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Yiping Xiao, Yan Song and Xiaodong Wu
China’s rapid urbanization has attracted wide international attention. However, it may not be sustainable. In order to assess it objectively and put forward recommendations for future development, this paper first develops a four-dimensional Urbani...
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China’s urbanization has attracted considerable academic attention. However, more work is required to understand and examine the driving mechanisms of urbanization, especially within the context of the transition from socialism. We used a regressio...
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Víctor Jiménez and Antonio-José Campesino
Given the incessant and clandestine proliferation of housing on the Undevelopable Land of Extremadura, Spain, and that administrative attention to this problem has been scarce, it is inevitable that urban geographers will turn away from the main focus of...
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Brantley Liddle
The level of world urbanization has crossed the 50% mark, and nearly all future population growth is projected to occur in cities. Cities are disproportionately wealthy, but are associated with poverty, too. Addressing the dual challenges of urbanization...
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Brantley Liddle
The level of world urbanization has crossed the 50% mark, and nearly all future population growth is projected to occur in cities. Cities are disproportionately wealthy, but are associated with poverty, too. Addressing the dual challenges of urbanization...
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Xiuju Feng, Jian Gao, Jittaporn Sriboonjit, Zhongmin Wang, Jianxu Liu and Songsak Sriboonchitta
The Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB), an important industrial belt for food security for China, is facing the challenge of decreasing cultivated land in the process of rapid urbanization. In this case, how to improve the cultivated land use efficiency ...
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Xinliang Liu, Yi Wang, Yong Li and Jinshui Wu
The integrated recognition of spatio-temporal characteristics (e.g., speed, interaction with surrounding areas, and driving forces) of urbanization facilitates regional comprehensive development. In this study, a large-scale data-driven approach was form...
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Yan Yu, Yan Tong, Wenwu Tang, Yanbin Yuan and Yue Chen
Urban agglomeration has become a crucial topic in order for the Chinese government to promote new-type urbanization in China, and its urbanization will greatly affect China?s eco-environment. Existing literature on bidirectional influence between urbaniz...
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Li-Yan Wang, Yi Xiao, En-Ming Rao, Ling Jiang, Yang Xiao and Zhi-Yun Ouyang
Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of the People?s Republic of China, has experienced severe soil erosion following a period of rapid economic development and urbanization. To investigate how urbanization has influenced the extent of soil erosion in In...
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Jin-Cheng Fu, Jiun-Huei Jang, Chun-Mao Huang, Wen-Yen Lin and Chia-Cheng Yeh
Evaluating land and runoff variations caused by urbanization is crucial to ensure the safety of people living in highly developed areas. Based on spatial scales, runoff analysis involves different methods associated with the interpretation of land cover ...
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Jin-Cheng Fu, Jiun-Huei Jang, Chun-Mao Huang, Wen-Yen Lin and Chia-Cheng Yeh
Evaluating land and runoff variations caused by urbanization is crucial to ensure the safety of people living in highly developed areas. Based on spatial scales, runoff analysis involves different methods associated with the interpretation of land cover ...
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Pablo Cabrera-Barona, Denise Albán and Gustavo Durán
The Amazon has a population that is largely urban. However, research is limited regarding representations and analysis of the urban Amazon. This article represents and describes Amazonian urban areas by applying a multicriteria urbanization index. Using ...
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Yuejuan Yang, Hao Zhang, Xinquan Zhao, Zhizhang Chen, Aiguo Wang, Enlai Zhao and Hui Cao
Ecosystem services are the material basis of economic and social development, and play essential roles in the sustainable development of ecosystems. Urbanization can remarkably alter the provision of ecosystem services. Most studies in this area have foc...
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Shuai Xu, Yan Sun and Shuqing Zhao
Contemporary urbanization in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) Urban Agglomeration is the epitome of China?s urbanization process as the PRD is the first fastest growing metropolitan region of China. Here, we mapped and quantified the spatiotemporal dynamics o...
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Tianma Yuan, Haihan Zhang, Qiaoli Feng, Xiangyu Wu, Yixin Zhang, Alan J. McCarthy and Raju Sekar
Fungi are an important, yet often, neglected component of the aquatic microflora, and is responsible for primary decomposition and further processing of organic matter. By comparison, the ecological roles of terrestrial fungi have been well-studied, but ...
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Xiaojun Deng, Youpeng Xu, Longfei Han, Song Song, Liu Yang, Guang Li and Yuefeng Wang
River systems are valuable to human beings; meanwhile, they are intensively influenced by human activities, especially urbanization. In this study, based on the data derived from topographic maps and remote sensing images, the temporal and spatial change...
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Anca Stangaciu
In our endeavor to analyze the influence of urbanization and gender on self-perceived health status among the member states, we started by using an assessment scale, with a score ranging from 1 to 5 points for the 5 levels pertaining to the health status...
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Li Peng, Wei Deng and Ying Liu
As an important component of terrestrial ecosystems, the mountainous areas of southwest China are facing eco-environmental stress due to rapid urbanization. This study analyzed the vegetation dynamics during urbanization in 410 counties in the mountainou...
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Sherzad T. Tahir and Huei-Ping Huang
This study uses a suite of meteorological and land-surface models to quantify the changes in local climate and surface dust fluxes associated with desert urbanization. Formulas connecting friction velocity and soil moisture to dust generation are used to...
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Hong Hanh Nguyen, Friedrich Recknagel and Wayne Meyer
Urbanization poses a challenge to sustainable catchment management worldwide. This study compares streamflows and nutrient loads in the urbanized Torrens catchment in South Australia at present and future urbanization levels, and addresses possible mitig...
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