2026 September - 236 articles
The Louis Botha Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) was introduced to address apartheid-era urban fragmentation. However, the extent to which the TOD initiative has translated into tangible built-form outcomes remains unclear. This study empirically e...
This study examines the problem of the sustainable management of buried cultural heritage located in urban centers through the case of Pungnaptoseong in Seoul. Recent cultural heritage research has redefined cultural heritage as a resource for sustai...
Urban functional zone (UFZ) identification supports refined territorial spatial governance and urban remote sensing. It faces the dual challenges of spectral confusion and functional mixing, which single-source remote sensing cannot resolve at high a...
Monitoring cropland change requires attention to spatial configuration as well as total area. However, conventional fragmentation assessments can introduce artificial divisions at reporting boundaries and overlook how land-cover transitions reorganis...
Coastal spaces are important settings for recreation, public health, tourism, and human–environment interaction. However, their spatial attractiveness often changes substantially across seasons, especially in regions with strong climatic variab...
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a major terrestrial carbon pool, and its maintenance is important for climate change mitigation. Straw retention is widely used in croplands, but the association between crop residue cover (CRC) and soil organic carbon de...
To explore the spatial matching and coupling between ecological and social systems, this study investigates dynamic disequilibrium in the context of sustainable urban development. This study develops an integrated pixel-based spatial assessment frame...
Vegetation-based slope stabilization is commonly evaluated from the final factor of safety, which can obscure whether an apparently favorable response reflects intrinsic slope resistance or the incremental effect of the vegetation treatment. This stu...
Coordinated regional development is a complex systems engineering endeavor. Different industrial parks, serving as key nodes, form production agglomeration networks through industrial chain synergies and technology spillovers, gradually generating ra...
Continuous monitoring of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change is essential in the Al-Ahsa Oasis, an arid region characterized by a sensitive and fragile environment. This study is the first to integrate vegetation, climate, and land-use frameworks by co...
This study examined the building morphology of 1491 town-level administrative units across 13 prefecture-level cities in Jiangsu Province, China, within inner-boundary belts of 50, 100, 150, and 200 m. Four indicators including mean building spacing,...
Urban renewal is increasingly shifting land-use planning from outward expansion toward the reallocation of existing urban land, yet differences among alternative configurations in accessibility inequality, implementation requirements, and environment...
The increasing availability of geospatial data and the rapid development of geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) create new opportunities for modernizing cadastral and land administration systems. However, integrating probabilistic GeoAI output...
Sustainable cultivated land use is crucial for achieving SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 15 (Life on Land), and China’s dual-carbon goals. Rapid urbanization has compressed cultivated land space and reshaped agricultural functions, making it necessary...
Effective environmental monitoring and sustainable landscape management require spatially explicit approaches that can identify ecologically sensitive areas and support targeted conservation and restoration planning. Although Geographic Information S...
Urban cemeteries are essential yet spatially durable forms of civic infrastructure that increasingly accommodate ecological, cultural, heritage, and public-space functions alongside burial and mourning. This scoping review examines urban cemeteries a...
Global climate change and rapid urbanization have intensified ecological security risks in arid oasis regions, creating an urgent need for reliable ecological security assessment and spatial zoning to support regional sustainable development. Taking...
Reconstructing long-term population dynamics contributes to understanding the processes underlying the formation of present-day population patterns and provides a historical perspective for addressing future demographic challenges. This study reconst...
Urban village redevelopment in China requires existing claims to collectively owned land to be reorganized into an implementable redevelopment arrangement, yet the project-level mechanisms through which land development rights are restructured remain...
In the context of low-carbon development targets, urban expansion within the karst ecoregions of southern China has intensified land-use-related carbon-stock losses, which highlights the necessity of scientific and sustainable land-use management str...
The accelerating convergence of urbanization, climate change, and digital transformation is reshaping how cities are conceived, designed, and managed. This critical narrative review asks one central question: how can newly emerging digital capabiliti...
The Andean–Amazonian transition zone in northeastern Peru is one of the most climatically diverse and complex regions in South America, yet knowledge of its ecoregions under climate change remains limited. This study assessed projected changes...
Peri-urban transition zones experience intense conflicts among production, living, and ecological functions, yet the ecological effects of specific land-use transition pathways remain insufficiently quantified. Most studies of production–living...
Effective evaluation of cultivated land quality (CLQ) and limiting factors diagnosis is essential for sustainable land use and soil improvement. Studies on CLQ evaluation and limiting factors diagnosis have mainly focused on staple crops. However, re...
Forest ecosystems store atmospheric CO2 across five IPCC-defined carbon reservoirs: aboveground biomass (CAGB), belowground biomass (CBGB), coarse dead wood (CDW), litter carbon (CLIT), and soil organic carbon (SOC). Although these pools are dynamic...
Despite recording Indonesia’s highest provincial economic growth rate at 39.10 percent in 2025, Sofifi, the designated capital city of North Maluku Province, continues to exhibit comparatively low urban vitality more than fifteen years after it...
Historic cities are shaped by long-term continuity, incremental adjustment, and localized redevelopment, yet single-period morphological assessments cannot explain how these processes accumulate within contemporary blocks. This study develops a proce...
Longhushan UNESCO Global Geopark (UGGp) of Southeast China is characterized by a well-developed red-bed rock landscape with outstanding geoheritage value and diverse geomorphological features. However, a systematic quantitative assessment of its geod...
Wildfires play a key ecological role in Mediterranean ecosystems but increasing fire frequency and severity, exacerbated by climate change, threaten vegetation integrity, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. Understanding early post-fire recovery tr...
Supply-side assessments show what services are available nearby, but not how far residents travel from home. We examine alignment between neighborhood service breadth and realized local travel across Shenzhen, Nanjing and Xuzhou using 93.5 million ho...
Cities face escalating climate risks, including heat stress, pluvial and fluvial flooding, drought, and biodiversity loss, that conventional grey infrastructure alone cannot address. Landscape architecture occupies a distinctive position at the inter...
Mineral resource-based cities face long-term conflicts among resource exploitation, urban expansion, and ecological conservation, making it necessary to clarify how long-term land-use change affects ecosystem services and ecological security patterns...
Land use/cover change (LUCC) can alter watershed water balance, while whole-watershed averages may obscure spatial heterogeneity among sub-basins. This study evaluated LUCC-induced hydrological responses in the northern region of Longyou County, Zhej...
Afforestation is a high-potential and cost-effective climate change mitigation strategy, but its large-scale implementation raises sustainability concerns. It requires extensive areas of land, potentially conflicting with agriculture and impacting fo...
Urban campuses represent complex landscapes comprising buildings, roads, water bodies, and vegetation patches. Differences in spatial structures among landscape microhabitats and levels of human disturbance may influence avian acoustic activity and b...
Road transport is indispensable to urban functioning. As people-centered development and community-oriented planning have gained prominence, pedestrian environments and road network quality have received increasing attention. Existing reviews, howeve...
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Conflicts between intense human activity and fragile ecosystem protection have and will continue to affect the ecological–economic–social complex system across the Yellow River Basin. An enhanced understanding of the effects of human land...
As the culture and tourism industry moves toward high-quality development, tourist perception has become a core dimension for measuring that quality. Most existing work on tourism spatial differentiation still looks at the supply side, and describes...
The 15-minute city concept has emerged as a framework for promoting more sustainable, inclusive, and accessible urban environments by enabling residents to reach essential daily services within a short distance from their homes. This study evaluates...
High-resolution urban Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) simulations resolve interactions among urban form, near-surface meteorology, atmospheric dynamics, and building-energy processes, but their computational cost limits repeated scenario analy...
A claim made in 2020 that ‘something has gone fundamentally wrong with the housing system [in England]’ is considered using a coupling coordination-generated local authority district-based housing market ‘evaluation’ index and...
Population aging has increased demand for walkable community healthcare for older adults. Using the six central districts of Nanjing as a case study, this study examines whether nominal 15 min access to community health service centers (CHSCs) transl...
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) support plant establishment and soil recovery in degraded lands, yet their long-term associations with vegetation in restored quarries remain poorly understood. This study quantified AMF spore density and genus-leve...
Heritage spaces are gradually transforming from traditional conservation objects into dynamic resources that promote urban regeneration and regional development. However, their long-term vitality changes and associated influencing factors remain insu...
Integrated assessments combining soil compactness, carbon storage, and structural vulnerability remain scarce in tropical soils of the Colombian Orinoquia. Soil physical condition was compared across natural forest (n = 21), secondary vegetation (n =...
The increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters attributable to climate change have placed growing pressure on farmers’ livelihoods in ecologically fragile areas. Reducing livelihood vulnerability and strengthening resilience are the...
Carbon accounting in tundra ecosystems is constrained by spatial heterogeneity below conventional inventory scales. We quantified carbon (C) stocks and growing-season flux components across five 50 × 50 m plots within a 250 × 250 m lichen...
Urban regeneration interventions extend beyond the renewal of physical building stock and the improvement of living conditions, as they also reshape local microclimatic conditions. This study examines changes in Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) patte...
Major function-oriented zoning is a comprehensive policy designed to promote coordinated development through rational resource flows between regions in China. However, previous effectiveness assessments of major function-oriented zones have largely n...
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