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Drivers of urbanization effects in five countries of the MENA region - a review

Yehya, Abed Al Kareem
Nguyen, Than Thi
Wiehle, Martin
Buerkert, Andreas

Urbanization, a global process entailing profound socio-economic changes, transforms land cover. This review analyzes the socialecological drivers and outcomes of land cover change (LCC) in five politically unstable regions: Greater Cairo, Tunisia, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank. Using data from 30 papers, we explored socio-political contexts and measured the social-ecological outcomes related to LCC. Remote sensing studies from 2011 to 2021 indicated predominantly negative social-ecological outcomes of urban expansion (p = 0.03), whereas, some studies indicated also positive outcomes of urban growth (p = 0.001). All studies highlighted the complex, location-specific interplay of LCC drivers. The lack of sufficient and consistent data to quantitatively assess the interlinkages between social-ecological outcomes and LCC drivers remains a challenge to better understand urbanization effects on ecosystem services.

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Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
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In: Journal of Land Use Science Volume 19 / Issue 1 (2024-10-27) , S. 304 - 320; eissn:1747-4248
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@article{doi:10.17170/kobra-2024111810686,
  author    ={Yehya, Abed Al Kareem and Nguyen, Than Thi and Wiehle, Martin and Buerkert, Andreas},
  title    ={Drivers of urbanization effects in five countries of the MENA region - a review},
  keywords ={320 and 300 and Verstädterung and Fernerkundung and Daten and Instabilität and Bodenbedeckung and Politik},
  copyright  ={http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
  language ={en},
  journal  ={Journal of Land Use Science},
  year   ={2024-10-27}
}