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Land, Volume 13, Issue 6

2024 June - 180 articles

Cover Story: Access and exposure to urban green spaces are associated with various health benefits. As urban green spaces are often distributed unequally, understanding patterns of access and exposure can help cities identify and address environmental justice and health equity issues. We developed a comprehensive methodology to identify urban green space inequities on a city-level scale, combining assessments of park quality, park availability, and green cover and applying it to Portland, Oregon, USA. We used a suite of statistical tests to evaluate the distribution of parks and green cover based on a Census block group of socio-demographic characteristics (i.e., race, ethnicity, income, and educational attainment). The results were used to identify priority locations for urban green space investments. View this paper
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Articles (180)

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1 Citations
4,587 Views
31 Pages

20 June 2024

The Grand Canal has been fundamental in supporting Chinese industrialization, as evidenced in the great changes witnessed across industrial lands, but few studies have approached this issue from a cultural perspective. After an extensive industrial r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deciphering Land-System Dynamics in China)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,241 Views
28 Pages

20 June 2024

Rapid urbanization in China has shifted the logic and needs of rural resource allocation, prompting a transformative approach toward rural revitalization and sustainable development through comprehensive land consolidation. This paper offers a theore...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,326 Views
15 Pages

20 June 2024

Farmers’ attitude plays a crucial role in the success of land acquisition. To add new insights and theoretical support for the effective governance of land acquisition, this paper examines the effectiveness of administrative power on farmers&rs...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,726 Views
32 Pages

A Scientific Investigation of the Shangfang Mountain Yunshui Cave in Beijing Based on LiDAR Technology

  • Xinyue Liu,
  • Yanhui Shan,
  • Gang Ai,
  • Zhengfeng Du and ,
  • Anran Shen and
  • Ningfei Lei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 June 2024

The Yunshui Cave in Shangfang Mountain, Beijing, is a famous high-altitude karst cave in northern China. As the third scientific survey of Yunshui Cave in history, this is the first time to use the latest LiDAR technology to carry out a related detec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GeoAI for Land Use Observations, Analysis and Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,278 Views
26 Pages

20 June 2024

The quality of landscape space directly influences public health behaviors, making public assessments of the qualities of the sky garden landscape crucial for optimizing it. This article focuses on three types of typical high-rise building sky garden...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planning for Sustainable Urban and Land Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,913 Views
18 Pages

20 June 2024

The conversion of forestlands to alternative land uses is a growing worldwide concern, given the wide range of provisioning and regulating ecosystem services (ES) provided by forests. We applied a scenario-based land-use/land-cover (LULC) projection...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Socio-Ecological Transformations and Implications for Land Use Change)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,441 Views
18 Pages

20 June 2024

The rational allocation of land use space is crucial to carbon emissions reductions and economic development. However, previous studies have either examined inter-objective trade-offs or intra-objective trade-offs within a single objective and lacked...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,544 Views
17 Pages

19 June 2024

Multidimensional integrated indicators have become extremely popular for ranking territorial units and comparing them in terms of performance, development and quality of life. The concept of sustainability is not exempt from this global phenomenon. R...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,248 Views
26 Pages

19 June 2024

Amidst escalating global policy uncertainties and the painful transformation phase of the Chinese economy, studying the time-varying characteristics of risk spillover among the real economy, real estate market, and financial system holds substantial...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers for the ‘Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues’ Section: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,269 Views
29 Pages

Advancing Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in the Medea Region Using a Hybrid Metaheuristic ANFIS Approach

  • Fatiha Debiche,
  • Mohammed Amin Benbouras,
  • Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor,
  • Lyes Mohamed Baba Ali and
  • Abdelghani Leghouchi

19 June 2024

Landslides pose significant risks to human lives and infrastructure. The Medea region in Algeria is particularly susceptible to these destructive events, which result in substantial economic losses. Despite this vulnerability, a comprehensive landsli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Application in Landslide Detection and Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,903 Views
45 Pages

Urban Big Data Analytics: A Novel Approach for Tracking Urbanization Trends in Sri Lanka

  • Nimesh Akalanka,
  • Nayomi Kankanamge,
  • Jagath Munasinghe and
  • Tan Yigitcanlar

19 June 2024

The dynamic nature of urbanization calls for more frequently updated and more reliable datasets than conventional methods, in order to comprehend it for planning purposes. The current widely used methods to study urbanization heavily depend on shifts...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data in Urban Land Use Planning)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,153 Views
22 Pages

19 June 2024

Indigenous Peoples throughout the world have been displaced from their ancestral territories through colonial land use management. Indigenous Peoples have pushed settler-colonial governments to shift their policy frameworks to better support Indigeno...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,587 Views
21 Pages

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Support the Remediation of Polluted Soils: A Review of Case Studies

  • Floris Abrams,
  • Lucas Hendrickx,
  • Catrinel Turcanu,
  • Lieve Sweeck and
  • Jos Van Orshoven

19 June 2024

For the successful remediation of polluted sites, priority setting among the possible remediation technologies is of major importance. The related decisions are typically conditioned by a limited set of alternative remediation techniques and multiple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,506 Views
25 Pages

Spatial Quality Measurement and Characterization of Daily High-Frequency Pedestrian Streets in Xi’an City

  • Linggui Liu,
  • Yuheng Tu,
  • Maoran Sun,
  • Han Lyu and ,
  • Peijie Wang and
  • Jing He
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 June 2024

Street space plays a crucial role in human activity and social life, forming an essential component of a livable and sustainable built environment. Consequently, its quality has garnered significant attention from researchers, designers, and policyma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Livable City: Rational Land Use and Sustainable Urban Space)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,607 Views
14 Pages

18 June 2024

The visual attributes of urban green spaces influence people’s perceptions, preferences, and behavioural activities. While many studies have established correlations between landscape perception and visual attributes, they often focus on specif...

(This article belongs to the Topic Biophilic Cities and Communities: Towards Natural Resources, Environmental and Social Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,113 Views
32 Pages

Applying the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) for Integrated, Standardized, and Sustainable Development of Cadastre Country Profile for Pakistan

  • Muhammad Sheraz Ahsan,
  • Ejaz Hussain,
  • Christiaan Lemmen,
  • Malumbo Chaka Chipofya and ,
  • Jaap Zevenbergen,
  • Salman Atif,
  • Javier Morales,
  • Mila Koeva and
  • Zahir Ali
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

18 June 2024

Rapid urban growth necessitates focused attention regarding its policy and governance to ensure affordable housing, transparent and efficient real-world systems, reduce social inequalities, and promote sustainable development. This study delves into...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,483 Views
21 Pages

18 June 2024

The contents of soil available phosphorus (AVP) and potassium (AVK) in karstic mountainous agricultural areas have changed rapidly in recent decades. This temporal variation displays strong spatial heterogeneity due to these areas’ complex topo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insights in Soil Quality and Management in Karst Ecosystem II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,754 Views
23 Pages

Characterization of Biochar from Beach-Cast Seaweed and Its Use for Amelioration of Acid Soils

  • Eliana Cárdenas-Aguiar,
  • Gabriel Gascó,
  • Marcos Lado,
  • Ana Méndez and ,
  • Jorge Paz-Ferreiro and
  • Antonio Paz-González
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 June 2024

Limited knowledge is available regarding biochar (BC) obtained from beach-cast seaweed, which needs to be characterized to better prospect its potential applications. Beach-cast seaweed BCs were produced at two temperatures (300 and 600 °C) and t...

(This article belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,756 Views
20 Pages

18 June 2024

This paper is part of an ongoing research study on developing a methodology for the low-cost creation of the Digital Twin of an urban neighborhood for sustainable, transparent, and participatory urban management to enable low-and middle-income econom...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,644 Views
14 Pages

Survival and Growth Performance of Calophyllum inophyllum L. Seedlings in Peat Soil and at Different Levels of Groundwater

  • Azzah Maulidya,
  • Rujito Agus Suwignyo,
  • Dwi Putro Priadi,
  • Himlal Baral and ,
  • Eunho Choi,
  • Fikri Adriansyah and
  • Hyunyoung Yang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 June 2024

Selecting proper tree species for revegetation is important for restoring tropical peatland. Tamanu (Calophyllum inophyllum L.) has been suggested one of the promising native species in Indonesia for the revegetation of tropical peatland; however, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soil Security of Peatland Ecosystems: Risk Assessment, Pollution Prevention and Restoration)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,901 Views
21 Pages

18 June 2024

Rapid urbanization has led to ecosystem fragmentation, conversion, and degradation, posing great threats to natural habitat and biodiversity. The utilization of ecological networks has gained importance in ecological restoration planning to mitigate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Celebrating the 130th Anniversary of Wuhan University on Land Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,936 Views
21 Pages

18 June 2024

(1) Monitoring salinized soil in saline–alkali land is essential, requiring regional-scale soil salinity inversion. This study aims to identify sensitive variables for predicting electrical conductivity (EC) in soil, focusing on effective featu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,751 Views
19 Pages

18 June 2024

The role of spatial factors in reducing carbon emissions has been receiving increasing attention from researchers; however, these impacts may involve spatial heterogeneity. In this study, 337 prefecture-level cities in China were taken as the researc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Resilience and Urban Sustainability under Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,437 Views
20 Pages

Landscape Ecological Risk and Drivers of Land-Use Transition under the Perspective of Differences in Topographic Gradient

  • Xuebin Zhang,
  • Jiale Yu,
  • Haoyuan Feng,
  • Litang Yao and ,
  • Xuehong Li,
  • Hucheng Du and
  • Yanni Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 June 2024

Human activities have caused different degrees of land-use change on different topographic gradients, with impacts on the landscape and ecosystem. Effectively preventing and addressing ecological risk (ER) and achieving harmonious coexistence between...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecological and Disaster Risk Assessment of Land Use Changes)
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  • Open Access
2,877 Views
18 Pages

18 June 2024

Mapping the terrain and the Earth’s surface can be performed through non-contact methoYes, that is correct.ds such as laser scanning. This is one of the most dynamic and effective data collection methods. This case study aims to analyze the usa...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,057 Views
25 Pages

17 June 2024

As the economic center and major grain-producing area in Southwest China, the calculation of the carbon budget and the protection of cultivated land in the Chengdu Plain are of vital significance for China to achieve a carbon peak strategy and ensure...

(This article belongs to the Topic Land Use Change, Carbon, and Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,711 Views
22 Pages

17 June 2024

The smart city concept has taken center stage as a paradigm shift in urban governance, promising innovation, sustainability, and strategic upgrades, and drawing the attention of researchers globally. However, existing frameworks for assessing smart c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,619 Views
24 Pages

17 June 2024

The quality of urban green space has an impact on the health and well-being of populations. Previous studies have shown that consideration of crowd activity characteristics is the key premise of landscape space design and planning. However, there is...

(This article belongs to the Topic Biophilic Cities and Communities: Towards Natural Resources, Environmental and Social Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,704 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Environmentally Friendly Materials on Saline Soil Improvement and Sunflower Yields in the Hetao Irrigation Region, China

  • Xiangping Wang,
  • Yunpeng Sun,
  • Yuxing Liu,
  • Xiaolin Li and ,
  • Qiancheng Gao,
  • Jingsong Yang,
  • Wenping Xie and
  • Rongjiang Yao
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

17 June 2024

The Hetao irrigation region is located in Inner Mongolia, China, within a dry and semi-dry region. This region suffers from poor agricultural productivity and environmental damage due to the presence of saline soil. To explore the growth of salty lan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,633 Views
20 Pages

16 June 2024

Farmland mortgages are expected to drive county agricultural economic growth (CAEG) as a crucial component of furthering the reform of the rural land system and the reform of the rural financial system against the new backdrop of the new era. This st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers for the ‘Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues’ Section: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,205 Views
17 Pages

Exploring Public Support for Bolivia’s Protected Areas: A Contingent Valuation Approach

  • Stefanie Rakela,
  • Thais Vilela,
  • Sophia Espinoza,
  • Alfonso Malky Harb and
  • Carla Mendizábal Vergara

16 June 2024

This study investigates Bolivians’ willingness to pay for an annual passport facilitating visits to protected areas (PAs) in Bolivia, aiming to address challenges in PA financing and management amidst escalating deforestation. Employing the con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscape-Scale Sustainable Tourism Development)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,788 Views
26 Pages

16 June 2024

The world is urbanizing rapidly, and many urbanized regions deplete and degrade their environment. The additional polycrisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, epidemics, food insecurity, and reduced water, air, and soil quality asks for a transfo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human–Nature Relations in Urban Landscape Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,652 Views
21 Pages

16 June 2024

Peatlands play an important role in the global environment and the well-being of humans by providing valuable ecosystem services. Yet, anthropogenic activities pose significant hazards for peatland management, including low levels of community partic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Restoration of Tropical Peatlands: Science Policy and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,478 Views
13 Pages

15 June 2024

There is a large amount of academic research to date on food environments that has been widely conducted in Western countries. This is due to the high population density of Asian megacities, the advancement of public transportation systems, and the r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Past and the Present of Food Sustainability and Resilience of Local Food Production)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,000 Views
22 Pages

15 June 2024

This study collected data through microclimate monitoring, surface temperature measurements, and questionnaire surveys, and used indicators, such as the universal thermal climate index (UTCI), surface temperature (Ts), and wind chill temperature (tWC...

(This article belongs to the Topic Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,274 Views
27 Pages

15 June 2024

Confronted with China’s burgeoning population and finite arable land resources, the enhancement of sustainable arable land efficiency is of paramount importance. This study, grounded in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Sustainability through Land-Related Approaches: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Investigations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,740 Views
20 Pages

15 June 2024

With rapid industrialization and urbanization, the contradiction between the human exploitation of land production and living functions and natural ecosystem service functions has intensified. The issues of how to coordinate the exploitation and cons...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Multi-Scale Geographic Environmental Monitoring: Theory, Methodology and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,479 Views
14 Pages

Whether Wheat–Maize Rotation Influenced Soil Organic Carbon Content in Sushui River Basin

  • Yingqiang Jing,
  • Rutian Bi,
  • Weifeng Sun,
  • Hongfen Zhu and ,
  • Haoxi Ding and
  • Haixia Jin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 June 2024

Enhancing soil organic carbon (SOC) content in farmland is crucial for soil quality maintenance and food security. However, the relationship between crop rotation and SOC sequestration remains unclear. We used sample data on SOC, collected in Septemb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,574 Views
21 Pages

15 June 2024

With rapid social and economic development, land use/land cover change (LUCC) has intensified with serious impacts on water quality in the watershed. In this study, we took Dongjiang Lake watershed as the study area and obtained measured data on wate...

(This article belongs to the Section Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,852 Views
22 Pages

15 June 2024

Tourism utilization is an important means for revitalizing canal heritage. Exploring the utilization models of canal heritage tourism is the prerequisite to realizing the sustainable development of canals. Based on previous studies, this study define...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Co-Benefits of Heritage Protection and Urban Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,583 Views
22 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Driving Mechanism of Coupling Coordination of Pseudo Human Settlements in Central China’s Urban Agglomerations

  • Shenzhen Tian,
  • Yadan Wang,
  • Xueming Li,
  • Wenmei Wu and ,
  • Jun Yang,
  • Xueping Cong and
  • Hui Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 June 2024

The construction of pseudo human settlements in the context of “digital-real integration” in the information age is crucial for the high-quality development of human settlements in the new era. This study aimed to investigate the spatio-t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers for Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions Section)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,043 Views
21 Pages

Dynamic Integrated Ecological Assessment along the Corridor of the Sichuan–Tibet Railway

  • Cuicui Ji,
  • Hengcong Yang,
  • Xiangjun Pei,
  • Xiaochao Zhang and ,
  • Lichuan Chen,
  • Dan Liang,
  • Yiming Cao,
  • Jianping Pan and
  • Maolin Chen
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

14 June 2024

Engineering activities along the Sichuan–Tibet Railway (STR) could cause land degradation and threaten the surrounding ecological security. It is crucial to evaluate the integrated land ecology during and after the construction of this project....

(This article belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
13,686 Views
21 Pages

14 June 2024

As a product of the development of e-commerce over a specific period of time, the “new retail model” breaks the barriers between the traditional retail industry and e-commerce. Supported by Internet technology, it builds a new business mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Livable City: Rational Land Use and Sustainable Urban Space)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,794 Views
22 Pages

The Spatial-Temporal Patterns and Driving Mechanisms of the Ecological Barrier Transition Zone in the Western Jilin, China

  • Shibo Wen,
  • Yongzhi Wang,
  • Tianqi Tang,
  • Congcong Su and ,
  • Bowen Li,
  • Muhammad Atif Bilal and
  • Yibo Meng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

14 June 2024

Land use change monitoring is a common theme in achieving sustainable development, while research on ecological barrier transition zones is relatively scarce. This study quantitatively analyzes the characteristics and patterns of land use change in W...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Land Use and Land Cover Mapping)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,247 Views
25 Pages

14 June 2024

Rural house is a fundamental component of rural settlements, and understanding its construction and development characteristics is crucial for rural land use and development planning. This paper focuses on the spatiotemporal characteristics and influ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers for Land Planning and Landscape Architecture Section)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,162 Views
20 Pages

14 June 2024

This study intends to build a theoretical mechanism of agricultural socialization services for the eco-efficiency of agricultural land use from two paths, namely the agricultural division of labor and technological progress, and empirically calibrate...

(This article belongs to the Topic Low Carbon Economy and Sustainable Development)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,962 Views
24 Pages

14 June 2024

Despite the ongoing discrimination that hinders women’s full participation in urban life, the International Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasize the eradication of violence against women and underscore the need for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land, Ageing, Gender and Environment: Problems and Challenges from Different Disciplines II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,807 Views
25 Pages

14 June 2024

With an increasing focus on sustainable development and the reuse of disused infrastructure, there is a pressing need for effective decision-making methods. This study explored the use of the PROMETHEE method within a collaborative decision-making fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,768 Views
20 Pages

14 June 2024

The continuous and rapid development of global urbanization has brought great pressure to eco-environments. It is particularly serious in mega urban agglomerations, which determine the development process of urbanization in the world and affect the i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planning for Sustainable Urban and Land Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,036 Views
15 Pages

Influences of Vegetation Rehabilitation on Soil Infiltrability and Root Morphological Characteristics in Coastal Saline Soil

  • Linlin Chu,
  • Si Yuan,
  • Dan Chen,
  • Yaohu Kang and ,
  • Hiba Shaghaleh,
  • Mohamed A. El-Tayeb,
  • Mohamed S. Sheteiwy and
  • Yousef Alhaj Hamoud
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 June 2024

Soil’s hydraulic properties are an essential characteristic that influences the hydrologic cycle by influencing infiltration and runoff and the transport of soil water and salt in the process of vegetation rehabilitation in coastal saline soils...

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