Increasing population and rural to urban migration are accelerating urbanization globally,
permanently transforming natural systems over large extents. Modelling landscape change
over large regions, however, presents particular challenges due to local-scale variations in
social and environmental factors that drive land change. We simulated urban development
across the South Atlantic States (SAS), a region experiencing rapid population growth and
urbanization, using FUTURES—an open source land change model that uses demand for …