Urban Tenure

Since China's economic reform in the late 1970s, Shanghai, the country's largest and most modern city, has experienced rapid expansion and urbanization. Here, we explore its land‐use and land‐cover changes, focusing on the impacts of the urbanization process on air and water quality, local climate, and biodiversity.

This study estimates the effects of an urban growth boundary (UGB) on land development decisions in Knox County, TN, using a heteroscedastic probit model.

Countries around the world have responded to the problems associated with rapid urban growth and increasingly land-consumptive development patterns by creating a wide range of policy instruments designed to manage urban growth. Of the array of growth management techniques, urban containment policies are considered by some to be a promising approach.

In the turmoil of a rapidly changing economy the Albanian government needs accurate and timely information for management of their natural resources and formulation of land-use policies. The transformation of the forestry sector has required major changes in the legal, regulatory and management framework.

Environmental risk management in production, use and transportation of dangerous materials having been actual theme in the world and in Serbia.

Het klimaat verandert en dat heeft economische, ecologische en sociale gevolgen. Veel van die gevolgen hebben een ruimtelijke weerslag. We kunnen op een aantal ervan met ruimtelijke ingrepen anticiperen om de negatieve effecten op te vangen en van de kansen optimaal gebruik te maken. In Nederland gebeurt dat nog weinig.

Esta publicación aborda el caso colombiano, donde el sector público está comenzando a implementar instrumentos de gestión urbana que facilitan el ordenamiento y la planificación física del territorio.