F Lan, H Da, H Wen, Y Wang - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Urban agglomerations (UAs) have become the urbanized “growth poles”, especially against the background of increasing population flow to cities. The spatial structure of UAs has been …
Coastal zones are submitted to pressures, due to population growth and continuous expansion of human activities, which become more intense by the effects of climate change …
The Chinese government is undergoing a major reform. The current core task of new Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) is to establish a national territorial spatial planning …
M Wicht, M Kuffer - European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The presence of urban green areas significantly impacts urban inhabitants' well-being. However, comparative studies across European cities are constraint by urban administrative …
The dispersion of built‐up areas in peri‐urban zones is considered an important, almost irreversible environmental threat, especially in coastal zones and islands. In this paper, we …
Forest fires are a seasonal phenomenon in Greece, reoccurring annually and causing adverse impacts on both human-made and natural environments. Our case study focuses on …
For exactly one century Greece, in turbulent times and with a fragile economy, has aspired to articulate a land policy able to control urbanization and tilt the scales in favor of society …
This paper looks at the periodic land use/cover (LUC) changes that occurred in Attica, Greece from 1991 to 2016. During this period, land transformations were mostly related to …
Dispersed urbanization during the last half century has transformed metropolitan regions into well-connected, low-density residential areas. However, this kind of urbanization has …