One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of
these live in the Global South–mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate …

Urbanization will place significant pressures on biodiversity across the world. However,
there are large uncertainties in the amount and location of future urbanization, particularly …

Abstract Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the most urbanized and
biologically diverse regions in the world but is often characterized by weak environmental …

While several studies examined land use and land cover changes in the central and western
parts of Saudi Arabia, this study is the first to use remote sensing data to examine the …

The development and application of urban sustainability indicators has gained momentum
in recent years, especially since the generation of specific urban indicators for the Agenda …

Peri-urban areas are often subject to intensive construction, through both formal and
informal processes. As land transitions from rural to urban status, different land tenure and …

This article applies a multi-method approach to develop a better measurement of
urbanization dynamics using remote and human sensing based on a GIS platform. The …

Waterlogging is becoming a severe and universal phenomenon in China, so the
construction of sponge cities is proposed to address urban water problems abiding by the …

Urbanization has been recognized as one of the most widespread threats to biodiversity.
However, the response of wildlife to urbanization differs among groups, with many species …

The rapid expansion of informal settlements poses significant challenges to urban
ecosystems and their services, a pressing issue that this study addresses by examining its …