With the socio-economic development associated with urbanization, the urban-rural
relationship has changed across the world. In China, due to the urban-rural dual structure …

Land use transition is a manifestation of land use and land cover change (LUCC) and is also
a major research focus of the Global Land Project (GLP), as well as land system science …

Rural-spatial restructuring involves the spatial mapping of the current rural development
process. The transformation of land-use morphologies, directly or indirectly, affects the …

Inefficient urban land redevelopment is an important policy of Chinese government to
achieve sustainable urban development. Currently, the decision-making mechanism in …

Using integrated official land use statistics and remote sensing data, this study investigated
the processes and mechanisms of urban land expansion in the Nanjing metropolitan area …

In 2015, the United Nations (UN) adopted the 2030 agenda for sustainable development
and established 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), aiming at completely solving the …

Using the combined weighting method and the super‐efficiency Slack‐Based Measure
(SBM) model, this study evaluates urban‐rural integration and land‐use efficiency across 30 …

The relationship between the urban population and urban construction land is an important
indicator for assessing urbanization quality. With the rapid growth of urban population and …

Urban-rural integration has been found to be an inevitable trend in the development of
urban-rural relations and a vital measure to tackle the unbalanced and uncoordinated …

As populations continue to be concentrated in cities, the world will become entirely
urbanized, and urban space is undergoing a drastic evolution. Understanding the spatial …