Linking urbanization and the environment: Conceptual and empirical advances

X Bai, T McPhearson, H Cleugh… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Urbanization is one of the biggest social transformations of modern time, driving and driven
by multiple social, economic, and environmental processes. The impacts of urbanization on …

Understanding forest health with remote sensing-part I—a review of spectral traits, processes and remote-sensing characteristics

A Lausch, S Erasmi, DJ King, P Magdon, M Heurich - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Anthropogenic stress and disturbance of forest ecosystems (FES) has been increasing at all
scales from local to global. In rapidly changing environments, in-situ terrestrial FES …

Land use change, urbanization, and change in landscape pattern in a metropolitan area

H Dadashpoor, P Azizi, M Moghadasi - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes land use change, urbanization and their impact on the change in
landscape pattern in Tabriz metropolitan area (TMA) during the time period from 1996 to …

[HTML][HTML] Urban sprawl and its impact on landuse/land cover dynamics of Dehradun City, India

PA Bhat, M ul Shafiq, AA Mir, P Ahmed - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The world has seen the development and growth of urban areas at a faster pace. The rapid
urban growth and development have resulted in the increase in the share of India's urban …

[图书][B] Land-use and land-cover change: local processes and global impacts

EF Lambin, HJ Geist - 2008 - books.google.com
This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes.
Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect …

Intensity analysis to unify measurements of size and stationarity of land changes by interval, category, and transition

SZ Aldwaik, RG Pontius Jr - Landscape and urban planning, 2012 - Elsevier
This article presents a quantitative method to analyze maps of land categories from several
points in time for a single site by considering cross-tabulation matrices, where one matrix …

Landscape urbanization and economic growth in China: positive feedbacks and sustainability dilemmas

X Bai, J Chen, P Shi - Environmental science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
Accelerating urbanization has been viewed as an important instrument for economic
development and reducing regional income disparity in some developing countries …

Land use and land cover change modeling and future potential landscape risk assessment using Markov-CA model and analytical hierarchy process

B Nath, Z Wang, Y Ge, K Islam, R P. Singh… - … International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Land use and land cover change (LULCC) has directly played an important role in the
observed climate change. In this paper, we considered Dujiangyan City and its environs …

Land-cover and land-use change in a Mediterranean landscape: a spatial analysis of driving forces integrating biophysical and human factors

P Serra, X Pons, D Saurí - Applied geography, 2008 - Elsevier
This article develops a spatial analysis applied to examine the main driving forces of land-
cover and land-use (LCLU) change in a Mediterranean region. Three different tools have …

[HTML][HTML] Site-based and remote sensing methods for monitoring indicators of vegetation condition: An Australian review

V Lawley, M Lewis, K Clarke, B Ostendorf - Ecological Indicators, 2016 - Elsevier
Native vegetation around the world is under threat from historical and ongoing clearance,
overgrazing, invasive species, increasing soil and water salinity, altered fire regimes, poor …