A geospatial analysis of multi-scalar regional inequality in China and in metropolitan regions

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.08.017

	A geospatial analysis of multi-scalar regional inequality in China and in metropolitan regions
	He, Sanwei 1,2; Fang, Chuanglin 2; Zhang, Wenting 3
刊名	APPLIED GEOGRAPHY
	2017-11-01
卷号	88 页码:199-212
关键词	Regional inequality Geospatial analysis Spatial Markov Multi-scale China
ISSN号	0143-6228
DOI	10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.08.017
通讯作者	Fang, Chuanglin(fangcl@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	This paper provides a geospatial analysis of regional inequality across provinces, prefectures and counties in China from 1997 to 2010 under a comparative spatiotemporal conceptual framework. Despite significant spatial agglomeration at all spatial scales, the extent of agglomeration shows an obviously downward trend from 2003 to 2006. Substantially stronger agglomeration of economic development is demonstrated at county scales. Local indicators of spatial autocorrelation (LISA) are employed to visualize the local spatial characteristics of economic growth. Four snapshots (in the years 1997, 2001, 2005, and 2010) of LISA indicate a dramatic north-shifting of hot spots of economic growth in response to the northward movement of foreign investors and spatial agglomeration besides institutional forces in China. Furthermore, local spatial agglomeration demonstrates a heterogeneous process: hot spots of economic development along the coast, cold spots in western China and no significant spatial clusters in central China. As the major carries of scale economies, metropolitan regions see decreasing internal agglomeration during this period with the exception of the Yangtze River Delta area, which shows a strong spatial spillover into its neighbourhood. Finally, LISA Markov and geovisualization methods are employed to predict the long-run properties of spatial distribution in multi-scalar China. The results show that downward co-movements of a county with its neighbours are more frequently encountered, perhaps resulting in the continuous concentration of poor areas in the long run. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
资助项目	Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China[41590840] ; Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China[41590842] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41601162] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41601415]
WOS关键词	GEOGRAPHIC SCALE ; EUROPEAN-UNION ; ZHEJIANG PROVINCE ; GIS ENVIRONMENT ; CONVERGENCE ; DYNAMICS ; GROWTH ; SPACE ; MODEL ; DISPARITIES
WOS研究方向	Geography
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000416192200018
资助机构	Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/56750]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Fang, Chuanglin
作者单位	1.Zhongnan Univ Econ & Law, Sch Publ Adm, Wuhan 430073, Hubei, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Huazhong Agr Univ, Coll Resources & Environm, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	He, Sanwei,Fang, Chuanglin,Zhang, Wenting. A geospatial analysis of multi-scalar regional inequality in China and in metropolitan regions[J]. APPLIED GEOGRAPHY,2017,88:199-212.
APA	He, Sanwei,Fang, Chuanglin,&Zhang, Wenting.(2017).A geospatial analysis of multi-scalar regional inequality in China and in metropolitan regions.APPLIED GEOGRAPHY,88,199-212.
MLA	He, Sanwei,et al."A geospatial analysis of multi-scalar regional inequality in China and in metropolitan regions".APPLIED GEOGRAPHY 88(2017):199-212.