Special Issue "Land Cover Changes and Sustainable Urban Growth"
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Geography and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2020).
Special Issue Editors
2. Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki Prefecture 305-0053, Japan
3. Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
Interests: combining remote sensing data and socio-economic data to quantitatively analyze urban growth; SAR data processing and applications; land cover classification, land-use–land-cover change analysis; analyses of cropland and desertification cover at local, regional, and continental scales
Interests: urban transportation planning; regional science; geographical information science; integrated land-use–transport modeling; spatial statistics and econometrics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers addressing land cover change (LCC) phenomena or issues in relation to sustainable urban growth (SUG). Studies on land cover change have been accumulating especially in the field of geography and remote sensing, but such vast knowledge base is not well recognized by researchers and practitioners working in SUG. This Special Issue will try to fill this gap and discuss the further potential of LCC studies for investigating SUG. Of course, papers focused on other topics such as infrastructure are also welcome, if they are linked to LCC and SUG. Studies can range from past to future phenomena (e.g., scenario studies) and from local to global scale. We are looking forward to receiving interesting papers.
Prof. Hasi Bagan
Dr. Hajime Seya
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- land cover change
- land use change
- sustainable urban growth
- GIS
- remote sensing
- land use and transport
- past land use
- land use scenario