Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the relation between networks and
spatial context. This review examines critically a selection of the literature on how physical …

The comprehensive effect of multi-source factors changes the landscape structure and
reduces the quality of landscape ecology in large-scale opencast coal mine area, resulting …

Over the past decade, a considerable literature has emerged within criminology stemming
from the collection of social network data and the adoption of social network analysis by a …

Nearly a century of empirical research examines how neighborhood properties influence a
host of phenomena such as crime, poverty, health, civic engagement, immigration, and …

Standard epidemiological models for COVID-19 employ variants of compartment (SIR or
susceptible–infectious–recovered) models at local scales, implicitly assuming spatially …

Whereas one line of recent neighborhood research has placed an emphasis on zooming
into smaller units of analysis such as street blocks, another line of research has suggested …

The pervasive diffusion of Social Networks (SN) produced an unprecedented amount of
heterogeneous data. Thus, traditional approaches quickly became unpractical for real life …

This paper compares the social properties of Twitter users' networks with the spatial
proximity of the networks. Using a comprehensive analysis of network density and network …

While supportive social ties help to buffer against the consequences of poverty, few
researchers have examined how people form such ties. New ties are often formed in routine …

Drawing on the social disorganization tradition and the social ecological perspective of Jane
Jacobs, the authors hypothesize that neighborhoods composed of residents who intersect in …