Abstract Urban and peri-urban agricultural practices are degrading throughout the developing world owing to unprecedented urban sprawling consequent expansion of built-up areas. This study attempted assess changing land use/land cover patterns Kolkata Metropolitan Area, India from 1990 2020 with special emphasis on transformation trajectories its agriculture as a case using free open-source sof...

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Abstract Suburbanization still remains the key urbanization process in world. Urban sprawl, as a specific manifestation of suburban morphology, belongs to urban phenomena that is very often studied but ambivalent. The ambivalence assessment results from problems weighing costs and benefits generated by sprawl. At same time, there gap international research on sprawl for households. Therefore, a...

BACKGROUND The main task is to estimate the qualitative and quantitative contribution of urban territories and precisely of the process of urbanization to the Global Carbon Cycle (GCC). Note that, on the contrary to many investigations that have considered direct anthropogenic emission of CO2 (urbanized territories produce ca. 96-98% of it), we are interested in more subtle, and up until the pr...

Urban sprawl related to rapid urbanisation in developed and developing nations affects sustainable land use. In Sri Lanka, urban areas have mostly expanded a rather spontaneous, unplanned manner (based on the current settlers’ subjective movement) than conforming local government’s development plan. This growth inevitably leads uncontrolled many Lankan cities, including Batticaloa. So far, Lank...

Abstract Urban sprawl is the development of sparse suburban areas with low population density, limited land use diversity, and poor street connectivity. Numerous studies demonstrated that urban form settings influence indoor outdoor environments and, consequently, public health in diverse ways. This review aims to assess association between each outcome evaluated literature better define its ef...