This research focuses on the interactions between urban development and global
environmental change processes as crucial for reducing the impacts of climate change.
Together with the challenges of rapid urban growth, environmental change impacts will
undermine efforts to achieve sustainable development. Peri-urban refers to the area where
urban and rural features and processes meet, intertwine and interact, usually located
between city and countryside. Peri-urban growth patterns are shaping most of the urban …

This research focuses the interactions between urban development and global
environmental change processes as crucial for reducing the impacts of climate change.
Together with the challenges of rapid urban growth, environmental change impacts will
undermine efforts to achieve the sustainable development. Peri-urban refers to the area
where urban and rural features and processes meet, intertwine and interact, usually located
between city and countryside. Peri-urban growth patterns are shaping most of the urban …