A review of driving factors, scenarios, and topics in urban land change models

Y Kim, G Newman, B Güneralp - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
Due to the increase in future uncertainty caused by rapid environmental, societal, and
technological change, exploring multiple scenarios has become increasingly important in …

Human dynamics in space and time: A brief history and a view forward

M Yuan - Transactions in GIS, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This article highlights the key intellectual development in human dynamics research,
examines the modeling emphases in publications, and argues for research directions in …

Predicting future urban growth scenarios and potential urban flood exposure using Artificial Neural Network-Markov Chain model in Miami Metropolitan Area

SA Al Rifat, W Liu - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the increased coastal population growth and urbanization along with rising sea
levels, more people and properties will be under increased flood risk globally. Urban growth …

Observing community resilience from space: Using nighttime lights to model economic disturbance and recovery pattern in natural disaster

Y Qiang, Q Huang, J Xu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
A major challenge for measuring community resilience is the lack of empirical observations
in disasters. As an effective tool to observe human activities on the earth surface, night-time …

Co-evolution of wetland landscapes, flooding, and human settlement in the Mississippi River Delta Plain

RR Twilley, SJ Bentley, Q Chen, DA Edmonds… - Sustainability …, 2016 - Springer
River deltas all over the world are sinking beneath sea-level rise, causing significant threats
to natural and social systems. This is due to the combined effects of anthropogenic changes …

Human dynamics in the mobile and big data era

SL Shaw, MH Tsou, X Ye - International Journal of Geographical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Human dynamics is a term that has been used and investigated by researchers in various
fields from very different perspectives. BarabásiLs (2005) publication of LThe origin of bursts …

Effects of landscape fragmentation on land loss

NSN Lam, W Cheng, L Zou, H Cai - Remote sensing of environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Coastal Louisiana has been facing a serious land loss problem over the past several
decades, and extensive research has been undertaken to address the problem. However …

Changes in exposure to flood hazards in the United States

Y Qiang, NSN Lam, H Cai, L Zou - Annals of the American …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This article conducts a national, county-based assessment of the changes in population and
urban areas in high-risk flood zones from 2001 to 2011 in the contiguous United States. The …

Comparison of metaheuristic cellular automata models: A case study of dynamic land use simulation in the Yangtze River Delta

Y Feng, Y Liu, X Tong - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
Cellular automata (CA) is a bottom-up modeling framework that has increasingly been
applied to simulate land use change by capturing its dynamics. Metaheuristics such as …

Modeling the dynamics of community resilience to coastal hazards using a Bayesian network

H Cai, NSN Lam, L Zou, Y Qiang - Annals of the American …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Studies on how variables of community resilience to natural hazards interact as a system
that affects the final resilience (ie, their dynamical linkages) have rarely been conducted …