Affiliation:
1. Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1476, USA
2. Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1476, USA
3. Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Abstract
Geospatial data has proven useful for monitoring urbanization and guiding sustainable development in rapidly urbanizing regions. The United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 11.3.1 leverages geospatial data to estimate rates of urban land and population change, providing insight on urban land use expansion patterns and thereby informing sustainable urbanization initiatives (i.e., SDG 11). Our work enhances a UN proposed delineation method by integrating various open-source datasets and tools (e.g., OpenStreetMap and openrouteservice) and advanced geospatial analysis techniques to automate the delineation of individual functional urban agglomerations across a country and, subsequently, calculate SDG Indicator 11.3.1 and related metrics for each. We applied our automated geospatial approach to three rapidly urbanizing countries in Africa: Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South Africa, to conduct multi-level examinations of urban land use expansion, including identifying hotspots of SDG Indicator 11.3.1 where the percentage growth of urban land was greater than that of the urban population. The urban agglomerations of Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South Africa displayed a 73%, 14%, and 5% increase in developed land area from 2016 to 2020, respectively, with new urban development being of an outward type in Ethiopia and an infill type in Nigeria and South Africa. On average, Ethiopia’s urban agglomerations displayed the highest SDG Indicator 11.3.1 values across urban agglomerations, followed by those of South Africa and Nigeria, and secondary cities of interest coinciding as SDG Indicator 11.3.1 hotspots included Mekelle, Ethiopia; Benin City, Nigeria; and Polokwane, South Africa. The work presented in this study contributes to knowledge of urban land use expansion patterns in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South Africa, and our approach demonstrates effectiveness for multi-level evaluations of urban land expansion according to SDG Indicator 11.3.1 across urbanizing countries.
Funder
the NASA Land Cover and Land Use Change Program
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