Measuring Urban Sprawl - how Can we Deal with It? [PDF]
, 2005 Measuring urban sprawl is a controversial topic among scholars who investigate the urban landscape. In fact, most researchers agree that sprawl is a complex phenomenon, and moving from "sprawl” to "compact” form is more likely to be a direction on a ...
Ashkenazi, Maya, Frenkel, Amnon
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Local government procurement costs and Community Wealth Building Initiatives in England
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract We examine whether procuring locally leads to higher costs. Our study is motivated by the Community Wealth Building Initiatives adopted by Preston City Council in England in which social value to the local economy is considered in the procurement process.
Rubab Ahmed +4 more
wiley +1 more source
THE EXTENT OF SPRAWL IN THE FRINGE OF JAKARTA METROPOLITAN AREA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EXTERNALITIES [PDF]
The Jakarta Metropolitan area has experienced urban sprawl. Existing planning processes do not appear to manage sprawl effectively. The aim of this study is to empirically analyse the contribution of spatial externalities on sprawl, and its effect on ...
Fitriani, Rahma, Harris, Michael
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Simulating city growth by using the cellular automata algorithm [PDF]
, 2007 The objective of this thesis is to develop and implement a Cellular Automata (CA) algorithm to simulate urban growth process. It attempts to satisfy the need to predict the future shape of a city, the way land uses sprawl in the surroundings of that ...
Mavroudi, T.
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Spatiotemporal effects of urban sprawl on habitat quality in the Pearl River Delta from 1990 to 2018. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Wu J, Li X, Luo Y, Zhang D.
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Impacts of the Boom-Bust Cycle on the Effectiveness of Policies for Moderating the Consequences of Sprawl on Residential Development [PDF]
urban sprawl, spatial discrete-choice model, Land Economics/Use,
Cho, Seong-Hoon +3 more
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Embedded Pesticide Use: Exploring the Pesticide‐Land Nexus
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, global land grabs, farmland financialization and land‐based food sovereignty movements have returned the land question to the heart of agrarian studies. Meanwhile, abiding interest in pesticides has been reanimated in the face of changes in production, regulation and knowledge of toxicity.
Julie Guthman, Marion Werner
wiley +1 more source
Estimating National and Foreign Trade Elasticities Using Generalized Transport Costs
Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 471-496, March 2025.ABSTRACT We introduce the definition of two distinct trade elasticities corresponding to imports from regions located in the same country (national elasticities) and foreign regions located in other countries (foreign elasticities). We resort to a three‐tier nested CES utility structure to derive the corresponding demand gravity equations.
José L. Zofío +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Dynamic evaluation method for planning sustainable landfills using GIS and multi-criteria in areas of urban sprawl with land-use conflicts. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Langa C +5 more
europepmc +1 more source
, 2015 La dispersión gradual de la urbanización, el fenómeno conocido bajo el término urban sprawl, se ha convertido en uno de los paradigmas que han caracterizado el desarrollo urbano desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX y principios del siglo XXI. Desde 1950 se ha producido un cambio real en la topología del paisaje.
Arellano Ramos, Blanca +1 more
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