Land and soil in Europe
The EEA Signals 2019 ‘Land and soil in Europe’ explains key pressures — such as urban sprawl, contamination, intensive use of agricultural land, landscape fragmentation — impacting Europe’s land and soil.
Urban Sprawl
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Financing the development of small and medium cities
Urbanisation in India is currently marked by two fundamental trends: lopsided migration to the larger cities and unbalanced regional economic development. In this context, this paper makes a case for the
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Urban expansion and the environmental effects of informal settlements on the outskirts of Xalapa city, Veracruz, Mexico
This paper analyzes the dynamics of population growth and urban expansion in the city of Xalapa, Mexico. It focuses on the establishment of informal settlements, which are one of the many threats to forest
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Financing the resilient city
This paper presents a strategy for scaling climate change adaptation within urban areas. The strategy specifically focuses on the requirements for mobilizing large amounts of capital for adaptation and
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The fragmentation of urban landscapes: global evidence of a key attribute of the spatial structure of cities, 1990–2000
The fragmentation of urban landscapes – or the inter-penetration of the built-up areas of cities and the open spaces in and around them – is a key attribute of their spatial structure. Analyzing satellite
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Land transformation and urban sprawl mapping using remote sensing and GIS technologies - A case study of Amritsar City
Understanding the growth dynamics of urban agglomerations is essential for ecologically feasible developmental planning. The inefficient and consumptive use of land and its associated resources is termed
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Mapping of urban sprawl around Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar
Mapping of extent of urban sprawl and by monitoring the temporal changes, the impact of changing land use on land, ecology and environment system can be assessed.
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Darkling waters
The Bagmati loses its way in Kathmandu amid political vacuum and urban chaos. The chaos and urban sprawl of today’s Kathmandu have taken a serious toll on the stretch of the Bagmati and its tributaries
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Case study of Delhi - Energy for mega cities (Draft)
Draft report for
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State of the worlds cities 2010/2011: bridging the urban divide
<p>The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban infrastructure?
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Distress of Automobilisation
It is high time we reversed the processes of