Abstract1 SLEUTH is a cellular automata (CA) model that has been successfully applied
worldwide over the last 15 years to simulate land use change. The objective of this paper is …

Most air pollution research has focused on assessing the urban landscape effects of
pollutants in megacities, little is known about their associations in small-to mid-sized cities …

Urban form is increasingly being recognised by scientists for the potential role it might play
in the coordination of sustainable urban development and the reduction of CO 2 emissions …

Landscape metrics or indices have been commonly used for quantifying landscape patterns.
However, most of these indices are generally focused on simple analysis and description of …

This study tried to assess and monitor the spatiotemporal dynamics of urban sprawl and its
growth pattern in Bahir Dar, Northwest Ethiopia for the last three and half decades (1984 …

Megacities pose both challenges and opportunities for the transition towards sustainability,
and understanding the evolution of urbanization in megacities has profound implications for …

Cellular automata (CA) have been used to understand the complexity and dynamics of
cities. The logistic cellular automaton (Logistic-CA) is a popular urban CA model for …

Carbon emissions are increasing in the world because of human activities associated with
the energy consumptions for social and economic development. Thus, attention has been …

In this article, we make the case for the existence of global macro-patterns of urban change
and urban growth, in particular, which may be recognized across metropolitan systems …

Over the past 20 years, the mangrove landscape of Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve
(MBR) has undergone drastic changes in space and time. However, we know very little …