Urbanisation patterns in Europe since the 1950s have resulted in a swath of low-density
discontinuous development, commonly called peri-urban areas. These areas are …

Rural revitalization has drawn increasing attention from the academia, public and industry.
Using remote sensing imagery, semi-structured interviews and non-participant observation …

While the economy of rural areas has always been strongly dependent on natural resource
exploitation, recent technological advancements in exploitation, loss of rural livelihood, and …

Over the past forty years, rural China has undergone dramatic spatial restructuring, and its
production functions have gradually become diversified. However, although several studies …

With the rapid development of urbanization and modernization, the population of traditional
villages migrates into surrounding areas, causing the hollowing of traditional villages. The …

As socio-economic development progresses (division of labor in society, industrialization
and urbanization), changes on the spatial structure and function take place in the rural …

In certain develo** countries, the e-commerce industries of rural areas are subjected to
clustering, which provides an entry point through which the following can be observed: the …

In China, changes in rural settlement patterns are crucial because they may affect
agricultural sustainability through encroachment on productive cropland and water …

By applying an integrated framework, this paper examines the impacts of population decline,
urban sprawl and industrial transformation on rural residential land use change at the peri …

One of the key factors affecting rural settlements distribution is intervillage social
connections. However, most of the current studies ignored the effects of social connections …