2025 June - 185 articles
High-speed rail (HSR) station areas play a vital role in shaping urban form, stimulating economic activity, and enhancing spatial vitality. Understanding the factors that influence this vitality is key to supporting sustainable urban development and...
Land use transformation, the longest-standing human-driven environmental alteration, is a pressing and complex issue that significantly impacts European landscapes and contributes to global environmental change. The urgency to act is reinforced by th...
Mangrove forests, vital coastal ecosystems that provide critical biodiversity habitats and carbon sequestration services, face increasing heavy metal pollution that threatens their ecological functions through bioaccumulation and toxicity to marine o...
Understanding the effects of climate change on agricultural land green use efficiency (AGUE) is vital for shaping adaptive technologies and agricultural policies. Utilizing data from 30 Chinese provinces (2003–2022), this study applies the Geog...
Assessing the ecological environmental quality (EEQ) is crucial for protecting the environment. Dhaka’s rapid, unplanned urbanization, driven by economic and social growth, poses significant eco-environmental challenges. Spatiotemporal ecologic...
As urbanization progresses at an accelerating pace, the depletion of natural resources and environmental degradation are becoming increasingly severe. Constructing ecological security patterns (ESPs) has become a crucial strategy for mitigating envir...
Heavy metals in peatland pose significant ecological risks due to their persistence, bioaccumulation, and dynamic mobilization under fluctuating environmental conditions. Understanding heavy metal dynamics in subtropical peatlands is critical for add...
Carbon emissions from global warming pose significant threats to both regional ecology and sustainable development. Understanding the factors affecting emissions is critical to developing effective carbon neutral strategies. This study constructed a...
The strategic prioritization of inefficient industrial land (IIL) redevelopment is critical for directing capital allocation toward sustainable urban regeneration. However, current redevelopment prioritization suffers from inefficient identification...
International industrial transfer has driven rapid construction land expansion in emerging metropolitan areas, posing challenges for sustainable land management. However, existing research has largely overlooked the spatiotemporal patterns and drivin...
The events of 2020 reached a fever pitch with the May 25th murder of George Floyd, but earlier on the same morning, a chance encounter between dogwalker Amy Cooper and birding enthusiast Christian Cooper also laid bare enduring social relations. As v...
Since 2005, the ‘Soil of the Year’ campaign has aimed to highlight the ecological functions and societal relevance of soils in Germany. This article analyses the campaign’s concept, evolution and outreach strategies. It evaluates it...
Rural areas exhibit a high prevalence of poverty. As significant progress in poverty reduction has been achieved, research on rural livelihoods has transitioned from a focus on poverty eradication to preventing poverty recurrence and fostering develo...
During the advancement of modern rural construction, traditional villages in the Xinjiang Oasis face the problem that uncoordinated system development affects scientific development and protection. Therefore, this study derives and constructs a coupl...
Land use and land cover changes driven by urbanization and agricultural expansion have increasingly degraded the ecological health of stream ecosystems across watersheds. In Republic of Korea, the Ministry of Environment has designated riparian zones...
Climate change poses substantial threats to natural ecosystems and human livelihoods, particularly in coastal regions, by intensifying coastal erosion. This process leads to land loss, infrastructure damage, and habitat destruction while amplifying c...
Photovoltaic (PV) technology, as a crucial source of clean energy, can effectively mitigate the impact of climate change caused by fossil fuel-based power generation. However, improper use of PV installations may encroach upon agricultural land, gras...
China plays an important role in the global terrestrial carbon cycle. While China is included in global assessments of the carbon cycle, such as the global carbon budget, the performance of dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) over China has rare...
Between 2017 and 2023, three sub-regional spatial plans were developed for specific areas of the Valencian Autonomous Region: the Alicante–Elche Metropolitan Area, Vega Baja del Segura County, and the Central Valencian Counties. Their main aim...
El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico, USA, is a landscape of significant cultural and geological importance, characterized by extensive lava flows, caves, and cinder cones. Despite its harsh terrain, El Malpais holds deep cultural and spiritual...
Accurate prediction of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is crucial for regional ecological management and precision decision-making. Existing methodologies often rely on smoothed NDVI data as ground truth, overlooking uncertainties i...
As the global food crisis worsens, enhancing crop yields on saline–alkali soils has become a critical measure for ensuring global food security. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), one of the world’s most important staple crops, is particularly...
As essential components of arid region ecosystems, terminal lakes play a critical role in enhancing the functions of ecosystem services (ESs) and improving ecological structure. Despite the increasing degradation of ESs and landscape stability due to...
Soil moisture (SM) plays a fundamental role in the water cycle and is an important variable for all processes occurring at the lithosphere–atmosphere interface, which are strongly affected by climate change. Among the different fields of applic...
Urbanization has profoundly reshaped ecosystem services (ESs), yet how diverse urbanization drivers interact with land use and land cover (LULC) changes to influence ESs remains insufficiently studied. To address these gaps, this study offers a compr...
Ecotourism is widely promoted as a sustainable tourism model that harmonizes environmental conservation with local community benefits. Indonesia, celebrated for its extraordinary biodiversity, has long adopted ecotourism as a strategy to safeguard it...
Comprehending the alterations in wintering grounds of migratory birds amid global change and anthropogenic influences is pivotal for advancing wetland sustainability and ensuring avian conservation. Frequent extreme droughts in the middle and lower Y...
The Requisition–Compensation Balance of Cropland (RCBC) policy is important for ensuring food security. Previous studies have mainly focused on the quantity and quality of cropland when assessing the impacts of this policy. In terms of morpholo...
Understanding how land use and climate change jointly affect water availability is essential for sustainable planning in tropical Andean–Amazonian basins. This study focuses on the Utcubamba River Basin in northeastern Peru, a data-scarce and socioec...
The application of livelihood resilience theory in mining-under village relocation areas, coupled with the assessment of the coupling coordination degree between farming household livelihood resilience and ecological livability, is crucial for advanc...
Urban vitality is a critical indicator of both urban sustainability and quality of life. However, comprehensive studies examining the threshold effects and interaction mechanisms of built environment factors on urban vitality at the block level remai...
China has effectively safeguarded biodiversity by building the world’s largest system of nature reserves, but the livelihoods of farmers near the reserves are often not guaranteed. This paper aimed to deeply explore the intrinsic relationship b...
Humans and nature have always been connected. Meanwhile, with the industrial revolution, landscapes have become more artificial, reducing the human–nature relationship. Urban design should follow biophilic principles to reconnect people with na...
Deciphering the responses of soil properties to land-use changes is of great importance for sustainable management in biogeochemically sensitive zones. This investigation examines the impacts of agricultural conversion on soil-microbial dynamics acro...
Rapid urbanization enhances the necessity of exploring sustainable development paths to achieve ecological and carbon storage protection. This study takes Zhengzhou, one of the national central cities in China, as a case to investigate the dynamic co...
The East–West Mountain Region (EWMR) of Wuhan is a vital natural and cultdural asset, characterized by its scenic nature landscapes and rich historical and cultural heritage. This study aims to address the problems of landscape character degrad...
With the goal of sustainable urbanization, eco-cities have garnered significant global attention in recent decades. Unlike eco-city renovation or renewal, the construction of a new eco-city represents a comprehensive urbanization process that integra...
In the process of Chinese-style modernisation, the socially and culturally coordinated development of cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt is important for promoting regional coordinated development, enhancing the balance of public services, and...
Indonesia plays a dominant role in the global refined palm oil (RPO) supply chain. Given the increasing global emphasis on carbon neutrality and sustainable trade, understanding the carbon footprint of Indonesian RPO and its embodied carbon emissions...
Exploring the relationship between the magnitude and temporal trend of the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) is critical to assessing current and future changes in biodiversity intactness. However, investigations into the relationship between BII m...
Early detection of plant water status is crucial for efficient crop management. In this research, proximal sensing tools (i.e., hyperspectral imaging HSI and thermal IR camera) were used to monitor changes in spectral and thermal profiles of a citrus...
Ecological risk refers to the potential threat that landscape changes pose to ecosystem structure, function, and service sustainability, while ecological security emphasizes the ability of regional ecosystems to maintain stability and support human w...
Contemporary metropolises, particularly those in the Global South, grapple with the complex challenge of balancing urban development with environmental conservation. In such contexts, forest remnants often face constant threats from illegal urban enc...
Wetland monitoring is a key means of protecting wetland ecosystems. In order to achieve continuous monitoring of wetlands and predict future patterns, this paper analyzes the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of wetlands in the upper reaches o...
There are considerable debates about the impact of rural residential land consolidation (RRLC) on villagers. Rather than engaging in the ongoing debates of either/or choices again, this article intends to analyze the mechanisms by which RRLC benefits...
Understanding how elevation gradients and soil depths influence soil organic carbon stocks (SOCS) and total nitrogen stocks (TNS) is essential for sustainable forest management (SFM) and climate change mitigation. This study investigated the effects...
Amid escalating environmental crises—ranging from biodiversity loss to climate instability—the circular economy has emerged as a promising pathway to align economic growth with ecological limits. The objective of this study is to examine...
Green Public Procurement (GPP) is a key tool in European strategies to promote sustainability in public procurement. This study examines the integration of GPP criteria in the National Action Plans (NAPs) of the European Union Member States, with a f...
Under the backdrop of urban renewal, harmonizing transit-oriented development (TOD) with urban renewal to maximize rail value has emerged as a critical focus in contemporary planning. Based on this, this paper proposes the node–place–reve...
Brownfields are abundant, widely dispersed, and subject to complex contamination, resulting in waste land, ecological degradation, and barriers to economic growth. The accurate identification of brownfield sites is key to formulating effective remedi...
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