding of the innovation process at the urban-region scale. The book also delves into the planning practices and trajectories of science and technology innovation in Chinese urban agglomerations. Building on this book, future research could further investigate the following issues: (1) the interdependence between the delineation of urban agglomeration boundaries and the analysis of regional innovation collaboration; (2) theoretical advancements concerning collaborative innovation in urban agglomerations or urban networks; (3) the integration of different innovation actors and various forms of network connections within urban agglomerations.

  • Physical Geography
    LI Huawen
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(2): 32-40. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202402004

    The thesis uses local chronicles as the basic document and uses quantitative analysis methods to study the history of disasters in Guangdong and Guangxi during the Republic of China. According to research, the floods and droughts are the most common, while wind disasters, pests and earthquakes are also more frequent, while animal disasters, hail disasters, snow disasters and frost disasters are relatively rare.The trend of disasters gradually increased, with six periods of severe disasters, especially the two periods of severe disasters in the 1940s. There are obvious regional differences in the spatial distribution of disasters, floods and wind disasters are common along rivers and coastal areas, droughts and pests are more frequent in inland areas, animal disasters are concentrated in remote mountain areas, and other disasters are scattered around. Due to the difference of spatial and temporal distribution of natural disasters in Guangdong and Guangxi, the destructiveness of various natural disasters is also different. Flood and drought are the most destructive, followed by wind disasters, pests, and again for the earthquake, animal disasters and other disasters. At the same time, the natural disasters in Guangdong and Guangxi are different. Guangdong is more serious than Guangxi in flood, wind disasters, pest and earthquake, but less serious than Guangxi in drought and animal disaster. To sum up, the natural disasters in Guangdong and Guangxi were frequent and serious, and the overall disaster situation was not optimistic.

  • Geographical Education
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(2): 77-87. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202402008
  • Book Review and Memory of Academic Career
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(1): 88-90. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202401010
  • Application Studies
    DAI Xinglong, MA Linbing, HU Jingyuan
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(2): 11-19. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202402002

    Exploring the underlying laws behind road illegal incidents can reduce dangerous driving behaviors at the source and maintain social harmony and stability. It can also help the development of urban traffic with high efficiency and high quality, and improve the level of refined traffic governance. Therefore, the analysis of influencing factors of traffic violations in cities is an important prerequisite of accurate analysis of the laws of traffic violations. In this study. The authors took traffic violation data of Guangzhou in October 2015 as an example, and the association rule mining(ARM) of traffic violations and various influencing factors was carried out. Based on the FP-Growth algorithm, this paper excavates the relationship between the types of illegal activities, the time of occurrence, the spatial location and the information of the vehicles in the traffic violation data. It is found that large vehicles of local city are more likely to have no environmental protection signs and illegal use of lanes. Cars from other cities are more likely to overspeed; morning and evening peaks on working days are strongly related to violations of prohibition signs, while traffic violations on highways are more likely to occur on weekends. By introducing POI data and spatial location information, this article can more accurately identify high-incidence traffic violations near specific road sections or public facilities, and provide support for fixed-point traffic governance.

  • Human Geography
    LIU Yan, YE Xia, FENG Ye
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(2): 54-63. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202402006

    Under the background of Chinese culture goes global, the study of Guangdong Province, one of the important economic regions in China, has become one of the most important contents for the construction of Guangdong's overseas image and Sino-Japanese cultural mutual understanding by Japanese academics. In this paper, we take the research topics on Guangdong included in the Database of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(KAKEN) as the data source, and use CiteSpace to visualize and analyze the academic groups, research institutes, and core contents, in order to present the focuses and trends of the research on Guangdong Province in the Japanese academia. The results show that the research on Guangdong Province in Japanese academia involves a large number of research groups and research institutions, and the research hotspots show the characteristics of "economy-country-region" over time, mainly focusing on the Chinese diaspora in the East Asian region, the culture of Chinese clans, and the industrial economy of Guangdong, focusing on regional countries, economic development, and the development of Guangdong. The research focuses on the three core clusters of regional countries, economic development and language and culture. By systematically organizing and evaluating the academic achievements of Guangdong studies in the Japanese academic community, we can provide a "knowledge map of Guangdong studies in the Japanese academic community" with certain reference value for future research and policy making on the dissemination of Guangdong's culture overseas and image writing.

  • Application Studies
    WU Dafang, LAN Wanqian, HE Yinjie, XU Guoyang, ZHANG Qiulin, ZHANG Canjia, LIU Qianjin, CHEN Ruolin
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(2): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202402001

    The spatial distribution and allocation of higher education resources are directly related to the region's innovation ability and competitiveness. As China's most dynamic economic region, rational layout of higher education resources of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is crucial to support its advancement into a world-class bay area. Based on the perspective of geographic space, this study summarizes the shortcomings of domestic and foreign research, follows the path of "resource pattern distribution and influencing mechanism", and uses the GINI coefficient and geographic detector analysis method to analyze the spatial distribution balance and influencing factors of higher education resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The research shows: (1) The spatial distribution of higher education resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is obviously unbalanced, among which Guangzhou and Shenzhen are obviously unbalanced relative to population and economic distribution. (2) The spatial distribution of higher education resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is highly correlated with factors such as the number of urban primary and secondary school students, urban per capita GDP, urban population and urban education expenditure. In particular, it is greatly affected by the number of primary and secondary school students, indicating that higher education is greatly affected by basic education. (3) In the interactive factor detection, the number of urban primary and secondary school students combined with other factors will achieve a large nonlinear enhancement effect. It is expected that the spatial structure of educational resources in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will form a geographical spatial circle structure with four core cities of Hong Kong, Macao, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and other cities such as Zhuhai, Dongguan and Foshan as the periphery in the future, radiating and driving the development of surrounding areas. The research helps to understand the specific gaps in the balance of the spatial structure of higher education resources in the Greater Bay Area, which is beneficial to the rational allocation of higher education resources and the rational tilt of policies.

  • Application Studies
    ZHAO Tianyu, YAN Shuo, CHENG Zhe
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(3): 25-35. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202303003

    The identification of spatial distribution and evolution characteristics of regional ecological resources play an important role in the sustainable regional development and ecological civilization construction. Shaanxi Province was selected as the classical area due to the fragile ecological environment, and major ecological resources such as cultivated land, forest land, grassland, and water resources were selected as the evaluation indexes. Based on the panel data of Shaanxi Province in 2014, 2016 and 2018, the spatio-temporal distribution characteristics and evolution laws of regional ecological resources are revealed by comprehensively using entropy method, density analysis and other research methods. The results show that the change of ecological resources in Shaanxi province is significant during 2014—2018, and the distribution of ecological resources has a strong spatial and temporal heterogeneity. The spatial distribution pattern of ecological resources is "dense in the north and south, sparse in the middle", and the gradient distribution of regional ecological resources is significant. There are obvious regional differences in land use structure in Shaanxi Province. Grassland is concentrated in northern Shaanxi, cultivated land is concentrated in Guanzhong region, forest land is concentrated in southern Shaanxi, and water resources are concentrated in the east of Guanzhong region and the middle of southern Shaanxi. This study provides a reference for decision-making of ecological resource restoration and protective development, and suggests that different regions should adopt different measures. The construction of ecological spatial governance is urgent in China's sustainable development.

  • Book Review and Memory of Academic Career
    LIU Yi, WU Di
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(1): 77-79. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202401007

    The electronics industry is one of the most representative industries that organizes production on a global scale, and it also plays a significant role in the global economy. As one of the key founders of the Manchester School, Prof. Henry Wai-Chung Yeung from the National University of Singapore, launched his new book Interconnected World: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia. This book, based on the theoretical framework of the Global Production Networks 2.0, through solid empirical studies, has analyzed the form, evolution and drivers of the global production networks in the 2010s of the four most important segments in the electronics industry (i.e., semiconductors, personal computers, cell phones, and consumer electronics).

  • Social & Cultural Geography
    ZHONG Yuanze
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(1): 52-64. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202401005

    The regional geographical concept of "Guangdong Nan-lu", which was frequently used in modern historical documents of Guangdong, roughly emerged during the time when Cen Chunxuan, the viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi, reorganized and recruited soldiers in the 29th year of Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1903). It was ultimately established when the Guangzhou KMT Government established the position of "Administrative Commissioner of Guangdong Nan-lu" in 1925. During the period of the Republic of China, the use of the term "Nan-lu" gradually increased, with both broad and narrow connotations: in a broad sense, it referred to Gaozhou Prefecture, Leizhou Prefecture, Lianzhou Prefecture, Qinzhou, counties such as Enping, Kaiping, Xinhui, Xinxing, Yangchun, and Yangjiang in Zhaoqing Prefecture, Luoding Prefecture, and the Qiongya region; in a narrow sense, it specifically referred to Gaozhou Prefecture, Leizhou Prefecture, Lianzhou Prefecture, Qinzhou, and the two counties of Yangjiang and Yangchun. The ever-changing connotations of "Guangdong Nan-lu" were not only a result of the continuous disintegration and reorganization of regional political forces in modern Guangdong but also driven by the misalignment between the area's socioeconomic development disparities and its strategic position. After 1949, with the adjustment of the provincial boundaries and administrative divisions between Guangdong and Guangxi, the term "Guangdong Nan-lu" gradually faded away.

  • Geographical Education
    WANG Hongfeng, CHEN Xiaoxin, CHEN Yizhi, WANG Min
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(1): 65-76. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202401006

    Problem solving ability is an important manifestation of the core qualities of the discipline and occupies an important position in geographic teaching. Understanding the cognitive differences in the process of students' geographic problem solving can help us better realize the cultivation of ability. This study uses the method of think—aloud protocols and eye-tracking technology to investigate the differences in information processing, attention allocation and cognitive load of students at different academic levels when solving the problems in the chapter of "Shaping of Surface Morphology". The study found that the differences in problem solving ability among students with different academic levels are mainly reflected in the cognitive foundation, information extraction and information processing abilities. Students with a high academic level have fewer gazes, a concentrated area of gaze, and clear oral expressions, which reflected that they have a stronger cognitive foundation, a strong ability to grasp and process key information, and are less affected by redundant information, thus solving problems efficiently. Students with medium academic level are more affected by redundant information and have hesitant expressions as shown by the number of gaze points and times, which indicates that their processing is hindered by poor knowledge structure and illogicality. Students with lower academic levels have some problems with cognitive foundation and information processing. Finally, this paper provides brief suggestions for the development of geographic problem solving skills based on students' cognitive characteristics and differences in problem solving.

  • Physical Geography
    LI Xiaoqiang, CHENG Hongyi, WANG Naiang
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(2): 20-31. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202402003

    The classification and naming of of the Hongshanwan landform in the Zhangye UNESCO Global Geopark have long been contentious. Through research and comparison, it is found that there are significant differences in geomorphic forces, landform morphology, material composition, landform development, and evolutionary processes compared to the Danxia landforms. Following the principles of rock landform classification and naming, it is currently appropriate to refer to them as the Hongshanwan landforms. As a subcategory of red bed landforms, they should be listed alongside the Danxia landforms. This article proposes the definition of Hongshanwan landforms as follows: they are characterized by internal forces of structural tilting, with surface sheet flow as the main external force, and are formed by the combined action of external forces such as weathering, erosion, and gravity, resulting in gentle slopes with colorful rhythmic sedimentary features typical of red bed landforms. These landforms are mainly composed of red Cretaceous terrestrial mudstones and sandstones with interbedded grayish-blue and grayish-green colors. The main internal and external forces shaping the landforms are structural tilting and surface sheet flow, respectively. The landform morphology is characterized by gentle undulations, colorful rhythmic sedimentary features, and the development of micro-landforms such as mud stalactites, mud waterfalls, and small earth pyramids. Depending on the combination of stratum dip and slope morphology, the landscape types of Hongshanwan landform can be categorized into over ten types, including horizontal color stripe type, inclined color stripe type, vertical color stripe type, rainbow type, inverted rainbow type, wave type, scallop type, pleated skirt type, and composite type. Hongshanwan landforms are mainly distributed in arid and semi-arid regions, particularly in the central areas of red beds basins closely related to mountainous regions, including Jiuquan, Zhangye, and Lanzhou basins in front of the Qilian Mountains, the Junggar Basin at the southern foot of the Altai Mountains in Xinjiang, and the Andes Mountains in South America.

  • Human Geography
    LI Jie, ZHAO Yaxuan, WANG Hongxi, LI Lingling, ZHU Hong
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(2): 41-53. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202402005

    The establishment of the National Social Science Fund (National Social Science Fund) project is not only an important symbol of the scientific research strength and organizational ability of each region, but also reflects the development trend and hot direction of the discipline field. Existing bibliometrics studies focus more on bibliometrics analysis, and less on the perspective of national social science projects. Using the National Social Science Foundation project database as the data source, this paper collected and analyzed the projects whose provinces, regions, and cities were in Guangdong Province from 1994-2021 for statistical analysis, and used methods such as bibliometrics and knowledge map to describe the knowledge picture of social science research in Guangdong Province reflected in the national social science project in Guangdong Province. The results showed as follows: (1) During the study period, a total of 4 794 national social science projects were established in Guangdong Province, ranking fourth among all provinces, regions, and municipalities (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan), with an average annual growth rate of 15.7%. Among them, there were 3 211 general projects, youth projects and later funded projects, and 444 major projects and key projects, all of which were higher than the national average. (2) The project disciplines mainly focus on the applied economy, Chinese literature, linguistics, and sociology, with keywords such as "carbon emission", "leisure agriculture", "tropical climate", "rural tourism" and "rural revitalization" as the research themes. The research results are mainly monographs, papers, reports, and these combined, large-scale surveys, computer software, and reference books are lacking. (3) The project approval units are mainly institutions of higher learning, among which, Sun Yat-sen University, Jinan University, and South China Normal University have a large number of projects, while Guangzhou University and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies have made significant progress in recent years. (4) The number of projects initiated by the core hosts reached 57%, but the number only accounted for one-tenth of the total number of project leaders. The discipline of the core host is sociology. Overall, the number of national social science projects in Guangdong Province has increased steadily, and the projects are mainly concentrated in a few key universities, superior disciplines and core hosts. In the future, based on maintaining superior disciplines, Guangdong Province should focus on expanding non-superior disciplines, cultivating competitive scientific research institutions, building scientific and reasonable research echelons including senior, middle-aged, and young scientists, forming a situation that includes a wide variety of subject area, and further strengthening the strength of social science research in Guangdong Province.

  • Social & Cultural Geography
    DENG Chao, YANG Leyi, LIANG Kaifeng, CHEN Xuanxuan, XIE Xinhang, WU Zhiting, SHAN Xizhang
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(3): 36-45. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202303004

    Green spaces in a large highly-dense city are typically very scarce. Clarifying residents' visit preferences for urban green spaces (UGSs) and associated socio-demographic variations help inform targeted decision-making of UGSs and promote their usage, as well as further enhance their multiple benefits including health. However, studies focus on only a few aspects of the use preferences and socio-demographic characteristics, and thus fail to comprehensively reveal the use preferences and relevant variations. And relevant studies largely concentrate in developed countries in USA and Europe. After extending the use preferences and socio-demographic characteristics, the present study comprehensively probed residents' use preferences for UGSs and relevant variations across diverse social groups in Guangzhou, China. 539 complete questionnaires were obtained through in-person surveys at 24 green sites across the city with systematic sampling used. Descriptive statistics depicted the sample profile and the general visit preferences for UGSs, while factor analysis and MANOVA revealed the socio-demographic differences. The results indicated: (1) the general visit preference for good greening and naturalness, various recreational facilities and accessibility. UGSs near homes and workplaces with good vegetation design and diverse recreational facilities, therefore, should be prioritized in the planning and provision. (2) Marital status and age most significantly affected the visit preferences, and sex, occupation, education level, and the walking time had the relatively weak effects. Decision-making of UGSs should seriously consider the socio-demographic differences in the use preferences for UGSs, particularly those in relation to marital status and age. Further research should also include characteristics of UGSs besides the socio-demographic factors.

  • Physical Geography
    HUANG Rihui, LI Yixin
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(3): 92-100. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202303008

    Collapsing hill is the most severe type of soil erosion in southern China. This study investigated the soil physical properties and particle size composition of different landforms in Gangwei Collapsing Hill, Xinyi City, and explored the changes in soil physical properties and particle size in different landforms, as well as reveals the development mechanism of collapse erosion. The results showed that: (1) There are significant differences in physical properties such as water content, bulk density, specific gravity, and porosity in soil samples from different landforms of Gangwei Collapse Hill. The soil texture of the upper collapsing wall and colluvial deposit is relatively dense and compact, and the degree of water transformation is relatively weak; the loose soil texture of soil samples from scour channel and alluvial fan indicates a strong participation of water flow. (2) The particle size composition shows that the soil sample of Gangwei collapse hill is gravel containing sandy soil. The soil samples from the collapsing wall exhibit the undisturbed soil characteristics of the weathered granite crust, while the soil samples from the colluvial deposit are the product of the combined erosion of gravity and hydraulic forces, while the soil samples from channel and alluvial fan exhibit sedimentary characteristics dominated by flowing water. (3) The uniformity coefficient and curvature coefficient indicate that the accumulation time of collapsed soil is relatively short. The development age of the collapsing hill is relatively young, and the geomorphic form and vegetation coverage of the collapsing hill also indicate that it is in the stage of development.

  • Theoretical Frontiers
    LI Xun, GU Yu, DENG Weihuan, XU Weipan, CHEN Yifan
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(1): 22-35. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202301003

    Data is one of the most crucial issues in achieving sustainable development in rural areas. Hitherto, emerging techniques, like remote sensing and machine learning, provide a promising foundation aiming at the data acquisition, calculation, and analysis, especially for vast, scattered, and full of territory heterogeneity villages. Specifically, the methodology of the Computable Village establishes the imagery-figure relationship via deriving systematically the multi-sourced data of rural natural and human settlement subjects; besides describing various rural elements quantificationally levering index calculating, data mining, and Artificial Intelligence methods, which could further unveil the spatial discrepancy and dynamic tendency of rural development in the total territory, and thus provides a possibility for rural researches striding from local to global. In this paper, a technical framework of the Computable Village is proposed including: (1) the categories and features of multi-sourced rural data such as remote sensing; (2) the computing approaches for rural data and the intelligent interpretation techniques for imagery-figure relationship; (3) the supports from the computed results to rural sustainable developments. Finally, the current challenges as well the further research directions are discussed and envisaged aiming at the Computable Village.

  • Application Studies
    SU Jun, JIN Shizhu, CUI Zhehao
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(1): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202401001

    The history of exploring land consolidation in rural areas of China is long-standing. By sorting out and summarizing the historical processes of land consolidation in different periods of rural China after the founding of the People's Republic of China, this article analyzes and summarizes the backgrounds and characteristics of land consolidation in three stages, respectively. It also examines the advantages and characteristics of the typical models of rural land consolidation in China today. Through the analysis and generalization of five models, including the investor model, EPC model, PPP model, villagers' autonomous model, and comprehensive model, the article identifies the ongoing issues in rural land consolidation in China, such as the imbalance of stakeholder interests in the land consolidation process, the need for continuous innovation in land consolidation, the singular objective of land consolidation, the low popularization rate of land consolidation, and inadequate supervision. By combining the current stage of China's socio-economic development in the new era with the background of policies related to rural revitalization, the article proposes that the exploration of rural land consolidation in China should always focus on rural agriculture and farmers, serve rural development, and increase awareness and promotion of land consolidation in rural areas. Secondly, it is necessary to continuously carry out institutional innovations to cope with the constantly changing external environment and improve the internal supervision system, enhance public participation, and always protect the rights and interests of farmers in the land consolidation process. Finally, various forms of land consolidation exploration should be encouraged to continuously enrich the connotation of land consolidation and achieve its outcomes while seeking a rural land consolidation model with Chinese characteristics in the context of the new era.

  • Geographical Education
    ZHU Hejian
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(1): 101-106. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202301009

    In view of insufficient cognition for geographical uniqueness and declining social service enthusiasm of geography in China's colleges and universities, some suggestions on the reform and revitalization of geography are proposed. Starting from the top-level design in terms of training objectives, breaking through the narrow frame of the original training of geographical teachers and researchers, a new-type geography discipline in colleges and universities would be established to blend geographical distinctive thinking with concept of educating people by virtue of the advantages of natural connection between geography professional education and local-country feelings. Therefore, three important reform and revitalization measures must be taken: (1) Clarifying the knowledge structure of geography and establishing the discipline independence in running schools. (2) Optimizing the professional structure with distinctive thinking of deep cross integration of liberal arts and sciences. (3) Strengthening the sense of serving the society and returning to the nature of geography. New-type geographical talents must have professional ability to build the sustainable development of human society and a community of shared future for mankind with global vision and local-country feelings.

  • SITU Shangji, XU Guiling
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(1): 2-9. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202301001

    Professor Zeng Zhaoxuan is a student of Professor Wu Shangshi, a pioneer of modern geography in China. Professor Zeng specialized in geography throughout his life and made many pioneering achievements in various branches of geography, especially in geomorphology, integrated physical geography and human geography. He put forward a series of unique scientific insights. These scientific insights not only contribute to the theory of geography, but also can be applied in production practice, which are brilliant in the history of geography. Professor Zeng's academic achievements were accompanied by the formation of"Zeng Zhaoxuan Spirit", that is, his dedication to geographical science, his high patriotism, his insistence on fieldwork and his cultural self-confidence, which should be inherited and carried forward to serve the development of geography and the construction of socialism.

  • Social & Cultural Geography
    ZHOU Xiaoying, DU Haitao, WENG Qing, ZHANG Bo
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(3): 46-64. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202303005

    Social trust, social network, social participation and reciprocal support reflect the impact of social environment on individual self-rated health as well as the connections and interactions between individuals and spaces and places, and are important perspectives for studying health inequalities. Based on the data of older residents aged 60 years. Above from 2017 Chinese General Social Survey, multilevel ordered logistic regression models were utilized to explore how demographical conditions, social capital, and environmental factors influence health status of the older people. Results showed: (1) higher social trust level, positive social participation attitudes, higher frequency of social participation and close interpersonal networks have positive effects on older people's health. (2) Elderly's health condition varies greatly in different regions. We advocate that public policy making related to promoting older people's health should take regional socioeconomic discrepancies into account. Moreover, both social care and family care should be encouraged in order to create an age-friendly social environment.

  • Social & Cultural Geography
    SU Juan, LIU Lei, WANG Yan
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(3): 65-80. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202303006

    On the historical new starting point of consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization effectively, the sustainable development of rural tourism is an important path to comprehensively promote rural economic development. Based on the panel data of 71 counties in the Wuling Mountain Area from 2010 to 2019, this paper constructs a rural economic development evaluation index system containing four dimensions, namely, agricultural economy, rural employment, rural facilities, and rural investment, portrays the spatial distribution characteristics of rural tourism and rural economic development from a spatial perspective, and employs a spatial Durbin model to empirically demonstrate the spatial spillover effect of rural tourism on rural economic development and spatial Heterogeneity. The study found that: (1) In the past ten years, rural tourism and rural economic development in Wuling Mountain Area showed the spatial distribution characteristics of "strong in the north and weak in the south, with localized agglomeration". (2) Rural tourism in Wuling Mountain Area has a positive direct effect and spatial spillover effect on the three dimensions of rural economic development, namely, agricultural economy, rural employment, and rural facilities, and is not yet significant for rural investment. (3) The spatial spillover effect of rural tourism on rural economic development gradually weakened among Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei and Chongqing regions and showed spatial heterogeneity in different dimensions. This study helps us to reveal the influence mechanism of rural tourism on rural economic development, and provides important insights for county-level regional rural tourism to promote the sustainable and stable development of rural economy.

  • Theoretical Frontiers
    WANG Min, ZHU Hong
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(1): 51-60. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202301005

    Neuroscience places the human body, emotion, and "irrationality" in a position of subjectivity. In particular, "critical neuroscience" has led to the widespread application of neuroscientific theories and methodologies to the studies of humanities and social sciences. In terms of human geography, neuroscience has been gradually applied to explain the process and mechanism of "human-environment" interaction with the "neutral turn" in human geography. The epistemology and methodology of neurogeography is put into practice in various research topics, in the process forming new research paradigms. Based on embodied geography and non-representation theory, the article firstly presents the theoretical framework of neurogeography from epistemological and methodological perspectives. Then three categories of case studies: spatial perception, emotional geography, and behavioral practice, are introduced to demonstrate current attempts of interdisciplinary practice between human geography and neuroscience. The contribution of this article is to identify the possibilities and potential of an interdisciplinary practice of human geography and neuroscience, with a view to pointing to new explorations of an interdisciplinary dialogue on the "neural turn" in human geography.

  • Application Studies
    LI Jun, XIAN Fanji, HE Mang
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(1): 78-91. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202301007

    As an important part of the health industry, it is of great theoretical and practical significance to grasp the development potential of recreation tourism from a spatial and temporal perspective to clarify the development direction and pattern of recreation tourism. In the context of "health China" strategy, the study explores the spatio-temporal evolution pattern and coupling coordination types of the development potential of health tourism in China during 2011 to 2020 by adopting entropy weight method, TOPSIS method, ESTDA, spatial Dubin model, obstacle model and least variance method, locating the factors that make contribution to the spatial variation of development potential of health tourism, and that impede the improvement of the development potential. The results interpret that: (1) From 2011 to 2020, the development potential of health tourism in different regions of China is relatively low, but it shows an upward trend of fluctuation, and keeps a relatively stable spatial pattern on the whole. The development potential of health tourism in the western and southeast coastal regions has obvious changes, and the difference between them and the surrounding provinces fluctuates greatly. (2) From 2011 to 2020, the spatial spillover effect of China's health tourism development potential was weakened, and the northeast, North and central China maintained an obvious phenomenon of "low-value club aggregation". (3) On the whole China, raising tourism development potential of local cooperation situation is obviously stronger than the competition, including inbound tourism revenue per one thousand people, nature reserve area, health and technical personnel, the number of personnel of Chinese medicine, the per capita GDP and the number of students in institutions of higher learning of tourism elements such as region or the adjacent area, tourism development potential has significantly positive effects.

  • Theoretical Frontiers
    LU Yuqi
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(1): 10-21. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202301002

    Basic hypothesis is the logical starting point for any disciplines; however, the regional school believes that basic hypothesis is not needed because geography is more concerned with the exploration of regional individuality and the analysis of regional differences. Obviously, this view, while addressing the application of geography and meeting the need for problem-oriented researches, but differs from the general definition of science. The basic hypothesis of the spatial school is homogeneous space (plain), according to which a corresponding theoretical system is constructed, which is more in line with the general scientific definition. Although scholars have previously pointed out the defect that the views the spatial school holds were too abstract, then they fell into a socialized and microscopic path of development, which apparently does not solve the problem of the path of development of the spatial school or even the discipline of human geography. This paper argues that the spatial school, starting from the basic hypothesis of homogeneous space, does not answer the locational question (from a geographic perspective) of the generation of (the first) city, although it solves the question of the mechanism of the generation of (the first) city (from an economic perspective) through the spatial polarization effect. For this reason, the basic hypothesis of human geography needs to be redefined, i.e., homogeneous spaces need to be replaced with homogeneous regions. The latter differs from the former in that there is a clear boundary range, thus homogeneous regions have locational value function attribute, regional scale attribute, regional open state attribute, etc. Thus, reconstructing the basic hypothesis not only addresses the existing inherent deficiencies of the spatial school (it is so abstract as to be divorced from geography), also supplements the basic hypothesis for the existing regional school (which is less restricted to basic assumptions and more focused on application). On this basis, this paper integrates the combined effects of spatial polarization effect, distance attenuation effect, regional edge effect and allometric growth effect, to construct a regional spatial structure theory system, which is composed of point elements, linear elements and area elements. Besides, point structure theory, axis structure theory and area structure theory are also integrated in the regional spatial structure theory this paper conducts.

  • Impression of Academic Career
    South China Geographical Journal. 2023, 1(1): 123-126.
  • Social & Cultural Geography
    MAO Jiahui, GUO Zichuan, LI Ran, HUANG Xu
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(1): 37-51. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202401004

    This paper deconstructs and reviews the virtual place of "Canal Towns" from three aspects: virtual space, virtual society and virtual interaction: In terms of virtual space, the game symbolises a series of local cultural landscapes, recreating the Jiangnan of the historical imagination through a filter similar to that of a Wu School landscape painting, and employing bamboo and silk music to enhance the place atmosphere. In terms of the virtual society, the game lays out a macroscopic backdrop to bring the player into the setting, and expands the social story and reinforces the impression of the city through "adventure" missions in each city. At the same time, the virtual social network is enriched by the use of two types of NPCs, special characters and normal characters, with different roles. In terms of virtual interaction, as a single-player game, the core interaction between the player and the virtual space lies in the management, production and landscape design of the city. The interaction between players is realised through the game's official channeling in the Weibo chat "community". The shortcomings of this virtual placemaking are the instability of the virtual space, the fragility of the social relationship, and the limitations of the audience and influence. Finally, the paper argues that it is the 'inhabitation' and emotional flow of players within the virtual space that makes it a virtual place. The conclusions of this paper help to expand the field of research on place and sense of place, and provide a way of thinking about deconstructing virtual places, and provide some reference value for the development and design of future virtual games.

  • Application Studies
    FENG Kaiting, CHEN Chaolong, LIANG Xiaowei
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(1): 13-22. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202401002

    In recent years, with the support and promotion of relevant policies, the work of rural land transfer in China has been gradually promoted, but many problems have also been encountered in practice. Taking Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province as an example, this paper uses the FAT institutional analysis framework in the institutional credibility theory to analyze the operational logic of the farmland transfer system. The study found that the practice of rural land transfer is jointly promoted by the government, village collective, farmers and operators. The key to the effective implementation of the rural land transfer system is to gather the consensus of the main body on the system, that is, the perception of system credibility. At present, the system of rural land circulation has encountered a dilemma in the implementation of the system in practice. The system in practice is difficult to meet the expectations of the participants, affects the perception of the main body of the system function, and is difficult to form a joint force to promote rural land circulation. Therefore, the formulation of the farmland transfer system should pay attention to the demands of the actors and regional differences, give play to the endogenous power of the countryside, and explore the effective realization of activating the farmland resources. This study enriches the application of credibility theory in China's land management, reorganizes a credible land transfer mechanism, helps optimize the rural land transfer system, and provides reference for dealing with the relevant "three rural issues".

  • Application Studies
    XU Yong, CHEN Shangze, CAO Yongyin, HE Yuyang
    South China Geographical Journal. 2024, 2(1): 23-36. https://doi.org/10.20125/j.2097-2245.202401003

    Cities are facing a range of climate-related issues due to increased human activities and rapid urbanization. These issues include high energy consumption, air pollution, thermal discomfort and disease transmission, which can harm public health and quality of life. To develop effective planning strategies and gain a better understanding of the urban climatic environment, geospatial techniques have been employed. Satellite data has been widely used in urban climate studies due to its capability to quickly gather data over large areas. This study aims to provide a review of remote sensing techniques and its applications, including how different built environments affect urban warming and cooling effects. Additionally, this study presents further directions for remote sensing applications, which can be useful for future urban climate research.