Unveiling the spatiotemporal patterns and predictive associations of human settlement quality in the Hunan-Jiangxi peripheral region
Peripheral regions remain underrepresented in analyses of between-county disparities in human settlements. Using 24 counties in the Hunan-Jiangxi peripheral region, this study integrates Spatial Markov Chains (SMC), Boosted Regression Trees (BRT), and the Optimal Parameters-based Geographical Detector (OPGD) to exa...