Urban metabolism analysis has become an important tool for the study of urban ecosystems.
The problems of large metabolic throughput, low metabolic efficiency, and disordered …

Urban metabolism concerns the evaluation of how much urban ecosystems produce and
consume resources. Such an assessment is now a critical perspective in understanding the …

Urban political ecology (UPE) focuses on unsettling traditional understandings of 'cities' as
ontological entities separate from 'nature'and on how the production of settlements is …

With the rapid development of Chinese economy, many negative effects of land use
transitions under the pressure of rapid urbanization on local ecological system and …

A key challenge of landscape planning and management is coping with multiple ecosystem
service (ES) potentials and needs in complex social-ecological systems such as urban …

A multi-criteria approach based on descriptive, correlation and multivariate statistics and
mathematical morphology was proposed to investigate long-term morphological changes in …

Urban expansion and socioeconomic transformations of metropolitan regions may
negatively impact environmental quality and functions of peri-urban landscapes. In the …

In recent years, the rapid expansion of urban spaces has accelerated the mutual evolution of
landscape types. Analyzing and simulating spatio-temporal dynamic features of urban …

The ecosystem services concept is increasingly gaining momentum in land-use policies and
landscape planning. Yet, cultural ecosystem services often lack proper assessments. With …

Urban sprawl is a widely recognized phenomenon in many major cities worldwide and is a
significant land use planning and management issue. This process has many impacts on the …