Dynamic Impacts of Urban Expansion on Vegetation Growth in Urban Environments: A Sustainable Land Management Framework

Published in Land Use Policy, 2025

Core contribution: This article reframes the urban expansion-vegetation relationship as a dynamic threshold process rather than a linear trade-off. It links expansion intensity, time, and climate dependence to a sustainable land management framework that reduces direct vegetation loss while enhancing indirect greening gains.

Highlights
  • Moves beyond linear impact models by emphasizing dynamic vegetation thresholds.
  • Connects urban expansion intensity, time, and climate dependence in one conceptual framework.
  • Distinguishes negative direct impacts from positive indirect greening effects.
  • Translates urban-ecological dynamics into sustainable land management strategies.
Conceptual poster showing dynamic thresholds between urban expansion and vegetation growth
Graphical abstract