Coastal cities in China are challenged by multiple growth paths and strategies related to
demands in the housing market, economic growth and eco-system protection. This paper …

The global urbanization process has been a concern in recent years, and it is a serious
challenge to sustainable development and effective urban governance. Rapid changes in …

Urbanization is one of the most important anthropogenic activities that create extensive
environmental implications at both local and global scales. Dynamic urban expansion …

Although many publications have noted the impact of urban planning on urban development
and land-use change, the incorporation of planning constraints into urban growth simulation …

Driving factors are usually assumed temporally stationary in cellular automata (CA) based
land use modeling, hence the persistence of their relationships. Therefore, major questions …

A green infrastructure assessment (GIA)-constrained cellular automata (CCA) model was
developed to integrate habitat preservation with spatial-temporal simulation and the …

Rapid urbanization leads to a disorder land use pattern, posing severe threats to natural
resources with high-quality ecosystem service (ES), hence, it is necessary to delineate …

Developing countries have been undergoing dramatic urban growth over the past three
decades. It is essential to understand and simulate the urban growth process for smart urban …

In the context of socioeconomic initiatives to address world development sustainability such
as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), China's urbanization with increasing …

Land use transitions play a critical role in ecological environmental restoration, but they are
also plagued by ecological environmental problems caused by excessive land resource …