Abstract The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will play an essential role in boosting the world's
economy. However, the main portion of the Belt and Road (B&R) is in arid, semi-arid, or sub …

Over the last decade, scholarship on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also called the
New Silk Road, has burgeoned. However, it is only recently that analysis has interrogated …

Quantifying the evolution of urban expansion is of vital importance for optimizing land use
patterns and promoting sustainable urban development. This research constructed the …

Fully understanding spatiotemporal patterns of electric power consumption (EPC) is one of
the key questions related to sustainable socioeconomic and environmental development in …

The environment project in the greater Mekong sub-region was the largest multi-field
environmental cooperation launched by six countries (China, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar …

The world is facing a poverty crisis. Despite the great achievements that have been made in
poverty alleviation over the past two decades, the extent of poverty in countries along the …

Global climate change and high-intensity human interventions have caused significant
changes in island coastline. Due to the increase in sea level rise (SLR), inundation risk of …

The continuous expansion of urban land has led to massive encroachment upon cropland.
To examine the impacts of urban expansion on the loss and fragmentation of cropland in …

Urban sprawl is the most prominent characteristic of urbanization, and increasingly affects
local and regional sustainable development. The observation and analysis of urban sprawl …

The fast development of urban built-up areas in China is causing many problems, such as
pollution, congestion, etc. How to effectively evaluate the coordination between urban areas …