Economic growth, population changes and residential energy consumption in China • Leiwen Jiang, Brown University

Urbanisation, development, and environmental quality: insights from coastal Ghana • Michael J. White, Brown University ; Scott Nixon, University of Rhode Island

The distribution of people and the dimension of place: methodologies to improve the global estimation of urban extents • Deborah Balk, Columbia University ; Francesca Pozzi, Columbia University ; Gregory Yetman, Columbia University ; Uwe Deichmann, World Bank Group ; Andrew Nelson, University of Leeds

Sao Paulo peri-urban dynamics: some social causes and environmental consequences • Haroldo Torres, CEBRAP ; Humberto Alves, CEBRAP ; Maria Aparecida Oliveira, CEBRAP