Global urban populations are projected to increase by 2.5 billion over the next 30 years. Yet, there is limited understanding of how this growth will affect urban land expansion (ULE) …
Ethiopia has experienced rapid urbanization over the past three decades. Several cities expanded rapidly and many satellite towns sprung up around the major cities. The high rate …
Y Liu, J Li, Y Yang - Land use policy, 2018 - Elsevier
China is experiencing a huge change in its social, economic and ecological development. It has entered a transformational period of the “new normal” of its economy while its gravity …
Urban greenspace has significant cooling effects on urban heat. Recent studies investigating the effects of spatial configuration of greenspace show significant, but …
S Wang, Z Liu, Y Chen, C Fang - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the influence mechanism of ecosystem services will provide useful guides for practical ecological management. However, existing findings of the key factors affecting …
G Li, S Sun, C Fang - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2018 - Elsevier
Identifying the driving mechanisms and forces of urban expansion is an important step toward better understanding of the spatial pattern, process, and consequences of urban …
W Ba, D Wang, B Gong, Y Dai, Z Yang, Z Liu - Applied Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban water scarcity (UWS) has become a major constraint on socioeconomic development. To understand the research advances of UWS in China, we systematically reviewed …
This study explored the past and present land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes and urban expansion pattern for the cities of the Kathmandu valley and their surroundings using …
W Kuang, J Liu, J Dong, W Chi, C Zhang - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2016 - Elsevier
The past two decades saw rapid and massive urbanization and industrialization in China. Despite much research has been reportedly done at local and regional scales, little has …