The authenticity and reliability of urbanization levels measured by different indicators in China have not reached a consensus, which may impede our understanding of the process of urbanization and its impacts on the environment. The objective of this study was to describe a reliable method of estimating urbanization level based on the Operational Line-scan System (OLS) on the Defense Meteorolo...

Abstract Advanced economies undergo three transitions during their development: (1) transition from a rural to an urban economy, (2) low-income growth high-income growth, (3) high fertility and mortality rates low modern levels. The timings of these are correlated in the historical development most advanced economies. I consider nonlinear model endogenous long-run economic demographic change, w...

Under the current background of common prosperity, studying dynamic relationship between new urbanization, urban-rural income gap and economic growth in Yangtze River Delta is conducive to coordinated integrated development our country. Based on relevant data from 2001 2020, VECM model used for impulse response variance decomposition analysis. The results show that significantly affects urbaniz...

The regional and provincial divergence in China’s economic growth has attracted extensive and intensive attention, yet the measurement and research on the sources of the divergence is relatively inadequate. Why there is divergence across provinces? What elements have contributed to the divergence and how? Based on growth regression analysis and “counterfactual econometrics”, this paper construc...

Urbanization, as considered from the economic aspect is good as it facilitates achievement of economies and thus promotes growth of industries and development in the economy. However, taking the social point of view urbanization encourage crimes as is evident from the fact that the rate of crime is higher in large cities and in urbanized areas as has been proved by many empirical studies. Urban...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper examines the impacts of industrialization and urbanization on CO 2 emissions in China using nonparametric additive regression models and provincial panel data from 1990 to 2011. The empirical results show that there is an inverted U-shaped nonlinear relationship between industrialization and CO 2 emissions in the three regions in China. Urbanization follows an i...

Urban development has enlarged the modification of natural resources and has changed land use and land cover patterns. Urbanization is a process of increase of modernization system which modifies the socioeconomic activities and revolutionizes the land use practice according to time frame. Due to the proximate and underlying causes, land use and land cover change has become the main challenge o...

This paper examines the spatiotemporal pattern of urbanization in Kathmandu Valley using remote sensing and spatial metrics techniques. The study is based on 33-years of time series data compiled from satellite images. Along with new developments within the city fringes and rural villages in the valley, shifts in the natural environment and newly developed socioeconomic strains between resident...