Since 2014, China has been implementing the Sponge City Construction initiative, which
represents an enormous and unprecedented effort by any government in the world for …

This paper is based on reviewing the literature in the past 10 years on the drivers of land use
and land cover change (LULCC) in urban areas. It combines quantitative and qualitative …

This study explored the past and present land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes and urban
expansion pattern for the cities of the Kathmandu valley and their surroundings using …

Urban expansion can lead to land use changes and, hence, threatens the ecosystems.
Understanding the effects of urbanization on ecosystem services (ESs) can provide scientific …

The implications of anthropogenic climate change, human activities and land use change
(LUC) on the environment and ecosystem services in the coastal regions of Saudi Arabia …

Urban development may increase the risk of future floods because of local changes in
hydrological conditions and an increase in flood exposure that arises from an increasing …

This paper presents a model to simulate built-up expansion and densification based on a
combination of a non-ordered multinomial logistic regression (MLR) and cellular automata …

Urban expansion has caused major changes in land use and urban growth patterns in
metropolitan areas. While urban growth in these areas is a well-known phenomenon, the …

Spatio-temporal land-use change modeling, simulation, and prediction have become one of
the critical issues in the last three decades due to uncertainty, structure, flexibility, accuracy …

Land use land cover (LULC) of city regions is strongly affected by urbanization and affects
the thermal environment of urban centers by influencing the surface temperature of core city …