Air pollution is one of the leading causes of deaths in Southeast Asian countries including
India. Exposure to air pollutants affects vital cellular mechanisms and is intimately linked …

Advancing global sustainability requires an understanding of ways in which rural–urban
processes interact to produce sustainability outcomes. Rural–urban relationships are mostly …

Land systems are the result of human interactions with the natural environment.
Understanding the drivers, state, trends and impacts of different land systems on social and …

Village settlements in peri-urban areas have largely been transformed into dense
neighbourhoods in the process of rapid urbanisation and become Villages-in-the-City …

Ecosystem services provided by green infrastructure are often discussed for their potential to
address the societal challenges of urbanization. However, green infrastructure, particularly …

One of the major consequences of expansive urban growth is the degradation and loss of
productive agricultural land and agroecosystem functions. Four landscape metrics …

The incipient megapolis of Bangalore, India, has historically been dependent on ecosystem
services provided by an extensive network of lakes. Today, many of these lakes have …

Urban fringe is an active expanding belt, indicating urban-rural interaction processes.
Previous studies have attempted to define urban fringe as the transitional area between …

Urban commons constitute important social-ecological systems for the resilience of cities of
the Global South. However, rapid urbanization has led to large-scale degradation and …

This paper explores the production of space in the villages-in-the-city (ViCs) through a
morphological perspective. During the urbanization process, rural villages originally located …