Africa has been a hotspot of rapid urban growth since 2000, yet no review exists that
describes the current state of urban growth modeling. This review aims to fill this gap by …

The prevalence of diseases borne by mosquitoes, particularly in the genus Aedes, is rising
worldwide. This has been attributed, in part, to the dramatic rates of contemporary …

Nowadays, cities meet numerous sustainable development challenges in facing growing
urban populations and expanding urban areas. The monitoring and simulation of land use …

Urban green spaces (UGS) are a central part of cities and offer multiple ecological and
social benefits necessary for a higher quality of life of inhabitants. However, rapid unguided …

Predictive modeling and land use/land cover change studies in complex systems are well
advanced. Cellular automata (CA)-Markov chain (MC) can be defined as one frequently …

The present study performs landcover modelling using the SLEUTH model. The urban land
use changing factors are calibrated to predict the Land Use Land Cover (LULC) for a …

University campuses are known to be accompanied by physical and economic
spatiotemporal patterns that contribute to the urban land expansion process of their …

Urban residential growth modeling has attracted a lot of attention from scholars as an
essential tool for urban planning and sustainable development. This study presents a …

Over the past several decades, urbanisation has been a key feature of cities in the Global
South, and many scholars have used urban expansion models as tools to not only study this …

This study focuses on the Dehradun tehsil of India for urban growth modeling. It is one of the
cities under 100 smart city plans by the Government of India. Land Use Land Cover (LULC) …