A major focus of recent work on the spatial patterning of health has been the study of how
features of residential environments or neighborhoods may affect health. Place effects on …

Human population continues to aggregate in urban centers. This inevitably increases the
urban footprint with significant consequences for biodiversity, climate, and environmental …

The proliferation of agent-based models (ABMs) in recent decades has motivated model
practitioners to improve the transparency, replicability, and trust in results derived from …

The application of agent-based modelling (ABM) to simulating dynamics within geographical
systems has seen a considerable increase over the last decade. ABM allows the …

Spatially explicit land use/cover models are indispensable for sustainable rural land use
planning, particularly in southern African countries that are experiencing rapid land …

China's urbanization is significant worldwide. This process is characterized by
underurbanization of population and fast urban land expansion. The driving forces behind …

Sustainable urban planning and management require reliable land change models, which
can be used to improve decision making. The objective of this study was to test a random …

India is a rapidly urbanizing country and has experienced profound changes in the spatial
structure of urban areas. This study endeavours to illuminate the process of urbanization in …

This paper presents a fine-scale (30 meter resolution) regional land cover modeling system,
based on the SLEUTH cellular automata model, that was developed for a 257000km2 area …

Metropolitan growth in Europe has resulted in drastic changes of urban forms, socio-spatial
structures and land-use patterns due to sequential processes of urbanization …