Reasonable delineation of the urban growth boundary (UGB) plays a vital role in guiding orderly space and ensuring environmental health. Existing methodologies for UGB have failed to address significance ecological security. Therefore, this study presents framework that couples security pattern (ESP) establishment construction land expansion (CLE) simulation delineate UGB. The proposed is appli...

Forecasting urban futures is of great importance to many in order to ensure adequate provision of public and private services and implement policies that guide demand while mitigating negative impacts. This study produces year-2030 predictions of land use and travel conditions across the Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area of Texas, by integrating a gravity-based land use model (mod...

like other developing countries, iranian cities are growing and expanding physically at a high speed. for about five decades, the only policy of the urban development plans in the field of urban growth management has been definition of the urban growth boundary (u.g.b.) which is still used without any major modifications.despite the slight evidences indicating the ineffectiveness of the current...

like other developing countries, iranian cities are growing and expanding physically at a high speed. for about five decades, the only policy of the urban development plans in the field of urban growth management has been definition of the urban growth boundary (u.g.b.) which is still used without any major modifications.despite the slight evidences indicating the ineffectiveness of the current...

The rapid expansion of cities in tropical regions has triggered a series problems such as the destruction rare natural resources and decreases environmental resource carrying capacity ecological security, which seriously threaten sustainable development cities. In this study, city Sanya, Hainan, China, is taken an example. A bottom-line security pattern constructed based on remote sensing index...

The aim of this study is to develop a new approach for delineating urban growth boundaries (UGBs) by applying the weight of evidence (WOE) method to land suitability assessments. Rapid urbanization is causing urban areas to encroach on agricultural land in China, posing a threat to national food security. Land use planning with clear delineation of UGBs is an effective method for controlling ur...

Rational differentiated utilization of cultivated land can effectively coordinate the contradiction between ecological protection, utilization, and urban development. Therefore, this article adopts southern section Yellow River Basin as an example, starting with vulnerability resilience then formulating index system for evaluating farmland resilience. Moreover, combines Future Land-Use Simulati...

The construction of high-quality urban agglomeration has become a guiding strategy for future development. Based on the current development status northern slope Tianshan Mountains, concepts environmental protection, harmonious coexistence, and sustainable were combined in present study. Land cover data 2010 2020 as well various driving factors limiting selected to simulate forecast land change...

This paper analyzes characteristics, major driving forces and alternative management measures of land-use change in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, China. The study used remote sensing (RS) maps and socio-economic data. Based on RS-derived maps, two change matrices were constructed for detecting land-use change between 1987 and 1994, and between 1994 and 2000 through pixel-to-pixel comparisons. The ...