2025 October - 170 articles
Soil moisture (SM) is a critical component of the global water cycle, profoundly influencing carbon fluxes and energy exchanges between the land surface and the atmosphere. NASA’s Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) mission provides soil moistu...
Agriculture and forestry remain vital sources of rural employment; yet, both sectors face challenges of low labour productivity, demographic change, and structural inefficiencies. Modernisation improves productivity but often reduces labour demand, c...
Although wetlands are key habitats for biodiversity conservation, they are also among the most threatened ecosystems in the world. They are mainly affected by human pressures and threats, even when they are included in protected areas. The Padule di...
Natural elements such as vegetation, water bodies, and sky, together with artificial elements including buildings and paved surfaces, constitute the core of urban visual environments. Their perception at the pedestrian level not only influences city...
As the driving force of China’s green development, cities play a pivotal role in carbon sequestration, with their green and blue spaces jointly influencing both carbon sequestrations and carbon emissions. Yet, most existing studies rely on line...
Meteorological droughts have been occurring with greater frequency and intensity, impacting water security in various regions. Between 2013 and 2015, the Paraopeba River Basin in southeast Brazil experienced its most severe drought in the last 70 yea...
Understanding spatiotemporal dynamics and drivers of ecosystem service value (ESV) is critical for informing ecological restoration and sustainable land management, particularly in arid inland river basins. Analyzing the spatiotemporal dynamics of ES...
River ecosystems provide essential services that sustain human well-being and ecological integrity, yet their contributions are often underestimated in management and policy decisions. This study aims to develop and validate indicators for quantifyin...
For several years now, urban planning practices have been marked by the proliferation of catchwords, serving as kinds of brands that promote the idea of easy, ready-made, one-size-fits-all ways to tackle planning problems. Among the most recent is th...
Human activities inevitably lead to drastic transformations in land use, thereby significantly impacting natural ecosystems. As a crucial indicator of ecosystem health, habitat quality (HQ) provides appropriate conditions for human survival and devel...
Rural community development in China has made progress under the rapid implementation of the rural revitalization strategy; however, it has also revealed challenges such as an overemphasis on spatial construction, severe homogenization, and low susta...
This study investigates the interaction between digital–intelligent integration and carbon productivity in 23 prefecture-level cities across the middle reaches of the Yellow River from 2013 to 2022, focusing on a resource-dependent region trans...
Accelerated urbanization has induced marked biodiversity loss in metropolitan regions, with urban parks emerging as critical habitat patches for avian species within intensively developed built environments. As a global pioneer in park city conceptua...
Historic urban alleys encapsulate cultural identity and collective memory but are increasingly threatened by commercialization and context-insensitive redevelopment. Preserving their authenticity while enhancing environmental resilience requires desi...
Integrating Rights, Restrictions, and Responsibilities (RRR) information within land administration presents a significant challenge. Currently, land rights management and spatial planning in Indonesia are handled by separate institutions within land...
This study examines the statistical and spatial alignment between urban place perceptions and the census-based evidence of socio-spatial segregation. We process a large dataset of geotagged images from Mapillary and KartaView with ZenSVI to score six...
Compact urban land use planning and smart growth are essential strategies for tackling the issues of sustainable urban transportation development. In the context of swift global urbanization, examining the intrinsic relationship between urban spatial...
In order to alleviate the constraints of global warming and sustainable development, digitalization has made significant contributions to promoting agricultural carbon reduction through resources, technology, and platforms. Under this situation, Chin...
The accelerated development of digital technologies during the 21st century has intensified requirements for Human Settlements (HS) infrastructure advancement in China’s maritime urban centers, driven by national objectives to forge a cohesive,...
With the designation of the first cohort of national parks and the continued operation of remaining pilots, China’s national park reform has entered a critical stage requiring consolidation and adaptive improvement. A key challenge lies in the...
Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) is a promising carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategy that accelerates mineral dissolution, sequestering atmospheric CO2 while improving soil health. This study builds on prior applications of soil calcimetry by investig...
Over the past three decades, the Yangtze River Delta has undergone a rapid urbanization phenomenon, resulting in pronounced urban sprawl that has significantly impacted regional sustainable development and air quality. This study constructs an urban...
Assessing ecosystem service (ES) supply–demand relationships and identifying their driving forces are essential for ecological security and sustainable ecosystem development. Using ES supply–demand mismatches as a basis, this study charac...
Landscape conservation has grown in popularity over the past few decades and is widely recognized as essential for achieving conservation outcomes. However, there are many challenges to operating at the landscape scale, and little research assesses t...
Organic rice farming (ORF) can support both climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, a deeper understanding of its specific benefits and challenges is needed. This paper synthesises current knowledge on the potential of ORF to enhance resil...
This study provides the first comprehensive, field-inventory-based assessment of urban ecosystem services within a Russian university campus, focusing on the woody vegetation of the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod. Utilizing a detaile...
Amid the deep integration of China’s “dual-carbon” goals with regional coordinated development strategies, this study develops a multidimensional analytical framework of regional integration based on panel data from 41 prefecture-le...
Ensuring accessibility in urban public spaces is a key challenge for contemporary cities, particularly in the context of ageing populations, socio-spatial inequalities, and the global call for inclusive urban development. Despite its importance, acce...
Heirs’ property is a form of collective land ownership arising from intestate succession, often resulting in clouded titles, fractional ownership, and legal vulnerability. This tenure system is especially prevalent among African American landow...
Identifying urban functional areas increasingly relies on data-driven approaches that utilize multimodal spatial information. There is a growing focus on purpose-oriented functional area identification with greater policy relevance. This paper propos...
Phosphorus (P) is an essential element for plant growth, yet it is only available to plants in the form of orthophosphate. In most soils, P occurs predominantly in insoluble forms, such as calcium phosphates in alkaline soils and aluminum/iron phosph...
The purpose of this paper is to examine how existing regionalizations in the Republic of Croatia differ in their criteria for region separation, to identify their similarities and differences, and to outline the key characteristics of each defined re...
Revealing the coordination relationship between land use/land cover (LULC) and carbon storage (CS) under diverse climate scenarios is crucial for climate change adaptation in topographically complex regions. This study developed an integrated framewo...
Mediterranean cities are increasingly exposed to climate hazards, water scarcity, and social vulnerabilities, demanding integrative approaches for sustainable regeneration. This study examines how participatory governance and co-design processes can...
Overweight has become a major public health concern in China’s rapidly urbanizing cities. Patterns of environmental exposure differ notably between men and women, both before and after marriage. This study examines how built environment charact...
The need to address long-term sustainability goals while ensuring short-term resilience to unexpected disruptions is placing an increasing challenge on urban mobility systems. This study organizes an analytical framework that compares and integrates...
The contradiction between economic development and ecological protection has become a common challenge for territorial governance in developing countries around the world. However, extant studies have neglected the coupling and symbiotic relationship...
As a critical ecological barrier and key dryland agricultural zone in China, the Loess Plateau is faced with acute tensions between food security risks arising from cropland abandonment (CA) and the imperatives of ecological conservation. Yet, existi...
The interactive coupling mechanism between ecosystem service value (ESV) and urbanization has emerged as a critical research focus in ecological security and sustainable development. This study quantifies the ESV of prefecture-level cities by leverag...
Landslides are a prevalent geological hazard in China, posing significant threats to life and property. Landslide susceptibility assessment is essential for disaster prevention, and the quality of non-landslide samples critically affects model accura...
Geographic artificial intelligence (GeoAI) is reshaping how we observe, understand, and govern land systems [...]
Cropland abandonment (CA) is a critical environmental issue globally, with balancing food security and ecological protection vital for sustainable development. This study explores CA behavior differences and drivers between out-of-poverty farming hou...
Functioning as a critical ecotone between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, riparian zones exhibit soil enzyme activities that serve as key biomarkers of their nutrient cycling processes. However, despite considerable focus on riparian soil propert...
Addressing the imbalance between supply and demand for urban parks necessitates an assessment of their service accessibility and spatial equity. This study integrates multi-source geographic data, uses multiple data sources to generate a population d...
The social-ecological resilience of rural settlements refers to their ability to resist and mitigate the risks posed by internal and external disturbances, and to utilize the external environment to achieve a new equilibrium state. Amid rapid urbaniz...
As climate policy and energy costs increasingly influence housing markets, understanding how energy efficiency is capitalized into home prices has become a critical question for both researchers and policymakers. While prior studies confirm the exist...
Assessing the suitability of human settlements is of great significance for promoting pastoral development, improving herders’ livelihoods, and advancing the construction of beautiful villages in agro-pastoral regions. Focusing on ten pastoral...
Landscape architecture has long engaged esthetics, ecological process, and cultural meaning, and contemporary practice increasingly embraces systemic and process-based approaches. Yet even within this richness, designers often lack systematic tools f...
Current InVEST habitat quality assessments rely heavily on subjective expert judgment for parameter specification, introducing substantial uncertainty and limiting their regional applicability. To address this gap, we developed an objective, statisti...
With the rapid development of e-commerce, Taobao Villages have emerged as a representative form of rural e-commerce in China, exerting a profound influence on rural economic transformation and urban–rural integration. However, their spatiotempo...
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