Patterns of Historical and Future Urban Expansion in Nepal

Posted on February 13, 2020     Leave a Comment

Abstract Globally, urbanization is increasing at an unprecedented rate at the cost of agricultural and forested lands in peri-urban areas fringing larger cities. Such land-cover change generally entails negative implications for societal and environmental sustainability, particularly in South Asia, where high demographic growth and poor land-use planning combine. Analyzing historical land-use change and predicting the […]

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