2026 October - 250 articles
Climate change, more frequent extreme events, and tightening resource and environmental constraints are increasing uncertainty in grain production, making agricultural risk assessment essential for food security. Yet high realized production capacity...
Against the backdrop of rapid urbanization and agricultural intensification, habitat fragmentation and declining ecological connectivity have become increasingly pronounced. To address the limitations of conventional ecological security pattern (ESP)...
Urban waterlogging susceptibility in coastal urban agglomerations is shaped by horizontal urbanization and vertical densification, yet the incremental explanatory contribution of three-dimensional (3D) building morphology beyond natural environmental...
Expanding resident participation is an important objective of participatory planning and collaborative governance in urban communities, yet attending activities, contributing resources, or holding representative positions does not necessarily enable...
Rapid urbanization and extreme heat events have made heat risk (HR) a prominent environmental challenge in the Yangtze River Delta. Focusing on five cities in the Shanghai–Nanjing urban belt, this study developed a Local Climate Zone (LCZ)-base...
Fine-grained information on natural grasslands is important for monitoring ecological land patterns and supporting sustainable land management in heterogeneous urban–rural landscapes. However, natural grasslands in subtropical southern China ar...
With increasing mixed land use in watersheds, understanding biological responses across spatially confounded stressors remains a practical management challenge. This study documents how commonly used biological indicators respond across a small but c...
Global warming is increasing the frequency of extreme weather events and threatening agricultural production and food security. As land is a core input in grain production, adjustments in land allocation represent a key adaptation pathway. Using nati...
In the last century, urban growth has increased rapidly in most cities worldwide, contributing to the loss of natural areas, greater impervious surfaces, and urban density. This has led to elevated temperatures and the development of the urban heat i...
Rural and sparsely populated areas across Northern Sweden and Finland face significant challenges related to the preservation of built heritage, demographic change, and the long-term vitality of small settlements. Our Interreg Aurora-funded project R...
Although Robinia pseudoacacia L. (black locust) is of major importance in forestry and an excellent honey-producing plant species, it is also an alien invasive species that can cause negative environmental impacts. The main objectives of this paper a...
Assessing Cultural Ecosystem Services (CESs) is critical for linking landscape management with human well-being. In the context of ethnic villages, the applicability of international assessment frameworks remains open to further exploration, while ex...
Understanding how urbanization, ecosystem-service conditions, and climate are associated with environmental responses is important for regional land management. Using three discrete county-level snapshots from the Yellow River Basin in 2013, 2018, an...
Urban warming threatens arid oasis cities, yet vegetation cooling efficiency is non-linearly moderated by atmospheric dryness and structural density. Using a multi-year summer satellite composite from 2020 to 2025 in Urumqi, China, this study calibra...
The Loess Plateau is a typical ecologically fragile area, where long-term intensive open-pit mining triggers severe vegetation loss, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity decline. Although ecological network analysis integrating circuit theory and...
Land-use carbon emissions are typically analyzed within administrative or economic regions; however, natural temperature gradients may modulate how socioeconomic and policy drivers translate into emissions. Using China’s land-use, energy, and m...
Optimizing land use allocation in terms of ecological security has practical significance for coordinating ecological protection and land exploitation and utilization. However, previous studies have mainly focused on ecological security-oriented land...
The aim of this study is to evaluate the reclamation efficiency of an organomineral compost-ameliorant for the restoration of degraded irrigated soils and its effects on cotton productivity under the conditions of southern Kazakhstan. Based on field...
Global agri-food systems increasingly spatially separate places of production and consumption, which is why national stabilization of agricultural land does not necessarily mean a reduction of the overall pressure on land resources. The aim of this p...
Cultural heritage is widely recognized as a critical resource for urban regeneration and sustainable regional development, yet its value realization depends on adequate supporting conditions. While existing studies have examined the spatial distribut...
Land use/land cover (LULC) exerts a substantial influence on hydrological processes, notably runoff generation, flow routing, and evapotranspiration. To evaluate the impacts of LULC change on different flood types in the Jinhua River Basin, LULC data...
Historic urban areas in inland resource-based cities are often reshaped by overlapping changes in roads, public services, industry, housing, and everyday land use. However, these changes are not always clearly connected to differentiated conservation...
The expansion of artificial nighttime lighting has increased the risk of urban dark sky environmental degradation. Identifying long-term evolution patterns and their associated socioeconomic and environmental factors is essential for conserving dark...
Regional averages may improve even when individual cities remain within the same coordination state. Using panel data for 40 cities in the middle reaches of the Yellow River from 2011 to 2022, this study distinguishes continuous changes in the correc...
Dust storms have emerged as a major environmental and public health challenge in arid and semi-arid urban regions, where heterogeneous urban structures and population distributions intensify spatial variability in vulnerability. This study aimed to s...
Nature-based solutions (NBS) are valuable instruments for climate adaptation and resilience. Existing research on urban NBS barriers focuses mostly on structural and technical elements, while co-creation and local knowledge are regularly cited as cri...
China’s rapid urbanization has been accompanied by a growing mismatch between population concentration and urban land expansion. Assessing the coordination of human–land relationships in urbanized areas and the extent to which they deviat...
Because of the adverse ecological impact of rapid urbanization, coupling the study of urban land use efficiency (ULUE) and ecological carrying capacity (ECC) is vital for harmonizing socioeconomic growth and environmental protection, and promoting re...
Vegetation-induced temporal decorrelation limits the reliability of time-series InSAR measurements over densely vegetated areas. Existing empirical models generally use NDVI from a single acquisition and therefore cannot represent vegetation changes...
Against the dual backdrop of tightening land resource constraints and the green transition, this study examines the effect of computing power infrastructure (CPI) on urban land green use efficiency (ULGUE). Using panel data from 283 Chinese cities at...
This study reconstructs long-distance trade networks within the hyper-arid Arabian Peninsula by evaluating the dynamic interactions between human activities and geo-environmental constraints. The primary objective is to delineate the optimal trajecto...
Land-reuse planning after coal mining must distinguish restoration needs, evidential readiness and the ability to fund continuing obligations. This study examines that distinction through 69 Chinese mine-area units, six purposively selected coal-rela...
Rapid urban growth continues to reshape land development and the spatial distribution of population, yet the long-term and multiscale alignment of high-tier healthcare resources with this process remains insufficiently understood. This study examines...
Rapid land-use transition and urbanization are increasingly associated with changes in the spatial and temporal patterns of ecosystem services in agricultural regions, yet the nonlinear and spatially varying relationships involved remain insufficient...
The rise of tourism in historical cities has become a widely observed global phenomenon. As both urban heritage and channels of movement, streets influence the spatial distribution of tourism-related functions. It is important to understand how this...
Against the backdrop of high-quality development in the new era, urban development is shifting from scale expansion to quality improvement, and the scientific evaluation of urban development quality has become crucial for promoting sustainable develo...
Regional photovoltaic screening must reconcile land availability with ecological and electricity-demand priorities. We compared eight photovoltaic siting scenarios in Shaanxi using province-wide or regional weights derived from criterion variability...
The heritage irrigation system network (HISN) represents long-lived spatial infrastructures that have continuously shaped rural land use, settlements, and ecological spaces. Under the combined influence of irrigation modernization, rural development,...
Historic medinas across the Maghreb constitute fundamental components of urban identity, embodying centuries of cultural, social, and spatial continuity. Yet in many cities across the Maghreb region, historic urban fabrics have progressively become m...
Urban regeneration in Serbia is shaped by complex and competing public, private, professional and community interests, while the existing planning framework lacks a structured pre-planning methodology for examining these interests, contextual conditi...
Understanding the spatial distribution patterns and siting characteristics of traditional villages provides an important basis for informing their conservation and spatial planning. This study employed geographic information system (GIS)-based spatia...
Ground deformation is an important indicator of natural and anthropogenic processes, including land subsidence, landslides, volcanic and geothermal activity, earthquake-induced deformation, groundwater exploitation, and environmental change [...]
In humid agricultural regions, where heat and water deficit are decoupled, temperature acts on crops in two opposed ways: moderate warmth advances development, whereas extreme heat damages it, and land management must distinguish them. This study exa...
Badong County is located in the hinterland of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area and is characterized by complex geological conditions and highly rugged terrain, making landslide susceptibility assessment particularly important. Based on an inventory of...
Large-scale hydropower and water conservancy projects often rely on land-for-land resettlement to restore the livelihoods of displaced rural households, yet impoverishment risks may persist even when replacement land is formally provided. This study...
The decline of industrial activity across Europe has produced extensive brownfield landscapes that today constitute both a challenge and a strategic opportunity for urban regeneration and the promotion of new sustainable urbanisation models. In Portu...
Freshwater monitoring networks are often biased toward major rivers and chemical indicators, creating blind spots in ecologically sensitive areas. This study tests whether a legacy monitoring network is positioned in the right parts of its catchment,...
Alleviating the cultivated land pressure in the black soil region of Northeast China is an essential requirement for safeguarding national food security. Taking 34 prefecture-level and above cities in the Northeast China black soil region from 2008 t...
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This study evaluated the effects of chemical and organic fertilization on aboveground biomass and soil properties across three natural grassland regions in the middle section of the Greater Khingan Mountains. Field experiments were conducted in Keyou...
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