In press: Frontiers in Ecology and Environment In a nutshell:-An encouraging trend is ecological research conducted along the urban-rural gradient.-But, clear definitions and quantitative metrics are needed to place research more precisely within the landscape context.-Ecologists should measure the degree of human modification by metrics that capture important ecological processes and land use/...

The territories between urban and rural areas, also called urban–rural fringe, commonly present inherent instability notable heterogeneity. However, investigating the multifaceted fringe phenomenon based on large-scale identification has yet to be undertaken. In this study, we adopted a handy clustering-based method by incorporating multidimensional urbanization indicators understand how develo...

The objectives of the study are: (1) to analyze the impact of urban sprawl on farmland conversion by using landsat data, (2) to analyze the impact of land conversion on food supply and food security, (3) to understand the prospect of farming activities in the fringe area of Yogyakarta, and (4) to find implication of urban sprawl towards sustainability of Yogyakarta city. The study shows that ur...

Urban flooding disasters have become increasingly frequent in rural-urban fringes due to rapid urbanization, posing a serious threat the aquatic environment, life security, and social economy. To address this issue, study proposes flood disaster risk assessment framework that integrates Weighted Naive Bayesian (WNB) classifier Complex Network Model (CNM). The WNB is employed predict distributio...