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Renata Vceláková, Marcela Prokopová, Vilém Pechanec, Lenka ?terbová, Ondrej Cudlín, Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Alhuseen, Jan Purkyt and Pavel Cudlín
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Yurun Wang, Pu Zhao, Senkai Xie and Wenjia Zhang
Understanding the spatial structure of a megaregion with urban and rural areas is crucial for promoting sustainable urbanization and urban?rural integration. Compared to the city network (or the network of urban areas), however, fewer studies focus on th...
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Jie Zhu, Ziqi Lang, Shu Wang, Mengyao Zhu, Jiaming Na and Jiazhu Zheng
Night-time light data (NTL) have been extensively utilized to map urban fringe areas, but to date, there has not been a comprehensive evaluation of the existing spatial clustering methods for delineating the urban fringe using different types of night-ti...
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Fabián Santos-García, Karina Delgado Valdivieso, Andreas Rienow and Joaquín Gairín
Academic performance (AP) is explained by a multitude of factors, principally by those related to socioeconomic, cultural, and educational environments. However, AP is less understood from a spatial perspective. The aim of this study was to investigate a...
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Md. Omar Sarif, Bhagawat Rimal and Nigel E. Stork
More than half of the world?s populations now live in rapidly expanding urban and its surrounding areas. The consequences for Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) dynamics and Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) phenomena are poorly understood for many new cities. We...
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Ying-ying Li, Yu Liu, Manjula Ranagalage, Hao Zhang and Rui Zhou
In this study, a retrospective analysis of the relationship between the land use/land cover (LULC) change and associated surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect in fast-growing Greater Hefei between 1995 and 2016 was performed. Our results reveal the het...
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Manjula Ranagalage, Sujith S. Ratnayake, DMSLB Dissanayake, Lalit Kumar, Hasula Wickremasinghe, Jagathdeva Vidanagama, Hanna Cho, Susantha Udagedara, Keshav Kumar Jha, Matamyo Simwanda, Darius Phiri, ENC Perera and Priyantha Muthunayake
Changes in the urban landscape resulting from rapid urbanisation and climate change have the potential to increase land surface temperature (LST) and the incidence of the urban heat island (UHI). An increase in urban heat directly affects urban livelihoo...
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Hailiang Lv, Wenjie Wang, Xingyuan He, Lu Xiao, Wei Zhou and Bo Zhang
Society has placed greater focus on the ecological service of urban forests; however, more information is required on the variation of carbon (C) in trees and soils in different functional forest types, administrative districts, and urban-rural gradients...
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Shi-Bo Fang, Hao Hu, Wan-Chun Sun and Jian-Jun Pan
China has experienced rapid urbanization in recent years. The acceleration of urbanization has created wealth and opportunity as well as intensified ecological and environmental problems, especially soil pollution. Our study concentrated on the variation...
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