Trade-offs between prosperity and urban land per capita in major world cities

Globally, urban land expands at a faster rate than the corresponding urban population, which comes at a cost of agricultural and natural land. Wealth has been identified as an underlying driver of this trend, but it is unclear whether more prosperous cities inevitably have a greater urban land consu...

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Main Authors: Vita Bakker, Peter H. Verburg, Jasper van Vliet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-06-01
Series:Geography and Sustainability
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666683921000225