Abstract:Urban expansion and contemporary climate variations are caused by different proximate and underlying multidimensional factors. A spatiotemporal analysis of the urban socio-ecosystem generates key information for planning a sustainable urban model. We analyzed the spatiotemporal pattern of urban expansion and maximum temperature variations in a hierarchy of four categories of cities in the South American tropics in a sequence of seven-time intervals between 1985 and 2018. We defined the boundaries of 31 cities … Show more
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