2026 April - 167 articles
Rural territories characterised by dispersed settlement systems face mounting challenges related to demographic decline, economic fragility, ecological degradation, and the erosion of local knowledge systems. In this context, rural self-sufficiency h...
Rainfall-induced landslide early warning systems require reliable estimation of soil moisture conditions. This study proposes a Soil Water Index (SWI) framework based on a three-stage TANK model. Through GLUE (Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estim...
As the digital economy advances, information infrastructure has become a core engine for driving green economic transition and optimizing sustainable land systems. However, its heterogeneous governance effects on different types of pollutants and spa...
Urban roundabouts present significant design challenges for the integration of micro-mobility, yet comparative evidence regarding user behavior remains limited. As cities transition toward sustainable transport networks, understanding the operational...
Rural settlements serve as the core spatial carriers of rural living space, and their spatial evolution and functional transformation reflect the dynamic restructuring of human–land relationships. In karst mountainous areas, complex topography,...
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) play an important role in the interface between business, government and society, including serving as a link between diverse stakeholders, amplifying public visibility, and serving as a watch dog. This research s...
Rapid urbanization and the decline of inner-city areas have led to a sharp increase in vacant houses in large cities. Cities are increasingly converting vacant land into green space to mitigate associated negative externalities. This study quantifies...
Rapid global urbanization has exacerbated the conflict between land expansion and ecosystem carrying capacity, making the enhancement of urban land use efficiency (ULUE), a critical pathway for sustainable development. While the digital economy offer...
Traditional villages embody regional culture and local knowledge, yet culture–tourism integration often suffers from a mismatch between resource value and effective transformation. To address this problem, this study proposes a two-dimensional...
The sponge city pilot policy (SCP) is a green infrastructure initiative that integrates ecological stormwater management, land-use planning, and urban sustainability goals. This study employs the super-efficiency slack-based measure (SBM) model to ev...
As a transformative techno-economic paradigm shift in the digital economy, digital technology innovation (DTI) has profoundly reshaped urban socio-economic systems. Using panel data of 264 Chinese cities from 2005 to 2020, this research empirically e...
The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) was launched to conserve, sustainably manage, and enhance the viability of the world’s agricultural heritage systems. The Cascade Tank-Village Irrigation system in the Sri Lankan dry z...
Accurately identifying urban functional zones and revealing their spatial interaction characteristics is crucial for understanding urban operational mechanisms and optimizing spatial layouts. Addressing the limitations of traditional research in simu...
Understanding the dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) in farmland is crucial for assessing soil health, quantifying ecosystem potential for SOC enrichment, and guiding sustainable agricultural management. Existing research on SOC sequestration and...
Municipal consolidation, a widespread form of local government restructuring, has attracted growing scholarly attention worldwide. The majority of research on municipal consolidation investigates impacts instead of motives. Using prefecture- and coun...
Urban renewal is essentially a process of redefining land property rights, restructuring land use functions and redistributing land value increment, which is of great significance for improving the efficiency of land resource allocation and realizing...
Exploring the coordinated development of the tourism economy and ecological environment in China’s border areas is of great significance for promoting high-quality tourism development and ecological barrier construction in these regions. This s...
In this study, the relationship between land-finance intensity and female educational attainment is examined. A provincial panel dataset for China from 2002 to 2023 is constructed. Two-way fixed effects and mediation models are estimated to identify...
Cultivated land fragmentation has become a critical constraint on regional agricultural sustainable development. Revealing its spatial patterns and driving mechanisms is of great significance for optimizing the utilization and management of cultivate...
Landscape visual impact assessment is a key component of environmental impact studies, as it enables the identification and management of negative effects on the territory. Traditional methods are often subjective, rely on expert judgement, and consi...
Rapid urbanization and agricultural expansion in arid regions have profoundly altered carbon cycles and landscape stability. Focusing on the Hexi Corridor, China, this study integrates multi-source geospatial data (1990–2020) to analyze the spa...
The spatiotemporal evolution of ecosystem services and the elucidation of their driving mechanisms constitute a central scientific issue in territorial spatial optimization and regional sustainable development. Taking Gansu Province, a core area of t...
Micro-public space (MPS) regeneration is typically evaluated at the point of delivery, yet long-term performance depends on whether everyday stewardship can be sustained thereafter. This study reframes neighbourhood social capital as a governance&nda...
Blue space, as an important natural and social composite feature system in cities, not only provides supporting, regulating, and provisioning services, but also plays a key role in human well-being, recreational experience, and urban sustainable deve...
Conceptual ambiguity in People–Place Relationships (PPR) research limits consistent operationalization and cross-context comparability, particularly in under-represented cultural settings. This study develops an integrated, context-sensitive fr...
Conserving biodiversity requires identifying and prioritizing critical habitats at a fine scale, as coarse-scale approaches often fail to address the needs of specialized and threatened species. This study applies a fine-scale prioritization approach...
Waterlogging and secondary salinization are major drivers of land degradation in irrigated dryland regions, undermining soil productivity and long-term sustainability. Pakistan’s Indus Basin Irrigation System (IBIS), one of the world’s la...
Land expropriation remains an important instrument for industrialization and urbanization in developing countries, but its extensive use often generates fiscal dependence, social conflict, and governance strain. This article argues that these outcome...
Managing soil heavy metal pollution is pivotal for the sustainable development of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) urban agglomeration. This study integrated geostatistical methods, Principal Component Analysis, and Positive Matrix Factori...
The external relations of small towns are an important dimension in the regional urban system. However, the “metropolitan bias” in existing studies results in a lack of empirical verification of their characteristics, hindering effective...
With urbanization transforming from scale expansion to high-quality development and the increasing prominence of the ecological environment constraints of drainage basins, systematically identifying the mechanism of action of non-point source polluti...
Subway-hub blocks are critical areas where the pressures of metropolitan populations and environmental quality are closely interconnected. This study constructs a “pressure–context–carrier–response” (PCRC) framework (F1&...
Exploring the evolutionary dynamics of urban, agricultural, and ecological spaces is critical for regional sustainable development and spatial governance. However, traditional spatial simulation methods based on Cellular Automata often struggle to ac...
The conservation of traditional villages has shifted from isolated site-by-site protection to regional collaboration, and exploring pathways for their sustainable development has become a key focus of research. Existing research still falls short in...
Urbanisation reshapes Land Cover and Land Use (LCLU) by driving deforestation, wetland loss, and the conversion of natural and agricultural areas into built environments. However, integrated analyses of LCLU change in response to climate variability...
Virtual vitality has become an important complementary dimension for describing urban vitality; however, the identification and formation mechanisms of its stable, high-vitality state during dynamic change remain insufficiently explored. Taking five...
Under the combined pressures of urbanization and tourism development, terraced agricultural heritage sites are increasingly threatened by the degradation of traditional landscapes, the weakening of living cultural practices, and mismatches between th...
Net primary productivity (NPP) is a critical indicator of carbon sequestration and biomass accumulation in terrestrial ecosystems, directly reflecting ecosystem carbon sink capacity. Existing NPP studies have primarily emphasized climate-driven inter...
Net primary productivity (NPP) and its response to global climate change are one of the hot topics in global change research. Based on Net primary productivity remote sensing data and meteorological data, this study analyzed the spatiotemporal variat...
Cultural ecosystem services (CES) provide non-material benefits that support human well-being and motivate ecosystem conservation, yet their subjectivity and spatial ambiguity complicate quantitative assessment and management. Taking the Changbai Mou...
The Northeast Black Soil Region is an important commercial grain production base in China. However, ecological issues such as black soil degradation and soil erosion pose direct threats to food security. Previous studies have mainly examined individu...
Rising greenhouse gas concentrations have exacerbated global warming, elevating the importance of land use and land cover (LULC) changes in achieving carbon neutrality. This is especially true in coastal areas, which face dual pressures from rapid ur...
Informal settlements are home to more than one billion people worldwide, with forecasts suggesting this number may increase to nearly three billion by 2050. Although informal settlements constitute a significant component of urbanization in the Globa...
The Rimac River Basin supplies drinking water to more than ten million people in Lima, Peru, yet its hydrological regulation capacity is increasingly constrained by land degradation, with over 35% of the basin lacking vegetation cover. Nature-based s...
Biodiversity is declining globally principally because of land degradation and more because of climate change. Its effective conservation is vital for species and habitats, but also to maintain the related ecosystem services they provide for human we...
Recreation is a key ecosystem service provided by mountainous areas. The European Alps are a main attraction for tourists due to their natural landscapes. Nature-based recreation and ecotourism are an opportunity for local communities in alpine valle...
A symbiotic mechanism exists between household livelihood capital and land use transition (LUT). However, previous studies have seldom examined, from a macro perspective, the characteristics of household livelihood capital and its impact on LUT, lack...
The deployment of agricultural inputs considerably influences national agrarian output, which is a key driver of economic growth. This study contributes to the literature by examining how changes in crop yield growth reflect resource allocation in ag...
As a core tenet of Green Urbanism, fostering social sustainability through restorative urban environments is essential for enhancing the psychological resilience of active urban generations. While urban parks are recognized as critical blue-green inf...
This study examines how high-speed rail (HSR) hubs shape public space vitality in central-city station areas, using Shapingba Station (Chongqing, China) as a representative case of station–city integration. We delineated pedestrian catchments u...
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