China possesses 400 million hectares of grasslands that provide regulating ecosystem services (ESs), including wind erosion control, water conservation, and carbon sequestration. The central government implemented the Grassland Ecological Protection...
The article presents the process of designing and testing an ecosystem-based governance model (EBGM). The EBGM is an innovative and highly participatory approach to addressing management challenges in protected areas. The implementation of the EBGM m...
Scenario planning supports strategic decision-making under uncertainty by comparing multiple plausible futures. Impact indicators help to prioritize scenarios, while rank-based evaluations clearly communicate indicator relevance for participatory pla...
The “Great Bend” of the Yellow River, a region characterized by the tension between ecological fragility and economic growth, faces dual pressures from physical water scarcity and stringent policy redlines. Traditional allocation models o...
The upper Yellow River basin is a classic ecologically vulnerable area, characterized by acute human–land conflicts. The rapid pace of urbanization drives landscape fragmentation, which severely threatens regional sustainability and ecological...
Addressing the challenge of misalignment between high capital input and operational efficacy in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) led rural revitalization often highlighted in relevant studies, this study establishes a dual perspective Post-Occup...
To address the persistent challenges of the “disconnect between macro-level spatial zoning and micro-level land allocation” and the paradox of “localized intensification accompanied by overall inefficiency” in territorial spat...
Agriculture is particularly vulnerable to climate change, as shifting seasonal patterns disrupt farming cycles and changing rainfall patterns, along with extreme weather events, present significant challenges. From the perspectives of risk perception...
The international wheat trade serves as a vital pathway for balancing the global food supply and demand while facilitating the cross-regional allocation of cropland resources. Based on the telecoupling framework, this study constructed a global virtu...
Water–energy–food (WEF) is fundamental for human survival, with land use profoundly impacting their supply-demand relationships. Integrating land into the WEF nexus is crucial for sustainable development. This study used a pressure–...
Citizen participation has been fundamental in the design and management of public spaces in Valencia over the last decade, promoting spatial justice. Models such as co-creation through participatory budgeting, self-management and social mobilisation...
There are well-documented environmental benefits of the impact of tree planting but limited research on the implications for agricultural land values. Although trees provide significant public and economic benefits, farmers’ perceptions of thei...
Tourism-driven villages in metropolitan suburbs have become crucial spaces for the interaction of urban and rural factors; however, the spatiotemporal patterns and underlying mechanisms of land use change in such contexts remain inadequately explored...
Pakistan’s forests cover only 4.2% of the national territory yet deliver critical ecosystem services that remain largely unaccounted for in policy and planning. This study provides the first harmonized, country-wide assessment of timber product...
Integrated landscape (bioregional, territorial) management (ILM) is a model for place-based planning and development that integrates values of healthy nature, regenerative economies, human well-being, and social solidarity. This review paper analyzes...
Remote sensing has revolutionized monitoring landscapes that are inaccessible or impractical to survey on the ground. Satellite platforms such as Sentinel-2 enable assessment of ecosystem changes over extensive areas with high temporal frequency, whi...
Accurate cropland parcel mapping is essential for food security and sustainable land management in arid Africa, yet it remains challenging in Egypt due to edge blurring, spectral confusion, and fragmented fields in medium-resolution imagery. A novel...
Investigating multiple source apportionment methods and quantitatively characterizing heavy metal contamination in soils are of critical importance for effective pollution control and prevention. This study systematically investigates multiple source...
The widespread application of glyphosate—the world’s most used herbicide—presents a significant environmental challenge due to its persistence and mobility within interconnected land–soil–water systems. This study addres...
In 2021, China integrated over 80 nature reserves to establish the Giant Panda National Park (GPNP), creating the world’s largest contiguous habitat for giant panda conservation. To evaluate whether this unified management framework effectively...
Enhancing Energy-Embedded Green Utilization Efficiency of Urban Land (E-GUEUL) is crucial for reconciling economic growth with carbon neutrality targets, with the Integration of the Digital–Real Economy (IDRE) emerging as a key driver. This stu...
To enhance the resilience of urban road networks under frequent recurrent disturbances such as morning peak commuting congestion, this study develops a dynamic resilience assessment framework from the perspective of land-use mix. The model evaluates...
The spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem services (ESs) are essential for ecological restoration and sustainable management in arid regions. Although ESs have been extensively studied in sandy landscapes, research on the multi-model evaluation of va...
Analyzing the evolution of cultivated land quality protection policy in China is crucial for refining its frameworks and constructing a “trinity” system integrating quantity, quality, and ecological sustainability. This study employs cont...
Carbon storage (CS) is a critical ecosystem service for climate mitigation. CS in urbanizing areas is being squeezed by climate-driven capacity decline and human-induced stock loss. Focusing on the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration (YRDUA), we...
Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometry provides long-term displacement measurements, but the quality of Persistent Scatterer (PS) time series depends critically on temporal coherence. Low-coherence points often exhibit auto-uncorrel...
The Qaidam Basin is situated in the arid region of northwestern China, characterized by extensive areas of saline–alkali land and significant soil salinization, which severely impedes the sustainable development of local agriculture. This study...
China’s cities are shifting from expansion to renewal. In cold-climate cities, street use often drops in winter, so human-centred street quality matters. However, few studies measure behavioural activity using the same indicators for winter and...
To address the challenge of disconnection between cultural and ecological values in Linear Cultural Heritage (LCH) conservation, this study examines the Jinzhong section of the Great Tea Road to develop a dual-dimensional framework for corridor ident...
With the intensification of climate change, land use changes, and human activities, the ecosystems of the Ordos Plateau face severe challenges. This study evaluates the current ecological stability of the Ordos Plateau and makes future ecological zon...
Urban agglomerations have become the primary form of urbanization in China and serve as a principal means of promoting the nation’s high-quality economic development. As a key driving force behind the development of urban agglomerations, human...
Metropolitan governance in the U.S. has taken shape over generations and is still evolving. The U.S. territory is literally covered by a myriad of institutions responsible for influencing the country’s physical destiny, cultural identity, and d...
Cities play a central role in shaping opportunities for physical activity, health, and social well-being. However, municipalities often lack operational methodologies capable of translating active living and healthy urban environment strategies into...
Maintaining stability in rural labor markets and enhancing labor employment stickiness (RLFS) are essential for alleviating the persistent outflow of rural labor. Based on data from the 2014–2022 China Family Panel Studies and Treating whether...
Farmland quantity continues to decline, land abandonment is a serious concern, and local quality degradation remains unresolved. This situation, in which large-scale farmland abandonment continues, is likely to induce a series of food security and ec...
This article investigates the potential of the block as a tool for sustainable and inclusive urban design. It aims to identify the morphological and typological principles that make the block a resilient structure, capable of ensuring density, spatia...
Amid rapid global population aging, developing age-friendly urban spaces centered on the “15-minute community life circle” has become a priority in planning research. Taking Shenhe District of Shenyang City, a region undergoing deep aging...
Inequity in urban walking resources has been garnering increasing scholarly attention. However, there is still no widely accepted tool for assessing walkability, making results difficult to compare across studies. In addition, the ways in which walka...
Ecological Security (ES) is an essential safeguard for regional sustainable development. Scientifically elucidating the multiscale evolution of ES patterns and their driving mechanisms is critical for ecological governance and conservation in Mountai...
Waterfront cities face growing strain from urbanization, complicating the relationship between water bodies and urban development. This study aims to understand the evolving water–city relationship in such areas by applying symbiosis theory, of...
Global climate change has amplified extreme weather events, threatening ecological security and sustainable development. The impact of extreme weather events on sustainable land use (SLU) has attracted increasing attention. While previous studies hav...
A major obstacle to sustainable land management in ecologically sensitive areas is our limited understanding of the complex nonlinear mechanisms and threshold effects that dictate trade-offs between land use functions (LUFs). This study takes the Fun...
China is the world’s largest pear producer, yet its production remains constrained by structural inefficiencies and regional disparities. Clarifying the spatiotemporal evolution of pear production land and its driving mechanisms is essential fo...
Identifying the multi-scale drivers of ecosystem service (ES) trade-off intensity is essential for promoting regional sustainability. However, the existing multi-scale ES studies typically rely on predefined administrative units or fixed grid sizes d...
The agrarian sector, as the key source of livelihood in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), has become highly vulnerable to changes in extension service deliveries. Farmers mainly lack access to technical advice, financial credits, farming inputs and mechaniza...
Vegetation drought is a critical manifestation of ecosystem vulnerability in high-altitude, water-limited regions under climate change. The Yellow River Water Conservation Area (YRWC), as the core water source of the Yellow River Basin, is highly sen...
In Japan, unlike in many other countries, urbanization has progressed while original rural road structures have been retained, leading to distinctive urban sprawl areas with intermingling residential lots and farmland. Currently, much of Japan’...
The scientific establishment of ecological security pattern and identification of ecological restoration priority areas are key for territorial space ecological restoration and people’s well-being enhancement. Although numerous studies have add...
This study analyzes the environmental impact of nickel mining on biodiversity in Indonesia’s Wallacea region, using habitat quality as a proxy. It employs the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs (InVEST) Habitat Quality Mo...
Green space (GS) exposure reflects how well urban dwellers engage with GSs, which is closely related to sustainable communities. However, the associations between GS exposure and multi-dimensional social vulnerability (SoV) remain to be elucidated. T...
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