Contemporary urbanization differs from historical patterns of urban growth in terms of scale,
rate, location, form, and function. This review discusses the characteristics of contemporary …

Global urbanization and food production are in direct competition for land. This paper carries
out a critical review of how displacing crop production from urban and peri-urban land to …

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

Urban growth has received little attention in large-scale land change assessments, because
the area of built-up land is relatively small on a global scale. However, this area is …

Urban areas concentrate people, economic activity, and the built environment. As such,
urbanization is simultaneously a demographic, economic, and land-use change …

With significant economic development in the last decade in China, urban land has
increasingly expanded and encroached upon arable land in the last decade. Although many …

Urbanization is an increasingly important dimension of global change, and urban areas
likely impose significant natural selection on the species that reside within them. Although …

Urban sprawl, also widely known as urbanization, is one of the significant problems in the
world. This research aims to assess and predict the urban growth and impact on land …

With significant economic development over the last several decades in China, urban land
has increasingly sprawled and encroached upon arable land and rural settlements. In this …

In this research, we used the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) and
Geographical Information System (GIS) to predict the annual rate of soil loss in the District …