Over the past years, the agent-based modeling approach has emerged as a promising geospatial technique for urban change simulation. In this paper, we review the status of agent-based models for urban land change research, with the emphasis on the issues of how far agent-based models have been implemented to model the real world complexity. For such a purpose, we have identified four features of...

During the past four decades the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, has witnessed a remarkable rapid urban growth. This has coincided with lack of a planning framework, weak institutional and poor policies, which have caused haphazard and interrelated land use and transportation issues. Current land use and transport planning policies and practice in Jeddah seem to focus on different visions, caus...

Recent developments in public policy towards land in Uganda have focused on two key areas; resolving historical tenure problems by defining and entrenching the land rights of all Ugandans, and increasing the efficiency of use of land for economic growth while addressing environmental concerns. However, integration of land issues into the broader national development strategy has, by and large u...

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...

A spatial decision support system is a solution for spatial issues and problems applying a computer system and providing results for decision making. This comprehensive review study has been carried out to determine GIS and RS in SDSS towards water quality modeling in Malacca River. Rapid development in land use for human activities include agricultural and livestock activities, industrial acti...