Urban expansion occurred at the expense of agricultural lands in the Tarai region of Nepal from 1989 to 2016

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Rimal, Bhagawat ^a   Zhang, Lifu ^a,b   Stork, Nigel ^c   Sloan, Sean ^d   Rijal, Sushila ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SHIHEZI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Mahendra Ratna Multiple Campus   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Land use land cover; Nepal; Remote sensing; Tarai; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DEVELOPING WORLD; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LANDSAT; PERIURBAN AREA; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN SPRAWL; URBANIZATION;

NEPAL; TARAI;

EID: 85046089454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su10051341     Document Type: Article

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