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Land, Volume 9, Issue 7

July 2020 - 27 articles

Cover Story: Since 2011, the Syrian civil war has caused a grave social and economic crisis in most of Syria. The conflict has destroyed the livelihoods of millions of people, triggered large-scale population displacements, and led to the large-scale abandonment of land. Demand for food and space at other sites, and other conflict-related human activities, have put enormous pressure on land systems. As the military conflict impedes the collection of information at ground level, multi-temporal Landsat imagery was applied to quantify changes in land cover between 2010 and 2018. Extensive changes for the six land cover categories cultivated areas, forests, urban areas, bare areas, rangelands, and water bodies, particularly between 2014 and 2018, were identified. Most of the change can be either directly or indirectly attributed to the serious implications of the conflict. View this paper
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Articles (27)

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,353 Views
24 Pages

21 July 2020

New town development as a form of large-scale development is not a new phenomenon, particularly in developing countries. This development mainly takes place in peri-urban areas due to the high pressure caused by the growing population and the lack of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,998 Views
17 Pages

Governing Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Australia: International Implications

  • Allan Dale,
  • Karen Vella,
  • Sarah Ryan,
  • Kathleen Broderick,
  • Rosemary Hill,
  • Ruth Potts and
  • Tom Brewer

20 July 2020

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has grown in stature as a key component of many national natural resource and rural development governance systems. Despite their growth, the integrity of CBNRM governance systems has rarely been an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,613 Views
16 Pages

20 July 2020

Nature is essential to urban quality of life, yet green spaces are under pressure. In an attempt to strengthen the case for urban greening and to reclaim nature into cities, this research considered green spaces from an economic spatial perspective....

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,369 Views
20 Pages

Forecasting Seasonal Habitat Connectivity in a Developing Landscape

  • Katherine A. Zeller,
  • David W. Wattles,
  • Javan M. Bauder and
  • Stephen DeStefano

18 July 2020

Connectivity and wildlife corridors are often key components to successful conservation and management plans. Connectivity for wildlife is typically modeled in a static environment that reflects a single snapshot in time. However, it has been shown t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,353 Views
15 Pages

Land-Use Changes in the Canary Archipelago Using the CORINE Data: A Retrospective Analysis

  • José Manuel Naranjo Gómez,
  • Sérgio Lousada,
  • Jacinto Garrido Velarde,
  • Rui Alexandre Castanho and
  • Luís Loures

17 July 2020

The relationships between territorial governance and the pursuit of sustainable development are evidenced to be critical. Exploratory tools, like Geographic Information Systems (GIS), enable us to comprehend the patterns, dynamics, and parameters of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,748 Views
14 Pages

Climatic Characteristics and Modeling Evaluation of Pan Evapotranspiration over Henan Province, China

  • Miao Zhang,
  • Bo Su,
  • Majid Nazeer,
  • Muhammad Bilal,
  • Pengcheng Qi and
  • Ge Han

16 July 2020

Pan evapotranspiration (E) is an important physical parameter in agricultural water resources research. Many climatic factors affect E, and one of the essential challenges is to model or predict E utilizing limited climatic parameters. In this study,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
16,909 Views
23 Pages

16 July 2020

Food is wasted throughout the entire food supply chain—from agricultural production to the household level. This has negative impacts on natural resources and the environment. At the same time, food waste is undermining the global target of food secu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
10,479 Views
16 Pages

Effectiveness of Cover Crops to Reduce Loss of Soil Organic Matter in a Rainfed Vineyard

  • Manuel López-Vicente,
  • Elena Calvo-Seas,
  • Sara Álvarez and
  • Artemi Cerdà

16 July 2020

Cover crops (CCs) minimize the loss of soil in permanent cropping systems where the soil is usually bare due to intense tillage or overuse of herbicides. The topsoil, the richer layer in soil organic carbon and organic matter (OM), is affected by wat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,744 Views
25 Pages

13 July 2020

The loss of ecosystem services through land degradation continues to be a significant concern for policymakers and land users around the world. Facilitating collective action among various actors is regarded as imperative in halting land degradation....

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,116 Views
14 Pages

13 July 2020

Increased environmental and social risk, ubiquitous information technology, and growing demands for and growing threats to democracy and public participation will alter the education and practice of all the design professions and the geographically o...

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