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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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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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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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Journal of Hydrology: Regional StudiesStudy region: The Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou (SWC) metropolitan area, China. Study focus: Urban expansion is a natural product of growing cities at the expense of river systems.
Zhixin Lin +5 more
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DECADAL TRANSFORMATION OF LAND USE - LAND COVER AND FUTURE SPATIAL EXPANSION IN BANGALORE METROPOLITAN REGION, INDIA: OPEN-SOURCE GEOSPATIAL MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 Land use and land cover (LULC) are the terms by which we can denote how the people are utilising the land to serve different purposes and what covers the earth's surface, respectively.
H. Dehingia +4 more
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MANAGEMENT ELEMENTS OF THE EMERGENT METROPOLITAN AREAS IN A TRANSITION COUNTRY. ROMANIA, AS CASE STUDY [PDF]
Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, 2022 Complex processes, specific to the countries in transition, have had major impacts on restructuring the territorial management systems. The removal of restrictions of limiting urban expansion, imposed by the totalitarian regime, has allowed the rapid ...
Ioan IANOȘ +3 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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Toward a Dualistic Growth? Population Increase and Land-Use Change in Rome, Italy
Land, 2021 The spatial mismatch between population growth and settlement expansion is at the base of current models of urban growth. Empirical evidence is increasingly required to inform planning measures promoting urban containment in the context of a stable (or ...
Leonardo Bianchini +6 more
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Land, 2023 This study investigates the land-use/population mix over time as the base to derive an indicator of urban sprawl. Land-use individual patches (provided by Urban Atlas, hereafter UA, with a detailed spatial geometry at 1:10,000 scale) were associated with
Alessia D’Agata +4 more
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