Modelling rapid urban growth of Kirkuk City based on ethnicity factors using GIS and cellular automata-Markov
During the past 90 years, Kirkuk City has grown rapidly due to the exploitation of its oil reserves. As a multi-ethnic city, the presence of oil has been a source of ethnic conflict among the Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen. Kirkuk has long been considered an ethnic powder keg waiting to explode. Each grou...
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75429/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75429/1/FRSB%202016%2013.pdf |