2026 August - 207 articles
The pervasive rise in digital platforms has fundamentally recalibrated the relationship between urban communities and their cultural landscapes, reconfiguring not only the sensory experience of these environments but also their interpretive frames an...
The layout of urban blue, green and grey spaces plays a crucial role in flood risk, but the potential trade-offs and synergistic effects of these spaces on urban flood risk have not been fully studied. This research uses the spatial Durbin model to a...
As a globally climate-sensitive region and ecological security barrier, the spatiotemporal dynamics of net ecosystem productivity (NEP) on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau are of great significance for understanding carbon cycling in alpine ecosyste...
Urban sustainability governance has long been dominated by growth-oriented metrics that measure aggregate improvement without establishing whether neighborhoods provide enough for all residents without continuous territorial expansion or resource-int...
The Northeast black soil region is a major grain-producing area in China, where county-scale assessment of topsoil quality is essential for soil conservation and provides a potential indicator framework for regional soil quality monitoring. In this s...
We exploit the staggered rollout of the Standard Land Reform across Chinese cities as a quasi-natural experiment to examine its impact on enterprise innovation efficiency. Using a sample of A-share listed companies from 2013 to 2020, we find that the...
Recreation suitability in national parks refers to the capacity of a place to support low-impact recreation while maintaining ecological integrity and complying with conservation objectives. In alpine protected areas, high landscape attractiveness do...
Under China’s dual-carbon targets, mountainous areas are critical ecological barriers with substantial carbon-sink potential. This study investigated the effects of land-use and land-cover change (LUCC) on carbon emission (CE), carbon storage (...
Urban landscapes are increasingly understood as dynamic systems in which natural, cultural, and socio-spatial layers continuously overlap and evolve. Within this perspective, heritage and memory are often treated as stable qualities of place, to be p...
Urban informality in amphibious territories represents a critical yet understudied dimension of contemporary urbanisation in the Global South. This article analyses the interrelations between spatial transformation, social equity, and environmental c...
Urban parks, as ubiquitous spaces, are vital in enhancing people’s quality of life owing to their significant ecological benefits. However, urban parks have not achieved full age inclusivity, failing in particular to prioritize the youth demogr...
This research investigates the relationships between climate change, biodiversity and nature-based tourism in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (DDBR), integrating the behavioural perspective of Generation Z into an adaptive management framework. Th...
Urban well-being in China emerges from spatially uneven configurations of development intensity, environmental pressure, governance input, public-service capacity, land-use transformation, and urban–rural conditions. Using a balanced panel of 2...
Land consolidation (LC) is increasingly expected to support food security, ecological restoration, rural development, and climate mitigation, yet evidence on its carbon effects remains fragmented across engineering, ecological, spatial, and governanc...
Point-of-interest (POI) data are widely used as urban big data to sense the functional organization of urban land and associated socioeconomic activities. Yet, POI-based studies often treat these records as temporally stable, even though different PO...
Agricultural socialized service has expanded rapidly within China’s smallholder farming system, yet evidence on their relationship with land productivity remains limited. Using three waves of data from the China Land Economic Survey between 202...
Urban green open spaces play a critical role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing biodiversity in rapidly urbanizing tropical megacities. This study aims to characterize vegetation structure and species diversity, as well as quantify...
The East Kazakhstan Region is characterized by heterogeneous mountain, steppe, agricultural, and urban–industrial landscapes. However, spatially integrated assessments of land-cover conditions, agricultural dynamics, settlement expansion, and a...
Nature-based solutions (NBSs) are central to urban climate-neutrality strategies, but their implementation still lags behind policy ambition. One reason is that most NBS benefits are public goods and rarely generate direct revenue, so we know far les...
Surface water is an important component of urban land-cover systems, but its relationship with land surface temperature (LST) is difficult to interpret in lake-rich urban agglomerations where water bodies, shorelines, vegetation, built-up land, and t...
This study analyzes land use dynamics in Fălticeni Municipality over four decades (1985–2025), examining the influence of major political, socio-economic, and demographic changes on urban development. The transition from a centrally planne...
This study investigates the spatiotemporal distribution of heavy metals in urban soils of Thessaloniki, Greece, over a four-year monitoring period (2021–2024). A total of 664 soil samples were collected across diverse land-use types during both...
Accurate land cover classification is critical for geographic information science. However, the fusion of hyperspectral and LiDAR data remains constrained by insufficient spectral-geometric coupling and limited scale representation. To address these...
Green urban renewal requires coordination among climate adaptation, water management, biodiversity conservation, and spatial planning within coherent policy frameworks. This study presents a structured analytical framework for evaluating how nature-b...
Optimizing construction and ecological land patterns enhances urban ecosystem services, with efficiency gains depending on accurately identifying focal local spaces of greatest potential. However, existing research has yet to comprehensively quantify...
The large-scale withdrawal of military forces from urban areas represents one of the most significant drivers of land-use change in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. Based on a national database of former military sites in Hungary, this stud...
Land cover change is a key indicator for evaluating the effectiveness of protected areas and identifying anthropogenic pressures that may affect ecosystem integrity. This study presents the first national-scale assessment of land cover stability and...
Urban park green spaces are key infrastructure for improving the quality of the living environment, enhancing residents’ well-being, and strengthening ecological resilience. Targeting 1760 county seats in China, this study combines the stock an...
Urban resilience is a critical component of disaster risk governance, particularly in regions exposed to multiple natural, technological, and environmental hazards. This study proposes an integrated spatial decision-support framework that combines di...
Land use and land cover (LULC) dynamics are critical indicators of environmental transformation and anthropogenic pressure on regional landscapes. Mirzapur, located in the transitional zone between the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the Vindhyan uplands in...
Disamenity and amenity facilities pull property values in opposite directions, yet prior studies have treated disamenities as a homogeneous category and have been constrained by data scattered across agencies and by mismatched spatial scales. This st...
Accurately understanding the complex interactions among ecosystem services (ESs) and their driving mechanisms across multiple temporal and spatial scales is essential for effective ecological governance and regional sustainable development. To addres...
Forest ownership fragmentation represents a major constraint to sustainable forest management in many European countries, particularly in Italy, where private forests are often divided into small and spatially dispersed holdings. This study evaluates...
The 15-minute city (15MC) promotes compact and accessible urban environments where residents can meet their daily needs through active mobility. Research on the 15MC has predominantly used objective assessments, with less attention to residents&rsquo...
Historic urban manufacturing territories are increasingly being reconsidered as strategic components of metropolitan sustainability rather than obsolete remnants of industrial economies slated for redevelopment. While these districts have long been a...
The diversification of rural development actors in China has promoted a shift from state-centered governance toward collaborative approaches, with rural operation emerging as an important pathway for resource mobilization and value creation. While ex...
Sustainable agriculture in water-limited regions requires understanding how future climate change may affect crop water use and productivity and whether locally feasible adaptations can offset adverse impacts. This study used an improved SWAT (Soil a...
In operational terms, post-fire landscapes require monitoring priorities that reflect hydrogeomorphic susceptibility rather than burned extent alone. This study tests whether European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) burned area evidence, combi...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) stock is a key component of terrestrial ecosystems, playing a critical role in climate regulation and ecosystem productivity. Despite its economic importance, the impacts of the expansion of khat (Catha edulis) cultivation a...
Improving cropland carbon performance while maintaining food security is central to China’s agricultural transition and climate goals This study examines low-carbon cropland use performance (PCLU) and its model-implied interprovincial associati...
Land use reconfiguration can substantially alter regional carbon source–sink patterns, yet integrated evidence remains limited for spatially constrained island systems where development and ecological land are closely juxtaposed. Using Hainan I...
Sustainable settlement governance requires construction land to remain coordinated with population change, as persistent land–population mismatches undermine both resource sustainability and settlement quality, yet much of the land-use efficien...
Coastal erosion is commonly assessed from shoreline-position change using methods such as the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS). However, on microtidal sandy beaches with strong seasonal wave variability, shoreline retreat may reflect temporar...
In the kinship-based social structure of traditional China, traditional villages often exhibit strong clan organizational characteristics, which are reflected in their spatial layouts and settlement forms. However, existing studies on traditional vil...
Against the backdrop of accelerating globalization and the reconfiguration of ecological security patterns, border regions—serving as critical carriers of national spatial governance—exhibit pronounced spatial heterogeneity and stage-depe...
Farmland abandonment has become an increasingly important challenge for the sustainable use of cultivated land worldwide. Although agricultural cooperatives can help mitigate farmland abandonment, their effectiveness has historically been limited in...
Urban shrinkage in resource-based cities manifests not only as population decline but also as spatial mismatches between current human activities and inherited urban systems. Existing studies have mainly focused on single dimensions such as service a...
Groundwater depth is a key control on soil salinization in arid irrigation districts, but seasonal groundwater depth thresholds for different salinization risks remain poorly constrained. Here, we examined the Yichang irrigation area of the Hetao Irr...
This study provides baseline information for environmental assessment in North Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It assessed the concentrations of eight heavy metals, namely cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), vanadium (V)...
Rapid growth in photovoltaic (PV) development has intensified competition between renewable energy expansion and land resources, highlighting the importance of integrating PV growth with spatial planning toward carbon neutrality. This study addresses...
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