Urban Land and Sustainable Development

• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2017
• Onderwerpen: metropolitan development and global change; urban space and sustainable development; Patterns and drivers of urban land expansion; Sustainable land use policies and practices; Urban land use efficiency and equity; Land use; Urban land
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

According to the 2014 revision of the World Urbanization Prospects by UN DESA, urbanization could add another 2.5 billion people to urban population by 2050, with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa. This unprecedented increase in urban population not only poses chall...