More than half of the world population now lives in cities, and urban expansion continues as rural people move to cities. This results in the loss of land for o

This book aims to systematically elaborate how land-use change directly or indirectly exerts impacts on the ability of ecosystems to provide services for human

The school of thought surrounding the urban ecosystem has increasingly become in vogue among researchers worldwide. Since half of the world’s population lives

Globally, 30% of the world population lived in urban areas in 1950, 54% in 2016 and 66% projected by 2050. The most urbanized regions include North America, Lat

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Urban Land Systems: An Ecosystems Perspective" that was published in Land