Cities and urban areas are increasingly recognized as strategic arenas for climate change
action. Processes of urban governance addressing climate change reconfigure the politics …

For the next decade, the global water crisis remains the risk of highest concern, and ranks
ahead of climate change, extreme weather events, food crises and social instability. Across …

The physical expansion of urban areas lead to lasting impacts on landscapes and
livelihoods. Here, we conduct a global synthesis of trends in urban land expansion, in urban …

Urban expansion often occurs on croplands. However, there is little scientific understanding
of how global patterns of future urban expansion will affect the world's cultivated areas …

INTRODUCTION Lowland Maya civilization flourished from 1000 BCE to 1500 CE in and
around the Yucatan Peninsula. Known for its sophistication in writing, art, architecture …

This paper introduces urban land teleconnections as a conceptual framework that explicitly
links land changes to underlying urbanization dynamics. We illustrate how three key themes …

Rapid industrialization and urbanization during recent decades are having dramatic effects
on urban soil properties and lead to large discharges of pollutants, which inevitably affect …

When urban areas expand without concomitant increases in wastewater treatment capacity,
vast quantities of wastewater are released to surface waters with little or no treatment …

Water security is widely recognised as an important and increasingly urgent policy
challenge. To address this challenge, appropriate indicators are needed to stimulate policy …

Agricultural land conversion (ALC) is an incentive-driven process. In this paper, we further
investigate the inter-relationship between land economic value (LEV) and ALC. To achieve …