Sprawling cities are rapidly encroaching on Earth’s biodiversity
This article provides an easily readable summary of the Simkin et al. paper (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2117297119), with discussion of its important findings and implications.
Human Altered Lands
Biodiversity impacts and conservation implications of urban land expansion projected to 2050
The study provides evidence that rapidly urbanizing regions are increasingly posing a serious and growing threat to global biodiversity by using a recently developed suite of land-use projections to provide an assessment of projected habitat that will be lost to urban land expansion for 30,393 species of terrestrial vertebrates from 2015 to 2050 across three shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) scenarios.
The influence of urbanization on vegetation carbon pools under a tele-coupling framework in China
This study considered the combined influence from external regions and examines urbanization and its influence on vegetation carbon pool (vegetation carbon storage and NPP) from the perspective of tele-coupling based utilising domestic trade data, land-use images, vegetation carbon densities, NPP data, and using the MRIO model and spatial analysis.
Does rubber expansion hinder the migration of rural labor? Evidence from southwest China?
This study examines the impacts of rubber expansion on the migration of rural labor using two-wave panel data collected from more than 600 smallholder rubber farmers in southwest China.
Environmental kuznets curve and causal links between environmental degradation and selected socioeconomic indicators in Bangladesh
By exploring the relationship between economic growth, urbanization, energy consumption, trade openness, human capital and ecological footprints for the period 1972–2018 in Bangladesh, this study has examined the validity of the EKC hypothesis.
Urbanization and its effects on land and water resources in Ijebuland, southwestern Nigeria
Using Landsat images covering the area for 1986, 2000 and 2016, and social surveys (questionnaire administration and key informant interviews), this study examined change in the form and attributes of areas under different land cover in a relatively homogenous Yoruba ethnic group community in Southwestern Nigeria.
An Open-Source Model for Projecting Small Area Demographic and Land-Use Change
This paper sets out the methodology and rationale for the demographic models used by the Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC) and fulfils the following objectives: (1) to demonstrate that demographic estimates are an essential input to infrastructure demand models, (2) to provide an overview of a comprehensive modeling framework that can be used by other modeling teams to produce demographic estimates and projections linked to land-use outputs, and (3) to demonstrate how that framework can be used to explore a range of spatial development scenarios.
Population Dynamics Research Centers
The popresearchcenters.org website, maintained by PRB’s Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR), explains and publicizes the findings of research from the Population Dynamics Research Centers. Funding is provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Food security among dryland pastoralists and agropastoralists: The climate, land-use change, and population dynamics nexus
The objective of this study was to critically review relevant literature to assess the complex web of interrelations and feedbacks that affect the factors affecting food security.
Anticipating urbanization-led land cover change and its impact on local climate using time series model: a study on Dhaka city
Urbanization-led changes in natural landscape often result in environmental degradation and subsequently contribute to local climate variability. Therefore, apart from global climate change, Dhaka city’s ongoing rapid urban growth may result in altering future local climate patterns significantly. This study explores transition relationships between urbanization (population), land cover, and climate (temperature) of Dhaka city beginning in 1975 through to forecast scenarios up to 2035. Satellite image, geographic, demographic, and climatic data were analyzed.
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