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How does urban population density decline over time? An exponential model for Chinese cities with international comparisons

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Mapping synergies and trade-offs between urban ecosystems and the sustainable development goals

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Global scenarios of urban density and its impacts on building energy use through 2050

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Boost resilience of small and mid-sized cities

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Where to put the next billion people

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Estimating watershed degradation over the last century and its impact on water-treatment costs for the world’s large cities

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Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands

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Hidden linkages between urbanization and food systems

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Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities

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Balancing urban growth and ecological conservation: A challenge for planning and governance in China

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A new urban landscape in East–Southeast Asia, 2000–2010

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Challenges and strategies for urban green-space planning in cities undergoing densification: A review

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Global assessment of urban and peri-urban agriculture: irrigated and rainfed croplands

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Society: Realizing China's urban dream

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Moderating diets to feed the future

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Futures of global urban expansion: uncertainties and implications for biodiversity conservation

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Multi-level modeling of urban expansion and cultivated land conversion for urban hotspot counties in China

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Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

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Urban sustainability and human health: an African perspective

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Landscape Urbanization and Economic Growth in China: Positive Feedbacks and Sustainability Dilemmas

(2011) Xuemei Bai et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion

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The scaling of green space coverage in European cities

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Assessing the consequence of land use change on agricultural productivity in China

(2009) Huimin Yan et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Global urban land-use trends and climate impacts

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Urban Environments: Issues on the Peri-Urban Fringe

(2008) David Simon   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000

(2008) Chad Monfreda et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

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