Abstract
Since China’s economic reform in 1978, the cities of China have experienced rapid expansion and urbanization, thereby profoundly transforming the spatial pattern of urban land use in the karst regions, particularly in the urban mountainous area within city, and urbanization has had and continues to have a negative impact on urban mountain area in cities of China. With the rapid development of urbanization and civilization in these regions, environmental degradation has been increasingly serious, especially in the urban karst mountain area, thereby resulting in the destruction and breakage of urban hills that induce serious natural hazard, i.e., flood hazard.
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This study was supported by the Excellent Young and Middle-aged Scientists Foundation of Shandong Province of China (No. 2006BS08016) and the Open Research Fund of Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Conservation and Environmental Protection, Linyi University (STKF201001). The authors are grateful to the Editor Prof. Jintao Xu and the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Wolfgang Cramer for their constructive comments to further improve the manuscript.
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Zheng, Z., Qi, S. Potential flood hazard due to urban expansion in the karst mountainous region of North China. Reg Environ Change 11, 439–440 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-011-0242-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-011-0242-9