Keywords:
Urban land use efficiency and equity
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Urban land use restructuring and clustering
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Drivers and trajectories of urban land expansion
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Institutions and urban land use change
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Urban land use, metropolitan development and global change
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Urban land and economic/social/environmental sustainability
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Sustainable land use policies and practices
Description / Table of Contents:
According to the 2014 revision of the World Urbanization Prospects by UN DESA, urbanization could add another 2.5 billion people to the urban population by 2050, with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa. The largest urban growth will take place in India, China and Nigeria. This unprecedented increase in urban population not only poses challenges to providing urban jobs, housing, and infrastructure, but also exerts an increased pressure on urban land and sustainability. As land is a vital yet limited resource, sustainable management of urban land to cater to the needs of this growing urban population is seen as one of the key challenges for achieving an economically efficient, socially equitable, and environmentally safe society. A key tenet for sustainable economic development and smart growth is promoting sustainable urban land development and mitigating land use conflicts.
While a large body of literature has dealt with both land use and sustainable development, the study of the interactive effects of these two remains limited. We also need more sophisticated empirical studies examining processes, mechanisms, institutions, equity, and sustainability of urban land use. We also encourage efforts to develop new theories, new concepts and new methods to understand the myriad ways in which urban land and sustainable development correlate each other. This special issue examines patterns, structure, and dynamics of urban land development and sustainability from multiple perspectives, in various contexts and at multiple dimensions (economic, social, political, developmental, environmental, etc.).
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XVI, 368 Seiten)
Edition:
Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Sustainability
ISBN:
9783038422617
URL:
http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/262
Language:
English
