The concept of ecosystem goods and services is increasingly used to describe how
biodiversity and ecosystems are linked to human well-being and that it should be placed at …

This chapter reviews current thinking about environment-development issues in the
transitional zones between distinctly urban and unambiguously rural areas, known variously …

Africa is urbanizing at an astonishing rate. To meet many of the Sustainable Development
Goals there will be a requirement for cities in sub-Saharan Africa to plan for, and manage …

Urbanization induces spatial and environmental changes. Monitoring and understanding the
nature of these changes is crucial to achieving sustainable urban development imperatives …

This volume is based on the argument that, just as it is no longer possible to construct sound
ecological science without explicit attention to urbanization as a key driver of global …

The term peri‐urbanization has been widely used to describe a range of different processes
that transform rural areas to a mix of rural and urban spaces. Although there is a burgeoning …

The physical development of the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA) and the Bandung
Metropolitan Area (BMA) is characterized by the formation of an urban belt from Jakarta to …

With its inception in urban studies in the 1930s, the notion of urban sprawl was
institutionalised and globalised. However, urban sprawl research has mostly focused on …

This paper examined the effects of peri-urbanisation on arable land in Kumasi Metropolis.
The study involved classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) 1986 imagery and …

Urban regions worldwide are increasingly facing the challenge of dealing with highly
dynamic metropolitan growth and, at the same time, institutional changes like …