Sponsored by the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sci-ences (Grant NoKSCX2-YW-N-039);the Advantageous Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation Commission (Grant No70021001)
Based on remote sensing data on land use provided by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and socio-economic data collected by the authors,this paper analyzes the trends and regional differences in built-up area(BUA) expan...