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A meta-analysis of global urban land expansion. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The conversion of Earth's land surface to urban uses is one of the most irreversible human impacts on the global biosphere. It drives the loss of farmland, affects local climate, fragments habitats, and threatens biodiversity.
Karen C Seto +3 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2023 The rapid urban expansion in drylands has threatened local fragile vegetation in recent years. Evaluating the urban expansion impacts on local vegetation in drylands effectively is crucial for promoting regional urban sustainability.
Tao Qi +4 more
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Remote Sensing, 2019 Urban expansion is one of the most dramatic forms of land transformation in the world and it is one of the greatest challenges in achieving sustainable development in the 21st century.
Shaikh Abdullah Al Rifat, Weibo Liu
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A novel approach for predicting the spatial patterns of urban expansion by combining the chi-squared automatic integration detection decision tree, Markov chain and cellular automata models in GIS [PDF]
, 2015 Urban development is a continuous and dynamic spatio-temporal phenomenon associated with economic developments and growing populations. To understand urban expansion, it is important to establish models that can simulate urbanization process and its ...
Al-sharif, Abubakr A. A. +1 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2022 Under conditions of rapid urbanization, quantitative measurement of the expansion characteristics of urban landscapes and evaluation of their spatial and temporal differentiation properties is an important scientific problem.
Jing Liu +3 more
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International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology, 2022 Abstract: The study was focused on determining the road expansion and network spread of a particular selected area (Kalinga institute of social studies) in Bhubaneswar city of Odisha state for which the urban development or urban sprawl took place, here the data is observed in between 15years of gap. The development or creation of road caused different
Aklesh Kishan +4 more
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The Heterogeneous Impact of High-Speed Railway on Urban Expansion in China
Remote Sensing, 2021 High-speed railway (HSR) promote the efficient flow of the population and materials between cities and have profoundly affected urban economic development in China.
Dan He +4 more
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Urban Sprawl: Environmental Consequence of Rapid Urban Expansion
Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH), 2020 Urban Sprawl is a disturbing issue to geographers, urban planners and allied professionals in the 21st century. The anxiety is based mainly on the social, political, economic, cultural and environmental consequences of rapid urban growth. Hence, this study examines the reasons for urbanization, as well as encroachment of urban development into the ...
Ogundare Babatope Andrew +2 more
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Frontiers in Earth ScienceIntroductionUrban agglomerations (UAs) are core economic growth centres, and urban construction land is the main spatial carrier of economic growth. Urban expansion is a research hotspot, while previous studies have rarely compared the characters and ...
Ming Li +5 more
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Rome’s urban history inferred from Pb-contaminated waters trapped in its ancient harbor basins [PDF]
, 2017 Heavy metals from urban runoff preserved in sedimentary deposits record long-term economic and industrial development via the expansion and contraction of a city’s infrastructure. Lead concentrations and isotopic compositions measured in the sediments of
Albarède, Francis +5 more
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