Biosecurity issues in rural areas including the rural-urban fringe have been on the national government agenda for decades. However, these issues are rarely linked to the land use pattern and the planning processes that frame the peri-urbanisation process. International, national, regional and localised stressors leading to each new biosecurity threat seem to constantly overshadow the ongoing t...

The overall age-adjusted rate of motor vehicle traffic deaths in the United States decreased 25% from 14.6 deaths per 100,000 population in 2005 to 10.9 in 2015. During this period, the rate declined in each of the county groupings, with the largest decline of 26% in the large fringe metropolitan and micropolitan counties and the smallest decline of 20% in rural counties. For both years, the ra...

As the transition zone between urban and rural, metropolis fringe is an area where various functions permeate compete fiercely with each other. Understanding land use (LUFs) their relationships are crucial for both rural sustainable development. In this study, we established a conceptual framework of multifunctions in proposed improved evaluation method to quantify LUFs at grid scale. The bivar...

The urban fringe area is a discontinuous spatial phenomenon that refers to the urban-rural interlacing zone which undergoing urbanization on of core built-up large city after emergence industrialization. Dynamic, ambiguous, and complex various types lands make planners managers fuzzy about scope it difficult control its evolution patterns scientifically. Based remote sensing data from 2000 2020...

The territories between urban and rural areas, also called urban–rural fringe, commonly present inherent instability notable heterogeneity. However, investigating the multifaceted fringe phenomenon based on large-scale identification has yet to be undertaken. In this study, we adopted a handy clustering-based method by incorporating multidimensional urbanization indicators understand how develo...

This paper details my field work experiences during my doctoral research in Nairobi rural-urban fringe, Kenya. The field work was conducted before, during and after a period of election related violence. The paper details the choice of my methodology and also enumerates various decisions that I had to take during the field work when the situation was visibly bleak. The paper provides lessons an...

The expansion of the cities into the rural-urban fringes is creating direct and indirect impacts with those living there facing new challenges and opportunities in meeting their life needs and accommodating the by-products of urbanization. Although urbanization in these areas provides opportunities for employment, better housing, education, knowledge and technology transfer, and ready markets f...