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This article presents a case study on long-term land-use and impervious cover change along the urban-to-rural gradient in the city of Leipzig, Germany. The gradient concept offers a promising approach to firstly integrate historical data into current land-use change impact assessment and, secondly, to uncover effects of iterative and simultaneous phases of urban growth and decline including sprawl and compaction.
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Haase, D. (2019). The Rural-to-Urban Gradient and Ecosystem Services. In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (eds) Atlas of Ecosystem Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96229-0_23
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