This book is open access and illustrates the spatial distribution of the global change risk of population and economic systems with the maps of environment, global climate change, global population and economic systems, and global change risk. The risks of global change are mapped at 0.25 degree...

To date, limited attention has been paid to the role of impervious surface (IS) location in influencing flood processes. However, this topic is of tremendous significance for developing guidelines for urban planning and flood management. This study uses the Hydrologic Engineering Center’s...

The measurement of wind erosion is not only important to understand wind erosion itself, but also an important scientific step in efforts to reverse the process of desertification. This study develops a model that predicts sand transport flux at pixel level based on the quantitative relationship...

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...

The increasingly globalized and networked world coupled with enlarging spatial scope and severity of natural and man-made hazards are leading to significant cross-boundary impacts. It has not been adequately addressed that how those impacts transmit from one (sub-) system/network to another and...

China is rapidly urbanizing and will inevitably face trade-offs between promoting economic growth through further urbanization and protecting fertile farmland against accelerated urban expansion. This paper presents how this dilemma is being addressed in one of the most rapidly urbanizing...