The rapid urbanization has led to extensive land use change particularly in those
developing countries. In line with the development of urbanization, arable land is decreasing …

The urban problems have clearly incorporated into the global sustainable development
agenda and the scientific urban expansion model has won credibility for urban research and …

General land-use planning in China aims to allocate land use quantitatively on a temporal
scale and explicitly on a spatial scale. Therefore, for decision-making, planners need to …

A considerable amount of research has been conducted on land use change, as it is
extremely helpful when it comes to decision-making and policy formulation. Although land …

Urbanization-induced land use problems have been haunting China's urban
agglomerations ever since the beginning of this period of unparalleled economic progress …

During the past decades, land use land cover change (LUCC) has taken place around most
Chinese cities at unprecedented rates. During this process, many rural lands, such as …

China is still experiencing the process of rapid urbanization. How will cultivated land and
ecological land, such as woodland, grassland, and water body change? Will construction …

Analyzing and understanding land use decisions of government, peasant households and
enterprises could help modeling agricultural land use change, which has taken place in …

Even though urban land-use change simulations provide useful information for decision
makers, planning is generally weakly integrated into land-change modelling. However, the …

The method presented is helpful for assessing effects of land use policy and unfolding the
action mechanism and implementation effect of policies on land use changes. The …