It is the living conditions in the cities that determine the future of our livelihood. “To change life, we must first change space”Henri Lefebvre. Sustainable development is a utopian aspiration for South African cities (especially the case study of the Gauteng City Region), which are currently characterized by unplanned growth and increasing urban sprawl. While the reasons for poor environment...

It is a fact that the urban sprawl, known as the process of gradual spread out of urbanization has become a worldwide phenomenon. The growing consumption of land, as a result of the extension of highway networks, open up vast space of territory, which seems to have become an unstoppable cancer, and affects virtually all the contemporary metropolis. The expansion of the cities had its origin in ...

Human habitat change is a complicated issue that many factors play different roles in its formation and distribution. Considering this complication, a more comprehensive and holistic approach is needed for a better understanding and management of those factors. The causal frameworks are among systemic and integrated methods for addressing the causes of environmental problems and the relationshi...

1. Land use (e.g. urbanization, agriculture, natural lands management) may directly affect populations by habitat loss and fragmentation, and indirectly by altering conditions needed for reproductive success. The effects of urbanization are especially pronounced for populations that remain among urbanized areas, but they are difficult to detect in long-lived species. 2. We evaluated the effects...

Urban growth is a major threat to biodiversity conservation at the global scale. Its impacts are expected be especially detrimental when it sprawls into landscape and reaches sites of high value due species ecosystems they host, such as protected areas. I analyzed degree urbanization (i.e., urban cover rate) from 2006 2015 in Natura 2000 network, which, according Habitats Birds Directives, harb...

The concept of urban sprawl spans multiple dimensions indicating how built-up land cover adds up throughout exurban landscapes. These different require a re-examination definitions and their driving forces because certain policies were formulated from the proposition informed knowledge have implicitly gratified into adjoining peripheries. This article aimed to offer an alternative perspective o...