The smart city emerges as an innovation-driven strategy to achieve green development.
While a large body of existing literature has assessed the environmental performance of the …

The way cities are evolving and expanding has been a challenging issue and several urban
growth models were proposed. Most of these models have common objectives but they differ …

Abstract The “China Dream” is an “Urban Dream”. Urbanization is an inevitable requirement
for promoting social progress. The Chinese government sees sustainable urbanization as …

As a result of economics and policy, land-use/land-cover change (LUCC) in China has
undergone a series of complicated changes over the past three decades. However, the …

Abstract The Convention on Biological Diversity and its Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–
2020 form the central pillar of the world's conservation commitment, with 196 signatory …

This article aims to evaluate the impact of urbanization and different urbanization modes on
cultivated land changes using an econometric model that incorporates socio-economic and …

Identifying the driving mechanisms and forces of urban expansion is an important step
toward better understanding of the spatial pattern, process, and consequences of urban …

While urbanization promotes both economic development and job opportunities, it also
exerts enormous pressures on the urban land resource. Increasing urban land use efficiency …

Urbanisation is one of the major driving forces behind the formation of today's land use
systems. It almost always involves the conversion of land use from non-urban to urban uses …

Many emerging economies have experienced rapid urbanization in an unprecedented scale
and speed in the past few decades. While the urban expansion has led to the formation of …