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This study assesses the global mountain population, population change over the 1975–2015 time-range, and urbanisation for 2015.
Suzhou city was the cultural centre of ancient south China. It continues the urban pattern of more than 800 years ago. Suzhou gardens are the essence of Chinese gardening art, as well as the valuable world cultural heritage site.
India’s urbanisation results in the physical and societal transformation of the areas surrounding cities. These periurban interfaces are spaces of flows, shaped by an exchange of matter, people and ideas between urban and rural spaces—and currently they are zones in transition.
The establishment of rural settlements in the topographically complex mountainous area of South-Western China is restricted by various geographical features.
The process of urbanization in China has been accompanied by the conflict of land expropriation, which is not conducive to social stability.
Urbanization is changing land use–land cover (LULC) transforming green spaces (GS) and bodies of water into built-up areas.
The state of water quality of lakes is highly related to watershed processes which will be responsible for the delivery of sediment, nutrients, and other pollutants to receiving water bodies.
Compared with traditional urbanization, new urbanization is more closely aligned with China’s basic national conditions and reflects the basic goal of sustainable development.
In the tropics, the domestic water supply depends principally on ecosystem services, including the regulation and purification of water by humid, dense tropical forests. The Yangambi Biosphere Reserve (YBR) landscape is situated within such forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).