2026 August - 207 articles
Subjected to high-intensity development, enclosed tropical islands frequently face severe spatial resource constraints and acute risks of ecological degradation. To seek a comprehensive solution to multidimensional spatial conflicts, this study selec...
Weekday commuting and weekend recreation are two mobility domains through which urban spatial structure affects residents’ daily experience and urban functioning. Although commuting and recreational mobility are theoretically related, whether t...
Understanding land-use carbon emissions (LUCE) requires accounting for both spatial heterogeneity and intercity linkages, yet most studies treat cities as isolated units, overlooking network-level interactions and their implications for regional ecol...
The spatial mismatch between tourism resources and tourism vitality represents one of the key constraints on the high-quality development of regional tourism. Taking 77 county-level administrative units in Heilongjiang Province as the study area, thi...
Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) has struggled with scale mismatches and inadequate treatment of cultural expression when applied to high-density cultural landscapes in Asia. On the Chengdu Plain, Western Sichuan, China, remote sensing shows conv...
Anthropogenic land use constitutes a key driver of land cover change, exerting profound impacts on terrestrial carbon/water cycles and ecosystems across global to regional scales. Consequently, long-term land cover datasets serve as fundamental data...
Soil salinization has become a major constraint on sustainable agricultural development and the improvement of crop productivity. However, the effects of biochar combined with different organic amendments on the microbial ecology of saline–alka...
Inter-basin water transfer source areas must sustain local habitat quality while ensuring downstream water security, yet the spatial differentiation mechanisms, driving mechanisms, and scenario-dependent responses of their ecosystem services have not...
An ethnographic study employing 72 qualitative interviews with agricultural producers and associated water decision-makers concerning farm climate change adaptation in Saskatchewan, Canada concludes that farm size matters. Inductively we established...
The Shendong Mining Area, located in the transition zone between the northern Loess Plateau and the Mu Us Sandy Land, is a representative ecologically fragile region and desert coal base in China. Using Google Earth Engine (GEE) and Landsat imagery f...
Migrant resettlement communities in large-scale development regions face persistent pressures from environmental change, livelihood disruption, and social restructuring. Evaluating resilience in such communities requires a framework that captures bot...
Industrial land allocation spatial morphology (ILASM) is crucial for economic development and the advancement of new-type industrialization. However, existing studies lack a comprehensive understanding of the evolutionary characteristics of the spati...
Planning debates increasingly recognise that climate adaptation, community wellbeing, and tourism development cannot be treated as separate domains; yet existing place-based frameworks rarely integrate Indigenous governance, multidimensional wellbein...
Urban village renewal in China increasingly requires decision tools that can identify where incremental design intervention should be prioritized. However, existing renewal practices often rely on experience-based judgment and lack a reproducible qua...
Urban–rural governance and planning systems, as viewed through the lens of online public attention, are reshaping approaches to achieving coordinated development of cultural heritage conservation and urban space. Taking Nanchang as a case study...
Riparian landscapes in peri-urban floodplains are important components of urban green infrastructure, but urbanization is eroding their capacity to support ecosystem services. This study examined the implications of riparian landscape change for ecos...
Desertification is destabilizing the Agro-Pastoral Ecotone of Northern China (APENC) as a critical ecological barrier, making its monitoring and management a central challenge for dryland sustainability. We tracked desertification dynamics across the...
This study analyses, within the post-pandemic tourism context, whether differences in degree and stage of tourism development in heritage historic centres shape the nature and direction of the social, demographic, and economic transformations they un...
Exploring the impact of rural centralized residence (RCR) policies on land transfer behavior is crucial for promoting scaled agricultural operations in rural China. However, empirical scrutiny of RCR’s effects on land transfer remains limited,...
High-resolution and regularly updatable land cover maps are essential for local-scale environmental monitoring, water resource management, and territorial governance, yet existing global and regional products fail to provide the spatial detail and th...
Understanding soil nutrients and stoichiometry across land-use types is essential for semiarid ecosystem management. We selected 130 sampling sites across four land-use types (dryland, paddy field, grassland, and forestland) in the Western Songnen Pl...
Current post-fire recovery strategies in Mediterranean Chile primarily emphasize discernible outcomes, such as residential reconstruction and expedited reforestation. In this context, neglecting soil degradation remains a critical geographical oversi...
Lagos, Nigeria (population c.18.3–25 million), occupies a position of compound exposure at the intersection of accelerating climate hazards, recurring displacement and urban fragility, and governance constraints that have amplified rather than...
While e-commerce has transformed consumption patterns, online shopping behavior remains influenced by the physical environment. Using Shanghai as a case study, this research applies machine learning, SHAP analysis, and K-Means clustering to examine t...
Composite indicators support policy comparison by compressing multidimensional information, but different indicator configurations can appear similar in aggregate. This study develops and applies a contribution-structure audit to China’s 86 cou...
Although rooftop greenhouse buildings (RGBs) have become multifunctional urban infrastructures that turn roofs into productive land, their commercial spread across cities remains highly uneven. This study examines that unevenness by reframing RGB dif...
Agricultural management influences progress towards carbon neutrality through its effects on water consumption, energy use, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, few studies have translated policies across sectors into management scenarios and...
India faces large, persistent yield gaps across eight major crops—wheat, rice, maize, soybean, pulses, mustard, cotton, and sugarcane—that collectively limit food security and rural income. This review synthesises evidence from over 100 p...
This paper introduces the concept of rural mining, defined as the systematic recovery and reuse of construction materials from abandoned rural building stock within a circular economy framework. Although rural depopulation and its consequences have b...
Urban green space (UGS) service mismatch is a key public space issue that needs to be addressed in the renewal of built-up urban areas. Existing studies have mostly evaluated UGS service levels from the perspective of green space supply or accessibil...
High-altitude Andean páramo ecosystems are critical socio-ecological assets that provide key regulating and supporting services, yet they remain highly vulnerable to climate change and anthropogenic pressures. Understanding these services requ...
Climate change is intensifying crop yield variability across arid and semi-arid regions, yet the effectiveness of widely implemented adaptation strategies remains insufficiently quantified. We systematically reviewed 157 crop modeling studies over tw...
This study presents a comparative analysis of urban land-use sustainability in Barcelona and Izmir using a four-tier Decision Support Framework (DSF) supported by automated Google Earth Engine workflows. The framework integrates open satellite data,...
China’s resource-based cities are undergoing a dual transition in which industrial restructuring reshapes the economic foundations of urban development, while urban functional renewal, in turn, conditions the capacity and trajectory of industri...
Vegetation carbon sinks are an important component of the terrestrial carbon cycle, and net ecosystem productivity (NEP) is widely used to indicate ecosystem carbon-sink strength. However, the long-term dynamics and environmental associations of vege...
Prioritising properties for early review in dense urban renewal areas is a spatial multi-criteria decision problem in which physical condition, accessibility, environmental quality, and hazard exposure must be weighed before formal appraisal. This st...
Global rural population mobility and structural transition are profoundly reshaping agricultural land use patterns. Amid large-scale rural population out-migration in China, the regulatory mechanisms of traditional acquaintance-based social capital o...
Isotopic and nuclear techniques, including fallout radionuclides (FRNs), fingerprinting (FP), and isotope hydrology (IH), are essential tools for assessing soil and water degradation. However, as in state-of-the-art reviews, isolated application of F...
Rapid peri-urban sprawl is intensifying flood risk by replacing natural landscapes with dense, impervious residential developments. Thailand’s land use regulations require a 5% minimum green space allocation for new housing developments as a me...
Springs are biodiversity hotspots and climate refugia, yet they remain among the most overlooked and threatened freshwater ecosystems, largely absent from regional monitoring programs. In the Emilia-Romagna Region (Northern Apennines, Italy), where m...
Engineered nanomaterials have been increasingly proposed for the treatment of contaminated soils. Nevertheless, most available evidence has been obtained in water, artificial substrates or short-term laboratory experiments, and performance in real so...
National parks in densely populated regions face growing pressure to shift from boundary-based protection toward cross-boundary landscape governance, yet connectivity between wildlands within and outside the national park remains understudied. China&...
In regions where severe topographic constraints coincide with intensive human activity, the mechanisms underlying landscape ecological risk (LER) and its spatial differentiation remain poorly understood. In particular, the nonlinear responses and thr...
Cropland non-grain and non-agriculturalization monitoring (CNNM) is of great significance for ensuring national food security. Recently, semantic segmentation has been a promising approach that can fully exploit the advantages of high-resolution remo...
Climate change is intensifying heat-related risks in Mediterranean urban environments, increasing the need for pedestrian-scale approaches that combine spatial diagnostics with lived thermal experience. The pilot study develops a three-layer diagnost...
Addressing the issue of ecological vulnerability and against the backdrop of urban expansion in arid regions, this study constructs a composite urban resilience capacity index (CURCI) for the urban agglomeration on the northern slopes of the Tianshan...
As climate change intensifies and urbanization continues, Fuzhou faces growing public health risks from the urban heat island effect. This study develops a Heat Risk Index (HRI) by integrating the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification with the Cric...
This article presents a spatial assessment of rangeland productivity, forage resources, and the potential carrying capacity of saiga (Saiga tatarica (L., 1766)) habitats within the Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserve (Kazakhstan). This research integrate...
Urban expansion directly reduces vegetation via impervious surface growth, though indirect urban environmental effects may partially offset these losses. This study examines the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region from 2000 to 2025 by inte...
Urban wetlands and agricultural lands are among the most important socio-ecological systems in urban areas. They support food production, biodiversity conservation, water regulation, climate resilience, and human well-being. However, rapid urbanizati...
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