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Land, Volume 14, Issue 1

January 2025 - 207 articles

Cover Story: Groundwater vulnerability in arid regions is increasingly influenced by land use changes and climate variability. This study assesses groundwater vulnerability and contamination risks in Arizona's Verde River Basin and Prescott Active Management Area using hybrid, modified DRASTIC index-overlay models. By integrating land use, climate data, and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for refined weighting, the models improve predictive accuracy. Results reveal nitrate contamination risks in high-vulnerability zones and the susceptibility of karst aquifers to pollution. Recommendations include adaptive management strategies, land use controls, public awareness campaigns, and routine integration of land use and climate data to support sustainable groundwater management in arid and semi-arid regions. View this paper
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Articles (207)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,287 Views
26 Pages

20 January 2025

Carbon emissions have a profound impact on the transformation goals and development paths of cities. In the context of carbon neutrality, it is of great significance to explore the coupling coordination level of the social–ecological systems in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,923 Views
24 Pages

20 January 2025

Owing to lifestyle changes since COVID-19, new needs for various usages and spatial experiences of open spaces have become apparent. Suburban parks and green spaces are thought to be suitable uses. This study used structural equation modeling to exam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,511 Views
17 Pages

20 January 2025

Scientific identification of ecological sources and corridors is crucial in constructing an ecological security pattern (ESP). To develop an ESP tailored to the scale of central urban areas in megacities, this study takes Central Beijing as the resea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,253 Views
24 Pages

20 January 2025

As one of the 19 key regions for comprehensive land development in China, the Tianshan North Slope urban agglomeration is significant for China’s urban development when calculating the land subsidence and analyzing the impact factors. This stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,630 Views
18 Pages

20 January 2025

Ecological management zoning is crucial for maintaining regional ecological security and realizing differentiated urban ecological governance. However, the existing zoning methods are overly focused on ecological functional attributes and fail to ade...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,638 Views
18 Pages

20 January 2025

In recent years, nature-based solutions have been used in urban regeneration interventions to improve the adaptation and resilience of these places, contributing to improved environmental quality and cultural ecosystem functions, including people&rsq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,349 Views
29 Pages

20 January 2025

Cultural heritage resources represent a vital aspect of tourism in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, an area characterized by its ethnic minority heritage. This study innovatively proposes a classification framework for cultural heritage based on th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,119 Views
20 Pages

19 January 2025

Rapeseed mapping is crucial for refined agricultural management and food security. However, existing remote sensing-based methods for rapeseed mapping in Southwest China are severely limited by insufficient training samples and persistent cloud cover...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,751 Views
19 Pages

Responses of Typical Riparian Vegetation to Annual Variation of River Flow in a Semi-Arid Climate Region: Case Study of China’s Xiliao River

  • Xiangzhao Yan,
  • Wei Yang,
  • Zaohong Pu,
  • Qilong Zhang,
  • Yutong Chen,
  • Jiaqi Chen,
  • Weiqi Xiang,
  • Hongyu Chen,
  • Yuyang Cheng and
  • Yanwei Zhao

19 January 2025

In semi-arid basins, riparian vegetation is an important part of the river ecosystem. However, with the decrease in river runoff caused by human activities and the continuous changes in climate, riparian vegetation has gradually degraded. To identify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,589 Views
31 Pages

19 January 2025

Amid global climate challenges and an urgent need for ecological protection, the northeastern black soil region—one of the world’s remaining “three major black soil regions”—confronts significant tensions between agricul...

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