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Land, Volume 10, Issue 7

July 2021 - 106 articles

Cover Story: European rural landscapes contain high nature value farming systems that, in addition to being the main economic activity in many rural areas, host habitats and species of great conservation value. However, they have not been sufficiently appreciated and protected and, as such, are currently threatened. There is a significant loss of these systems and a marked increase in the rewilding processes, which implies negative consequences for both the high biocultural diversity that these systems host and the cultural identity and socioeconomics of the rural populations. Therefore, it remains a challenge to provide methodological tools for social–ecological land planning and the design of effective management strategies for the conservation of rural cultural landscapes. View this paper
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Articles (106)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,830 Views
19 Pages

Sources of and Control Measures for PTE Pollution in Soil at the Urban Fringe in Weinan, China

  • Lei Han,
  • Rui Chen,
  • Zhao Liu,
  • Shanshan Chang,
  • Yonghua Zhao,
  • Leshi Li,
  • Risheng Li and
  • Longfei Xia

20 July 2021

The environment of the urban fringe is complex and frangible. With the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, the urban fringe has become the primary space for urban expansion, and the intense human activities create a high risk of poten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,281 Views
22 Pages

20 July 2021

The deterioration of grassland ecology is threatening the livelihood of herdsmen and increasing their rates of poverty. This study aims to explore the characteristics of herdsmen’s livelihood and the impact of livelihood capital and environmental per...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,031 Views
30 Pages

Maintaining the Many Societal Benefits of Rangelands: The Case of Hawaiʻi

  • Leah L. Bremer,
  • Neil Nathan,
  • Clay Trauernicht,
  • Puaʻala Pascua,
  • Nicholas Krueger,
  • Jordan Jokiel,
  • Jayme Barton and
  • Gretchen C. Daily

20 July 2021

Well-managed rangelands provide important economic, environmental, and cultural benefits. Yet, many rangelands worldwide are experiencing pressures of land-use change, overgrazing, fire, and drought, causing rapid degradation. These pressures are esp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,948 Views
20 Pages

Development of a Land Use Carbon Inventory for Agricultural Soils in the Canadian Province of Ontario

  • Ahmed Laamrani,
  • Paul R. Voroney,
  • Adam W. Gillespie and
  • Abdelghani Chehbouni

20 July 2021

Globally, agricultural soils are being evaluated for their role in climate change regulation as a potential sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) through sequestration of organic carbon as soil organic matter. Scientists and policy analysts incre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,536 Views
13 Pages

20 July 2021

The results of investigations on shaping the soil moisture ratio in the mountain basin of the Mątny stream located in the Gorce region, Poland, are presented. A soil moisture ratio was defined as a ratio of soil moisture in a given point in a basin t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,581 Views
17 Pages

19 July 2021

This study was devised to examine the pattern of disturbance and reclamation by Tronox, which instigated a closure process for its Hillendale mine site in South Africa, where they recovered zirconium- and titanium-bearing minerals from 2001 to 2013....

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,772 Views
18 Pages

19 July 2021

The socio-economic and political changes of the end of the 20th century in Central and Eastern Europe had significant impacts on the transformation of urban spaces, especially in industrial and mining towns. The article attempts to explain the essenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,076 Views
18 Pages

Assessing Ecological Disturbance in Neotropical Forest Landscapes Using High-Level Diversity and High-Level Functionality: Surprising Outcomes from a Case Study with Spider Assemblages

  • Darinka Costa Gonzalez,
  • Reinaldo Lucas Cajaiba,
  • Eduardo Périco,
  • Wully Barreto da Silva,
  • Antônio Domingos Brescovite,
  • António Maria Luis Crespi and
  • Mário Santos

19 July 2021

Spiders have been increasingly used as environmental and ecological indicators in conservation and ecosystem management. In the Neotropics, there is a shortage of information regarding spiders’ taxonomies and ecological responses to anthropogenic dis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,717 Views
16 Pages

19 July 2021

Land consolidation zoning is the basis of land reclamation planning and provides a precondition for land management work. Zoning is beneficial to scientific decision-making regarding the use of cultivated land resources, and helps to ensure the quali...

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