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Land, Volume 10, Issue 3

March 2021 - 105 articles

Cover Story: This research exploits the recurring change detected in vegetation cover over time to gauge the predictable (resilient) behavior as well as its chaoticity in a semi-arid Mediterranean region (Apulia, Italy). Interestingly, the results show the spatial rendering of recurrence variables, confirming the well-known hot spots of soil degradation and desertification taking place in the region, which are characterized by greater EVI chaoticity, but they also identified new potential candidate sites where focus the monitoring activities. The novelty of the research lies in the spatially explicit identification of resilient and less resilient areas to desertification that can support the definition of more targeted interventions and conservation priorities for better planning and sustainable management of Mediterranean drylands. View this paper
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Articles (105)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,995 Views
10 Pages

23 March 2021

Gross primary productivity (GPP) is the most basic variable in a carbon cycle study that determines the carbon that enters the ecosystem. The remote sensing-based light use efficiency (LUE) model is one of the primary tools that is currently used to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,759 Views
19 Pages

23 March 2021

Road expansion has played a prominent role in the agrarian transition that marked the integration of swidden-based farming systems into the market economy in Southeast Asia. Rural roads deeply altered the landscape and livelihood structures by allowi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,583 Views
18 Pages

Sustainable Tourism and Natural Protected Areas: Exploring Local Population Perceptions in a Post-Conflict Scenario

  • Delia M. Andries,
  • Cecilia Arnaiz-Schmitz,
  • Pablo Díaz-Rodríguez,
  • Cristina Herrero-Jáuregui and
  • María F. Schmitz

23 March 2021

The expansion of urban areas around the world and the application of the sustainability paradigm to tourism discourses has favored an increase in the number of people visiting natural protected areas (NPAs) in their leisure time. While tourism is des...

  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,337 Views
17 Pages

A Systematic Review of Drivers and Constraints on Agricultural Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Nugun P. Jellason,
  • Elizabeth J. Z. Robinson,
  • Abbie S. A. Chapman,
  • Dora Neina,
  • Adam J. M. Devenish,
  • June Y. T. Po and
  • Barbara Adolph

23 March 2021

Understanding the dynamics of agricultural expansion, their drivers, and interactions is critical for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem-services provision, and the future sustainability of agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,051 Views
16 Pages

Landscape and Tourism: European Expert Views on an Intricate Relationship

  • Theano S. Terkenli,
  • Ewa Skowronek and
  • Vasiliki Georgoula

22 March 2021

Although the centrality of landscape to tourism is unquestionable and already a broadly established scientific area of research, much remains to be explored and understood regarding their interrelatedness. The objective of this research was to invest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,608 Views
14 Pages

Effect of Organic Fertilizer on Soil Bacteria in Maize Fields

  • Jianqiang Wu,
  • Chenyan Sha,
  • Min Wang,
  • Chunmei Ye,
  • Peng Li and
  • Shenfa Huang

22 March 2021

Soil microorganisms play an important role in agricultural ecosystems, but their response to organic fertilizer application has not been thoroughly elucidated. Thus, high-throughput sequencing was used to investigate the responses of soil bacterial t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
78 Citations
31,774 Views
19 Pages

21 March 2021

Over the past several decades, land investments have dramatically increased to meet global food and biofuel demands, produce industrial commodities, protect environments and develop urban centres. Scholars and media actors have labelled this phenomen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,091 Views
18 Pages

Spatial Unevenness of Formation, Remediation and Persistence of Post-Agricultural Brownfields

  • Tomáš Krejčí,
  • Josef Navrátil,
  • Stanislav Martinát,
  • Ryan J. Frazier,
  • Petr Klusáček,
  • Kamil Pícha,
  • Jaroslav Škrabal and
  • Robert Osman

21 March 2021

The fall of the Iron Curtain created a vacuum upon which large-scale collectivized agriculture was largely abandoned. Post-agricultural brownfields emerge in multiple manners across national, regional and local levels. While these sites remain rarely...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,458 Views
21 Pages

21 March 2021

Background: The urban-rural land divide is visible through where people choose to work. This article aims to detect how, where and why people use rural coworking spaces instead of or in addition to working in urban areas. Methods: The research relied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,422 Views
13 Pages

20 March 2021

Frequent flooding worldwide, especially in grazing environments, requires mapping and monitoring grazing land cover and pasture quality to support land management. Although drones, satellite, and machine learning technologies can be used to map land...

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