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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
4 Citations
2,109 Views
14 Pages

17 January 2024

Measuring the agricultural production efficiency (APE) and the ecological transformation efficiency (ETE) is key to agricultural modernization and regional ecological civilization construction. Based on the agricultural input–output dataset of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,838 Views
22 Pages

Anthropogenic Impacts Allowed for the Invasion of Understory Species, Affecting the Sustainability of Management Practices in Southern Patagonia

  • Yamina Micaela Rosas,
  • Pablo Luis Peri,
  • Juan Manuel Cellini,
  • María V. Lencinas,
  • Sebastian Kepfer Rojas,
  • Inger Kappel Schmidt,
  • Sebastián Pechar,
  • Marcelo Daniel Barrera and
  • Guillermo J. Martínez Pastur

16 January 2024

Forest management aims to preserve integrity and ecosystem resilience. Conservation and species invasion patterns must be determined in managed landscapes. The objectives of this study were to identify proxies that allowed plant species invasion (nat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,800 Views
19 Pages

16 January 2024

The ongoing urban spatial transformation contributes to a more intricate and varied spatiotemporal correlation pattern between metropolitan expansion and the migrant population. In this study, the coupled coordination model (CCD) is applied to enable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,656 Views
15 Pages

Tourism-Led Change of the City Centre

  • José Fernandes,
  • Pedro Chamusca,
  • Rubén Lois,
  • Helena Madureira,
  • Juliano Mattos and
  • Jorge Pinto

16 January 2024

In multicentric and increasingly complex urban regions, a city centre reinvents itself. In the case of Porto, tourism was essential for its “Baixa” renaissance. A relevant increase in visitors meant also a dramatic increase in real estate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,103 Views
12 Pages

Detecting Floral Resource Availability Using Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems

  • Nicholas V. Anderson,
  • Steven L. Petersen,
  • Robert L. Johnson,
  • Tyson J. Terry and
  • Val J. Anderson

16 January 2024

Floral resources for native pollinators that live in wildland settings are diverse and vary across and within growing seasons. Understanding floral resource dynamics and management is becoming increasingly important as honeybee farms seek public land...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,949 Views
20 Pages

15 January 2024

Over the past two decades, the rate of urbanization has increased significantly worldwide, with more than half of the population already living in cities; this trend continues in numerous countries and regions. Tunisia is a North African country with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,476 Views
18 Pages

15 January 2024

This study aims to examine the impact of land use variations on carbon emissions by incorporating the development of photovoltaics as a scenario. To meet this end, we investigate the carbon emissions fluctuations resulting from different development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,414 Views
21 Pages

15 January 2024

Ecological security is related to human well-being, is closely linked to a region’s sustainable development, and is an essential cornerstone of any national security system. The Demonstration Zone of Green and Integrated Ecological Development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,166 Views
19 Pages

Global Drought-Wetness Conditions Monitoring Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data

  • Wei Wei,
  • Jiping Wang,
  • Libang Ma,
  • Xufeng Wang,
  • Binbin Xie,
  • Junju Zhou and
  • Haoyan Zhang

15 January 2024

Drought is a common hydrometeorological phenomenon and a pervasive global hazard. To monitor global drought-wetness conditions comprehensively and promptly, this research proposed a spatial distance drought index (SDDI) which was constructed by four...

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