In this paper, we aim to describe and explain the regional disparities in economic resilience in Slovakia in the period 1997–2017. We focus on the effects of economic structure in combination with the vertical (potential accessibility) and hori...
This exploratory study examines the heterogeneous spatial evolution of cities in a fragmented non-metropolitan region of Southern Brazil and develops an original functional-symbolic typological framework that integrates functional performance and sym...
Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) poses a significant public health challenge in Australia, with poorer survival observed in non-metropolitan populations. This study investigated whether survival disparities persist between non-metropolitan...
This article examines the role of coworking and flexible workspaces in promoting sustainable spatial development in the non-metropolitan areas of Bulgaria. A mixed-method approach was applied, combining inventory enumeration, spatial classification,...
This article examines the dynamics of governance, stakeholder collaboration, and resource allocation in developing smart regions within peripheral territories. Using the Algarve (Portugal) as a case study—a region characterized by its periphera...
Europe has experienced a growing divergence in trends of population change across the urban hierarchy. A key driver of this divergence is internal migration, which underpins the efficient functioning of the economy by enhancing labor market flexibili...
Biological invasions are one of the main global threats to biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems worldwide, requiring effective inventorying and monitoring programs. Here, we present an updated list of non-indigenous species i...
15 March 2022
This study aims to investigate the trends of avoidable mortality and regional inequality from 1995 to 2019 and to provide evidence for policy effectiveness to address regional health disparities in Korea. Mortality and population data were obtained f...
In the field of macro-level safety studies, road traffic safety is significantly related to socioeconomic factors, such as population, number of vehicles, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Due to different levels of economic and urbanization, the inf...
16 April 2020
This paper analyzes the interaction between regional economic growth and air pollution in China and Korea. The relationship between gross regional product per capita and industrial emission of sulfur dioxide emission is examined at the regional level...
University dropout remains a critical challenge in South Korean higher education, with over 100,000 students leaving annually. This study investigates the structural and institutional factors influencing dropout rates across 211 four-year universitie...
Although several regulations have been implemented for medical school admission, such as a quota system, the uneven distribution of healthcare personnel across regions is an unresolved problem in Korea. This study explores the distribution and retent...
South Korea has implemented several housing urban regeneration projects (URPs) and offers various tax incentives to support these efforts. However, the reality is that there is insufficient empirical evidence to determine whether these incentives hav...
This research aims to evaluate how socio-economic and environmental factors influence the development of electromobility. To this end, the research was applied to regions of the Czech Republic, divided into metropolitan, urban and rural types. Based...
The rapid economic growth of Korea was accompanied by the side effect of disproportionate growth between regions. The central government has implemented balanced development strategies by enacting the Special Act on Balanced National Development. For...
15 April 2019
Rural areas of New York State (NYS) have higher rates of alcohol-related motor vehicle (MV) crash injury than metropolitan areas. While alcohol-related injury has declined across the three geographic regions of NYS, disparities persist with rural are...
With the improvement in residents’ living standards, non-commuting has gradually become an important daily transportation behaviour for residents. The intensity of non-commuting flow can reflect the level of urban functional services and extern...
SDG Indicator 11.3.1, defined as the ratio of land consumption rate (LCR) to population growth rate (PGR), is widely used to assess the efficiency of urban land use. However, its applicability becomes increasingly uncertain in regions characterized b...
The purpose of this study is to provide a temporal dynamic analysis of transitions of the regions in Turkey from one state of innovative performance to another by using successive Markov Chains. Regarding the intellectual assets, consisting of the pa...
Background/Objectives: South Korea faces one of the world’s most rapid demographic transitions. As population ageing accelerates, creating environments that support healthy ageing-in-place has become a critical public health priority. Grounded...
This paper studies the Greek interregional road network (GRN) using network, statistical, and empirical analysis. The research aims to extract the socioeconomic information embedded in the topology of the GRN and to interpret to what extent this netw...
Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) remains a major cause of preventable liver-related mortality in the United States despite highly effective direct-acting antivirals (DAAs). Contemporary assessment of mortality trends and disparities is essential f...
This study examines how rising tourism demand reshapes residents’ environmental responsibility behaviors (ERB) in South Korea, and the moderating role of metropolitan status therein. Using a balanced panel of 174 municipalities over 2015–...
Previous studies on residential satisfaction factors (RSFs) overlooked residents’ psychological needs. To bridge this gap, we linked RSFs to the Modified Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs (MMHN) through a three-step qualitative and quanti...
This paper is situated within the discussion of mega-urbanization, a particular urbanization process that entails a large-scale agglomeration. In this paper, our focus is on urbanization in Java, Indonesia’s most dynamic region. We add to the l...
This article focuses on the integration process of people seeking asylum in non-metropolitan areas in France. It conceptualizes the reception of asylum seekers involving two interrelated approaches: the utilitarian approach and the humanitarian appro...
Background/Objectives: Publicly available open databases offer advantages in terms of accessibility and transparency. However, their application in intensive care research remains limited. Therefore, in this study, we examined whether simple nationwi...
Limited research has examined how increasing extreme precipitation affects active transportation across the United States. This study assesses the longitudinal relationship between extreme precipitation and walking and cycling to work in the context...
Current guidelines for post-resuscitation care recommend regionalized care at a cardiac arrest center (CAC). Our objectives were to evaluate the effect of direct transport to a CAC on survival outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs), and...
9 April 2021
Women of Refugee Background (WoRB) have been repeatedly identified as an extremely vulnerable population. Within an Australian context, WoRB are increasingly resettled to non-metropolitan locations, otherwise known as regional locations. Despite this...
This study investigates the role of urban form as a technological driver of U.S. CO2 emissions for the onroad and residential sectors. The STIRPAT (Stochastic Impacts by Region on Population, Affluence, and Technology) human structural ecology framew...
Composite heatwave vulnerability indices guide adaptation spending. They are rarely tested against health outcomes, and the stability of their rankings is often mistaken for evidence that they are correct. We separate these two questions for a mounta...
This study investigates the impact of building insulation standards on indoor thermal environments and the risk of heat-related illnesses during heatwaves in South Korea. Indoor temperatures were measured in residential buildings located in Chuncheon...
31 May 2023
Social distancing measures and shelter-in-place orders to limit mobility and transportation were among the strategic measures taken to control the rapid spreading of COVID-19. In major metropolitan areas, there was an estimated decrease of 50 to 90 p...
Low-rise terraced housing dominates residential construction in non-metropolitan Taiwan, yet empirical evidence on priority divergence between developers and homebuyers in such markets remains scarce. Using a case study of Changhua County, we applied...
31 July 2025
Extreme heat poses growing health risks in tropical regions, yet public perception of this threat remains understudied in the Caribbean. This study examines how residents in Puerto Rico perceived heat-related health risks and how these perceptions re...
Outdoor music festivals (OMFs) increasingly operate as a form of temporary land use that activates urban stock land, yet how such land-use reconfigurations unfold across uneven urban–rural geographies remains insufficiently examined. Taking Chi...
Owing to geographical and political influences, Korea has an independent electric power system and the highest density of electric power facilities in the world. Large-scale base power generation complexes are located in non-metropolitan coastal area...
This study analyses visitor dynamics in the municipality of Rascafría, located within the El Paular Valley cultural landscape in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (Spain). Rather than conducting a landscape value analysis, the research se...
Background: The burden of liver cirrhosis correlated with diabetes mellitus (DM) poses a significant public health challenge in the United States. Both conditions independently contribute to high morbidity and mortality rates. While extensive individ...
Background/Objectives: Cardiac arrest and fluid, electrolyte, and acid–base disorders frequently coexist in critically ill patients and are associated with poor clinical outcomes. However, long-term population-level trends in mortality involvin...
Background: The population mortality burden associated with co-recorded pancreatic cancer and cerebrovascular disease (i.e., deaths in which both conditions are listed on the same death certificate) in the United States remains poorly characterized....
Being intertwined with economic development, urbanization determines the present and future development path of regions and countries. The intimate relationship between urban expansion and economic development is of particular interest in the case of...
Background: Parkinson’s disease and dementia are major neurodegenerative disorders that substantially contribute to disability, dependency, and mortality worldwide. Although prior CDC WONDER studies have separately evaluated Parkinson’s d...
Background: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) remains an important cause of cardiovascular mortality in the United States despite advances in screening, surveillance, and aneurysm repair. Contemporary national analyses evaluating long-term AAA mortalit...
The distribution of services across a territory generates daily commuting flows, which have a significant influence on the development of the territory and often causes congestion in large areas. This negatively affects the environmental, economic an...
Introduction: Intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a specialised radiotherapy technique that plays an essential role in achieving local control of brain metastases and therefore optimising quality of life for many cancer patients. It also...
This study investigates the land-use/population mix over time as the base to derive an indicator of urban sprawl. Land-use individual patches (provided by Urban Atlas, hereafter UA, with a detailed spatial geometry at 1:10,000 scale) were associated...
Meningitis remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States despite advances in vaccination, antimicrobial therapy, and critical care. However, long-term national mortality patterns across demographic and geographic subgrou...
The 21st century, known as the “metropolitan century”, saw urban populations exceed half the global populace. By 2035, emerging metropolises, particularly in Asia and Africa, highlight the urgent need for research on urban growth, demographics, and m...
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