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Land degradation and metropolitan expansion in a peri-urban environment [PDF]
Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2021 The couple rapid urbanization and policy failure in controlling urban expansion was sometimes associated to soil and land degradation phenomena in both developing and developed countries.
Vito Imbrenda +7 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2023 The extension of urban development can encroach onto ecologically important land, such as forests and farmland, and have a significant impact on regional ecosystem carbon storage.
Fan Wu, Zhiyuan Wang
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Land, 2022 Cultivated land is the principal land source for urban expansion. Recent large-scale urban expansion through the occupation of cultivated land has influenced regional food security and the realization of sustainable development goals.
Bao Meng +3 more
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LandThe ongoing urban spatial transformation contributes to a more intricate and varied spatiotemporal correlation pattern between metropolitan expansion and the migrant population. In this study, the coupled coordination model (CCD) is applied to enable the
Junfeng Wang +3 more
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Highway expansion and urban sprawl in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area
Land Use Policy, 2022 Transport development is widely recognized as one of the major drivers in shaping urban forms. While recent literature has documented the urban expansion effect of transport networks between cities, little is known about the effect within larger metropolitan areas.
Pratama, Andhika Putra +2 more
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Coupling spatial–temporal changes and driving factors of carbon stock for the Wuhan metropolitan area using the PLUS-InVEST-GeoDectetor model [PDF]
Scientific ReportsFocusing on the spatiotemporal variations in carbon stock and its driving factors in metropolitan areas serves not only as a crucial approach to promoting high-quality and sustainable development under the expansion of metropolitan development but also ...
Chao Yang +6 more
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Forcasting the Challenges of the Spatial Expansion of Tehran Metropolitan Area [PDF]
جغرافیا و آمایش شهری منطقهای, 2023 Urban spatial expansion is the result of urbanization's control over the geographical space and it represents the process of land conversion to urban uses.
Kazem Khazaei +2 more
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LandInternational industrial transfer has driven rapid construction land expansion in emerging metropolitan areas, posing challenges for sustainable land management.
Yutian Liang +4 more
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Planning gaps: unexpected urban expansion in five Colombian metropolitan areas
Buildings & Cities, 2022 Colombia has experienced rapid urbanization over the past three decades. Most Colombian cities doubled their urban extent in the last 10 years which resulted in a high demand for land.
Maria Monica Salazar Tamayo +1 more
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Land, 2020 Mediterranean regions have experienced a shift from accelerated urban growth typical of a post-industrial phase to a more recent spatial delocalization of population and economic activities reflecting discontinuous settlement expansion, land take, and ...
Gianluca Egidi +5 more
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