G Chi
Biographic Data
| ID | 30489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Chi |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Chi |
| SIGNATURE | CHI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0888-7964 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Spatial perspective on environmental migration
BACKGROUNDDespite the growth of environmental migration studies in recent decades, spatial analyses examining the impact of climate variability on migration within the United States at a finer geographical scale remain limited. OBJECTIVEThis study aims to investigate the environmental aspects of migration and explore the heterogeneous impacts of the environment on age-and place-specific migration patterns at the county level in the United States …
County Partisanship Affects Social Media Posting Behavior During a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States has been characterized by political partisan differences and opinions that influenced individual behavior and political policies, correlating with varying outcomes. Measuring these differences in opinion using traditional methods, such as opinion polls, can be costly and provides only a snapshot of sentiment at a given time. Social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) may offer a real-time tool for …
Transformative Pathways for Strengthening Climate‐Resilient Health Systems Among Indigenous Communities
Most climate‐resilience health interventions are designed at the global level, with minimal attention to Indigenous communities' needs. The lack of consideration can lead to unintended harm and exacerbate health risks. This study aims to identify the capacities of Indigenous communities that can serve as transformative pathways in safely adopting global climate‐resilient health approaches within Indigenous contexts, ensuring the aims of the Susta…
Carbon emissions and government interventions in urban agglomerations of China
Mindfulness, gratitude and sharing are central to berry harvesting practice, sustainability and adaptation in rural Alaska
Berries are the most harvested and valued plant food in Arctic and sub-Arctic communities and are cultural keystone species in the North. Despite deep cultural significance and sustained use across generations, the relationships among berries and people in Arctic regions continue to be underexplored in published research. In this paper, we consider the ways in which people relate to berries and promote berrying in ‘cold’ places using a case study…
Addressing Food Insecurity Through Community Kitchens During the Covid-19 Pandemic
One of the most critical impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic was on food security. Food insecurity increased in many communities, with some showing signs of resilience through autonomously creating community kitchens that enhanced food security and built support networks. These initiatives filled gaps left by government programmes and provided a critical lifeline for vulnerable communities during the pandemic, fostering community solidarity. This pa…
Does market-oriented land conveyance affect regional economic resilience? A spatial and mediation analysis based on 287 Chinese cities
Geographic Realities of Abortion Access in Texas
Restrictive abortion policies have generated reductions in abortion access, increased travel distance to abortion clinics as a result of clinic closures, and produced declines in maternal health outcomes. This study explores the effects of Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB8), the most restrictive bill prior to the overturning of Roe v. Wade , on abortion access in Texas. We used a difference-in-differences approach to explore the heterogeneous effects of S…
Towards improved identification of residential land vulnerable to abandonment in rural China
Unveiling global narratives of restoration policy
Caretaker perceptions of the effects of parental migration on left-behind children in rural Kyrgyzstan
This study examines how caretakers perceive the effects of parental migration on left-behind children in Kyrgyzstan. Drawing from interviews with 33 caretakers in southern Kyrgyzstan, this study examines the "impossible" dilemma of parental labour migration and its effects on the children that are left behind. We find that parental migration is perceived to impact children in five main ways: financial, migration ambitions, educational, behavioura…
Gendered Migration Patterns and Social Change in Rural Kyrgyzstan
This study analyses the relationships between labour migration and community perceptions of gender relations and roles in Kyrgyzstan, the second-most remittance-dependent economy in the world. Based on 591 surveys and 34 qualitative interviews with adult household members in the At-Bashy rayon , we analysed migration decision-making processes as well as community perceptions of women’s migration, women’s labour patterns, and associations between …
Differences in perceptions of Covid-19 risks in a fishing community in Alaska, 2020–2021
Characterizing climate change sentiments in Alaska on social media
The profound impacts of climate change have spurred global concerns. Yet, public perceptions of this issue exhibit significant variations rooted in local contexts. This study investigates public perceptions of climate change in Alaska on Twitter and explores their connections with local socioeconomic and environmental factors. Using geo-located tweets from 2014 to 2017, we identified a collection of climate-related tweets using a deep learning fr…
Fiji’s policy response to Covid-19 and the integration of Indigenous voices
Gardening practices in Alaska build on traditional food system foundations
Community-based food cultivation by and for rural Alaskans has never been stronger. Rural gardeners, many Indigenous, provide their families and communities with affordable access to high-quality fruits and vegetables and other locally grown foods. Despite these emerging trends, there is sparse examination of gardening as a complementary, diversification, or adaptation strategy in wild food-centered systems and the interchange of values and world…
Sharing without clicking on news in social media
How do environmental stressors influence migration? A meta-regression analysis of environmental migration literature
BACKGROUND: The amount of literature on environmental migration is increasing. However, existing studies exhibit contradictory results. A systematic synthesis of the environment-migration relationship is much needed. OBJECTIVE: This study summarizes research findings, calculates the effect sizes of environmental stressors, identifies publication bias, and investigates heterogeneous environmental effects on migration. METHODS: We collected 3,380 e…
Remittances and Livestock Management in Agropastoral Households in Rural Kyrgyzstan
Agropastoralism and international labor migration are livelihood strategies that are interconnected as dominant ways of life across rural Kyrgyzstan. A prevalent rural livelihood strategy-agropastoralism-is closely tied to agrarian semi-nomadic ways of life that link families and communities to the surrounding mountain environment. Another livelihood strategy-international labor migration-links or telecouples communities and income streams to tra…
Collective action improves elite-driven governance in rural development within China
Rural areas are at the forefront of achieving sustainable development goals, and elite actors tend to be the most influential local decision-makers in rural development. Nevertheless, improving the effectiveness of governance by elites and avoiding or redressing “elite capture” remain key challenges for sustainable rural development globally. This research integrates a large-scale quantitative dataset consisting of 604 villages in seven counties …
Assessing dynamics of human vulnerability at community level – Using mobility data
Park access affects physical activity
This study analysed the association between park access and physical activity in an urban context by extracting tweets from the social media platform Twitter. The results show that areas within a 0.5-mile distance to a park correlate with more physical activity than areas farther than that. Park type might be an essential mediator for the correlation between park size and physical activity. This study suggests that geolocated Twitter data are a v…
Remittances and land change
The Influence of Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Road on the Development of Large Stone Portraits in Ancient China
The stone portraits discussed in this paper mainly refer to round carvings and high-relief sculptures of human figures that emphasize realism and a sense of three-dimensionality. The development of stone portraits in the pre-Qin period is briefly reviewed, and their cultural characteristics and causes are analyzed from various perspectives. The Neolithic period was not too late for the germination and start of Chinese portrait sculpture. Due to a…
Population-Wide Vaccination Hesitancy among the Amish
Spatial Regression Models for Demographic Analysis
The Impacts of Highway Expansion on Population Change
The effects of highways on transforming human society and promoting population change have been investigated in several disciplines, including geography, sociology, economics, and planning. Currently, the primary highway construction activity in the nation is highway expansion; however, this expansion has not been the focus of much of the existing literature. This research examines the role that highway expansion plays in the process of populatio…
Highways and Population Change
In this paper we return to an issue often discussed in the literature regarding the relationship between highway expansion and population change. Typically it simply is assumed that this relationship is well established and understood. We argue, following a thorough review of the relevant literature, that the notion that highway expansion leads to increased population growth in the vicinity of the improved infrastructure finds only weak and often…
Isolating the Effect of Natural Amenities on Population Change at the Local Level
Chi G. and Marcouiller D. W. Isolating the effect of natural amenities on population change at the local level, Regional Studies. As latent production inputs, natural amenities are thought to serve as the basis for a variety of regional effects. In this study, natural amenity and socio-economic conditions were analysed with respect to population growth empirically estimated at the municipal level in an amenity-rich lakes region of the North Centr…
Rethinking Highway Effects on Population Change
Little systematic work has been undertaken to explain highway impacts on population change. In this study, the authors review the literature in regional economics and demographics in an attempt to shed light on the mechanisms by which investments in highway infrastructure influence population change. First, they categorize the indirect causal paths by which highways influence population change at the county and municipal levels. Then they propose…
Abandoned rural residential land
The impacts of population and agglomeration development on land use intensity
Population stress
The spatial aspect of ecosystem services balance and its determinants
The Impacts of Transport Accessibility on Population Change across Rural, Suburban and Urban Areas
A large body of research has found that highways and airports have played important roles in promoting development and population growth (or decline). However, little attention has been paid to the possible spatial variation of their effects on population change. This study uses data related to population change in 1980–90 at the minor civil division level in Wisconsin to investigate the effects of highway and airport accessibility and accessibil…
Can knowledge improve population forecasts at subcounty levels
Recent developments in urban and regional planning require more accurate population forecasts at subcounty levels, as well as a consideration of interactions among population growth, traffic flow, land use, and environmental impacts. However, the extrapolation methods, currently the most often used demographic forecasting techniques for subcounty areas, cannot meet the demand. This study tests a knowledge-based regression approach, which has been…
Urbanization and Land-Use Change
Drawing from human ecology, the present study sheds light on the ways in which urbanization drives changes in forest cover at the local level across the continental United States. Using county-level data from the National Land Cover Database and other US governmental sources, the area of forest cover lost in the construction of the built environment between 2001 and 2006 is regressed on the size, density, and social organization of a locality. Co…
Small‐area population forecasting
Demographic forecasting techniques do not perform particularly well for small areas. In this study we propose a spatio‐temporal regression approach for small‐area population forecasting that borrows strength from what has happened nearby and what has happened in the past. In particular, a regression model incorporating temporally lagged neighbour growth and neighbour characteristics is applied to examine population change at the minor civil divis…
Urbanization and ecosystem services
Different places, different stories
BACKGROUND: China has been characterized by persistently low fertility rates since the 1990s. Existing literature has examined the relationships of fertility levels with social, economic, and policy-related determinants. However, the possible spatial variations in these relationships have not been investigated. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to examine the potential spatially varying relationships between county-level fertility rates and…
Small-area population forecasting in an urban setting
Exposure to anti-Black Lives Matter movement and obesity of the Black population
Bride kidnapping and gendered labor migration
Because the decision to migrate is a product of gendered negotiations within households, households formed through forced marriage may have different migration strategies than households formed through voluntary marriage. In Kyrgyzstan, we anticipate two possible effects of the traditional practice of bride kidnapping on migration. Households headed by a kidnap couple may be more cohesive and patriarchal, facilitating men's labor migration and re…
Remittances and household spending strategies
Globalized labor migration and remittances can help alleviate household poverty and provide supplemental income in many countries. Kyrgyzstan, like other Central Asian countries, has experienced dramatic geopolitical changes, economic reform, and rapid demographic shifts in the post-Soviet-Union era. Based on measurements of GDP, it is one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world. This study uses data from the Life in Kyrgyzstan St…
The impact of spatial spillovers on interprovincial migration in China, 2005–10
In a migration network system, any change of regional characteristics may affect outflows and inflows from and to the region itself and potentially its neighbouring regions. To explore the impact of spatial spillovers on interprovincial migration flows in China, we proposed four spatial autoregressive interaction models by introducing different network structures to gravity models. The results indicate that the model taking account of dependence …
The impact of gasoline price changes on traffic safety
Highway Expansion Effects on Urban Racial Redistribution in the Post—Civil Rights Period
A limited number of historical case studies document that highway construction produced significant consequences on racial relationships and redistribution in the early and mid-20th century. Howev er, little is known about how the expansion of an existing highway system influences urban racial redistribution after the legal bases for social and env ironmental justice in highway construction were established. This research uses census data for 197…
Characterizing People's Daily Activity Patterns in the Urban Environment
People’s daily activities in the urban environment are complex and vary by individual. Existing studies using mobile phone data revealed distinct and recurrent transitional activity patterns, known as mobility motifs, in people’s daily lives. The limitation in using only a few inferred activity types hinders our ability to examine general patterns in detail. We proposed a mobility network approach with geographic context-aware Twitter data to inv…
Sociodemographics and access to organic and local food
Are Gasoline Prices a Factor in Residential Relocation Decisions? Preliminary Findings from the American Housing Survey, 1996–2008
Residential relocation choice is affected by numerous factors, but gasoline prices as a potential factor have not been investigated. This study examines gasoline price changes and residential relocation choice using 1996-2008 American Housing Survey data. We found higher gasoline prices are associated with a higher percentage of movers choosing locations closer to workplaces. The findings have implications for addressing the impacts of volatile g…
Rethinking Highway Effects on Population Change
Little systematic work has been undertaken to explain highway impacts on population change. In this study, the authors review the literature in regional economics and demographics in an attempt to shed light on the mechanisms by which investments in highway infrastructure influence population change. First, they categorize the indirect causal paths by which highways influence population change at the county and municipal levels. Then they propose…
Highways and Population Change
In this paper we return to an issue often discussed in the literature regarding the relationship between highway expansion and population change. Typically it simply is assumed that this relationship is well established and understood. We argue, following a thorough review of the relevant literature, that the notion that highway expansion leads to increased population growth in the vicinity of the improved infrastructure finds only weak and often…
Spatial Regression Models for Demographic Analysis
Can knowledge improve population forecasts at subcounty levels
Recent developments in urban and regional planning require more accurate population forecasts at subcounty levels, as well as a consideration of interactions among population growth, traffic flow, land use, and environmental impacts. However, the extrapolation methods, currently the most often used demographic forecasting techniques for subcounty areas, cannot meet the demand. This study tests a knowledge-based regression approach, which has been…
Land Developability
Please click here to download the map associated with this article. This research proposes an approach for linking land use and development to population data by using the Model Builder function of ArcGIS. The layers of land use and development are aggregated into a single raster layer representing undevelopable lands. The layer of undevelopable lands in pixels is then aggregated to political or geographical areas from which a Developability Inde…
Small‐area population forecasting
Demographic forecasting techniques do not perform particularly well for small areas. In this study we propose a spatio‐temporal regression approach for small‐area population forecasting that borrows strength from what has happened nearby and what has happened in the past. In particular, a regression model incorporating temporally lagged neighbour growth and neighbour characteristics is applied to examine population change at the minor civil divis…
Isolating the Effect of Natural Amenities on Population Change at the Local Level
Chi G. and Marcouiller D. W. Isolating the effect of natural amenities on population change at the local level, Regional Studies. As latent production inputs, natural amenities are thought to serve as the basis for a variety of regional effects. In this study, natural amenity and socio-economic conditions were analysed with respect to population growth empirically estimated at the municipal level in an amenity-rich lakes region of the North Centr…
The Impacts of Highway Expansion on Population Change
The effects of highways on transforming human society and promoting population change have been investigated in several disciplines, including geography, sociology, economics, and planning. Currently, the primary highway construction activity in the nation is highway expansion; however, this expansion has not been the focus of much of the existing literature. This research examines the role that highway expansion plays in the process of populatio…
Small-area population forecasting in an urban setting
Highway Expansion Effects on Urban Racial Redistribution in the Post—Civil Rights Period
A limited number of historical case studies document that highway construction produced significant consequences on racial relationships and redistribution in the early and mid-20th century. Howev er, little is known about how the expansion of an existing highway system influences urban racial redistribution after the legal bases for social and env ironmental justice in highway construction were established. This research uses census data for 197…
The impact of gasoline price changes on traffic safety
Natural Beauty, Money, and the Distribution of Talent
The Impacts of Transport Accessibility on Population Change across Rural, Suburban and Urban Areas
A large body of research has found that highways and airports have played important roles in promoting development and population growth (or decline). However, little attention has been paid to the possible spatial variation of their effects on population change. This study uses data related to population change in 1980–90 at the minor civil division level in Wisconsin to investigate the effects of highway and airport accessibility and accessibil…
Safer Roads Owing to Higher Gasoline Prices
Objectives. We investigated how much time passes before gasoline price changes affect traffic crashes. Methods. We systematically examined 2004 to 2012 Mississippi traffic crash data by age, gender, and race. Control variables were unemployment rate, seat belt use, alcohol consumption, climate, and temporal and seasonal variations. Results. We found a positive association between higher gasoline prices and safer roads. Overall, gasoline prices af…
Urbanization and Land-Use Change
Drawing from human ecology, the present study sheds light on the ways in which urbanization drives changes in forest cover at the local level across the continental United States. Using county-level data from the National Land Cover Database and other US governmental sources, the area of forest cover lost in the construction of the built environment between 2001 and 2006 is regressed on the size, density, and social organization of a locality. Co…
Are Gasoline Prices a Factor in Residential Relocation Decisions? Preliminary Findings from the American Housing Survey, 1996–2008
Residential relocation choice is affected by numerous factors, but gasoline prices as a potential factor have not been investigated. This study examines gasoline price changes and residential relocation choice using 1996-2008 American Housing Survey data. We found higher gasoline prices are associated with a higher percentage of movers choosing locations closer to workplaces. The findings have implications for addressing the impacts of volatile g…
Population projection accuracy
Population projection is essential to governments, businesses, and research communities for many purposes. Although projection performance is often evaluated, we know very little about what factors affect projection accuracy. It is important to understand these factors in order to utilize the projections knowledgeably. This study fills this gap in the literature by comprehensively investigating the possible factors associated with population proj…
Different places, different stories
BACKGROUND: China has been characterized by persistently low fertility rates since the 1990s. Existing literature has examined the relationships of fertility levels with social, economic, and policy-related determinants. However, the possible spatial variations in these relationships have not been investigated. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to examine the potential spatially varying relationships between county-level fertility rates and…
Population stress
Sociodemographics and access to organic and local food
The Evolving and Complementary Impacts of Transportation Infrastructures on Population and Employment Change in the United States, 1970–2010
Abandoned rural residential land
The impact of spatial spillovers on interprovincial migration in China, 2005–10
In a migration network system, any change of regional characteristics may affect outflows and inflows from and to the region itself and potentially its neighbouring regions. To explore the impact of spatial spillovers on interprovincial migration flows in China, we proposed four spatial autoregressive interaction models by introducing different network structures to gravity models. The results indicate that the model taking account of dependence …
A spatial dynamic panel approach to modelling the space-time dynamics of interprovincial migration flows in China
Migration plays an increasingly crucial role in regional growth and development. However, most empirical studies fail to simultaneously capture the spatial and temporal aspects of migration flows, and thus fail to reveal how space-time dynamics shape path
Ecosystem Services and Their Driving Forces in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River Urban Agglomerations, China
The impact of human activities on ecosystems can be measured by ecosystem services. The study of ecosystem services is an essential part of coupled human and natural systems. However, there is limited understanding about the driving forces of ecosystem services, especially from a spatial perspective. This study attempts to fill the gap by examining the driving forces of ecosystem services with an integrated spatial approach. The results indicate …
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