Due to urbanization, the urban heat island (UHI) effect has become a modern endemic threat to human health and energy consumption, especially in compact urban areas with high population density.
Our results suggest that development of extensive irrigated agriculture adjacent to the urban area has dampened any regional-mean warming due to urbanization.
Here, to identify common features of LULCC in Western Mediterranean urban regions, we investigated two main features: direct changes due to urbanization and indirect changes affecting non-artificial land uses.
Increasing diurnal LST variation due to urbanization implies that urbanization is likely to result in a greater increase in urban heat absorption than in thermal inertia.
The study concludes that both creeks suffer from poor water quality in stretches due to urbanization, agriculture, and channelization.
The results confirm major losses in scattered trees, mainly due to urbanization, agricultural intensification, and land abandonment.
However, changes in arable land due to urbanization with scale and neighborhood effects remains poorly understood at the town scale.
TE concentrations, particularly urban ones (Pb, Zn, Cu, and Sb) drastically increased in both dissolved and particulate compartment due to urbanization in the Orge River catchment.
In this paper, changes in areal evapotranspiration due to urbanization and the response of groundwater flow system for changing recharge are evaluated.
During the last 100 years in many countries of the world, there have been dramatic changes in natural/rural landscapes due to urbanization.
Due to urbanization and population growth, the degradation of natural forests and associated biodiversity are now widely recognized as a global environmental concern.
