Driving forces behind land use and land cover change: A systematic and bibliometric review

A Allan, A Soltani, MH Abdi, M Zarei - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper is based on reviewing the literature in the past 10 years on the drivers of land use
and land cover change (LULCC) in urban areas. It combines quantitative and qualitative …

Urban land expansion: the role of population and economic growth for 300+ cities

R Mahtta, M Fragkias, B Güneralp, A Mahendra… - Npj Urban …, 2022 - nature.com
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) …

[HTML][HTML] Urbanization and urban land use efficiency: Evidence from regional and Addis Ababa satellite cities, Ethiopia

NH Koroso, M Lengoiboni, JA Zevenbergen - Habitat International, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Strategic adjustment of land use policy under the economic transformation

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 …

Effects of the spatial configuration of trees on urban heat mitigation: A comparative study

W Zhou, J Wang, ML Cadenasso - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Urban greenspace has significant cooling effects on urban heat. Recent studies
investigating the effects of spatial configuration of greenspace show significant, but …

Factors influencing ecosystem services in the Pearl River Delta, China: Spatiotemporal differentiation and varying importance

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The varying driving forces of urban expansion in China: Insights from a spatial-temporal analysis

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 …

Urban water scarcity in China: A systematic review of research advances and future directions

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 …

Land use/land cover dynamics and modeling of urban land expansion by the integration of cellular automata and markov chain

B Rimal, L Zhang, H Keshtkar, BN Haack… - … International Journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
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 …

The rapid and massive urban and industrial land expansions in China between 1990 and 2010: A CLUD-based analysis of their trajectories, patterns, and drivers

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 …