Despite much insightful work on polycentric urban development in China, there is a lack of
systematic comparison at the intra-city level. Therefore, this paper explores polycentric …

Avian influenza virus (AIV) is a major health threat to both avian and human populations.
The ecology of the virus is driven by numerous factors, including climate and avian migration …

Rapid urbanization is changing the existing patterns of Land Use Land Cover (LULC)
globally which is consequently increasing the Land Surface Temperature (LST) in many …

Land use/land cover (LU/LC) changes were determined in an urban area, Tirupati, from
1976 to 2003 by using Geographical Information Systems (GISs) and remote sensing …

Understanding drivers of changes in land use/land cover (LULC) is essential for modeling
future dynamics or development of management strategies to ameliorate or prevent further …

As China experienced rapid economic growth, non-agricultural land, particularly industrial
land, expanded significantly within its peri-urban areas. This paper takes two typical peri …

With the socio-economic transformation, regional development factors recombination and
followed industrial restructuring have changed the rural areas in eastern coastal China …

Farmers' livelihood and land have been the focus of academic and political attention for a
long time. In the process of rapid urbanization in China, as farmers change their livelihood …

Owing to fast-paced economic growth since 1978, China has experienced a massive urban
sprawl during the rapid process of urbanization over the past decades. Using regression …

Frequent human activity and rapid urbanization have led to an assortment of environmental
issues. Monitoring land-cover change is critical to efficient environmental management and …