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Land, Volume 13, Issue 1

January 2024 - 123 articles

Cover Story: Natural landscapes are susceptible to rapidly and slowly occurring environmental changes due to human–land interactions. We employed drone mapping and community insights (household surveys (n = 499), FGDs, and interviews) to assess land use changes, degradation, and restoration in Mount Elgon, Uganda, from 2020 to 2023. Results show that agriculture and planted forest were dominant, replacing tropical high forest, bushland, and grassland. Smallholder subsistence farming is leading to degradation (soil erosion, landslides, and encroachment). Trenches were the most widely adopted restoration measure, though they varied by location and crop type. Trenches, grass strips, and afforestation are adopted for restoration. Diversified livelihoods and collaboration are crucial for enforcing conservation in Mt. Elgon. View this paper
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Articles (123)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,495 Views
24 Pages

20 January 2024

This article addresses the bidirectional relationship between residential micro-segregation, in the form of built barriers to mobility, and social capital. I engage with two bodies of the literature. On the one hand, I critique a widespread top-down...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,375 Views
31 Pages

Complex Methodology for Spatial Documentation of Geomorphological Changes and Geohazards in the Alpine Environment

  • Ľudovít Kovanič,
  • Patrik Peťovský,
  • Branislav Topitzer and
  • Peter Blišťan

19 January 2024

The alpine environment with a high degree of nature protection is characterized by complete non-intervention. The processes and phenomena occurring in it are exclusively of a natural origin. Related geohazards are threatening the safety of people&rsq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
3,276 Views
24 Pages

19 January 2024

Twenty-six cities in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration were taken as the research object, and this study comprehensively evaluated urbanization quality and ecological resilience from 2005 to 2020. On this basis, the spatiotemporal evolution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,475 Views
24 Pages

Spatial and Temporal Variation Characteristics of Ecological Environment Quality in China from 2002 to 2019 and Influencing Factors

  • Junjie Li,
  • Xiangbin Peng,
  • Ruomei Tang,
  • Jing Geng,
  • Zipeng Zhang,
  • Dong Xu and
  • Tingting Bai

19 January 2024

Since the beginning of the new century, there has been a notable enhancement in China’s ecological environment quality (EEQ), a development occurring in tandem with climate change and the extensive ecological restoration projects (ERPs) underta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,262 Views
42 Pages

19 January 2024

Coastal spaces are shaped by human activity. Approaching their urban spaces allows us to analyse the concepts of structure, growth, and management. Highlighting the problems associated with these concepts can lead to intensive scientific analysis and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,937 Views
23 Pages

Understanding Resource Recycling and Land Management to Upscale Zero-Tillage Potato Cultivation in the Coastal Indian Sundarbans

  • Rupak Goswami,
  • Riya Roy,
  • Dipjyoti Gangopadhyay,
  • Poulami Sen,
  • Kalyan Roy,
  • Sukamal Sarkar,
  • Sanchayeeta Misra,
  • Krishnendu Ray,
  • Marta Monjardino and
  • Mohammed Mainuddin

19 January 2024

Upscaling sustainable intensification (SI) technologies is crucial to enhancing the resilience of fragile farming systems and vulnerable livelihoods of smallholder farmers. It is also critical to shape the future land-use and land-cover changes in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,336 Views
20 Pages

19 January 2024

While the status of rural women in the family has undergone changes, rural land transfer has brought about transformations in both rural production and daily life. This paper adopts the perspective of rural land transfer, follows the research track o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,279 Views
17 Pages

18 January 2024

This investigation delineated an ecological network within South Korea’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to enhance ecosystem functionality, with a focus on forest landscape connectivity. The study employed spatial autocorrelation analysis and the min...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,026 Views
23 Pages

18 January 2024

Rapid urbanization has significantly impacted the structure of ecosystem services, accelerating the pressure on natural resources and ecological space. The clarification of the interdependent relationship between new-type urbanization (NTU) and ecosy...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,180 Views
6 Pages

17 January 2024

In 2021, a book entitled “Sustainable Rural Development: Strategies, Good Practices and Opportunities” was launched as a compilation of 16 papers and published in a Special Issue of the journal Land [...]

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