2026 October - 250 articles
Soil salinity estimation across arid agricultural regions is challenging due to pronounced environmental heterogeneity and complex dependencies among multi-source variables. This study proposes a Long-Range Dependency-Enhanced Network (LRD-Net) for r...
Rural labor out-migration and low comparative returns to grain challenge food security in China. This study examines the association between agricultural machinery services (AMS) and the allocation of sown land between grain and economic crops, and w...
Smart city policies may affect urban carbon emissions and developed land at the same time, but the two may not change in the same direction. This study examines city-level carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of built-up land area, whose natural l...
This study examines the coupling coordination degree of rural “Production–Living–Ecological” (PLE) functions in Guangdong Province, China, at the county. A county indicator system was constructed from multi-source data. The PL...
Historic districts result from the long-term interaction of spatial persistence and functional change. Previous studies have examined historical development and historic layering, but less attention has focused on connections between historical forma...
Accurate, spatially resolved agricultural land-use data are essential for estimating water demand, evaluating agricultural production, and understanding long-term changes in managed landscapes. However, existing land-use datasets are often temporally...
Against the dual goals of agricultural and rural carbon emission reduction, carbon sequestration and food security guarantee, this paper uses municipal panel data of 21 prefectures in Sichuan Province from 2015 to 2024 to calculate agricultural carbo...
Canals, as linear cultural landscapes, have profoundly influenced social structures, ecological patterns, economic activities, and human well-being. Canal-related ecosystem services (ES), particularly cultural ecosystem services (CES), have received...
The study explores whether female landownership (sole or joint) alters the self-reported household food security in Ethiopia following decades of implementing land reform. The distinction among various types of landownership has received limited atte...
Groundcover plants are underutilized landscape features that often require less maintenance than traditional lawns. While the popularity of groundcovers has increased, the upfront installation costs and limited documentation of consumer preferences t...
Rough fescue grasslands are increasingly threatened by invasion of Bromus inermis Leyss. an introduced, cool season perennial that has transformed grasslands of the Aspen Parkland. However, its ecological impacts and mechanisms of dominance remain in...
The gradual abandonment of historic railway infrastructure has generated extensive tracts of ‘residual’ land in European urban and peri-urban areas, associated with physical decay, spatial fragmentation and social marginalisation, while c...
Khung Bang Kachao, a riverine peninsula formed by a bend of the Chao Phraya River, functions as a vital “Green Lung” facing urban−industrial expansion within the Bangkok Metropolitan Region. This study assesses the carbon sequestrat...
Mine waste cover systems are commonly used to manage acid and metalliferous drainage (AMD); however, their long-term performance is often variable and may not always meet design objectives. Field trials are relied upon to demonstrate cover design per...
Hanoi’s historic urban areas face the challenge of accommodating urban change while conserving heritage and maintaining compatible land uses. This study examines whether perceived incorporation of conservation into routine decisions helps expla...
Reducing agricultural carbon emissions (ACE) requires understanding how urban–rural transformation and land reallocation jointly reshape agricultural production. Using county-level data from Hubei Province, China, for 2019–2021, this stud...
Rapid coastal urbanization increases exposure to multiple hazards while intensifying competition for land essential for safe emergency refuge. This paper proposes a reproducible decision-support framework for planning Disaster Prevention and Relief A...
Soil water infiltration (SWI) is central to hydrology and erosion assessment, but the measurement method and surface condition may affect the rates obtained. We compared a double-ring infiltrometer (DRI) with a rainfall simulator (InfiAsper) on a Dys...
Our world is changing fast, and rural exodus remains an issue. People are losing connection with nature, and, as a result, farming knowledge in the sense of the entity between soil–ecology–economy and production is fading. But also, the c...
Understanding the spatial and temporal evolution of ecosystem service values (ESVs) and their underlying drivers is essential for advancing ecological conservation and sustainable management in protected areas. The study area comprises ten national p...
Loss, marginalization, and fragmentation of urban green space (UGS) under urbanization are well documented. Still, the pathway of loss, the nature of the pattern change, and the leverage of policy scenarios are seldom tested. Using 30 m land-use data...
The sustained rebound in cultivated-land ecological security (CLES) indices across Northeast China’s Black-Soil Region is often interpreted as ecological improvement. However, aggregate recovery may mask unresolved or strengthening pressures an...
China’s county towns have become a key carrier of new-type urbanization, yet the coordination between urban construction land (UCL) and urban population (UP) remains underexplored at the county level, particularly because prior work conflates u...
As a sub-center of the Yangtze River Delta and a rapidly expanding metropolis, Hefei faces key regional low-carbon resilience challenges due to the incoordination between its built environment (BE) and water-heat-carbon (WHC) ecological functions. Th...
Return and resettlement are increasingly discussed as potential resources for rural revitalization, yet how these processes translate into place-based heritage and landscape action remains insufficiently understood. From a rural planning and cultural...
Existing studies rarely investigate the relationship between the diversity of homesteads and rural revitalization at the county scale, and the attention given to the spatial differentiation mechanism and differentiation optimization paths of the two...
Reconciling grain production stability and agroecological sustainability is a key bottleneck for the high-quality development of China’s agriculture. As a critical form of cultivated land spatial restructuring, cultivated land concentration res...
Land capitalization has become a key mechanism in China’s rural transformation, converting dispersed natural villages into centralized resettled communities for landless peasants and reshaping their everyday life through urbanized housing, infr...
Well-facilitated farmland construction provides a material foundation for the application of improved agricultural machinery, and the in-depth integration of the two can contribute to a new breakthrough in improving grain yield per unit area. Based o...
Forest ecological-product value depends on both ecological-resource supply and regional development conditions. Using the seven prefecture-level divisions of Xizang from 2016 to 2024, this study examined forests classified in annual land-cover data,...
Effective ecological governance and sustainable land management require a clear understanding of how ecosystem service (ES) supply and demand are coupled and spatially matched. Across northern China’s agro-pastoral ecotone, long-term ecosystem...
Greening-priority methods can identify under-greened locations, but they do not necessarily tell designers what tree intervention should follow. This study develops a behaviour-informed decision-support framework and applies it as a pilot on four Ade...
The spatial differentiation of street-block vitality and its built-environment correlates provide an empirical basis for implementing refined street-block governance in the context of the renewal of existing urban areas. Based on the human–envi...
As cities shift toward regenerating existing urban areas, the reuse of vacant spaces for public facility provision is becoming an important alternative to new construction. In China, embedded sports facilities exemplify this approach, using fragmente...
Against the backdrop of increasingly binding land constraints and the transition toward high-quality development, improving total factor productivity through more economical and intensive land use has become an important policy concern. This study tr...
Biocultural diversity underpins the stability and adaptive capacity of rural cultural landscapes. Taking the Fengyan Terraced Fields in Hanyin County, Shaanxi Province, China, as a case study, this paper integrates landscape character identification,...
Cross-border activities between Shenzhen and Hong Kong epitomize regional coordinated development within the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), yet the daily living space patterns of Hong Kong cross-border employees in Shen...
Urban expansion across Algeria is bringing humans into contact with wildlife. Yet, the wild boar (Sus scrofa), a native but increasingly hyperabundant component of the Maghrebian fauna, remains largely undocumented in urban settings. Wild boar exploi...
The water source area of the Henan Reach for the South-to-North Water Diversion Project is an important ecological protection zone, where variations in land-use patterns can adversely affect the region’s carbon sink capacity and long-term ecolo...
Traditional milpa systems provide agroecological knowledge based on crop complementarity, seed selection, and local management, but their performance in spatially constrained urban settings remains insufficiently documented. This study investigates t...
Against the backdrop of climate change and rapid urbanization, the urban thermal environment (UTE) in urban agglomerations continues to deteriorate, posing a growing challenge to regional sustainability. Network-based approaches have increasingly bee...
Strategic landscape planning requires spatially explicit methods for assessing peri-urban mining landscapes. This study develops a multi-scale geospatial framework to assess 1284 mining ponds in Hungary through land-cover patterns, spectral indicator...
Overall leisure activity can conceal substantial changes in how urban leisure use is distributed across functions, time, and space during hot periods. We analysed 917,186 user–venue–day leisure visits recorded on Weibo in central Nanjing...
Korean local governments promote industrial parks as a response to depopulation, yet their effect on existing rural settlement space remains unmeasured. Transferring the road-effect-zone framework to industry, we separated industrial occupation, the...
The Gansu–Qinghai–Ningxia region is a major area of concentrated Hui settlement in northwestern China, characterized by significant cultural interaction and integration. In response to the limited regional-scale research on how multiple c...
The European Union adopted the Nature Restoration Law (NRL) in 2024 to protect and restore ecosystems across the EU, including specific targets for urban ecosystems (Regulation (EU) 2024/1991). One objective is to safeguard urban trees, which provide...
Mercury is closely associated with volcanic environments such as Islas Galápagos. Isla Santa Cruz, one of the oldest Galápagos islands, has undergone intense land-use transformations that have likely affected mercury cycling. A pre-tran...
Agricultural planning at the district level requires a transparent comparison of investments, production, financial returns, and resource availability. This study evaluates the relative production and economic performance of 13 districts in the North...
Computer vision models applied to street-view imagery (SVI) can generate large-scale measures of perceived built-environment qualities relevant to urban planning and public health. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), vision–language mo...
Mediterranean mountain protected areas require detailed habitat information for conservation and management. We revised the habitat type map of Mt. Falakro Natura 2000 SAC (GR1140004), northern Greece, as a pilot application focused on grasslands. Ev...
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