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Patterns and driving factors of built-up land expansion in small provincial city in the Belt and Road Initiative: case study of Nong Khai City, Thailand
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the twenty-first century megaproject that will boost urbanisation and elicit expansion of new built-up land....
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Tenure Insecurity in Informal Land Delivery System of Lagos State, Nigeria: Causes and Manifestations
Tenure security is necessary for land to serve as a means for generating a livelihood and be a vehicle for investing and accumulating wealth. This is...
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Exploring the role of compactness in path-dependent land-taking processes in Italy
Land take, namely the conversion of natural land into impervious surfaces, is partly driven by path dependency, whereby dispersed settlements tend to...
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Study on the land surface cover dynamics of built-up areas and its implication for sustainable urban planning in Hawassa city, Ethiopia
Rapid and uncontrolled urbanization is one of the drivers responsible for land cover Change dynamics in Ethiopia. In most of the cities and towns of...
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Access to Markets
News of the impending arrival of cabling infrastructure begins to alter the arena. This restructuring reveals some of the expectations that actors...
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Highway peripheral urbanization, industrialization and land use change: a case study of NH-48 in National Capital Region, Delhi, India
This study examined the urbanization, industrialization and land transformation surrounding National Highway-48 in the National Capital Region of...
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Modeling population density guided by land use-cover change model: a case study of Bogotá
Population densities provide valuable spatial information to identify populations at risk, quantify mobility, and improve our understanding of future...
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Kee** the lights On or Off: tracking the progress of access to electricity for sustainable development in Nigeria
This paper is focussed on employing satellite night lights (SNLs) to investigate access to electricity across the geographical regions in Nigeria....
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(In)formal Land Delivery Processes: Relational Perspectives on Squatter Settlements in Kathmandu
The issue of access to land is pivotal to the existence of any settlement—formal or informal. Baross refers to informal settlements as “designated...
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Achievements and Hurdles Towards Women’s Access to Climate Justice
This chapter discusses whether and how women face challenges in accessing climate justice by clarifying the linkages between environmental changes...
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The Role of Guadua Bamboo in Land Management and Indigenous Perspectives on Bamboo Ecosystems in Southwestern Amazonia
We examine the Indigenous uses, oral histories, and knowledge of native Guadua bamboo species in southwestern Amazonia. Two Guadua species form dense...
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Making Land ‘Developable’ for Market-Driven Affordable Housing in Gauteng, South Africa
This chapter excavates affordable housing’s pre-history through exploring mundane, bureaucratic practices and instruments of land use management....
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Traffic Congestion Mechanism Under Land Redevelopment
Land use and transportation systems are interconnected, mutually influencing, and mutually promoting. Land use has been considered as the source of...
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Land Market Procedures and Market Preferences in Land Use Change: The Case of Greater Cairo
Land use change includes a process of land exchange between buyers and sellers. The process is based on a set of market regulations. The legislations...
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Urban Form and Access to Public Transport in Accra, Ghana
Major cities in Africa have experienced fast-paced expansion in their physical size as a result of rapid levels of urbanization. The emergent urban...
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Land suitability modeling and monumentality in Southeast Asia: case studies from Indonesia and Cambodia
In Southeast Asia, the landscape approach through multi-sited regional analyses has generally been viewed as incompatible with studies of monumental...
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Brand variety, access to convenience and housing prices – empirical evidence of convenience stores from Taiwan
Recent studies have documented that access to food stores is an important determinant of housing prices. However, these studies ignore the role of...
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Simulating future intra-urban land use patterns of a develo** city: a case study of Jashore, Bangladesh
Increasing urban growth at an unprecedented rate entails adverse implications for societal, economic, and environmental sustainability. In the cities...
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Land-Related Conflicts and the Nature of Government Responses in Africa: The Case of Farmer-Herder Crises in Nigeria
This article makes a case for state complicity in land-related conflicts, particularly as it concerns governments’ responses to farmer-herder crises...