Assessment of urban sprawl effects on regional climate change using a hybrid model of factor analysis and analytical network process in the Mashhad city, Iran

Assessment of urban sprawl effects on regional climate change using a hybrid model of factor analysis and analytical network process in the Mashhad city, Iran

Abstract Background Urban sprawl, as an unsustainable urban expansion, relates to direct and indirect impacts on regional climate change in urbanized regions. In this paper, the effect of urban sprawl on regional climate change has been studied using a hybrid factor analysis (FA) and analytical netw...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Reza Mansouri Daneshvar, Ghazaleh Rabbani, Susan Shirvani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-06-01
Series:Environmental Systems Research
Subjects:
Urban sprawl index (USI)
Analytical network process (ANP)
Factor analysis (FA)
Climate parameters
Mashhad city
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40068-019-0152-2

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