Climate change and landscape transformation have led to rapid expansion of peri-urban
areas globally, representing new 'laboratories' for the study of human–nature relationships …

The significant economic development witnessed in China in recent decades has been
accompanied by the increasing expansion of urban areas. Although a growing literature has …

Great challenges regarding land use conflicts in rapid urbanization call for deeper research
on land use efficiency (LUE) from the perspective of sustainable land use for the …

Being a relatively less known driver of land vulnerability to degradation in Southern Europe,
the net impact of urban expansion on land quality depletion requires a comparative …

Amidst growing concerns about the impact of agriculture on the environment, the Common
Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been overhauled to prioritize sustainable rural development in …

The present study presents a multidimensional analysis of land-use efficiency in terms of per-
capita built-up area over 417 metropolitan regions from 27 European countries. The study …

Metropolitan growth in Europe has resulted in drastic changes of urban forms, socio-spatial
structures and land-use patterns due to sequential processes of urbanization …

Abstract Analysis of changes over time in the spatial structure of housing prices provides
reliable information to infer latent patterns and processes of urban growth. Although the …

Building activity at the metropolitan scale reflects socioeconomic transformations
increasingly dependent on place-specific factors. The present study investigates height …

Mixing peculiar socioeconomic conditions and demographic contexts, urban decline in
Mediterranean Europe was less extensively documented than in other regions of the …