Urban Geography studies forms, social fabrics, and economic structures of cities from a
geographic perspective. Catalysed by the increasingly abundant spatial big data, Urban …

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

The trade-off/synergy between planned ecological land and farmland is of great significance
to food security, economic development and ecological environment protection in black soil …

With little consideration of both natural and social disturbance in previous studies on
Ecological security patterns (ESPs), the identification of conservation priority areas is not …

LULC maps are important thematic maps that provide a baseline for monitoring, assessing,
and planning activities. This study incorporates spatio-temporal land use/land cover (LULC) …

Delimiting the urban growth boundary (UGB) is important for limiting urban sprawl and
improving urban sustainability. However, the future UGB delimitation for the entire China is …

Accurate predictions of land-use change are important for supporting planning. Cellular
automata (CA) models are widely used to simulate real-world urban land-use change but …

The conversion of forest cover due to anthropogenic activities is of great concern in the
Madhupur Sal Forest in Bangladesh. This study explored the land use changes in the Sal …

Spatial heterogeneity is an essential feature of land use change. It is important for cellular
automata (CA)-based urban expansion modeling to consider the spatial heterogeneity of …

Many studies have been conducted on air pollution in Ulaanbaatar city. However, most have
focused on the sources of pollutants and their characteristics and distribution. Although the …