Du, Shiqiang; Rompaey, Anton Van; Shi, Peijun; … - In: Natural Hazards 77 (2015) 1, pp. 111-128
Since the late 1970s, the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China has undergone a rapid transition from an agricultural landscape to a metropolitan area. The rapid urbanization has not only increased the area of impervious surfaces in the central plain; it has displaced farmland to the hilly peripheral...