A clear understanding of the relationship between ecosystem services (ESs) and
urbanization provides new insight into urban landscape planning and decision making …

Context As an important type of sustainable landscape patterns, ecological security patterns
focus on the spatial assessment of landscape function importance. However, there is a lack …

With the rapid expansion of cities, monitoring urban sprawl is recognized as a vital tool by
many researchers who use this information in several applications like urban planning …

Goal 15 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has highlighted the importance
of maintaining a sustainable relation between ecosystem services and human activities …

Facing the need to control urban sprawl, many Chinese cities are exploring the use of
development-limiting boundaries, such as urban growth boundary (UGB) and urban …

Nature-based solutions have gained recognition for their potential to address urban
environmental challenges, particularly in rapidly urbanising countries such as China …

Urban boundaries (UBs) are of great significance for urban planners to constrain urban
expansion and protect the surrounding rural landscapes. However, existing studies mainly …

This research paper investigates urban sprawl in Thiruvananthapuram Urban
Agglomeration (UA) and attempts to delineate Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) for promoting …

Constructing an ecological security pattern (ESP) is an important means to describe,
manage, and control ecological security. However, there are few related studies on …

In order to control the development of urban space, it is important to explore scientific
methods to provide a reference for regional territorial space planning. On the basis of the …