What is it about?
The dispersion of built-up areas in peri-urban zones is an important, almost irreversible environmental threat, especially in coastal zones and islands. In this paper, we use soil sealing datasets to estimate the expansion of built-up areas in the North & South Aegean islands in Greece.
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From a planning and management perspective, these findings can assist local or regional administration to assess the effectiveness of land use management plans and manage flows and processes.
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A nice little paper that describes differences between urban sprawl and attempts to explain these differences
Professor Thanasis Kizos
Panepistemio Aigaiou
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This page is a summary of: What Drives Built-Up Area Expansion on Islands? Using Soil Sealing Indicators to Estimate Built-Up Area Patterns on Aegean Islands, Greece, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, February 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12244.
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