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The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification defines ‘land degradation’ as a reduction or loss of the biological and economic productivity resulting from land-use mismanagement, or a combination of processes, such as soil erosion, deterioration of soil properties, and loss of natural v
The coordination relationship between land urbanization and population urbanization is crucial for achieving sustainable development under economic transition.
Sustainable rural development (with the development of social functions) is currently one of the basic objectives of the rural areas policy in Poland.
With the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, land exploitation in China has caused a decrease of cultivated land, posing a threat to national food security.
Urbanization in Mediterranean Europe has occurred in recent decades with expansion of residential, commercial and industrial settlements into rural landscapes outside the traditional metropolitan boundaries. Industrial expansion in peri-urban contexts was particularly intense in Southern Europe.
Based on cointegration analysis, a vector error correction model (VECM), and the impulse response function method, this paper empirically analyses the interaction among urban expansion, economic development, and population growth in China from 1980 to 2016.
The ejido system, based on communal land in Mexico, was transformed to private ownership due to neoliberal trends in the 1990s.
This article brings together the concepts of land and landscape, tightly linked in urban transformative situations, but rarely used for the purpose to strengthen strategic planning for sustainability.
This paper discusses how and where technologies supporting decision-making can play, or are already playing, a role in both urban development and land management.