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Land, Volume 11, Issue 12

December 2022 - 235 articles

Cover Story: Wildfires in the wildland–urban interface (WUI) represent an important environmental and social issue, threatening vegetated areas and periurban inhabitants, as is the case in many Latin American cities. This study analyzes whether wildfires contribute to the increase in land surface temperature (LST) in the WUI of the metropolitan area of the city of Guanajuato (MACG), a semi-arid Mexican city. Our results show that periurban wildfires increase the local LST. Most wildfires occurred near isolated and dispersed built-up areas, which commonly correspond to informal settlements in the Latin American context. This may dramatically affect people living in such areas, which lack the adequate infrastructure and adaptive capacity to cope with the cumulative effect of local, regional and global climate change. View this paper
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Articles (235)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,340 Views
26 Pages

19 December 2022

In 2019, South Korea’s Framework Act on The Management of Disasters and Safety was revised to include respirable particulate matter as a social disaster. Urban air pollution, especially particulate matter pollution, has been a serious threat to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,158 Views
32 Pages

19 December 2022

There is a clear research gap in understanding how future pathways and disruptions to the New Zealand (NZ) agricultural system will have an impact on the environment and productivity. Agriculture is in a period of significant change due to market dis...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,108 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2022

While the right to food and community self-reliance underpin current knowledge and interpretation of community food security (CFS), the literature on CFS seldom accounts for the ways in which gender-based violence (GBV) disrupts and undermines CFS. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,046 Views
23 Pages

19 December 2022

Assessing the influence of landscape pattern changes on ecosystem service value (ESV) is critical for developing land-use polies and increasing ecosystem services. The data sources include remote-sensing image data and statistical yearbooks from 2000...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,728 Views
19 Pages

Pesticide Residues and Heavy Metals in Vineyard Soils of the Karst and Istria

  • Borut Vrščaj,
  • Helena Baša Česnik,
  • Špela Velikonja Bolta,
  • Sanja Radeka and
  • Klemen Lisjak

19 December 2022

Pesticide residues and heavy metal concentrations were determined in two depths (0–20 and 20–40 cm) of Chromic Cambisol in 69 vineyards in the Slovenian winegrowing region of the Karst. Similarly, pesticide residues and heavy metal concen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,665 Views
21 Pages

19 December 2022

Solar energy (SE) is essential for the decarbonization of our economy and for energetic transition. Solar energy can be a sustainable economic activity, as long as a balance is struck between the benefits it brings to climate change mitigation and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,119 Views
15 Pages

Monitoring the Permafrost Conditions along Pipeline Routes in Central Yakutia, Russia

  • Stepan Varlamov,
  • Pavel Skryabin,
  • Aleksandr Zhirkov and
  • Zhi Wen

19 December 2022

Pipelines are critical infrastructure for Yakutia, transporting vital supplies to communities in this vast northern region. The pipeline routes in central Yakutia traverse areas of ice-rich permafrost that is sensitive to temperature changes. This st...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,121 Views
11 Pages

Ice Volumes in Permafrost Landscapes of Arctic Yakutia

  • Alexander N. Fedorov,
  • Pavel Y. Konstantinov,
  • Nikolay F. Vasiliev,
  • Nikolay I. Basharin,
  • Andrei G. Shepelev,
  • Varvara A. Andreeva,
  • Valerii P. Semenov,
  • Yaroslav I. Torgovkin,
  • Alexey R. Desyatkin and
  • Mikhail N. Zheleznyak
  • + 1 author

19 December 2022

This article is devoted to the study of the distribution of ground ice volumes in the upper layers of 5–10 m permafrost in the permafrost landscapes of Arctic Yakutia. Compilation of such a map will serve as a basis for assessing the vulnerabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,754 Views
23 Pages

Short-Term Effects and Vegetation Response after a Megafire in a Mediterranean Area

  • Ivo Rossetti,
  • Donatella Cogoni,
  • Giulia Calderisi and
  • Giuseppe Fenu

19 December 2022

In Mediterranean-climate areas, wildfires have an important ecological role, selecting organisms, influencing species composition and structure of vegetation, and shaping landscapes. However, the increase in frequency and severity of fires can cause,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,460 Views
14 Pages

19 December 2022

Tigers play a crucial role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. Unfortunately, tigers are threatened by poaching, human–wildlife conflict, habitat loss, and more. In response to these threats, the conservation community pledged to double the worl...

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