Population data represent an essential component in studies focusing on human–nature
interrelationships, disaster risk assessment and environmental health. Several recent efforts …

Rapid population growth has had a significant impact on society, economy and environment,
which will challenge the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals …

Globally, urban areas are growing at a faster rate than their population, potentially reducing
environmental sustainability due to undesirable land take in (semi) natural and agricultural …

The brightness of nighttime lights (NTL) has been proven to be strongly related to population
density and thus has been widely used for population estimation from national to county …

The concentration of human activities in urban areas, increasing greenhouse gas emissions,
and high global temperature values in urban areas have accelerated the research on global …

It is important to explore the spatiotemporal characteristics of the coupling of carbon
productivity (CP) and the land development degree (LD) in Chinese counties and to …

Urban expansion is a dynamic and complex phenomenon, often involving adverse changes
in land use and land cover (LULC). This paper uses satellite imagery from Landsat-5 TM …

Inefficiency in urban land use is one of the problems caused by rapid urbanization. The UN
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicator 11.3. 1 is designed to test urban land use …

There is a significant increase in ozone at the surface and troposphere due to growing
population, industrialisation and urbanisation. The initiation of National Clean Air …

Gridded population data is widely used to map fine scale population patterns and dynamics
to understand associated human-environmental processes for global change research …